Talking about street art….
I’m giving a lunchtime talk in my department next week, called ‘Street Art and the Contestation of Public Space’. Here’s what it will be about: “Cities are sites of intense cultural and aesthetic...
View ArticleRedirecting the Gaze
My first visit to New York was in 1990, a hectic day-long layover between flights. My second trip (but really the first time I began to explore the city properly) was in 1992 and a lot less frantic:...
View ArticleSpace Invaders: The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition of street art
It’s never unproblematic when galleries and museums exhibit the work of street artists – some believe that street art is no longer ‘street art’ when it’s exhibited indoors in a gallery or museum space;...
View ArticleSmall acts, amazing effects.
Regular readers of this blog will know that I tend not to do announcements about upcoming shows, figuring that there are plenty of other blogs and sites that do a sterling job in that respect. But...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street – an essay in images
I’m in New York for a conference on law and the image, so this afternoon I went to see the Occupy Wall Street protest that has been happening there for a number of weeks now. As most people will know,...
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