Art on the Street
Manus McGrogan traces the radical posters that flowered on the walls of Paris in the spring of 1968, while a new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London offers a chance to see them.
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Change Me: Facial Injuries in the First World War
Paddy Hartley describes how an interest in the treatment of facial injuries in the First World War led him to develop a new form of sculpture.
Arts, Crafts & Socialism
Sheila Rowbotham introduces the ‘hands-on’ utopian, C.R. Ashbee, and the Guild of Handicraft he established in 1888, shedding light on late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arts and Crafts ideas about work, consumption and society.
The Story of the Kelly Gang
Mark Juddery introduces The Story of the Kelly Gang, possibly the first-ever feature film, now largely lost, that was made a hundred years ago in Australia about the notorious outlaw with the unusual body-armour. Hugely popular when it was first released in 1906, it spawned a genre of bushranger movies and epitomized the significance of the Kelly legend in Australian cultural identity.
The First American Political Cartoon
Mark Bryant looks at the first political cartoon – and one of the most influential ever – to be published in America.
Death of Angelica Kauffman
The artist Angelica Kauffman died on November 5th, 1807, aged sixty-six.
Fun and War in Afghanistan
Continuing his series on how cartoonists have seen events great and small, Mark Bryant looks at the coverage of one of ‘Victoria’s little wars’.
The Death of Louis B. Mayer
Richard Cavendish remembers the life of Louis B. Mayer, who died on October 29th, 1957.
Cartoons of the ‘Red Moon’
Continuing his series on how cartoonists have seen events great and small, Mark Bryant looks at the impact of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth orbit and a Soviet triumph in the Cold War.
‘J’Accuse ...!’: Cartoons of the Dreyfus Affair
Mark Bryant looks at the way caricaturists viewed the scandal engulfing France at the end of the 19th century.