To mark the anniversary of Sterne's subversive move, 169 leading artists and writers – including Quentin Blake, Lemony Snicket, Mark Wallinger, Patrick Marber, Ralph Steadman and the absurdist playwright NF Simpson, who died in August in August – have contributed their own versions of the marbled page and put them up for auction, unsigned, to raise funds for the Laurence Sterne Trust.
Google's video chat plugin is another subversive move by the "search" company.
There was a time, I'm told, when sparking up a joint was just about the most subversive move one could make.
Thirteen years ago, when she was making celebrities cry for her curiously moving and subversive series of images, Crying Men, she seemed mercurial and uncompromising.
"By telling Germans what art is the right art and what art is subversive, the Nazis could move on to say what people are the right people, what religions are the right religions, and eventually who could live and who could die," explains the American businessman and cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, president of the Neue Galerie New York.
However, seedlings tend to be easier to remove than a subway system of subversives-on-the-move.
The new film Diana is, by turns, vivid, bathetic, moving, torrid and subversive.
Amma Asante's powerful, moving and gently subversive romantic melodrama is a finely wrought tale of a woman out of time, a film that plays eloquently upon the heartstrings as it interweaves familiar personal intrigue with stirring social history.
The show also moved effortlessly from the subversive to the surreal.
