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A Pachydermal Union: Elephant Polo’s Power Merger Shakes West London

by Venetia Shrugge, Society Correspondent In a move that has sent shockwaves through the worlds...

The Ergonomics of Screaming: Parquet Fontaine at the Nice Museum

by Anselm Pepto Parquet Fontaine doesn’t make art so much as threaten it. His latest...

Review- Bleeding Edges: The Surreal Plumbing of Elva Quirk

In a decommissioned Red Hook Amazon warehouse turned “post-industrial anti-space,” Elva Quirk’s latest solo exhibition...

The Hedge Fund Art Diaries #5

Back in Shoreditch. Sunburnt. What. A. Week. I’ve just sold a piece for multi-millions! We’ve...

Pimlico Water: A New Chapter in Global Art Gallerism Sets Sail

In a daring union of connoisseurship, maritime elegance, and curatorial vision, Pimlico Water debuts as...

A preview of Baltic Light: The Hidden Origins of Impressionism

Before Monet, There Was Maalima: Walta Bryce Rewrites the Brushstrokes of History by Ianthe Small...

A Certain Light: Contemporary Tendencies in Northern Croatia

Reviewed by Dr. Ianthe Small There’s something gently subversive about holding a contemporary group exhibition...

Why My Abstract Images Cost So Much

By Aline Croupier MFA, BFA, GCSE (Art) There are questions artists learn to accept, like...

Fine Art Exhibitions I Have Seen This Month

By Willia Partridge As a long-time devotee of the lesser-seen corners of the art world...