Michael Bracewell is a writer based in the UK. His most recent book, The Space Between: Selected Writings on Art, is published by Ridinghouse, London.
To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant's collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell pays homage to the pop group
To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant’s collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell reflects on one of the great synth-pop groups
The US writer, who died last week, brought a quality of inestimable importance to the modern novel: a mind that was wholly in tune with the times
‘An artist in a proud and profound sense, whether he liked it or not’ – a tribute by Michael Bracewell
As magic is the power to influence events, Bowie's power found a personal truth in millions of people, and moved them, even changed their lives
The recent work of Kai Althoff
A slew of new exhibitions celebrate Pop art from around the world
In the run-up to a major solo exhibition at Chicago’s Renaissance Society, Michael Bracewell considers the work of Mathias Poledna
From Californian glamour and Hollywood dreams to loss, loneliness and despair: comedy and melancholy in the work of Friedrich Kunath
Keith Coventry’s fusion of cultural commentary and Modernist art
Lucy McKenzie’s work as part of the collaborative fashion studio, Atelier, embodies the artist’s enquiries into a romanticized past shot through with mythical meaning
Extravagant, experimental and often improvised: the spirit of young artists in British film
Spike Island, Bristol, UK
Bridget Riley has conducted an endlessly enriching inquiry into the relationships between form, composition and visual perception
Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, UK
Independent publishing has seen a boom in new imprints, often designed by artists, of classic novels and ‘lost’ books
