Beyond the Canvas
An art blog with opinions
 

There are wounds so deep they never really heal. They are the wounds we share with other people, whether we know them or not, the wounds...

It's not the first time that this blog talks about Marcus Rashford. The 23-year old mancunian footballer used his social media platform...

According to the Financial Times, Abu Dhabi is planning to spend $6bn on various cultural projects to diversify from oil. This is not a...

"I would like everyone to read, not so they become writers or poets, but so that no one is a slave anymore." - Gianni Rodari I recently...

"I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air. A riot is the language of the unheard." Martin Luther King, Jr....

“My photography has always provided me with an opportunity to open myself up and see the world around me. And most of all, photography...

Revered by the public, reviled by the art establishment and eventually sold at auction for almost £1m, the Mona Lisa of kitsch was...

“Who needs to NOT think of you as a Black artist to consider you a real artist?” - Kerry James Marshall There are a handful of artists...

"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...

"Political activity does not interfere with my work, it feeds it. And if I'm interested in racism and fighting racism, then that should...

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

I was researching a post that involved smog and plates (fear not, it's coming), when I came across photos of different plates. These are...

“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...