Beyond the Canvas
An art blog with opinions
 

In my mind, a portrait is the depiction of an actual person, someone who has lived. Their portrait was made so their story could be told...

"One of the strongest feelings I have about death is that it's a time when the energy we carry is dispersed and becomes a part of...

Being inside an empty museum at night might well be the ultimate art lover's fantasy. Apart from not having to share the space with herds...

Sometimes the Venice Biennale takes you places you'd never dream of going to. A decision to escape the mad crowds of San Marco and take...

"When you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it really doesn’t have any effect." — Andy Warhol Warhol was an avid collector of...

"The Smog Collectors materialize the reality of the air we breathe. I place cut, stencilled images on transparent or opaque plates or...

“We are at a precipice in this country, and we are either going to move forward or we are not.” - Carrie Mae Weems In 2016, nearly half...

Iconic, but not frozen in time - a garment that continues to evolve and fascinate. That is the premise of this show that traces the...

The overwhelming dominance of Artemisia Gentileschi's personal narrative over her worth as an artist has always bothered me. The rape,...

Venice is, among many other wonderful things, synonymous with glass. The work of the Murano glassblowers has inspired countless artists...

"This Christ will never be forgotten. Was it made from earth? Was it rotting flesh? I didn’t know what the medium was […] The three Marys...

"The wall is a monument to openness over enclosure, lightness over heaviness, transience over permanence — it’s also fraught with...

" I want to open a space in people’s minds where they see that they can be active, intellectually and personally, rather than passive...

"Black women’s heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors. The hair she paints has a mind...

Painting is a visual language where everything in the painting is meaningful, is important, is coded. But sometimes, because of the...

It's been 176 days since Breonna Taylor was killed. Breonna was 26-year-old, she worked as an emergency room technician and was on the...

"I think that most work that’s made by black artists is considered to be about blackness. [Laughs.] Unlike work that’s made by white...

Today I'm celebrating my first trip into central London after 5 months of mostly staying at home. The Titian: Love, Desire, Death...

‘The series was created from a personal need for spiritual grounding after experiencing trauma. The search for what gives meaning to our...

"I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had...