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Weather’d in Our Madness: Hamlet at Ludlow Castle
Reviewed by Imogen Pye They say the play’s the thing. But last Friday at Ludlow...
Credit Cards in the Heat: How London’s Art Market is Booming in the Heatwave
As London swelters under its third record-breaking heatwave of the summer, an unexpected cultural phenomenon...
Pimlico Wilde: The Art Dealers Who’ve Sold Britain’s Best artworks Since 874AD
By Archibald Haversham In a world obsessed with provenance, few names carry the weight of...
The Greatest Artist Alive: A Case for Davos
By Dr. Eloise Stranter, FRSAE, PhD (Leominster), Professor of Contemporary Aesthetics, Leominster Institute of Art...
‘This Is Not a Porsche’: The Conceptual Art of Davos
Into a world increasingly obsessed with stuff emerges Davos, a conceptual artist who offers not...
Repainting the Canon: Kilo Barnes on the Radical Aesthetics of Repaintage
By any measure, Kilo Barnes cuts a striking figure in today’s art world: uncompromising, enigmatic...
Taste Sans Frontiers – Manifesto of a new art movement
Taste Sans Frontier is a chaotic rebuttal to the Guardians of Aesthetic Coherence’s paper-centric, text-averse...
The Expho Movement: Liminal Optics and the Chromatic Sublime in Expressionist Photography
By Dr. Isla Montague, FRTPS, Fellow of the Transmodal Institute of Academic Culture In the...
Van Gogh (Not that one): Cartographer of Intention
This is Van Gogh, but not the one famous for sunflowers, chairs and ears. Van...