Aria Dean’s “Abattoir, USA!”: technically skilled but preaching to the choir
Steve Illustrated By Hannah Robinson: Curator’s notes
Pope.L’s builds his final altar at the South London Gallery
Best art books to gift your creative friends this Christmas
Artists Need Space: London’s Creative Economy Discourages the Arts
Artists need time to create and room to fail. Great art has been created in spaces where artists could rely on relatively small incomes to pay their rent and spend their time observing, experimenting, and producing art most of which will not sell.
Is a love for fashion unsustainable?
The most sustainable person I know is my mother-in-law. If everyone shopped like her, the world would be a much better place. The catch? She doesn’t care about fashion.
Stolen Art, Generational Justice & The Old Money Aesthetic
The newest episode of Art is Cheaper than Therapy is out! Learn about the Old Money Aesthetic and about the Art Loss Register, a database of stolen and lost art.
Michelangelo's David in Florida, New Yorker Cartoons, Hermes Bags, and Wallace and Gromit with Hannah Robinson
I chat with Hannah Robinson, freelance illustrator and cartoonist who has done work in the Guardian, the New Yorker and more.Also, the news has exploded surrounding the forced resignation of a Florida principal after parents complained about the teaching of Michel Angelo’s David to a class of sixth graders.
Rembrandt, Apocalypse Films, and the Visual Commentary on Scripture with Dr. Michelle Fletcher
Graffiti, Drawing Bones, and Earth Pigments: How David Popa combines art and adventure
David Popa is a Finland based artist originally from NYC who creates large-scale ephemeral works with natural earth-based pigments. In this podcast episode of Art is Cheaper than Therapy we speak about his father’s background in both early 80s graffiti and classical painting, Popa’s childhood unrest in the studio, and about the concept of thin spaces.
New podcast: Art is Cheaper Than Therapy
Welcome to Art is Cheaper than Therapy, the accessible arts and culture podcast. We'll be bringing in-depth conversations for amateurs and professionals alike in the areas of art, fashion and design. Join us and hear from artists, academics, professionals and amateurs. Whether you know a lot about art already or are just a bit art-curious, this is a great place to start- without intimidation.
Recorded Music, Alice Neel and why we don’t have to fear AI art
Will AI art make artists a thing of the past? Alexandra argues that as long as people find meaning in the expression and view points of other people, that art will be studied, appreciated, purchased.
Are we ruining old things?
Over the past few years, the internet has seen a surge in people finding old antique furniture, thrift shopping, and using Facebook marketplace to find pre-loved clothes. Although some interior or fashion styles have people simply use these items as is, others have people using their creative and crafty skills to change the original item into something that is trendier or more in line with their personal style. But not everyone thinks this creativity is all good, with some saying that these creators are “ruining” the original pieces.
My Art Nouveau Wedding
A picture by picture look at the details that went into our Art Nouveau, London Secret Garden autumn wedding.
Fashioning Masculinities at the V&A: Masculine or Genteel?
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear at the V&A attempts to show the development of masculine ideas of style throughout time.
Blue Woman centres sexual trauma around the female experience
Blue Woman is a new contemporary opera written by Laura Bowler and Laura Lomas and directed by Kate Mitchell exploring the psychological impact of a woman’s experience of sexual assault.
Was the 2022 Met Gala theme misguided? The Gilded Era, SCOTUS and increasing economic disparity
Some on Twitter have pointed out the irony of these two trending conversation topics as well as on The Gilded Age as a theme more generally alongside a time of raising gas and food prices and increasing economic disparity. Is this a fair criticism?
Go, Consider, or Skip? Beyond Surrealism at the Tate Modern
The Tate’s newest exhibition Beyond Surrealism attempts to take the art movement beyond Dali and Magritte. But did it succeed? In this review, I answer whether this is an exhibit to go to, consider, or skip.