David Mcallister

Every work by the Pakistani-American painter Salman Toor is in some sense anachronistic. Take Lunch (2019), one of the earlier works on view at his first European exhibition at the Courtauld. A painting of three friends huddled around a table, its round s... See more

The Turner Prize is a strange thing. After more than four decades, its role remains as unclear as ever. What is it trying to do? What audience does it serve? Too small to be representative of the art world beyond these borders, it is nonetheless not quite... See more

Outsourced transport workers of the RMT union in Newcastle are standing strong against low pay, writes David McAllister Cleaning and catering staff at TransPennine Express carried out 48 hours of strike action on Friday and Saturday of this week against l... See more

David Hockney liked to make things bigger. Starting with A Bigger Splash (1967)—a painting that secured his fame before the age of 30—came an increasing recurrence of the word in the decades to follow: in works like A Bigger Grand Canyon (1998), Bigger Tr... See more

When musicians from a certain era are still performing past a certain age, there’s a tendency to believe that we need to lower our expectations: nothing could beat the good old days when all this was new and exciting, but the memories evoked of those time... See more