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Preview: Sanity Assassin by Amanda Beech

Amanda Beech, Sanity Assassin (2009), Installation view. Courtesy of Spike Island. Photo: Stuart Bunce. Spike Island will hold the first major solo show in a public space for Amanda Beech. The West...

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Preview: Modern Times at Kettle's Yard

Franciszka Themerson, Gustav Klucis. www.kettlesyard.co.uk Modern Times – Responding to Chaos, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, until March 14 2010 Attempts to build a world order invariably result in chaos....

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Rory Macbeth, The Wanderer by Franz Kafka, 2011

Looking at art and reading can seem poles apart. Galleries are public spaces in which we move from one room to another. Reading is usually sedentary and usually in some way private. But The Wanderer...

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Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting (1974)

Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting (1974). Image courtesy Barbican Art Gallery. Novelist Philip Roth is known for having said: “When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.” And this work...

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Toilet of Modern Art, Vienna

I’m not even going to mention the most famous toilet in modern art, but here’s another pretender to the throne, no pun intended. Hundertwasser was an Viennese architect. His quirky creations are a...

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