Max Lunn

Jun 1, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Rachel Johnston |Max Lunn

Look at the little kids in a primary school class. They delight in pictures. They love listening to stories. They jump about to music, bash table tops like drums. Art, this would seem to suggest, is a lot more than a frilly bit tacked on to the fringes. It is fundamental. It’s integral to human life. So why this lingering sense that the art world is the realm of the privileged, that our museums and galleries are places where posh people swan about? The cultural world has a class problem.

Mar 31, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Max Lunn

As a child I was startled by the depiction of Hell in Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earth Delights (c1500) – not because of the weird creatures and lurid, gleefully depicted narratives of human torture, but because his highly detailed doomsday scenes were so different to how I’d always imagined the end of the world, namely, vaporisation in a flash, from nuclear war.

Dec 14, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Max Lunn

As a child, I remember being told that in Tuareg society higher body mass used to be considered highly appealing because it signalled ready access to food, indicating status and wealth. This differentiated them from the sickly lower orders, or so I was led to believe. Leblouh, the practice of force-feeding young girls to make them more attractive, continues in countries such as Mauritania, where fleshiness is valued.

Oct 7, 2023 | perspectivemag.co.uk | Max Lunn

After spending time in the 1920s in what is now Saudi Arabia, TE Lawrence echoed a then-widespread Western view when he wrote: “[T]here was so little Arab art that one could say Arab art did not exist.” Given Lawrence’s experience as an archaeologist, his withering statement does him little credit.

Aug 23, 2023 | maddyness.com | Max Lunn

The Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub, in collaboration with Beauhurst, has recently published its latest report on spinouts, unveiling a panorama of transformative trends beyond the traditional bounds of the ‘golden triangle’ encompassing Oxford, Cambridge, and London. There are currently 1,166 active, academic spinout companies. These make up just 2.52% of the UK’s high-growth business population. Why should we care about spinouts, then? Because they punch well above their weight.