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Inaugural London Mural Festival

The event, launching in September 2020, will use London as a vast canvas, painting a minimum of 20 new large-scale murals across the city....

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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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Rembrandt Relic Discovered Below Artist’s House

A clay pot excavated from the cesspit below Rembrandt van Rijn’s Amsterdam house has been declared as one of only two “true Rembrandt relics”....

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The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter

This major free exhibition at the Science Museum examines the intertwined relationship between artists and scientists over the last 250 years.  ...

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Elise Ansel Reclaims Female Identity From the Old Masters

In yes I Said Yes, the artist transforms scenes of violence against women in Old Master paintings into images of consensual pleasure....

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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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Van Gogh, Messiah & Madman Debunked

Reflecting on the expressionism of Van Gough and thinking about what it offers to the contemporary painter Natalie Andrews takes a critical view of the mad-messiah stereotype and reminds us whats...

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Pacific an Exhibition by Sax Impey

The work draws upon the unique experiences of the 60 day voyage, including both extraordinary landfalls and the time spent sailing one of the most remote parts of the ocean....

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Anticipating John Hoyland at the Tate

Anticipating John Hoyland at Tate, Natalie Andrews is thinking about the contemporary relevance of slow art. ...

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Unpicking The Expressive Fallacy

Can Hal Foster laugh authenticity out of existence? Revisiting 'The Expressive Fallacy', a rights of passage for artists....

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Danh Vo First Major London Solo Exhibition

Untitled continues Danh Vo’s largely conceptual practice, weaving together archival fragments and personal references....

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Seminal John Hoyland Works to Be Part of Tate Britain Spotlights

The foremost British Abstract Expressionist of the 20th century, Hoyland pushed boundaries with his bold use of colour and ever-evolving sense of what abstract painting could be. ...

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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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More Authenticity, Less Plastic – Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 Delivers On All Fronts

CFF 2019 showcased some incredible new talent. Amy Montgomery is one of the few performers who stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to lower your lens to breathe in the sheer brilliance of it...

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Largest Solo Presentation to Date of British Artist Sam Lock

Now/here showcases Lock’s affinity with ‘process art’, marking him out as a leading contemporary exponent of this methodology. ...

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No Plastic – Folking Fantastic

Returning this year with an ‘Outstanding’ A Greener Festival Award, Cambridge Folk Festival today furthers its sustainability commitment and announces the ban on single use plastics. ...

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Seeing is Believing

Looking at paintings requires an ability to place works in the historical context of the medium. Only then can we see the human significance of the work. It is no good looking inward to brain...

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Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art

The first major show staged on this theme, Into the Night features both famed and little-known sites of the avant-garde from the 1880s to the 1960s....

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Nostalgia and Vibrant Imagery at 50th Rencontres d’Arles

This year, the organisers undertook the unprecedented task of identifying, ranking, and inventorying their vast archives to turn them into a major retrospective exhibition....

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Art Money July : British Landscape Painters Plateau at Sotheby’s

In the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition of 1808, J.M.W Turner made a rare misfire. British Landscape Painters Plateau at Sotheby’s: Trebuchet July Market Roundup...

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Kentaro Okawara Makes Debut UK Solo Exhibition

Hold Tight is a new series of paintings, sculptures and drawings that explore the theme of love through symmetry and the artist’s unique yet universal language....

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Contemporary Art. Chosen by Dogs. For Dogs and Humans

With a little help from their human companions, these canine curators have selected artworks in what is believed to be the first exhibition of its kind. ...

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Louvre to Offer Mona Lisa Virtual Reality Experience

Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is the Louvre's first virtual reality work, marking the 500th anniversary of the Leonardo da Vinci's death....

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Art Money June : Unearthing Unseen Art

The International Art Market in June: Unearthing Unseen Art at London’s 20th Century Week and #MeToo Controversy at Art Basel...

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The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy

Andrew Edmunds deals in antique political prints. In this show at the Royal Academy, the works he shows stand up well to contemporary art and its political ambitions. ...

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Two Contemporary Women Concrete Artists

Two current exhibitions on opposite sides of the globe present work from two contemporary women artists; each, in her own way, a concrete artist. At RaumX, in north London, Katrina Blanin shows...

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Contentious Polish Artist Kle Mens Brings Dark Catholic Critique to East London

In her first UK solo show, the artist summons both religious martyrs and mythological hybrids to evoke the force of female transformation, which underlies all her work. ...

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First UK Retrospective of Donald Sultan

Dark Objects: Works 1977-2019 is comprised of 17 works and features three canvasses from the American figurative painter's seminal Disaster Paintings series. ...

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Precious Nothing Pt 3: I Ching

Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? ...

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Lichtenstein Panel Created for Gunter Sachs Set for Auction

Composition, one of only three unique porcelain enamel works, was created to outfit the German photographer's bedroom suite in his notorious pop art apartment....

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