To coincide with its major relocation to a new site in King’s Cross, artist and teacher Malcolm Le Grice traces the history of Central Saint Martins, from the mid-19th-century to today. This is the first in an occasional series of essays on art schools around the world
Since the 1970s Barbara Bloom has used photography, installation, film and books as a means of looking at issues of collecting, museology, design, taste and our investment in the objects with which we surround ourselves. In this project for frieze, created together with writer Susan Tallman, Bloom – who is referred to throughout as ‘BB’ – presents selections from her 2008 installation and book The Collections of Barbara Bloom, a work about ‘the way things carry ideas’