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Visual culture in interviews, reviews and opinion
As Steven Claydon celebrates his first major show in a Swiss institution, at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, the British artist talks to Robert Barry about his double life as artist and musician, from Add N To (X) to JackTooJack and beyond
As the octogenarian veteran of the American Light & Space movement addresses a crowd ahead of his exhibition at South London’s White Cube Robert Barry finds a conceptual artist less interested in concepts than the subtleties of perception. Photographs courtesy of Ben Westoby/White Cube
Bobby Barry introduces us to tQ's new art section and provides a gallery round up featuring an installation in a vintage arcade machine, a reinterpretation of Enter The Dragon and a micronation founded by an ex-magician in an artist’s studio in Bristol
Photographs of the dead in places of conflict are becoming increasingly more common as mobile phones can capture and share in an instant. But what is it like to know someone in such an image? London writer and poet Chimène Suleyman remembers growing up knowing her grandfather only through a photo taken after his death in Cyprus
With the BFI's Derek Jarman season currently underway, musician and artist Alexander Tucker recalls his first trip to Jarman's garden, his time spent immersed in the alien beauty of Dungeness, and the filmmaker's huge influence on his own work