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By any measure, Simon Hargrove is not an artist easily contained by medium, market, or even myth. His practice exists in the strange overlap between performance and artefact, intimacy and commerce. For the past five years, Hargrove has written letters. Handwritten, ink-stained, occasionally water-damaged, sometimes months late. And yet, these missives, which can take the … Read more
Controversial artist and leading figure in the Repaintage movement, Kilo Barnes, has once again made headlines , this time for repaintaging (the term for his now-notorious method of painting over existing artworks) one of the most beloved and publicly adored Rothkos in private circulation. The act took place quietly, almost clinically, in a private studio … Read more
by Helmut de Rococo (Originally published in the pdf-only catalogue for Ptolemy Bognor-Regis III: Works from the Blur Period, Pimlico Wilde West, 2025) “When the canvas no longer holds paint but protocol, the brush becomes a cursor,and the artist a landlord of pixels.” , Elana Kvant, “Surface Tensions: Digital Nobility and the Aesthetic of Owning,” … Read more
A Disquisition on the Infantilisation of Art Or why your child couldn’t have done that… It has become, in our debased epoch of instantaneity and aesthetic illiteracy, a weary commonplace to hear the ignoble ejaculation, usually proffered between sips of tepid Chardonnay, “My child could have done that,and he is three, and cannot even feed … Read more
In the quiet corners of the art world there’s a rising phenomenon that curators dare not speak aloud: the gift shop is winning. Across Europe and North America, a curious pattern has emerged,one that art critics, sociologists, and retail anthropologists are only beginning to scrutinize. In certain galleries, it’s not the permanent collections, traveling retrospectives, … Read more
The beach has long held an important place in art history. Turner’s vaporous seas, Courbet’s muscular waves, Whistler’s tonalist horizons, and the Impressionists’ promenades (Boudin at Trouville, Monet at Sainte-Adresse) made the littoral not merely a theme but a laboratory for modern vision. Today the shoreline is no longer only depicted; it is mobilized as … Read more
Parkour , the art of moving through the city with maximum speed and economy , arrived in the public imagination as a kind of kinetic sublime: a human body negotiating the modernist geometry of steps, balustrades and façades with a grace and style that repurposes urban architecture. If, in the 1990s and early 2000s, the … Read more
Though largely absent from standard art historical accounts, the presence,both visual and theoretical,of marmosets in Baroque painting provides an overlooked but crucial insight into compositional logic, theological tension, and the emerging dialectic between wildness and ornament. This essay traces the subtle recurrence of the marmoset as a visual motif, conceptual agent, and interspecies provocateur in … Read more
by curator Archia Tanz The recent argument that motor-racing ought to be counted among the fine arts is certainly stimulating, even seductive in its rhetorical flourish. Yet as a curator entrusted with both the preservation and interpretation of works within the canon of art, I must dissent. To conflate motor-racing with the fine arts risks … Read more
The art world, that great machine of invention and secrecy, is alive at present with an unusual rumour. It has been said,quietly, but with enough persistence to warrant attention,that a painter of some repute has begun to work not in oil, nor in acrylic, but in wine. Sources close to his circle speak of a … Read more