Seeing is believing

Bonnie Friend
Avant Art, Feature
  You don’t have to travel very far these days before someone starts talking about the negative effects of TV, computer games, and the generally diminishing effects of technology on the imagination. “Where w...

The dirty F word

Bonnie Friend
Avant Art, Feature
“Feminism” sometimes seems to have become an utterly filthy word in the last decade or so. For every person who believes that the 21st century woman is a feminist by definition of the time in which they were ...

Against the trend

Bonnie Friend
Avant Art, Feature
Fashion in any field is a peculiar thing because to really be at the forefront of it you almost have to be the one who’s totally ignoring it. Such is the enduring case of two of the most influential artists...

Leading lights

Xenia Founta
Avant Art, Culture, News
Tate Britain has announced its spring season of BP Spotlights. BP Spotlights are displays of works from the Tate collection that explore particular themes or subjects or focus on the work of one artist. Thi...

Battle off the canvas

Bonnie Friend
Avant Art
  The battles for social ideals have always been hard won, and that is if you deem them to have been won at all. Whatever stage you consider the society around you to be at, these are not wars that ...

Artistic transgressor

Peter Yeoh
Avant Art, Feature
The polymorphous art of Sterling Ruby embraces paradox, confounds expectations, and defies easy categorisation. Yet at the same time his creative output partakes of and helps establish new paradigms for definin...

Self-conscious

Xenia Founta
Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Greece
This month the Frances Rich School of Fine Art and Performing Arts of DEREE, in Athens present a unique and very topical exhibition related to the pervasiveness of technological media in our lives. The e...