January 18, 2013
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Rubbish – Rachel Cooke on the artist Kurt Schwitters at The Guardian: Merz doesn’t mean anything: it is a nonsense word (it comes from Commerzbank, an ad for which appears in one of his earliest collages). But after 1918 everything Schwitters … Continue reading
January 11, 2013
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I didn’t know that influential German artist Kurt Schwitters spent the last years of his life in exile in England’s Lake District creating something called the ‘Merz Barn’. Did you? Schwitters started constructing the original ‘Merzbau’ (pictured above) inside his Hannover studio … Continue reading
November 23, 2012
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“I want everything I do to look spontaneous. It’s not that I think illustration should necessarily be like that, but this is what I can do.” In this short interview for the Tate, illustrator Quentin Blake talks about his new … Continue reading
November 3, 2012
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In this interview for Tate Media, William Klein, one of the 20th century’s most important artists, photographers and film-makers, discusses his experience photographing on the streets of New York, the challenges of publishing his first book and how he working … Continue reading
May 17, 2012
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“I wanted to transform the subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the colour, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day.” Photographer Bruce Davidson talked … Continue reading