Books

Well I Kind of Like It: An artful argument for finding the sublime in the everyday

Many of us think of art as something you find in a gallery, but it’s often the seemingly mundane things that surround us in our homes that can be considered art, a new collection of essays argues

Wendy Erskine: Anthology argues that art in the home, and the home as art, are ideas that can radicalise the space we live in

For many of us, art lies beyond the day to day. It’s hidden away in galleries, controlled by those who know more about these things than we do. But humans, when we’re lucky enough to have space to call our own, immediately go about arranging art to fill it. Maybe we don’t admit that this is what we’re doing; perhaps we’re intimidated by the arbiters of aesthetics, afraid that a concrete statement about our own ...