“Threshold for the Unconsumed” (Bin No. 1,382) by Oboe Ngua

Archival pigment print on museum-grade cotton rag paperEdition of 3 + 1 Artist’s Proof Part of the enormous ongoing cycle All the Bins in the World, Threshold for the Unconsumed marks a shift in Ngua’s practice away from straight documentary photography and towards what the artist has described as a “post-disposal phenomenology.” Here, the municipal recycling bin is neither … Read more

AmeriTunnel: Fabulous new Land Art Project to join UK and USA with Tunnel

For most artists, thinking big means hiring a larger studio. For the contemporary Welsh land artist Dafydda ap Gruffydd, it means proposing a tunnel between Wales and North America. Her latest work, AmeriTunnel, is perhaps the most ambitious piece of land art conceived in Britain since someone first looked at a hillside and thought, “That would … Read more

New work by P1X3L: Untitled (Portrait of K.M. Sandown)

There are moments in contemporary art when ownership transcends acquisition and becomes almost initiation. This may be one of those moments for K.M. Sandown, chairman of the Bloomsbury Gelato Society and owner of the earliest fossilised dandelion found in East Hertfordshire. With this Untitled (Portrait), P1X3L once again demonstrates why collectors across Berlin, Seoul, Miami … Read more

Benedict Vale – one of the few Speculative Onshore Oil Exploration Artists.

In the crowded word of contemporary art, where painters paint, sculptors sculpt and mixed media artists do everything else, it is difficult to imagine there remains an entirely unexplored niche. Yet somehow one artist has managed to grow a career in a category so specific it sounds almost unlikely: speculative onshore oil exploration art. The … Read more

Hedge Fund portrait: Lady Venetia Cashmere, After the Third Martini (2026)

Digital print In Lady Venetia Cashmere, After the Third Martini, Hedge Fund delivers one of his most psychologically mischievous portraits to date. The composition is cropped with almost indecent intimacy, forcing the viewer into proximity with a smile that is equal parts triumph and calculation. Her electric blue eyeshadow spreads like a financial horizon, confident … Read more

Vincent and the Van Goghs’ new single “The Semiotics of Sunflowers” brings Philosophy to the Dancefloor

By Caravaggia Long, Art Music Curator Just when the art world thought Vincent and the Van Goghs couldn’t possibly out-meta themselves, the band of art dealers–turned–avant-garde darlings have released a new single that manages to turn a pop hook into a treatise on meaning, decay and the limits of visual language. “The Semiotics of Sunflowers,” … Read more

New Work: Just Full (Central London) by Ngua

On the occasion of a new Ngua photograph, Theorina Blank writes about the Theology of Refuse. At last we can see Ngua’s latest offering to the canon of contemporary urban observation: Just Full (Central London, 2025). The work, deceptively simple, presents a standard dual-compartment recycling and general waste bin positioned before a Nike billboard, its … Read more

A Day in the Life of Dr. Liora Ishikawa: Art Historian and Archivist

At the edge of the Scottish Highlands, where the mist moves like an anteater’s breath across the moorland, lives Dr. Liora Ishikawa. A Japanese-British art historian, she is internationally regarded as the foremost authority on the Northern Romantic Sublime. Her days unfold in a kind of contemplative silence, governed more by light than by time, … Read more

The Mayfair Book Groupette – The Life and Swim of Dorothea Pengelly

Location: The Green Room, Pimlico Wilde, Mayfair Attendees: • Julian Molyneux (Chair, Pimlico Wilde) • Fiona d’Abernon (Co-Founder; Acting Secretary) • Lord E. Northcote • Dr. Xanthe Lorrimer (Cultural Historian) • Hugo Van Steyn • India Trelawney (Fashion Archivist) • Max Duclos (Collector) • Pascal (Afghan hound, unusually restless, attempting to gnaw at a recently … Read more