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Andres Serrano: Immersion (Piss Christ) (1987)  Cibachrome print photograph (150 x 100 cm) [1]   I.    For most British people, a piss arti...

The Surrealist and the Sex Pistol:  André Masson and Malcolm McLaren Photos by Man Ray (c. 1930) and Joe Stevens (1976)     I.    When asked...

Sex Pistols Photo by Richard Young (1976)   "We have passed beyond the absurd: our position is absolutely ridiculous." [1]     I...

Decay is the Laboratory of Life (SA/2023)     Because so much of my thinking has been informed by the work of D. H. Lawrence - and because,...

Black Sun Flower (SA/2023)     Is it just me, or is there not a suggestion in the flower on the left of the sun-wheel symbol [1] that Nazi ...

André Masson: Bullfighting (1937)     I.    In response to a recent post [1] , the Irish poet and playwright Síomón Solomon asks:   "I...

Disgust makes her revulsion clear in Disney Pixar's  Inside Out (dir. Pete Docter, 2015)   'Nothing is more important than for us t...

The Venus of Willendorf [1] Image: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien nhm-wien.ac.at     I.   I recently reflected on how the figure of a woman...

(Polity, 2018)   I.    As torpedohiles will be aware, I'm a big fan of plants and trees. And interested also in the latest philosophical...

Milo Moiré: PlopEgg (2014) Photo by Peter Palm milomoire.com     I.    British art critic Jonathan Jones really doesn't like performanc...