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Painting the Broken American Dream (Louie Metz)

Scantily clad figures whose blank stares emit an aura of disillusionment. Louie Metz paints the seedy and the saddened. ...

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Innate Talent, Meticulous Painting (Shizu Saldamando)

Born to parents of Mexican and Japanese decent, Saldamando’s work embodies components that reflect her bi-racial heritage....

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The decadent and defiant paintings of Nick Brown

The drips that flow from Brown’s landscapes don’t just enhance the unceasing presence of movement that circulates through his work, but they exude a ghostly aura that brings to mind the passing...

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Dexter Dalwood : ‘London Paintings’

Whereas his previous work featured imagined interiors and locations acting as memorials to real people, here it is the narratives which are imagined...

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Late Turner : Painting Set Free

Tate Britain’s Late Turner keeps Turner on the stage rather than focusing on his exit. As co-curator Sam Smiles said, these are “paintings with subjects that have resonance”. ...

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Painting Now : Tate Britain

“The state of painting now” is a tired topic. The premise – that painting has lost its lure because of new media, which in their very newness enable their users to conquer new territory in the...

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SUPERPAINTINGS at Transition Gallery

They're laughing. Are we?...

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Ecological Mutiny: The Paintings of Adam Bloom.

Adam Bloom’s paintings of blood and bone are a strange attractor, holding the viewer quiet and nervous with their dreamlike and symbolic depictions of humanity. The imagery is at once horrific...

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Vulnerability, Resistance, and Uncomfortable Questions — Tonia Nneji and Jamie Luoto, Berlin

Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery's Berlin chapter presents two challenging perspectives on the female experience....

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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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Mothers — Laura Langer at Ilenia

Laura Langer presents Mothers at Ilenia, London. ...

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Amsterdam Art Week: Contrast and Delight

A review of Amsterdam Art Week 2024 ...

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CAN Ibiza Art Fair: Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Art

An Exploration of Global Artists, Local Narratives, and Environmental Consciousness on the Balearic Island...

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Bringing Radical Impermanence to the Institution: Megan Rooney at Kettle’s Yard

A three-week residency in Cambridge sees Megan Rooney bring all new large-scale works on canvas, a series of dance performances and a site-specific mural painted directly onto the walls of Kettle’s...

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On the Female Birthday Suit’s Autonomy from Perversion

An overview of An Other View — Joan Semmels' reimagining of the female form released from the ever-present leer of the male gaze. ...

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Reportage and Resistance from Ken to Khan: Shanti Panchal and the London Landscape

Both political and personal, Shanti Panchal at Grosvenor Gallery tracked a career of muralism and multiculturalism from 1985 to 2022...

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A Legacy of Smiles—LUAP at Altonaer Balkon, Hamburg

Getting inside the head of the artist, or at the very least, of his creation. Artist Paul Robinson/LUAP explains the Pink Bear Pavilion in Hamburg, Germany....

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Exhibition City: London Gallery Weekend

London Gallery Weekend presents another celebration of culture and creativity in the UK's capital city....

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The Art Assembly Presents Tokyo Gendai 2024

A preview of Tokyo Gendai international art fair, showcasing curated presentations by internationally recognised contemporary art galleries....

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Art Against Oblivion

The weight of her country’s history and the ongoing phenomenon of enforced disappearances...

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Constructing Light

Karolina Halatek: Liminal spaces for visiting the sublime...

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The Unbearable Reward of Art: LUAP

A preview of LUAP's €250,000 art prize...

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Moonlight Flitting Dreams: Veronica Smirnoff

A preview of Blue Sky Red by Veronica Smirnoff at Candida Stevens Gallery, 2024. ...

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In the Eye of the Storm—The Race to Save Ukraine’s Art Treasures

The story behind the touring exhibition “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930”...

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Transformative Voids

Places: The Potential of Space ...

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Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk: Meeting Point Project

Studies in the intersection of East Asian spiritual and aesthetic traditions...

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Surface Tension: Alienation is the New ‘Touch’

A review of Surface Tension, curated by Anastasia Chugunova at Des Bains, 2024...

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Structures and Disorder

An interview with artist Jon Kipps...

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Art Through Time: Alon Zakiam Gallery

A review of Art Through Time exhibition at Alon Zakaim, 2024...

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A Crisis of Mortality: Georg Baselitz

The last rites of controversy... a review of A Confession of My Sins at White Cube 204...

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