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A Quiet Drama in Shadow: Jane Bastion’s ‘Silhouettes of Life’
There is a hushed power in Jane Bastion’s new exhibition, Silhouettes of Life, currently on...
Pacing Around the Question: On the (un) Importance of Art
by an anonymous artist There are days, increasingly frequent, when I sit in my studio,pale...
Artist Diary: Abstract painter Ptolemy Bognor-Regis
People often ask me what my paintings “mean,” and I, being an abstract painter with...
The Curator in Search of a Subject
by Margerie Hinche There is something faintly paradoxical,almost tragicomic,about a curator without a subject. A...
Sandy Warre-Hole brings their witty portraits to Pimlico Wilde
Sandy reinvents the society portrait for a new generation, filling the canvas not just with...
Is an Old Painting Recently Found in Fulham by Michelangelo?
Art World in Frenzy A recently unearthed painting found wedged behind a fuse box in...
Book Review: Grandma Rode a Lizard into Town by Jorvik Parn
One does not pick up a novel titled Grandma Rode a Lizard into Town expecting...
New series- A Day in the Life Of: Lucien Ardoin, Art Collector
In a sun-dappled townhouse on the Left Bank of the Seine, Lucien Ardoin begins his...
Artist Boz flies across Monaco harbour in self-made hot-air balloon
In what critics are calling ‘equal parts daring and delirious,’ London‑based multimedia artist Boz today...