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Petr Davydtchenko Eats Live Bat in Big Pharma Protest

26/06/2020

According to a spokesman, the video shows the performance artist eating a bat that was procured from a cave in the south of France....

DYN: A Self-styled Rival to Surrealism’s Gaudy Dominance

23/06/2020

Farewell to Surrealism - The Dyn Circle in Mexico traces the attempts of artist Wolfgang Paalen to escape history and reshape experience from the unlikely location of Mexico City, during the Second...

Trebuchet Talks – Episode 10 – Real Portraiture – Charlie Schaffer

16/06/2020

This episode features an interview with 2019 BP Portrait Award winner Charlie Schaffer talking about how and who he paints in 'Real Portraiture', and a snippet from our next print issue on...

Sadiq Khan to Review “The Diversity of London’s Public Landmarks”

09/06/2020

Statues of slavers could be pulled down under the mayor’s new diversity plan, which will include historians as well as arts, council and community leaders. ...

Black Sabbath: The Besmirched of England

08/06/2020

Notwithstanding the likelihood of the gradual declines of both Black Sabbath and the Church of England as cultural touchstones, their impact will linger on for generations....

Kraftwerk’s Home Computer Gets Video Makeover

02/06/2020

The video incorporates elements previously used by Kraftwerk, including an animation of a computer, taken from the cover image of their classic 1981 album, Computer World....

After the hunt, 1870, by David Neal (1838-1915)

If the Lion Could Speak (…)

11/05/2020

This essay argues that animals are not so minded as to have language. Whilst they exhibit proto-typically linguistic calls, these never amount to exhibiting something like the structure of a language...

Surviving Lockdown: Tabish Khan and the Inner Critic

06/05/2020

Part three explores the feelings of self-lambasting that many people experience when given the time and space to turn the critical eye upon their lives. ...

UK Science Museum Group Building Coronavirus Collection

25/04/2020

Curators are amassing material and considering how to “collect important objects on behalf of the nation as a record of the medical, scientific and cultural responses to the outbreak”....

The Poorly Recorded Perfection of Mystic Priestess

19/04/2020

Bottling the energy of 80s punk, Mystic Priestess rag the lip, light and throw us a classic in the Part Time Punks Sessions EP....

Twin Temple a coven of virtue, a covenant of sacred sin.

06/03/2020

A vision of and interview with Satanic doo-Wop duo Twin Temple....

Father with Partner by Marco Krauwinkel, 2018 © Marco Krauwinkel;

Symbolic Awards

21/01/2020

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

Making Light Work

19/01/2020

Testifying the night through vision, relief and recognition. Exhibition review of "Luce: Jemma Appleby and Liz West" ...

Teiji Hayama London Solo Debut

10/01/2020

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

Saucy, Piquant, With a Faustian Aftertaste

30/12/2019

A film for a specific taste is Phillip Humm's The Last Faust really that indigestible? A review and an entreaty for more divisive filmmaking ...

Spiralling Intentionally Towards Figuration

24/12/2019

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

Landmark Exhibition to Explore the Fragility of the Natural World

14/12/2019

Paradise Lost, the first UK solo exhibition by visual artist Jan Hendrix, will convey his response to the transformation of Botany Bay in Australia....

Hannah Starkey First Institutional Solo Exhibition

06/12/2019

As the fourth recipient of the annual £100,000 Freelands Award, the Hepworth Wakefield will present a major survey exhibition of the photographer in 2020....

Barbican Announce Michael Clark First Major Exhibition

02/12/2019

2020 marks the 15th year of Michael Clark Company’s ongoing collaboration with the Barbican as an artistic associate....

New Works by Quentin Blake

26/11/2019

Shapero Rare Books present Anthology of Readers, an exhibition of new works that affectionately caricature people who love books....

New Exhibition Explores Community in the Age of Climate Crisis

30/10/2019

The Coming Community encourages viewers to consider alternative ways of living together in the face of global political and ecological instability....

First Ever UK Commission by Toyin Ojih Odutola

18/10/2019

A Countervailing Theory explores an imagined ancient myth conceived by the artist....

The Future of Sound of a Native Culture – Hanggai

18/10/2019

An unusual yet explosive mix of big band horns and Mongolian rock from a band with a subtle political subtext. Big Band Brass by Hanngai...

Dylan Gebbia-Richards Makes UK Solo Debut

01/10/2019

Inspired by Jungian philosophy, the multidisciplinary artist cultivates art driven from instinct, in a creative process that arises from emotions rather than an analytical approach....

Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film

01/10/2019

The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film is a scrupulous study of a film’s inception and its progression through to finish....

Elise Ansel Reclaims Female Identity From the Old Masters

20/09/2019

In yes I Said Yes, the artist transforms scenes of violence against women in Old Master paintings into images of consensual pleasure....

Van Gogh, Messiah & Madman Debunked

19/09/2019

Reflecting on the expressionism of Van Gough and thinking about what it offers to the contemporary painter Natalie Andrews takes a critical view of the mad-messiah stereotype and reminds us whats...

Is God Dead? Ben Caplan Takes Stock

18/09/2019

The sense of historical evolution removes from us a responsibility of safeguarding the hard-won victories of the last 100 years... interview with Hirsute folksinging historian Ben Caplan ...