Category: Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Frieze 2021: The Return!

"It is the most exciting moment to be able to go back to a physical fair, celebrating London and its creative community after such a challenging year" - Eva Langret...

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Boobs, Boy Bands & Tentacles: Frieze London 2021

Our Editor-at-Large reports on Frieze London’s comeback with photographs by artist John Anthony Thadicaran...

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The Duality of Cloth: Crystal Fischetti

Fischetti's work heightens our awareness of fabric as a vulnerable material, which can be stained, torn, knotted and bound...

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Beyond the Physical: Imogen Allen

An interview with British artist Imogen Allen in the context of her debut solo exhibition...

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Blowtorching Peaches Creating Chaos: Heather Phillipson

A review of Heather Phillipson’ ecologically themed installation at Tate Britain ...

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Eat It Now: The New Immaterialism

Art’s race with advertising, reduced to comparisons about slogan and the direct message, seems to be reaching its conclusion. ...

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Brotherly Hate: The Dread Archetypes of Kane & Able

Comics and graphic novels: Is anyone pushing the edge of sequential art? ...

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Life is a Performance: Cassils

Millie Walton speaks to visual artist Cassils about the body, mark-making and simulating acts of violence ...

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Spray Paint with Sickboy

Brand and street symbols in the work of Sickboy ...

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Painterly Romance: Amy Beager

An interview with British artist Amy Beager in the context of her solo exhibition at Wilder Gallery...

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Value in Context: Art in the Public Realm

Vestalia Chilton discusses the value and opportunities of public art. ...

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Rewriting the Canon: Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle

An interview with Pace Gallery's newly appointed Online Sales Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle ...

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The Hopefulness of Colour: Annie Morris

The London-based artist on grief, repetition and the solace of creativity...

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The Shape, Sound and Feeling of Words: Ed Ruscha

An analysis of fluid text in the work of artist Ed Ruscha...

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A Bright Chapel: Mark Hinchliffe

Interview with flamboyant art collector Mark Hinchliffe...

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Taking the Exclusivity Out of Art: Thorp Stavri

An interview with Eric Thorp and Nicholas Stavri, co-founders of the London-based curatorial platform Thorp Stavri...

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Flash Nails and Glamour: SYRETT

The challenge of SYRETT is that it feels punkish and out of step with what we’re used to seeing within contemporary art. Good....

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The Power of (In)visible Community

The Power of (In)visible Community. A social art project in Somers Town, London 2021...

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(Text)ural Works and Abstraction at Enter Art Fair

Highlights from the 2021 edition of Scandinavia's largest international art fair...

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The Suitability of Neon: Cerith Wyn Evans Interview

Interview with the conceptual artist, Cerith Wyn Evans who embraces the use of neon as a medium of immanent exchange....

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Abstract Beauty: Ellen Carey

Lens-based artist Ellen Carey discusses her radical approach to image-making...

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Courting the Forest of History

Interview with mixed-media artist Gerald Chukwuma on Eve of his exhibition Eclipse of the Scrolls. ...

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The Weight of Canon

Canon, Fandom and Creative Paralysis. Much of the media we consume today, especially genre media, takes the form of such franchises. Art might be no different? ...

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Ed Atkins: “A Weird Faking of Imminence”

British artist Ed Atkins on turning a telephone conversation with his mum into a video artwork for the New Museum ...

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Intimate, Wild, Raw: Karla Black at Fruitmarket Gallery

A review of Scottish artist Karla Black's solo exhibition at the newly renovated Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh...

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Celebrity as Material

Celebrity as Art Material: Once art ceases to be mimetic, portraiture as representation becomes destabilized, enabling it to investigate concepts such as celebrity as well as appearance. ...

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Alberta Whittle: “I Felt the World Unravelling”

Turner prize-winning artist Alberta Whittle on her latest film and treating her audience with generosity...

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Repetition is Endlessly Renewing: Edmund de Waal

Artist and writer Edmund de Waal on the liminal qualities and whiteness of porcelain ...

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Upset in Stone: Barbara Segal

Experimental sculptor Barbara Segal on luxury, commodity, and change in her work. ...

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The Performer and Audience Create the Work Together: Marina Abramović

The "godmother of performance art" speaks to Millie Walton about immortality, eroticism and the public body...

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