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When Retail Triumphs Over Art: Galleries Where the Gift Shop Is Better Than the Gallery
In the quiet corners of the art world there’s a rising phenomenon that curators dare...
Abstract Sandcastles: Fine Art from the Beach
The beach has long held an important place in art history. Turner’s vaporous seas, Courbet’s...
Day Six – a Victorian Artist and his Steam Unicycle
From the Journals of Basil Bromley Entry the Sixth , 19th of May, 1873 I...
Storror, Parkour and the Aesthetics of Urban Transgression
Parkour , the art of moving through the city with maximum speed and economy...
Pot Pourri or Muesli: An Exhibition by Aurelius Kraft at Pimlico Wilde Central
It is a rare occasion when a show compels its visitors to meditate equally on...
Meet the Artist: Jane Bastion
Welcome to the first in our Meet the Artist series, where we step beyond the...
The Marmoset Principle: On the Secret Influence of Small Primates in Baroque Composition
Though largely absent from standard art historical accounts, the presence,both visual and theoretical,of marmosets in...
Damp Dominion: Meteorological Determinism and the Origins of the British Empire
Taken from the newly-published book by Dr. Nora Willoughby D.Phil. (Oxon.) The history of the...
Further Correspondence from Captain Thurlow
Sir, Having now absorbed the more recent contribution in your pages, which, with admirable clarity...