Category: Art

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

Postcards from the Lost Generation: Picasso 1915-1925

Review of 'Pablo Picasso: Between Cubism and Classicism 1915-1925' Ed. Berggruen and von Liechtenstein. ...

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Depictive seeing, Pictures, and Imagination

Richard Wollheim, some-time Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at University College London, regards our looking at pictures as a special kind of undertaking. In our experience of pictures we seem to...

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Rossana Martinez Artist

An insight into the practice of artist Rossana Martinez....

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(H) oli Ep (p) iphany

Oli Epp, sold out before the private view. Semiose is a gallery opened in 2005 in Paris....

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Photo London 2018 at Somerset House

Showcasing the best photography and cementing London as a key location in the international photographic community. ...

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Art is on the house!

The myth of a disappearing house, the discovery of one that still exists and the challenge of one that will hopefully exist one day in the future....

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Père Lachaise: a drift

Père Lachaise, May 2018, Pegs in the graveyard – the broken black teeth of a man long dead. rchitecture, we might think, gains its aesthetic dimension from our sense of what it is to inhabit a...

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Why Being an Artist is not a Job

Working away in the studio is play with consequences not a job, thank goodness!...

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Colleen Quigley, The Remarkable Resilience of Symbols

A conversation with Colleen Quigley about her recent work and practice ...

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Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy

Installation shot, Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany Duncan Wylie is a prodigious painter who, having tasted success in Paris, has removed to London....

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Cult, It’s Joan Pope

Joan Pope uses her body to promote her religion and calls it art, you decide....

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The Quietude of Some Black and Cream/White Pictures in Paris

Lee Bae, Landscape (detail) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapinimal Art, it has been argued, is the dying breath of abstraction, and painting more generally (Winters, 2018)....

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Anselm Kiefer, God, Death, and Seven Tons of Lead

This exhibition comprises mainly large-scale paintings that are flooded with molten lead....

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A conversation with Stine Marie Jacobsen

Law machines, group workshops and a very strange request, 'do you have time to kill me today?' learn about the world of Stine Marie Jacobsen. ...

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Feminist Internet, Art that Strategises Change

Feminist Internet is a future-focused collective made up of artists and designers who aim to create an equal and just internet for all. Find out about their activities here!...

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Cut and Colour: Siobhan Coen at Zabludowicz Collection

A kaleidoscope of sound and colour arrests the viewer: Siobhan Coen at Zabludowicz Collection. ...

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‘Black Book’ Gideon Rubin at Freud Museum

Gideon Rubin's show 'Black Book' recalls the horror of the Nazi machine and helps us to reflect on that horror in the home of Sigmund Freud who managed to survive occupation. ...

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In Search of Selfhood: Eddie Peake at White Cube

Artist Eddie Peake's autobiographical new exhibition at White Cube....

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Poetics of the Disquiet: Modern Italian Art at the Estorick Collection

The Estorick Collection showcases Italy's great modern painters....

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Hayward Gallery reopens with Andreas Gursky exhibition

The Hayward is re-opening and showing the work of German photographer Andreas Gursky, this promises to be an impressive array of relevant and compelling images....

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Paradise Lost: Marianna Rothen at the Little Black Gallery

A fragile fantasy world awaits the viewer with Rothen's photographic debut at London's Little Black Gallery....

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Art that Bends the Mind: Fiumano Clase Gallery at London Art Fair

Contemporary gallerists Fiumano Clase showcase their chosen few at the 2018 London Art Fair....

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London Arts Fair 2018 at the Islington Business Centre

Painting, sculpture, photography, multimedia and dialogue in the heart of Islington, London...

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Hymns to the Silence: Ephrem Solomon at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery

Deeply personal portraiture with strong socio-political purpose...

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Loitered Lens: Frieze London International 2017- Sculpture Garden

Colour and comment: A look back at Frieze 2017...

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Artistry in Assembly: Lillianna Pereira

Human experience (including the artist's) is not necessarily unique...

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The Feathers and the Fury: Ry Bird [Interview]

Graphic artist Ry Bird talks art, music and fighting cats...

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Bread Houses, Dreaming Horses: Urs Fischer

Haunting or playful? Urs Fischer's unique sculpture proves you can have both...

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One Two Three Swing! Superflex at Tate Modern

It's Swing Time! Globalisation, mobilisation and empowerment at Tate Modern...

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Frieze London International Art Fair 2017

Subverting, and sometimes satisfying expectations, Frieze returns to London...

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