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Black Sky Thinking

Sensation Nation: Blair, Oasis, Cocaine, Diana & British Maximalism 1997

Twenty-five years ago, Ian MacMillan was an arts writer and TV producer witnessing the madness of the YBA's Sensation exhibition first hand. Looking back, he argues it was representative of a shallow yet maximalist moment in British culture
Art

Psychedelic Odin: William Blake’s Gift To Musicians

From Julian Cope to, er, Fat Les, as Tate Britain opens its major new show about William Blake, John Higgs, the author of William Blake Now, looks at the great mystic painter-poet's influence on contemporary pop
Art

Welcome To The Pleasuredome: Helen Beard Interviewed

With a major new exhibition opening this weekend at Unit London, Helen Beard talks to Bárbara Borges de Campos about female desire and getting her break from Damien Hirst
Art

How Does It Feel? Michael Bracewell Show Explores Art & Pop, 1976–1995

The current show at Sprüth Magers, London, curated by British writer Michael Bracewell, explores the mutual fascination between the worlds of art and pop music in the 80s and 90s
Anniversary

Short Shark Shock: Thirty Years Of Young British Artists

Three decades after they were dubbed Young British Artists, Robert Barry looks back at the work of a generation for whom conceptual art did not demand the denial of life and joy.

Black Sky Thinking

Martin Amis, Geezer-Prat, & His Unfortunate Clichés Of Britishness

With the release of cynical new novel Lionel Asbo: State Of England, argues Alex Niven, Martin Amis continues the patronising run of form that helped install the pernicious and cliché-ridden notion of 'Cool Britannia' and ultimately Boris and Dave's Big Society

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