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Helsinki Biennial to Launch this Summer

The Helsinki Biennial will open this June on the uninhabited island of Vallisaari, featuring works by 40 local and international artists...

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Drawing Eccentricities: An Interview with Sverre Malling

Millie Walton speaks to Norwegian artist Sverre Malling about the meditative act of drawing, folkloric imagery and celebrating outsider culture...

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Philip Guston’s Restless Creativity

Hauser & Wirth continues its global series of exhibitions reflecting on the influence and creative processes of American painter Philip Guston ...

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Largest Digital Canvas in the World to Launch in London

Artist Marco Brambilla will curate a programme of public art as part of a £1bn commercial redevelopment of Tin Pan Alley that is set to complete in autumn 2021. ...

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Grove Square Galleries Launches With Lockdown Paintings by Christopher Kieling

Sierra, a significant body of new paintings, was created during the lockdown of spring 2020 and presents a visual reduction of the artist's surroundings....

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Axel Stocks: Blood Painting Genealogist

Axel Stocks: A Blood Painter and Genealogist by Jeffrey Wengrofsky...

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Material Bodies Moving in Space

The fabric of being in the work of Daisy Collingridge. An interview with a unique artists whose multimedia work combines, psychology, theatre, performance, and installation....

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Tommy Fiendish: FAITH

Box Galleries kickstart their spotlight on emerging artists with Fiendish's unflinching reflection of politics and the human condition through the converging aesthetics of modern baroque and street...

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The Massurreal Deconstruction of Prof. Nadia Wahdan

Interview with multimedia artist Prof. Nadia Wahdan. ...

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The Queen’s Hidden Masterpieces to Leave Palace for First Time

Major palace renovations mean that the Queen's Gallery will display 65 works from the Royal Collection, including pieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer....

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Subscriber Print

Building an Art Collection Recently Trebuchet started a discussion about how artists could reach a broader audience and how we might help facilitate building a network of fledgling art collectors....

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Surrealism, Over, Yet Everywhere: Mica McDonald and Sofia Mitsola

“And now consider how passing a child on a swingCalling higher, higherCan bring back all that tender trauma of childhoodRealising that we don’t leave the past behindBut that it leaves...

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Radical Black Resistance

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, a new show explores the impact of Angela Davis' visit to East Germany in 1972. ...

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The Healing Power of Painting

Abstract artist, Mona Lerch, shapes her paintings with her life experiences. She explores her emotions whilst working and embodies them into her artwork. ...

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Surviving Lockdown: What Do We Surround Ourselves With?

The next instalment in our series of interviews to pick up tips from the arts to help get through this unusual period....

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Genesis P-Orridge Dies After Battle With Leukemia

The pioneering cult hero, who adopted a third gender, is known for reinventing he/r own body as a work of art....

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Leading Auctioneer Simon de Pury Opens New Gallery Space

For its inaugural show, Newlands House Gallery will stage an exhibition of original photographs by Helmut Newton....

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Tearing the mouth of language

Nieto: Linguistic chaos. An interview with the most perverse artist in history, maybe....

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Hang-Up Open New Gallery

Moving from its original Dalston space to the new Hoxton location, the building has been completely stripped back, dug out and remodelled over an eight-month period. ...

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Andrew Renton on Roy Oxlade

Andrew Renton discusses the work of Roy Oxlade at the Alison Jacques Gallery London. ...

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Robert Upstone Launches Soho Gallery

UPSTONE Soho will focus on British art of the 20th and 21st centuries....

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Henry Hussey, We Live in the Remains of the Gods

The transformative power of creative practice and its potential to remodel the artist and his audience are explored in Henry Hussey's new show. ...

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The Platform Graduate Award 2019

The Platform Graduate Award is showing the work of talented emerging artists throughout November at the MK Gallery. ...

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Amy Bessone at the Alison Jacques Gallery

Amy Bessone imbues the campy and kitsch with a soft and enigmatic humanity bringing depth where there was none. ...

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Deptford X Celebrates 21st Birthday

London’s longest running contemporary visual arts festival has attracted over 1 million visitors since its inception in 1998. ...

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Ken Nwandiogbu ‘Contemporealism’

Hyper real painting is given a contemporary African twist at The Brick Lane gallery with a show of work by Ken Nwadiogbu....

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James Rosenquist: Visualising the Sixties

This essay looks at the work of James Rosenquist in terms of the pop art movement. Broadening its scope, we look at this artist's work against that of Ed Kienholz and Joseph Cornell....

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Firmament by Niccolo Moronato

Firmament by Niccolo Moronato is an ongoing artistic exploration of an alternative “side” of the sky. ...

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Filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky First Full UK Retrospective

The award-winning Mexican filmmaker is best known for his innovative documentaries which chronicle the struggles of Mexico’s indigenous population against environmental threats and societal...

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Helen Beard Largest Solo Exhibition to Date

It's Her Factory introduces a new body of Beard’s large-scale, vibrant works that examine contemporary portrayals of sexuality, and reclaim ownership over the body from the male gaze....

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