Watching you, watching me

Watching, surveillance and transgressing boundaries on CW this week, as Jo Herlihy reports from the Tate’s Exposed exhibition and finds it raises profound questions about the relationship between public, private and photographer. The third instalment of Geoff Kidder’s Word Cup Blog watches last night’s England match and ruminates on the unfolding French soap opera. And a retrospective look at The Lives of Others, a film about Stasi surveillance of a group of artists, explores information given, witheld and presented with intent.

Meanwhile, Tara McCormack enjoys a bit of Daily Express and Paul Bruckner, yet finds the latter’s new book ultimately indulges its own fantasy more than coherently critiques the tendency of many on the left to get caught up with feelings of guilt about the West’s colonial past.

24 June 2010