Beyond the Canvas
An art blog with opinions
 

“That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown...

I had been following Nikolay Lukin on Instagram for some time, and this morning he followed me back. Дякую, Микола. His latest post is a...

"During the quarantine period, I began to create staged self-portraits at home. In the photo, which was the beginning of the series, I...

Artem Volokitin was born in 1981. He lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, home to 1.4 million people and less than...

There are moments in life when our fear is such that we scramble for ways of taming it, in the hope that this crippling fear will somehow...

Today Instagram is aflood with red hearts, declarations of eternal love, schmaltzy quotes and unmissable promotions. And while swathes of...

"Good artists copy; great artists steal." - Apocryphal quote The history of modern and contemporary art is littered with instances of...

Current rabbit hole update: scandals and crimes in the art world, of which I am delighted to inform you there is an abundance of. One...

"The whiteness of meringue becomes for me of great poetic preoccupation; it's like snow, like frost ... like ... purity.'' - Wayne...

Whether it’s the first one or the latest of many, a visit to Florence’s Uffizi is bound to leave you breathless. Such are the quality and...

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be...

"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live." - Robert Mapplethorpe In this powerful self-portrait Robert Mapplethorpe looks...

'My piece is not talking about old slave ships; it's about what happens today' says Romuald Hazoumé about his multimedia installation 'La...

“I always use simple elements, I don’t want to add or subtract anything. I never even wanted to deform either: I isolate and I represent....

From the Wunderkammers of Renaissance to this day, the Global West has a museum for everything. From sex to death, from vaginas to...

Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation and a public health epidemic. It occurs daily across the world and is widely...

It's been 15 years to the day since Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for fearlessly and relentlessly telling the truth. Anna was gunned...

Like many, I have been following the recent events unfolding in Afghanistan. I have mostly been feeling sad and powerless while thinking...

At long last, my reading drought has come to an end. I am currently re-reading the original version of The Life Before Us written in 1975...

Earlier this week, a near-total ban on abortions has come into effect in the state of Texas. This means that after six weeks of...