Women, power and value in the art world In 1989, the Guerrilla Girls famously asked: "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" Their provocative poster revealed a striking imbalance: less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections of the Metropolitan Museum were women, while 85% of the nudes were female. More than 35 years later, the picture has changed - but perhaps not as much as we might think. According to the Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report 2026, women...

Can contemporary art give Bath a new cultural dimension? Bath is rightly celebrated for its extraordinary Roman and Georgian heritage. Its architecture, landscape and urban planning are recognised by UNESCO as being of Outstanding Universal Value. But Bath is not a museum. It is a living city - and a living city needs to continue creating its own cultural identity. This is where I believe contemporary art has an important role to play in Bath. Look at other historic cities. Edinburgh's World...

Buttons. Books. Paintings. Postcards. Shells. Watches. Ceramics. Photographs. Packaging. Objects from our travels – even things that other people might look at and wonder, “Why on earth would you keep that?” I have been thinking about this through a book I encountered during my time at Canterbury University. The Cultures of Collecting, edited by John Elsner and Roger Cardinal, my research professor, and published in 1994. It explores collecting in all its extraordinary forms – from Freud and...