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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Annabel Keenan |John-Paul Stonard |Joe Ware |Anne Kraybill
Art Jameel, the independent art organisation in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, is centring sustainability in its operations and programming and leading a push for less stringent conservation standards in the cultural sector. Historically set by institutions in North America and Northern Europe, these standards can require significant energy consumption to maintain and are exacerbating inequity among institutions that cannot comply, primarily those in the Global South.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | John-Paul Stonard |Anny Shaw |Joe Ware
One of the most famous train journeys in art was Vincent van Gogh’s trip from Paris to Arles in February 1888 on the PLM, or Paris-Lyon-Mediterranée Express. Although steam locomotion had been a subject for artists for some time, in his painting Van Gogh was the first to show the way train travel had transformed both the landscape and human perception of the world.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | John-Paul Stonard |Elizabeth Lowry |Lauren Elkin
Hans Josephsohn began to gain public recognition for his sculpture around the turn of the century, when he was eighty. Among these late works at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, four roughly modelled wall reliefs stand out, showing forms that might be interpreted as an artist and a model, a heavy lintel-like beam weighing down on the scene. Here and there a detail might suggest a face or body part, but these are quickly submerged in the overall sense of a non-specific yet hardly arbitrary object.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
aina.org | John-Paul Stonard
In a recent talk at the British Museum (BM), sitting between the two great Assyrian lamassu from Khorsabad, the Turkish writer Elif Shafak spoke about the role fiction can play in shedding light on otherwise forgotten moments of personal and historical trauma.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | John-Paul Stonard
In a recent talk at the British Museum (BM), sitting between the two great Assyrian lamassu from Khorsabad, the Turkish writer Elif Shafak spoke about the role fiction can play in shedding light on otherwise forgotten moments of personal and historical trauma.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | John-Paul Stonard
Asmall, pale limulus horseshoe crab, one of those prehistoric-looking creatures with long tails, scuttles across the sandy bed of a large aquarium. From behind a boulder improbably suspended in the water appears a long-legged arrow crab, with its distinctive Eiffel Tower-shaped head and spindly scarlet legs. The arrow crab picks up something white with a pincer and begins to munch on it, as the limulus capsizes and waves its legs helplessly in the air.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
jpstonard.substack.com | John-Paul Stonard
GEORGE STUBBS’S DRAWINGS of the anatomy of the horse are marvels of concentration but also of sheer physical effort. Over a period of eighteen months from the summer of 1756, in a barn in the village of Horkstow in Lincolnshire, Stubbs bled a number of horses to death, hoisted them on a homemade contraption, progressively dissected them, making drawings at each stage.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
jpstonard.substack.com | John-Paul Stonard
LAST NIGHT I WALKED DOWN to see the latest animal stencil attributed to Banksy. It is the ninth to appear in as many days around London. This time it is an image of a gorilla, lifting a sheet, from which fly several birds. It was spray-painted on Monday night on the entrance shutter to London Zoo, on the Outer Circle of The Regent’s Park. Two men were guarding the image. They were on duty all night and chatting away the first few hours.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | John-Paul Stonard
Calm before the storm: Gimcrack with John Pratt up on Newmarket Heath (c 1765) Credit: Fitzwilliam Museum One of the earliest known images in British art is the engraving on bone of a horse’s head, found in 1876 at Creswell Crags, Derbyshire. It was discovered among the bones of numerous animals – hyenas, woolly rhinoceros, cave lions, bears and reindeer – remarkable evidence of one of the few known Ice Age settlements in ancient Britain, when the island landscape was bleak, treeless...
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | John-Paul Stonard
Last week, five climate activists, the “Whole Truth Five”, were given record prison sentences for their part in allegedly organising a protest on the UK's M25 motorway against the granting of new oil and gas licenses. The group had been found guilty of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for the demonstration, which took place in November 2022.
