David F. McAllister (b. 92) is a writer and editor from Edinburgh.
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i. Essays
Multiple lives, one John Akomfrah
On forty years of filming difference
What Annie Ernaux owes to memory
On a Nobel prize winner
Ithell Colquhoun’s flight from modernity
On Cornwall and ancient custom
Van Gogh’s constant search for God
On the colour of infinity
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ii. Criticism
Troll of the tropics
On Mário de Andrade
Reasons to linger
On Aidan Koch’s Spiral & Other Stories
Companion figures
On the Two Roberts
Painting the Klan
On Tate Modern’s Philip Guston
Glasgow kisses
On Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo
Scots without Scotland
On Murray Pittock’s Scotland: The Global History
The battle between England’s interwar architects
On Gavin Stamp’s Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39
Art after Ovid
On the Rijksmuseum’s Metamorphoses
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iii. Interviews
As humans, we never really want just a perfect answer
Ai Weiwei
Conservatives must avoid seeming obsessed with money
Maurice Saatchi
It’s not about just being a photographer
Don McCullin
The criticism felt as though people weren’t giving the building the opportunity to be contemporarily valid
Annabelle Selldorf
The biggest challenge was to make the audience feel their complicity
Richard Mosse
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iv. Columns
Jack Vettriano’s art was bad, but that’s a good thing
On the virtue of kitsch
For men, online dating is a tall order
On average height
Care about social mobility? Don’t send your kids to Oxbridge
On networks of privilege
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