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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...