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Contemporary Art for Beginners: Brief Introduction by the Author

I am deeply pleased, indeed quietly astonished, to see Contemporary Art for Beginners finding its...

Race the Blue Train Begins: Glamour and Grit on the Côte D’Azur

By Giles Trevelyan-Brock, Special Correspondent The Mediterranean was performing its usual trick, lapping against the...

‘My Child could have done That’: Against the Barbarous Philistine

A Disquisition on the Infantilisation of Art Or why your child couldn’t have done that...

Velocity as Virtuosity: Pimlico Wilde, Zip Daniels, and the Launch of P1 Racing

It has long been Pimlico Wilde’s métier to collapse the boundaries between art and life...

Day 8 of Basil Bromley’s Journal of his Navigation of Britain by Steam Unicycle in 1873

Entry the Eighth , 21st of May, 1873 The second week of my expedition began...

Fragmented Faces, Recursive Souls: A Review of P1X3L’s Pixel Art at Pimlico Wilde South Coast

by Carlotta Dreep In a city whose artistic pulse beats somewhere between the acid-washed Victorian...

The Ship as Fine Art by Captain (Ret’d) A. J. Thurlow, RN

Captain (Ret’d) A. J. Thurlow, RN writes It has been my privilege , nay, my...

Apology to Cato Sinclair: We Were Wrong to Accuse You in the Boston Ancient Roman Remains Hoax

In an act of contrition and restorative clarity, the art-historical community formally exonerates Cato Sinclair...

Day Seven of Basil Bromley’s Journal

Entry the Seventh , 20th of May, 1873 The bells of Bodmin struck six as...