Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

Beowulf versus Grendel, the Rematch!

Tracing the long legacy of our earliest novel, ‘Beowulf’, and asking, “Was Grendel wrongly vilified?”

Dec 14, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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August 2025

An Uneasy Beauty: Pre-Raphaelites and the Feminine Ideal

Considering what lies beneath the beautiful surface of paintings rife with nostalgia for a time that never existed.

Aug 6, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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July 2025

Japan, Sound & Vision

My Voyage of Imagination to the Japan of Screen Dreams

Jul 29, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ and Yuri Minamide

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Supernatural Scrolls - yōkai in art & media

Exploring the spooky Japanese art that has recorded the surreal world of yōkai for centuries, from woodblock to celluloid…

Jul 22, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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Proto Pop in the UK

Looking for the beginnings of what would become known as Pop Art

Jul 21, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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Take a Bow: The Power of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Reviewing the kawaii career of an artist who continues to deliver the most eclectic and positive expressions of Pop Art

Jul 9, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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The Hat that Changed the World

How did the bold fashion statement of wearing a Top Hat affect architecture, world trade, human rights …and help to save the beaver?

Jul 2, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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June 2025

The Mescaline Drawings of Henri Michaux

Using art to map the mind-body interface at what was the cutting-edge of brain-science research…

Jun 4, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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May 2025

Do You Know What’s Really Surreal?

…and do you know your Veristic Surrealism from your Automatist or Organic? A brief introduction to the first major movement in Postmodern art.

May 17, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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April 2025

Choco l’art

What do mutton pies, a new format for portraits, the protestant monarchy of England, poster art, and chocolate snack bars have in common?

Apr 19, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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Driven to Abstraction

Discussing and defining abstract art, from the Stone Age to the Modern Era…

Apr 13, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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Home Dance & the Biting Cat

Celebrating the energising art of a joyous Chinese subculture that knows no bounds

Apr 9, 2025 • Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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