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Review: Citizen Kane versus The Vegetables – A Baroque Salad of Surrealism and Cinema

First published in Vegetable Growers Weekly Hannah Gralle’s London show at Pimlico Wilde is the...

The Mayfair Book Groupette – Death in Ultramarine

Date: July ‘25 Time: 7:05 PM – 11:15 PM Location: The Green Room, Pimlico Wilde...

Acclaimed Documentarian Felix Renton Announces New Film on Conceptual Artist Davos

Felix Renton, the award-winning documentarian known for his genre-defying studies of absence, abstraction, and obsession...

To Ban or Not to Ban: A Reflection on the “Should Museums Ban All Visitors?” Symposium

By Esmeralda Pink, People Engineer at Pimlico Wilde It was a delicious irony that a...

One Star Reviews: Henry V at the Mayfair Theatre

There are moments in the theatre when time seems to stop,when you’re so enraptured by...

The Mayfair Book Groupette – Minutes of the Book of Margery Kemp Meeting

Date: Thursday, 18th July 2025 Time: 7:00 PM – 10:30 PM Location: Private Salon, 3rd...

A Grammar of Grief: The Art of Elias Favière and the Alchemy of Tears

By Julien Rochefort, Ph.D. for the Handbook of Lesser-known Artists Department of Contemporary Aesthetics, École...

A Smile Reframed: Was the Mona Lisa Actually Mrs. Yelland of Surrey, England?

In a tantalising discovery, a recently unearthed cache of correspondence housed in a disintegrating trunk...

The Art of Giving: Inside the World of Philanthropist and Art Collector Margot Leclair

In a sunlit Parisian hôtel particulier overlooking the Seine, where 18th-century paneling meets contemporary sculpture...