Visual culture in interviews, reviews and opinion
As the first feature-length portrait of the American artist Robert Mapplethorpe opens in London, Olivia Marks talks to the film-makers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey about sex, shock, and photography as an art form (some images slightly nsfw)
February's coming attractions include shows by Harmony Korine, Mark Wallinger, and Dinh Q. Lê plus a series of conversations, dinnertimes, and works-in-progress which render "the space between the works … as important as the objects themselves."
Ever laughed at finely honed Paint images of Ian Botham battling Storm Troopers or Andrew Marr bursting, be-ribboned from a layer cake? You’ve probably encountered the work of Jim’ll Paint It, the artist for whom no commission is too strange