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Mahmoud Elmardi, a Sudanese visual artist and novelist, was born in 1988 in the historic city of Bahri, Khartoum—a region renowned for its rich cultural...
GJ Gillespie is a collage artist living in a 1928 farmhouse overlooking Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island, WA. A prolific artist with 23 awards to...
In this video, I explore how I write with aphantasia. I open by asking viewers to picture a polar bear or a banana. For most...
Episodes 1 and 2 of my short documentary series Black Beyond Borders – Dakar, Senegal – can be viewed below. The series follows my six-week...
In 2001, when I was twenty, my half-brother Jonathan was born. For the first time in my life, I was no longer an only child;...
As American Falls fades from my life, I find myself vainly attempting to lock its memory to a position of tenderness and beauty–backdropped by allergy-ridden...
Beneath a sky heavy with the promise of winter, Kars had arrived, not merely as a destination, but as a revelation. Angelic flakes danced beyond...
Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881 and died in Mugins, France in 1973. Over 45 works from the Tate’s collection, alongside European...
The House of Music integrates some recent Doig paintings with sound. Central to this is project is an original Western Electric/Bell Labs sound system and...
Curators Hilary Floe and Saskia Flower have put together this Lee Miller retrospective exhibition of 200 plus photographs, including some never before printed. The exhibition...
Kerry James Marshall was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1955. This is his first major European exhibition. It’s a vast body of work, it’s strongly...
Gilbert and George aim to ‘bring out the bigot from inside the liberal and conversely bring out the liberal from inside the bigot’. 21st Century...
Born in 1904, son of a wealthy timber merchant, educated at Harrow and Cambridge. His fascination with glamour, high society and photography started at an...
As problematic as it is to try to communicate the magnificence of a natural phenomenon through an allusion to a fictitious one, this is all...
The weekend before I turned eighteen, you convinced me to go on a crime spree. Taking advantage of this last chance to be charged as...
We were cruising on the boat from our basecamp to the island of sun, sand, and wooden houses. It was 30 minutes of ocean breeze...
It’s interesting how certain places don’t just stay in memory. They rise—slow and strange—from the deep, surfacing during times of struggle, when something in us...
I don’t remember if I heard the song “Wicked Game” before I saw David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, but for a while, I connected the...
My grandma had worked in the Bureau of Scientific Resources years before I even arrived with my portfolio for a job interview. She had left...
I didn’t see the girl until the end of my run—until well after I started, actually. Her figure appeared in the spaces between the palm...