Robert Barry is a freelance writer and composer based in London. He is the author of ‘The Music of the Future’ (Repeater Books)
Funny peculiar or funny haha? Perhaps some of the artists who seem a bit obscure are actually trying to make us laugh
The four nominees for this year’s prize are presenting their biggest, brightest work but not all of it is saying very much
The sound artist and 'private ear' talks to Apollo about his new film commission in Bristol, set in a library that straddles the US-Canadian border
The artist tells Apollo how his new film for the Barnes Foundation weaves together restitution debates with the history of the Harlem Renaissance
The sculptor used to make work made out of meat, but although she now uses marble she is still fascinated by processes of decay
The British artist has consistently used film as a means of making a statement about painting. But now her chosen medium is urgently in need of saving
The shortlisted collectives are more interested in what takes place outside the museum – so considering them for an art prize seems besides the point
The artist talks to Robert Barry about her ongoing exploration of the deep sea – and explains why her work is more utopian than it seems
Daft Punk weren’t always robots – but it’s how they’ll be remembered
This career-spanning survey presents an artist whose work consistently teeters between the absurd and the poetic
