These days you hear the word curator all over the place. From people curating their Instagram feed to their vintage sneaker collection, it seems like everyone can be a curator – but what does it actually [...]
An Interview with Dr Barnaby Wright, Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century Art at The Courtauld Gallery ‘There Not There’ came about in response to a brief that links the exhibition to the forthcoming major [...]
The Importance of colour in There Not There The ideas that underpin our exhibition There Not There are far from black and white. Were I to ascribe them a specific colour, it might be Terre [...]
As you enter ‘There Not There’ you will immediately notice the exhibition’s centrepiece: a smaller room containing Runa Islam’s captivating video, ‘Stare Out (Blink)’. In this 16 mm film, we are confronted with the [...]
Overlooked Places and People in Art and the City In a city like London where locals and tourists alike adopt a non-stop, frantic pace of life, it is no surprise that sometimes things are overlooked, [...]
As the only painting and the largest work in the show, George Shaw’s ‘The End of Time’ (2008-9) is hard to miss: it confronts you as you enter the space. If the barren patch [...]
The View From: Perspectives on Paul Seawright’s ‘Sectarian Murder’ series. Paul Seawright’s ‘Sectarian Murder’ series holds a pivotal place in ‘There Not There’. It is undoubtedly an emotional climax of the show, [...]
Out of Sight: Long and Goldsworthy Gary Snyder, poet and ecological essayist, wrote that ‘the world is our consciousness and it surrounds us’ at a time when the destructive consequences of human activity were only [...]
A week after the closure of ‘There Not There’, let us return full circle to the exhibition’s origins: a brief and a space – The Courtauld Gallery’s main exhibition room: 12 metres long, 7.5 metres wide [...]
