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27/08/2025

A little star power for “Against Morality” ✨ Rosanna McLaughlin’s book appears in Travis Diehl’s new Libra Season piece. Snippet below – full read in bio.

06/08/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us at ICA London for the official UK launch of Against Morality. We were thrilled to see such an incredible turnout and to hear so many thoughtful questions from the audience. Special thanks to Dean Kissick for an insightful conversation with Rosanna, and to the ICA team for their generous support!

21/07/2025

It’s nearly here – the UK launch of Against Morality takes place at ICA London this Wednesday, 23 July at 7pm. Join us to celebrate the release and hear Rosanna McLaughlin in conversation with Dean Kissick. Get your tickets now via the link in bio.

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Drawing on recent exhibitions, artworks and films – as well as responses to them – McLaughlin explores the flattening effect this moral turn has had on cultural output, and the limitations it has placed on the way art is produced, presented and discussed.

In arguing against the dominance of morality in art, she opens the door to a more expansive understanding of difference, and the value of creativity, in 21st-century art making.

15/07/2025

Should art be governed by political ideals?

Join us on July 23 at ICA London for the UK launch of Against Morality by East Sussex-based writer Rosanna McLaughlin: an incisive critique of the ways a homogenous set of liberal political values came to dominate contemporary art over the past decade.

Drawing on recent exhibitions, artworks and films – as well as responses to them – McLaughlin explores the flattening effect this moral turn has had on cultural output, and the limitations it has placed on the way art is produced, presented and discussed.

In arguing against the dominance of morality in art, she opens the door to a more expansive understanding of difference, and the value of creativity, in 21st-century art making.

McLaughlin will be in conversation with cultural critics Dean Kissick and Rebecca Liu . Reserve your tickets now via the link in bio.

07/07/2025

Thrilled to see “Against Morality” receive a glowing review from ! Thank you for the thoughtful words and support.

27/06/2025

What a night! Huge thanks to and the team at , as well as everyone who came out and showed such generous support for Rosanna and “Against Morality.” 🫶🏻

If you missed the chance to grab a copy, you can still order the book online via our website, through our distributors, or at your local bookshop.

More great conversations soon – stay tuned for details on our next event!

04/06/2025

Thank you to Laura Raicovich and Art in America for this thoughtful piece — and for the mention of Aruna’s “Imperfect Solidarities.” Honoured to be included in such timely reflections!

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20/05/2025

Für unser deutschsprachiges Publikum! A big thank you to springerin and Paul Buschnegg for the insightful piece on Aruna’s “Imperfect Solidarities,” featured in the spring issue of the magazine.

08/05/2025

Join Marie-France Rafael this weekend at Haus am Waldsee for a reading from her book “Passing Images: Art in the Post-Digital Age” (Floating Opera Press, 2022), presented as part of the program How to Move and Respond.

How to Move and Respond is an invitation to artists and writers to read/present their texts in the garden of Haus am Waldsee. The exhibition unfolds on two levels: on the one hand, the texts or text-based works are read/presented in the form of readings, performances, audio files, or screenings. On the other hand what is written about, or the artists who are described, or the artworks that are discussed (but are not visible).

06/05/2025

Rosanna McLaughlin’s “Against Morality” highlighted in the New York Review of Books! ✨

30/04/2025

A huge thanks to Esmé Hogeveen and Frieze for this wonderful and insightful review of “Against Morality.” Check out the full article via the link in bio ✨

23/04/2025

Another great article from one of our authors! 💫

Here, Rosanna McLaughlin critiques the rise of celebrity figures like Brian Eno, Rick Rubin, and Alain de Botton as self-proclaimed art gurus, arguing that their oversimplified, self-help-driven books reduce the complexity of art to palatable soundbites. She suggests that works such as Eno’s What Art Does and Rubin’s The Creative Act fail to engage with the deeper intellectual traditions of art, offering shallow insights aimed at mass appeal rather than fostering meaningful engagement with the art.

McLaughlin is the author of “Against Morality,” our most recent addition to the Critic’s Essay Series, where she explores the fraught relationship between art and moral ideals. Copies are available to order soon!

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