Caleb Azumah Nelson’s ‘Open Water’: a Tale of Seeing and Being SeenMark RappoltArtReview13 April 2021Nelson’s novel – a love story, set in South London – encourages a peculiar solidarity between narrator and reader
‘Our People Were There Too’: on Sathnam Sanghera’s ‘Empireland’Mark RappoltArtReview22 March 2021The Times journalist’s new book examines how contemporary Britain remains shaped by the legacy of colonialism, and how it is acknowledged today
How Art Historian Aby Warburg Changed the Way We SeeMark RappoltArtReview16 March 2021The limits and liberations of the German scholar’s celebrated atlas of images
Mohamed Bourouissa: ‘There Is Poetry Inside the Streets’Mark RappoltArtReview05 March 2021The French-Algerian artist’s work challenges conventional notions of what is deemed of sufficient ‘importance’ to be the subject of art
Storytellers Who Listen: John Berger and Arundhati Roy on How To Be a WriterMark Rappoltartreview.com27 January 2021Literature as the art of smuggling out the stories of others who can’t be heard or whom no one wants to hear
‘We’re Shaped by Our Memories’: Claire Hsu on Two Decades of Asia Art ArchiveMark Rappoltartreview.com11 January 2021Cofounder Claire Hsu steps down from her role as director, and reflects on the evolution of the Hong Kong non-profit
Old Stories, New Experiences: Dhaka Art Summit 2020Mark RappoltArtReview15 December 2020This year’s summit was at the centre of key conversations about 2020
