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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
On the 422nd floor of a glass tower in Hong Kong’s Central district, the elevator doors open not into an office, but into a gallery of faces,glossy, pixelated, larger than life. Neon portraits shift on LED panels, looping between celebrity, anonymity, and pure digital distortion. This is the private collection of Jordan Ellery, financier by … Read more
By Miley Merrot I meet R. Sallow in a café that he insists is not the café we are sitting in. This, he explains gently, is already part of the work. Sallow is among the younger generation of Invisibilism artists, though ‘younger’ here refers less to age than to degree of withdrawal. His recent exhibition, … Read more
Petronella Binks greets the morning the way she greets all things: with a measuring tape in one hand and disdain in the other. “I’m not interested in art I could fit inside my vestibule,” she says, sipping black coffee from a mug that reads Go Big or Go Back to Bed. The mug is, of … Read more
Late August 2025 Weather: humid; feels like breathing soup. Dear Diary, The visionaries at Pimlico Wilde have regretfully refused to fund my pure gold Brighton Pier project, citing “liquidity concerns” and “the fact it would weigh several tonnes and immediately sink into the Channel.” Philistines. I am not going to build it by the sea, … Read more
The last few days have been a carousel of triumph and tragedy , which is to say, a perfectly average week for all of us misunderstood geniuses. First, the high: my latest piece, Inflation in Pastel, was declared “a poignant critique of fiscal despair” by a blogger who runs an Etsy shop selling ironic tea … Read more
To speak of Tobias Elkin is to invoke a paradox: a man who loathes art fairs yet whose name floats through every VIP preview at Frieze, Basel, and Venice like perfume on velvet. Elkin is the founder and principal of Elkin Projects, a fiercely independent gallery in Manhattan’s Tribeca district, known for unearthing conceptual artists … Read more
In the heart of Paris, nestled between antique bookshops and cafés still wreathed in Gauloise smoke, lives and works Clementine Varot,curator at the Musée d’Orsay, private collector, and one of Europe’s most quietly influential figures in the art world. Her days are a confluence of scholarly discipline and aesthetic ecstasy, governed by the rhythms of … Read more
Tracing the Echoes of the Past: My Life in Medieval Art By Dr. Felicity Gudgeon, University of Littlehampton When people ask me what drew me to medieval art, I often say that I never quite grew out of the habit of staring too long at the margins of things. As a child, I would linger … Read more
In a Georgian townhouse tucked into a moss-soft crescent of Bath, England, lives a man who believes that dust is not the enemy of art but its twin. Thaddeus Quince,bibliophile, antiquarian, occasional essayist in The Belgravia Collectors’ Magazine,has spent the better part of four decades assembling one of Britain’s most peculiar and whisper-worthy private collections: … Read more