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Frank Carter’s 900 Days of Chaos

Alluding to his training as a tattoo artist, Carter’s paintings present a cacophony of visual motifs produced in fluorescent and neon colours....

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Opening of Oslo’s New Munch Museum Delayed

Tracey Emin says she is now “working out the logistics” for the inaugural exhibition which pairs her work with that of Munch. ...

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Portraits in the marketplace

Strident Sitters: Portraits in the Marketplace. Who's buying...

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Hunter Potter Debut UK Solo Exhibition

I Ain’t Half The Man I Wanted To Be revolves around the artist's personal meditation on the expectations of masculinity....

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Tom French Major Retrospective & Memorial

Transcend brings together two sets of work that are monochromatic, figurative combinations of photorealism and abstraction that depict a psychological landscape as well as material space. ...

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CalArts Recruits Alumni to Create Works Financing Scholarships

50+50: A Creative Century From Chouinard to CalArts will unfold as CalArts marks next year’s 50th anniversary of the college’s founding....

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Symbolic Awards

An obscure review of the 2019 BP Portrait Awards...

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Photographic Reality

Justin Hession: Caught on film. An interview with a deep event photographer on the nature of representation....

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Teiji Hayama London Solo Debut

FAME introduces a new body of oil paintings that examine what it means to be famous in the age of digital celebrity....

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Major Solo Exhibition for Basil Beattie RA

One of the most significant and singular abstract artists to emerge in post-war Britain, Beattie brought the grandeur and scale of the New York School to London....

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New Show Examines the Concept of Them

Curated by James Birch, this exhibition examines the aesthetics behind the concept of Them, a long forgotten but important, largely gay, clique. ...

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Spiralling Intentionally Towards Figuration

David Treloar: Gestural Portraits and Simple Joy. An interview about focus and intention....

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Heaven’s Above in Celestial Promise

Correcting nihilism through perspective, the painting of Mark Batty....

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Mixed Media: The Christmas Song of Emily Maitlis & Fiona Banner

Fresh from hauling Prince Andrew over the coals newsreader Emily Maitlis and art Fiona Banner have made a Christmas song....

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Stanley Spencer’s Love Affair With the Thames Revealed in New Show

Painting by the Thames: Swan Upping at Cookham brings together rarely seen paintings and drawings to reveal one of Spencer’s inspirations: the River Thames....

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The Finer Details of History

Massimiliano Pironti: Hyperreality. An Interview with 2019 BP Award Finalist. ...

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Phil Moffa to Launch Butcha Sound Records

One of the albums, Pieces for Painting, is a noise-based head trip that was designed for artists to listen to while working in their studios....

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Jake Wood-Evans New Solo Exhibition

Recalling Baroque masterpieces, Wood-Evans' paintings fuse the great Romantic tradition of painting with the modernist sensibility of abstract artists such as Rothko and Motherwell....

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New Foundation Dedicated to French-Chinese Master Chu Teh-Chun Opens in Geneva

CHU Teh-Chun, who died in 2014 aged 93, was celebrated for integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art....

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Conveying Connection: Charlie Schaffer

Charlie schaffer: The Emotion of Experience. Interview with BP Portrait Award 2019 Winner...

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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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Dreamstates and Mystery

Markus Åkesson: Finding what is hidden. New Realism and Painting...

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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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Technical Innovation

Carl-Martin Sandvold: The big reveal. BP Award Nominee speaks to Trebuchet...

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Digswell Arts Supporting Creatives

Digswell Arts supports emerging artists and promotes art in the community; it opens its doors to the public on November 16th. ...

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Beyond Borders

A group exhibition featuring 14 international artists responds to the current sociopolitical instability by celebrating diversity and focusing on what connects us....

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No Heroic Male Master

Roxana Halls: The Figure Strikes Back...

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Three-sided World; Interview with Stuart Jones

Natural forces and man-made spaces preoccupy the work of artist Stuart Jones. ...

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Jane Bustin’s V – Tea Bowls (and Other Things) in Paris

The more you think about things the stranger they get; and more beautiful....

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Reopened Museum of Modern Art to Embrace 21st Century

The museum reopened with a resolve to embrace the 21st century and provide a fuller, more global narrative in its permanent collection galleries....

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