I distinctly remember one of the first times I went to a contemporary gallery; I can't remember
which one it was. I was 17. I walked in the door and I was made to feel like a piece of shit …

Now that the'young British artist'(yBa) phenomenon is mostly tired and expired it seems
timely to ask: what was all that about? To tell the story as a simple sequence that starts with …

The one thing in life that we can be certain of–in addition to death and taxes–is
impermanence. Everything changes: our world changes and we change with it. And so it is …

The focus is on the problems of establishing an authentic Black arts tradition in the UK. In
particular, the book looks at:(1) the history of Black arts;(2) the politics of cultural imperialism …

Black British Culture and Society brings together in one indispensable volume key writings
on the Black community in Britain, from the'Windrush'immigrations of the late 1940s and …

Other Conundrums, copublished with Vancouver's Artspeak Gallery and the Kamloops Art
Gallery, is an extraordinary collection of essays on Canadian artists of colour by Monika Kin …

Over the last two decades the cultural industries have increasingly moved to the center of
political debates about the transformation of contemporary capitalism. They are frequently …

The audience for abstract art has been idealized in much twentiethcentury theory.
Unexamined notions of the superior capacities—intelligence, aesthetic sensibilities, and so …

Creative Justice examines issues of inequality and injustice in the cultural industries and
cultural workplace. It first aims to 'do justice'to the kinds of objects and texts produced by …

The relationship between a civilization's socioeconomic structure and its culture is perhaps
the most complicated of all problems for the sociolo-gist. A ninetenth-century tradition, one …