Lift Off! A review of Gustav Metzger’s current exhibition at Kettle’s Yard
“So, it’s, um, auto-destructivist art. A creative form of political protest through destruction and disintegration”. Such were my words in an attempt to convince my family to come to the new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, ‘Lift Off!’, featuring the work by the activist and...
Judging Books By Their Covers – Cassia Price explores the Problems of Cover Design
Day by day, e-readers are making the trade of physical books more competitive, and though cut-outs and matte effects do not change a book’s content, cover art is becoming bolder and more experimental as a result of competition. There is a unique relationship between...
Kaleidoscope Landscapes and Playful Goats: John Craxton, by AHA alum Anna Fothergill
John Craxton. The name many have little significance to the British public, but his recent exhibition at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge (which closed at the end of last month) served to change the fact. And with just cause. The British-born, Mediterranean-bred artist, produced some of the...
Matisse: The Cut-Outs. A review and other thoughts by AHA tutor Richard Stemp
Starting, unconventionally, in Pittsburgh, Richard Stemp looks forward – and back – to Matisse’s Paper Cut-Outs on display at Tate Modern, and then looks forward again to living happily ever after. I have been to Pittsburgh four or five times, more often, in fact,...