The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
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. (read more)
Can Hal Foster laugh authenticity out of existence? Revisiting ‘The Expressive Fallacy’, a rights of passage for artists. (read more)
‘The Expressive Fallacy’ is an article from 1983 which still reverberates through the art world. (read more)
Love is in the Bin – Banksy. Sotheby’s claim it to be the first artwork created live during an auction. (read more)
Originally interviewed for Trebuchet’s Art and Crime issue, dealers Thomas Crown Art have created a fascinating technological solution for the ever increasing issue of forgery in the art market. (read more)
Releasing the captured subject of death. Photographer Hatice Besun discusses the trauma and compulsion of working with tragic real events. (read more)
These paintings show quasi-geometrical structure of colour space. Together with a sensitivity to surface texture the abstract nature serves to p[oint upa new kind of content – or one that is hidden behind the concept of representation. (read more)
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 patterns. That is not where human significance is to be found.
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This year, the organisers undertook the unprecedented task of identifying, ranking, and inventorying their vast archives to turn them into a major retrospective exhibition. (read more)
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 (read more)
Space, construction, dying technologies and the rich rituals at the end of all things – James Alec Hardy (read more)
Digital capabilities and analogue expression in the work of Alex May. (read more)
Photographic entropy in work of Fiona Crisp (read more)
The International Art Market in June: Unearthing Unseen Art at London’s 20th Century Week and #MeToo Controversy at Art Basel (read more)
The collages of Richard Hill (read more)
Rosetta Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2019 (read more)
Theatrical declarations and curated authenticity. Galerie Da-End: The mystery and the multidisciplinary (read more)
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. (read more)
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 paintings and monoprints. (read more)
Occupying Space Across Time: Prof. Martin Lang investigates occupation from Les Enragés to Los Indignados (read more)
Now in its fifth edition, Photo London was founded in 2015 to give the city an international photography event befitting its status as a global cultural capital. (read more)
Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? (read more)
Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? (read more)
Time and space are perhaps only a perception and a semantic construct. Hatice Besun Photography (read more)
Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? (read more)
A review of the international art industry in April 2019 (read more)
Just a lonely plastic bottle… the self-mutilating symbol of our suicidal age. (read more)
Artist Website: Satirical Saturday Cartoon on Art by Alex Brenchley 2019 (read more)
If the art market represents the surface of the ocean that is contemporary capital, voices of resistance are light and shadow thrown down upon it, changing its complexion. (read more)
Exhibition On Screen returns with Young Picasso, an extraordinary detective story that looks in detail at the elements that drove one small boy from southern Spain to such heights. (read more)
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