Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date
May 2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV review – engaging film about the video art pioneer
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV review – the adventures of a multimedia maverick
April 2023
Observer Design
Design news: the father of video art, London Craft Week and Frank Lloyd Wright trainers
Read a tome on time, watch a documentary about artist Nam June Paik and marvel at the work of graphic designer Neville Brody
September 2022
Hallyu! The Korean Wave review – a dazzling historical remix
This gleeful, giddy celebration of the culture of South Korea ranges from fashion to fine art and grand guignol to Gangnam style
January 2020
Smashed cars and Chinese chewing: the five masterpieces of video art
Half a century ago, an art form flickered into life as mavericks from Nam June Paik to Bill Viola took up technology to transform the way we see the world
December 2019
Artists assemble! How collectives took over the art world
They’re principled, they’re powerful and they make the art world jumpy. As the Turner prize is split four ways, we look at how collectives are shaking things up
October 2019
Nam June Paik review – encounters with a true visionary
Nam June Paik review: move over Tim Berners-Lee, here's the real web prophet
January 2016
Together in electric dreams: how the art world embraced modern technology first
A wall of TV monitors, a face pixelated in Mondrian colours, a playful selfie … we may all be artists in the social media age, but, as a new exhibition reveals, visual artists were the original tech heads
December 2010
Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha
Nam June Paik – review
October 2008
1000 artworks to see before you die
Artists beginning with P
From Nam June Paik to Nicolas Poussin
July 2008
Tom Service on classical music
Zen for Film is perfect medicine for hectic lives
Stop what you're doing: composer and video artist Nam June Paik's soundless film deserves our absolute concentration