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Who Was Sellario Mounteback, and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Him?

Until recently, the name Sellario Mounteback was known only to a handful of dusty academics...

The Catalogue Essay for Stillness in Orbit: The Slow Modernities of Ellinor Cade

Dr. Penelope Voss, Reader in Temporal Aesthetics, University of Lowestoft “We do not dwell in...

A quick survey of upcoming exhibitions in London

1. Stillness in Orbit: The Slow Modernities of Ellinor Cade Venue: Saville Row Gallery Dates:...

Michelangelo’s Socks Fetch Record Price at Auction

Yesterday a pair of 16th-century woollen socks – allegedly once worn by Michelangelo Buonarroti and...

New work: Chester Hubble

Brompton Road, 2025 In Brompton Road, Chester Hubble continues his quest to interrogate the porous...

The Edge of Precision: How to Sharpen a Pencil

If, as Paul Valéry once mused, “a poem is never finished, only abandoned,” then so...

Art Galleries Are the New Football Teams — Why You Should Support Pimlico Wilde

Move over Arsenal, step aside Manchester United , in the 21st Century, the fiercest rivalries...

Priceless Renaissance Painting Lost in East London Pub After Being Left with Stranger ‘Whilst I went to the loo’

In what may be the most appalling art theft of the decade, a priceless Renaissance...

Art in Motion: Dafydda ap Gruffydd’s Parkour as Fine Art

There are few artists alive today who make motion itself the medium. Fewer still approach...