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A Day in the Life of Clementine Varot: Curator

In the heart of Paris, nestled between antique bookshops and cafés still wreathed in Gauloise...

Film Review: Kilo Barnes’ Oblivion in Reverie

Kilo Barnes, the provocateur best known in contemporary art circles for his “repaintage”,the meticulous obliteration...

Answering Your Fine Art Questions: Episode 1

Is it possible for a painting to ‘age’ and improve in the same way a...

Victorian Unicycling Adventures continued

From the Journals of Basil Bromley, Artist and Mechanician Entry the Fourth , 17th of...

Is Motor-Racing One of the Fine Arts?

In this article the fine artist Hedge Fund says that it is. To pose the...

Efigénia Mucavele: An Accidental Visionary from Maputo

It is a rare pleasure in the art world to encounter a body of work...

An Art Holiday in Tbilisi: Notes from a Restless Dealer

By Archia Tanz, advisor at Pimlico Wilde I had not intended to go to Georgia...

Which Colour Wall is Best for an Art Gallery? Part II: The Authority of Grey

by Walta Bryce If white was the late 20th century’s creed, then grey has emerged...

Rucks Among the Rodins: The Inaugural Inter-Art Dealer Rugby Tournament in Berkeley Square

There are few sights as glorious as Berkeley Square, that bastion of Georgian serenity, transformed...