JOSEPH BEUYS
Two months after Beuys’s crash came Kara Gun, or ‘Black Day’, 18th May, 1944, when the Soviet Union began a programme of brutal deportation of the Tatars across Eurasia to Uzbekistan, as well as to the Siberian labour camps, as part of their programme of ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Animals, Gods, Nature, Ideas..
I’m halfway through giving (and writing) a series of four lectures, based on my book from last year Creation. Art Since the Beginning. They’re being held at St Mary’s Church in Walpole, Suffolk, which has recently become a local venue for art and performance. The idea behind the lectures is that the history of art, going…
Remains To Be Seen, Snape Maltings
I returned today to ‘Remains To Be Seen’, a poetic, meditative exhibition spread over the site at Snape Maltings, showing the work of Paul Benney, Laurence Edwards and Kiki Smith. It is part of the Aldeburgh Festival and runs until 26th June. It is impressively curated by Isabel de Vasconcellos and feels very much an…
JOHN-PAUL STONARD 