A friend of mine told me some years ago that, in his opinion, the worst thing about getting older was that “you become invisible to women”. He’s approximately fifteen years older than me and thus, where I am concerned, something of an oracle. Catching up with him recently, though, he waxed nostalgic for his invisibility era, having discovered something worse still. He was visible again – but mortifyingly so, because people on public transport were offering him, a perceived codger, their seat. Seen when young, unseen in middle age, seen again as you get older: does that sound familiar? If so, you may be an artist. During the last decade or so, the contemporary artworld has done some very public atoning for former exclusions: it has belatedly spotlighted, if sometimes self-servingly, artists of colour, LGBTQ+ artists, women artists – particularly old or deceased ones – and artists in general who don’t hail from Europe or the United States. Superficially at least, the artworld now looks inclusive, everyone welcome. But – and I hear about and witness it regularly, because it’s my age group and a lot of my friends are artists – there’s a missing demographic.
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"One day this boy..."
How David Wojnarowicz gave me life
Art Encounters Biennial My Rhino is Not a Myth: art science fictions
Various venues, Timişoara 19 May-16 July
Southern Discomfort
A series of upcoming biennials promise to explore the art of the 'Global South'. But what does that mean? And is the term of any practical use?
Casey Reas
Crypto has crashed and burned, but NFT visual culture is the better for it, and here's why, says the pioneering artist and programmer
Isabelle Frances McGuire
Through kitbashing and the hacking of readymades, an artist explores what digital visual culture might look like in material form
No pain, no gain?
What's primary about Matthew Barney's SECONDARY
Fine Young Cannibals
A spate of recent glitzy films have asked us to eat the rich. But what, asks Amber Husain, are we really swallowing?
Mutant Media
Animation and gaming design studios aren’t just for entertainment, claims Jamie Sutcliffe, they’re a geneticist’s lab for producing our spliced bio- cybernetic future
Midcareerism
What's an artist to do when no longer dewy and not yet long in the tooth? Martin Herbert surveys the options, none of them pretty
Diego Marcon
\"In general when I work, it's not like I'm looking for something and I find moles, it's more like moles find me, they pop up. I don't know why, I just try to remain open to these kinds of visit\"