Alexander Adams

Introducing “How to Start a Dissident Art Movement”

My new book allowed me to step over the culture wars and address the future

Sep 9 • 

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August 2025

Starveling Ghosts of the Content Mill

Until the right get serious about funding magazines, websites and other channels, they'll champion no lasting culture.

Aug 28 • 

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Rely on Ourselves Alone

We artists can't rely on old systems and half measures. We need to abandon compromise.

Aug 13 • 

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A Sum of Destructions: Why artists dispose of their art

When an artist destroys his own output it is painful, necessary and cathartic, but we shouldn’t fetishise it

Aug 3 • 

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July 2025

Letters of a Desperate Man

An archive collection of letters gives an insight into the truth behind "The Naked Spur" story.

Jul 17 • 

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On Anglo-Futurism

Does a fusion of English tradition and technological optimism offer a route for cultural renaissance or is it a dead end?

Jul 10 • 

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June 2025

Abstract Romantic

From the Renaissance to Dali, romantic imagery usually means precision. The drawings of Victor Hugo show it doesn't have to be so

Jun 25 • 

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Everything Must Go: Demise of an Art Shop

The closure of a local institution underlines appreciation of art is formed through first-hand experience, as well as highlighting the dangers of…

Jun 17 • 

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Report from Warsaw

A report on my visit to arrange the hanging of a new exhibition "Alexander Adams: Kindersczenen" in Poland.

Jun 10 • 

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May 2025

Writing “The Naked Spur”

On writing my first novel and why I waited almost two decades to publish it.

May 23 • 

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"I am a Cell of One"

The archetypes of criminal and artist are intertwined. Bravery, recklessness and egotism drive hero-villains, who fascinate us and embody the…

May 17 • 

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April 2025

In conversation/book launch, London, 28 May

Tickets on sale for a public conversation and book launch/signing. Very limited availability.

Apr 30 • 

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