Colin Raff proceeds into the biotic sculpture room

None of this was window dressing, or walled off by the same invisible barriers preventing true movement in most video games we’d played...

Lugosi not only acts in Wood’s movies and gives each scene his all—at one point he jumps into the water to wrestle a broken mechanical octopus—but also encourages Wood’s belief in their vocation...

This small stone man shows the fathomless silent darkness in our past. He is the wordless night...

Elton John was singing “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues,” and I was belting it out with him...

When an exhibition is devoted to a theme, its paintings take a backseat, often to the detriment of the paintings...

I grew up hearing the story of my mother and grandmother going to the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, to see Victor Herbert’s The Red Mill. This was 1940...

Constable’s work depicts a quiet, pastoral scene on the River Stour, which forms part of the border between Essex and Suffolk...

How do we enter into the ritual time outside of time in which narrative unfolds?

After the local video-game arcade and the local comic-book store, the finest establishment on earth was the local video-rental outlet, a paradise of garish rectangular boxes leaning precariously on wooden shelves divided roughly by genre...

When it comes to matters of the courtroom, some cases are surely easier to empathise with than others. A sketch artist may have a personal connection to the plight of the accused or accuser...

Was Walter Benjamin correct in suggesting a relationship between art and fascism?

We are very happy to announce that Berfrois is currently welcoming Poetry Submissions...

Wilt thou rob this leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, non-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue Spanish pouch?

It is scarcely surprising that Shakespeare’s powerful words and images – the precious stone set in the silver sea –would later be enlisted to boost morale and stir national pride...

Dada was not a stable concept that could be reinitiated untransformed, nor was montage a static category...

In pandemic times I’m picturing Jason Fearn sat amongst his chaotic equipment, formulating a sinister and foreboding soundtrack...