Author: Arthur Tonnerre

Ex-London based reader of art and culture. LSE Masters Graduate. Arts and Culture writer since 1995 for Future Publishing, Conde Nast, Wig Magazine and Oyster. Specialist subjects include; media, philosophy, cultural aesthetics, contemporary art and French wine. When not searching for road-worn copies of eighteenth-century travelogues he can be found loitering in the inspirational uplands of art galleries throughout Europe.

Fanglin Luo’s Performance Art Reclaims Feminist Mythology Through Ritual and Identity

How contemporary artist Fanglin Luo channels Aphrodite and Nvwa (Nüwa) to question feminine identity and cultural power...

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Paul Sietsema at Marian Goodman Gallery Paris: Material Memory and the Weight of Objects 

The LA artist's new exhibition explores the physical residue of cultural value through obsolete telephones, coins, and paint-soaked media...

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Wanting Wang: Art Photography at the Threshold of Order and Collapse

The London-based photographer Wanting Wang uses friction and fragmentation to question what we consider normal...

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Between Myth and Modernity: The Art Practice of Jingjing Xu

A critical look at an emerging artist's synthesis of cinematic language, symbolic narrative, and questions of authenticity...

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The Sublime Sculptures of Simon Tayler: Wooden Art for the Digital Age

Exploring the Mysterious Beauty of Organic Forms in Contemporary British Sculpture...

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Folkestone Triennial 2025: Where Art Meets Community

How artists transform a seaside town into a living gallery of environmental urgency, historical memory, and collective imagination...

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Rewriting the Constitution: Chus Martínez on Art, Community, and Democratic Imagination

Chus Martinez on Art as Intelligence, Curatorial Activism, and the Oracle of Democratic Possibility...

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Vesna Petresin, 1971-2025 

Transdisciplinary artist who explored the fluid boundaries between consciousness, technology, and the future...

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Lost and Found in Amsterdam

Why getting lost in Amsterdam Art Week might be the only way to find what matters...

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Milan Art Week and miart: A city in harmony

A review of miart and Milan Art Week 2025 ...

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Where does Taylor Swift meet the mythic? Ask psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster

Lacan, Art and the situated natured of viewing. An interview with Jamieson Webster...

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Biennale Gherdëina 9:Thinking Like a Mountain

A review of Biennale Gherdëina 9: The Parliament of Marmots and GaMec: Thinking Like a Mountain. 2024 Italy. ...

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Amongst Wonder: Dürer to Warhol

A review of 'Albrecht Dürer To Andy Warhol Masterpieces...' MASI Lugano...

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Reflecting Lakes and Spirit Vessels: Thomas Huber

A review of Lago Maggiore by Thomas Huber...

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Interdimensional Craft: Gerry Rafferty and Ásgeir 

Transcendence in Gerry Rafferty’s Rest in Blue and Asgeir’s Time on My Hands ...

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New Folk for Old Tunes: Richard Thompson

A review of the rerelease of Richard Thompson's 1976 collection of rare and unreleased material (Guitar/Vocal)...

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The Beauty of Packaging

Owning something physical, the open-eyed landscape of the tactile imagination....

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Chanting Guitars and Dusk Distortions: Bossk

Photos and review of underground post-metal band Bossk as they deliver sermons from the electric mount at London’s Garage (15.12.21)...

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Loitered Lens: Ferocious Dog

Carrying the tradition of English folk-rock... with grit and bite...

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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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Musical Adventures for an Opening 2021.

Trebuchet’s subjective musical round up looks at releases by Divide and Dissolve, Memoriam, Stone Giants/Amon Tobin, LNZNDRF, Kaktus Einarsson, Melvins, Ya Tseen, Tomahawk, DJINN, Godspeed You...

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Directing Enter Art Fair

Trebuchet interviews Enter Art director Julie Alf about the inspiration behind the fair....

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The Definite Line of Emma Coyle

Emma Coyle's current figurative work focuses on contemporary fashion magazine imagery to produce painterly paintings of a Fine Art standard...

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Big Star Falls in We Travel Time

The giant shifts in chords and sonic layers creates classical headspaces and feels orchestral in its depth and shifting subtlety. We travel Time...

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Holiday Song: Jim Sclavunos Supports Endangered Venues With Masterpiece.

Renaissance musician Jim Sclavunos hints at a solo album with the single Holiday Song....

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We Travel Time: James Johnston and Steve Gullick

Where music and visual art meet. The talents of Steve Gullick and James Johnston combine on We Travel Time to poignant effect. ...

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Black, Indigenous, and Loud

Powerful and political Maori and Cherokee experimental group Divide and Dissolve provides a soundtrack for collective resistance. ...

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Shot To Fame: Remembering Terry O’Neill

'One Year On' Box Galleries highlights the late photographer Terry O'Neill's eternal talent. ...

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Photography, Light and After Love

An interview with The Heat Inc.'s Jon Dodd about the power of photography and the eternal light of Rock & Roll. ...

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Uncomfortable Music

Pushing beyond warm nostalgic genres, Trebuchet guides you through the autumnal mental fog to a more mysterious place. Featuring: Mr Bungle, Napalm Death, Ricinn, Penny Rimbaud and Bunita Marcus...

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