David McAllister
@davidmcallister.bsky.social
Production & Associate Editor at Prospect
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Lots of debate recently on the state of Scottish cultural life - with plenty of omissions. For me it all comes back to the bigger (older) challenge of accommodating an avant-garde in a small country. Some provocative lessons from IHF here:
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Ian Hamilton Finlay’s revolutionary instincts
What the centenary of Scotland’s avant-gardener reveals about the crisis in our cultural life
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August 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Lots of debate recently on the state of Scottish cultural life - with plenty of omissions. For me it all comes back to the bigger (older) challenge of accommodating an avant-garde in a small country. Some provocative lessons from IHF here:
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/art/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/art/...
My latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, on the Tate's survey of Ithell Colquhoun, one of this year's highlights on the exhibition calendar:
Ithell Colquhoun’s flight from modernity
The artist, currently the subject of a major Tate retrospective, found inspiration among the wells and waystones of Cornwall
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July 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
My latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, on the Tate's survey of Ithell Colquhoun, one of this year's highlights on the exhibition calendar:
For the latest @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I spoke to Annabelle Selldorf on her (not entirely uncontentious) redesign of the National Gallery's postmodern classic, the Sainsbury Wing:
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7010...
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“I have an enormous amount of respect for this building.” Annabelle Selldorf on her National Gallery redesign
The architect’s changes to the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing have provoked controversy. We speak to her as the new wing opens
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June 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
For the latest @prospectmagazine.co.uk, I spoke to Annabelle Selldorf on her (not entirely uncontentious) redesign of the National Gallery's postmodern classic, the Sainsbury Wing:
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7010...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7010...
Really enjoyed doing this piece for the Royal Academy of Art’s magazine, where I interned back in 2019. The RA’s exhibition of Brazilian modernism – which has just one week left – is well worth your time!
April 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Really enjoyed doing this piece for the Royal Academy of Art’s magazine, where I interned back in 2019. The RA’s exhibition of Brazilian modernism – which has just one week left – is well worth your time!
My latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk – on assessing Jack Vettriano's legacy as perhaps one of the best bad artists there ever was:
Jack Vettriano’s art was bad, but that’s a good thing
Art critics loved to hate the late Scottish artist. But in their haste to pan him, they avoided some of the thornier questions his work presents
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April 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
My latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk – on assessing Jack Vettriano's legacy as perhaps one of the best bad artists there ever was:
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"Soon enough, the shroud will cover everything; there will be no divide to mediate between the virtual and real worlds. The technology people use will be indistinguishable from the people who use it".
A thought-provoking read from @davidmcallister.bsky.social
A thought-provoking read from @davidmcallister.bsky.social
Into the ether
The "Electric Dreams" exhibition at the Tate illuminates our changing relationship with the virtual world
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March 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"Soon enough, the shroud will cover everything; there will be no divide to mediate between the virtual and real worlds. The technology people use will be indistinguishable from the people who use it".
A thought-provoking read from @davidmcallister.bsky.social
A thought-provoking read from @davidmcallister.bsky.social
My latest for the @newhumanist.bsky.social – inside this (extremely worth seeing) show of early digital art at the Tate!
Into the ether
The "Electric Dreams" exhibition at the Tate illuminates our changing relationship with the virtual world
newhumanist.org.uk
March 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My latest for the @newhumanist.bsky.social – inside this (extremely worth seeing) show of early digital art at the Tate!
For the latest issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk I spoke to Ai Weiwei about what he's doing with 30 tonnes of buttons, the importance of privacy for art-making and why he thinks artificial intelligence will never supplant human creativity
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6912...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6912...
Ai Weiwei versus AI
There is much humanity on display in the Chinese artist’s latest exhibition—of a sort that artificial intelligence could never match, he tells us
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January 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
For the latest issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk I spoke to Ai Weiwei about what he's doing with 30 tonnes of buttons, the importance of privacy for art-making and why he thinks artificial intelligence will never supplant human creativity
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6912...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6912...
Super excited to contribute to @londonermag.bsky.social – and to shed light on the London of this extremely underrated group of 20th-century artists !
www.the-londoner.co.uk/these-artist...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/these-artist...
These artists didn’t just paint the East End. They changed it
Pictures of a fading London
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November 27, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Super excited to contribute to @londonermag.bsky.social – and to shed light on the London of this extremely underrated group of 20th-century artists !
www.the-londoner.co.uk/these-artist...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/these-artist...
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What is English painting? The artist Dexter Dalwood set out to find an answer—but, in the end, produced something much more personal than it is national, writes @davidmcallister.bsky.social.
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What even is English painting, anyway?
The artist Dexter Dalwood set out to find an answer—but, in the end, produced something much more personal than it is national
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November 19, 2024 at 10:53 AM
What is English painting? The artist Dexter Dalwood set out to find an answer—but, in the end, produced something much more personal than it is national, writes @davidmcallister.bsky.social.
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Managed to keep myself to just one pubic-related pun for this feature on the inimitable duo the White Pube in my latest for @prospectmagazine.bsky.social
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6835...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6835...
Pubic flair
We joined the White Pube at their namesake gallery, the White Cube, to take in a Tracey Emin exhibition. They weren’t impressed with it; we were by th...
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November 1, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Managed to keep myself to just one pubic-related pun for this feature on the inimitable duo the White Pube in my latest for @prospectmagazine.bsky.social
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6835...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6835...
Stop what you're doing right now because this is extremely important: I, too, have written about Van Gogh
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Van Gogh’s constant search for God
The National Gallery’s new exhibition doesn’t reveal the artist in a new light—but that, in a way, is the point
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October 1, 2024 at 10:04 AM
Stop what you're doing right now because this is extremely important: I, too, have written about Van Gogh
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/art/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/art/...
Hi everyone, I am now on Bluesky Social
August 15, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Hi everyone, I am now on Bluesky Social