Welcome to your June edition of Signified — Art is a great talking point. Why not start a conversation by forwarding this newsletter to someone you know who shares your love of art? First, Some Super Signifier News: Boost! 🚀 You may have heard about the new-style Medium Boost — it’s a curatorial system intended to help match the writer's words to the reader’s…

David Armes —

important artists using light as their dominant medium in selected key works — It can be argued that all visual artists use light. Otherwise their work wouldn’t be visible, right? Of course, the entire media of film and photography rely on light from source, through process, to finished work. Some artists, though, have explored light and its effects as the work in itself…

The martial artist and actor spoke to Remy Dean. —

In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gévaudan province to investigate a mysterious beast. —

Welcome to your May edition of Signified — Art is a great talking point. Why not start a conversation by forwarding this newsletter to someone you know who shares your love of art? Announcing the May exhibition at : six : shot : gallery In Memoriam, Mira Lehr, 1934–2023

Mira Lehr — Mira Lehr (1934–2023) is notable for being an influential player in the eco-feminist art movement through the latter half of the twentieth-century and for shaking up the male-dominated art scene when, in 1960, she founded one of the first cooperatives for women artists in the USA, centred around her Continuum…

A revolutionary story of innovation leading to the ‘Biro’ ballpoint pen and everyday disposable culture… — Using a pen to leave our mark is falling from favour and increasingly it’s the touch-screen and fingertip that are replacing paper and ink. But once upon a time, and not so long ago, cheap plastic ballpoints were everywhere. They’re still to be found aplenty in office stationery cupboards, school…

Not a fancy hotel breakfast but a brief look at eggs in the art of Marcel Broodthaers — The egg was already a Surreal object. Many artists had exploited its pure formal beauty and endless symbolism, going right back to the movement’s earliest antecedents. …