Art
Kara Walker’s Monument to Monstrousness
Can the enduring presence of such monuments among us still have the power to reinforce deep-rooted prejudices, by the very fact that they have simply not gone away?
Michael Glover
Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, Cambridge-educated, London-based poet, art critic, and poetry editor of The Tablet. He has written regularly for the Independent, the Financial Times, and the Economist, and was a London correspondent for ARTNews.
Art
The Hollow Heart of Antony Gormley’s Spectacle
Is there something self-aggrandizing about Gormley’s career-long obsession with making casts of his own body?
Art
The Tumultuous Times of William Blake
Blake was received by his contemporaries as either extremely odd or completely mad or perhaps both.