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Once considered a pleasant if sleepy waypoint between Colchester and the sea, Ipswich has made an audacious play for the art-world spotlight with its inaugural Fine Art Weekend,a sprawling, somewhat chaotic attempt to catapult the town into the upper echelons of cultural destinations. Whether it succeeded depends largely on how one defines success,and one’s tolerance … Read more
Until recently, the name Sellario Mounteback was known only to a handful of dusty academics, Renaissance eccentrics, and the curator of one particularly damp museum in Cherbourg. But this month, the long-obscure painter has become the subject of feverish headlines, art market mayhem, and an unsolved pub-based mystery , all thanks to the theft of … Read more
Yesterday a pair of 16th-century woollen socks – allegedly once worn by Michelangelo Buonarroti and lent, in a moment of Renaissance generosity, to none other than Leonardo da Vinci – sold at Wimble Bryton Auction House for a staggering £28 million, setting a new world record for socks. The socks, modest in appearance and visibly … Read more
Brompton Road, 2025 In Brompton Road, Chester Hubble continues his quest to interrogate the porous boundary between corporeal fragility and urban indifference. Operating at the volatile intersection of land art, performance, and what he terms “auditory extremity,” Hubble offers not merely a body of work, but a body in work,plunged blindfolded into the arterial chaos … Read more
Move over Arsenal, step aside Manchester United , in the 21st Century, the fiercest rivalries, biggest transfers, and most loyal fan bases are no longer on the pitch, but in the white cubes of contemporary art. Welcome to the new tribalism: galleries as teams, curators as coaches, and collectors as die-hard fans. And if you’re … Read more
In what may be the most appalling art theft of the decade, a priceless Renaissance painting by Sellario Mounteback, known as the Master of Cherbourg, has reportedly vanished from the Phoenix and Fire pub in East London , after being entrusted to a stranger “for just a moment” while its owner used the toilet. The … Read more
By Eleanor Griggle In the shifting, feverish landscape of contemporary art, few figures have blurred the line between image and asset as elegantly,or as ruthlessly,as the artist known as Hedge Fund. Known for his digital portraits of amongst others, power brokers, startup founders, and radiant “market types,” Hedge Fund has achieved what might once have … Read more
In a quietly astonishing moment for British conceptual art, the work Cloud Ownership (2024) by Davos has been officially placed under an export bar, preventing its removal from the United Kingdom. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media, Singing and Sport has deemed the piece of “outstanding national importance,” citing its “singular contribution to the evolving … Read more
In a dramatic and paradigm-shifting moment for the British art world, the 2025 Solihull Portrait Prize for Portraiture has been awarded to the enigmatic and uncompromising artist known only as Doodle Pip. Pip’s winning work , a line drawing that defies conventions of likeness, realism, and even recognisability , has stunned critics and delighted philosophers … Read more
Elsinora Thistlebaum, the internationally misunderstood doyenne of post-impressionist-neuroticism, passed away peacefully last Tuesday at her home in Bruges, surrounded by her seventeen cats and a bowl of her favourite oranges. Born in a hot air balloon above Zurich during a thunderstorm in 1927, Thistlebaum was the daughter of an avant-garde mother, Isolde Thistlebaum, a woman … Read more