Rosanna McLaughlin is the author of Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity and an editor at the White Review
August 2023
Sex toys, rugs and Barbie dolls: does posthumous use of artists’ work risk cheapening their legacies?
Brands love to use the work of late, great artists just as much as late, great artists’ estates like to cash in. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of Succession-size squabbles
December 2022
Socials club: the best Insta and Twitter accounts capturing UK nightlife
Great nights out are gone too soon, often lost in a hungover haze. Thankfully, social media accounts are capturing the scenes that deserve to be remembered
February 2022
Thao Nguyen Phan: ‘There’s beauty and optimism in these tragic stories’
The Vietnamese artist has turned her despair at the historical injustices in her country into paintings, light sculptures, projection and film that dream of a better future
November 2021
‘I went from having to borrow money to making $4m in a day’: how NFTs are shaking up the art world
Digital art is a billion-dollar business, with everyone from Paris Hilton to Damien Hirst trading in ‘non-fungible tokens’. But are NFTs just a get-rich-quick scheme masquerading as culture?
March 2020
The ‘dark arts’ of dog editing are on show at Crufts – and reveal a lot about the human psyche
Rosanna McLaughlin
The competition puts our very strange relationship with dogs centre stage, alongside the bizarre breeds we’ve created, says author Rosanna McLaughlin
