• Day-to-Day Data

    …told, the etymological roots of the words ‘flame’ and ‘pay’ translated via a strict, self-invented code. Their hermeticism has a cloudy conviction that goes way beyond games playing. Martin Herbert

  • Ellie Harrison Profile

    …concept of workplace solidarity’. Work-a-thon is at once a symbolic and potentially literal counterforce, aiming at modelling or realising community. Is it art? Personally, I’d rather not know. Martin Herbert

  • Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at the Bluecoat on 13 November 2022

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Merseyside)

    …& Merseyside, Capital Transport Martin, T, 1990, Merseyside Transport, Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society Martin, T, 1999, Liverpool’s Buses, Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society Maund, TB, 1992, Crosville on Merseyside, Transport Publishing…

  • Artists speak about ‘value’ at For the love of it

    …motivations, money seems pretty low on the list,” said Artquest’s Russell Martin as he introduced For the love of it, a conference exploring the goals and motivations of artists. Curated…

  • Every Little Doesn’t Help

    …an area, to the benefit of nearby businesses. David Martin, head of policy and external affairs at the SRC, said: “The case for the petition is very shaky. I think…

  • Scottish independence and artists: “It’s not about nationalism at all”

    Martin Boyce, Susan Philipsz, Cathy Wilkes, David Shrigley, Jim Lambie – the list goes on – a key signifier of the country’s growing confidence and the role of the arts…

  • Bus Regulation: The Musical staged at Manchester Art Gallery on 28 September 2019

    Bus Regulation: The Musical (Greater Manchester)

    …& Bus Week. The short film documenting the event by Jen O’Brien and Martin Allison (above) was then released on Facebook and Twitter. It helped to create greater awareness and…

  • Eat Me

    …Thomas Rentmeister, Chloé Rutzerveld, Jana Sterbak, Sonja Stummerer & Martin Hablesreiter, Superflex, Liu Susiraja, Swamp, Studio Three, Dimitri Tsykalov, Tom Velthuis, Marije Vogelzang, Uli Westphal, Elizabeth Willing and Erwin Wurm….

  • The yellow on black sign installed outside Eastside Projects, Birmingham in 2013

    Early Warning Signs

    …Arts, Solent Showcase, UH Arts, BOM (Birmingham Open Media), Democracy House, CCA Derry~Londonderry, Central Saint Martins, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Kinning Park Complex, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, PEER and…

  • The ‘Glasgow Effect’ is not in our control

    …world: What will it mean to do “good work” in the future? The Oxford Martin Institute predicts that 40 per cent of existing jobs in America and Europe – both…

  • The New Conservatism: Complicity & the UK Art World’s Performance of Progression

    …to, in the words of poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, ‘gradually strengthen the hand of capital and weaken the hand of labour’. According to journalist Iain Martin, this was the year…

  • Let a Public Train take the Strain

    …a nation we would regain use of that organ that invented trains in the first place, the loss of which is increasingly often lamented: the British “railway mind”. Andrew Martin

  • Re: Thinking: Time

    Alistair Gentry & Joe Magee, Ellie Harrison, Scott Martin, Damien Robinson and Ming Wong. Curated by Ele Carpenter….

  • Treat Yourself

    Sophie Calle, Michelle Charles, Brian Eno, Leo Fitzmaurice, Ellie Harrison, Paddy Hartley, Mona Hatoum, Nancy Honey, Anne-Claire Maurier, Jorge Molder, Martin Parr, Angela Rumble, Gabriella Sancisi, Helen Sweeting, Shellburne Thurber,…

  • Digi-Monde

    Martine Dejeans, Ellie Harrison, Paddy Hartley, Margareta Kern, Andrea Rossi, Madeline Strindburg, Naomi Tronski and Joanna Woodward….

  • Insignificance

    …images accrued by Mass-Observation, reflected their surreal aspect in his own photographs of street life, as subsequently the photographs of Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr were to do. You will…

  • Paid to Live Like Common People

    …not sure we’ve even been promised a finished product. Back in an earlier century, a hit song by Pulp told the story of an affluent artist from St Martin’s College…

  • Digi-Monde: ‘Painters’ of Modern Life

    …uses. Martine Dejeans and Madeline Strindburg also use painting to produce frankly positive images of technology as well: Dejeans’ grids have a sunny palette which belie their chilly grid structure,…

  • Fair Exchange

    …Borland and Martin Boyce. Paying homage to the mercantile history of the building, many works have been made for the fair with the theme ‘art and commerce’ in mind. Interest-free…

  • Vault Art Glasgow

    …prominent as Alasdair Gray and Turner Prize nominee Martin Boyce, as well as a clutch of promising young unknowns, will buck the trend on all these counts. Running from Friday…

  • A pool of creative talent

    …Ellie Harrison’s online work, just long enough to make the this exhibition is a timely reminder that the past is the best place to build the future on. Martin Vincent…

  • Treat Yourself

    …to, shall we say, matters of the water closet. The art itself is impressive, with top-bill names like Mona Hatoum, Martin Parr and Sophie Calle leading a vivid and wide…

  • GSA MFA Auction

    Pio Abad, Sam Ainsley, Claire Barclay, Beagles & Ramsay, Oliver Braid, Martin Boyce, Jon Burgerman, Fiona Burke, Amelia Bywater, Celeste Carballo, Kaifeng Chun, Ruth Claxton, Phil Collins, Kate Davis, Emily…

  • State of the arts

    …number of techniques, ranging from satchel-chucking to evening bag-twirling. The gold-medal winner Russell Martin, had this to say: “I was please with my performance, but I think the international handbag…