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The Arts of Life They Changed Into the Arts of Death

As of late, Pat Robertson has been waxing apocalyptic regarding mankind's imminent reckoning with wrathful divinity… …while liberals have been sharing scary bedtime stories by the...

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You are Here – Dutch Art

As snow blizzards down in Bloomsbury, a bunch of Dutch art devotees gather for mulled wine and muffins in a miniature white cube style gallery. With such extreme weather outside, viewers gaze on...

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Art Music: Remembering Mille Plateaux on the eve of its relaunch

Mille Plateaux, a multifaceted icon of the dot.com musical era and now in 2010 it’s coming back. ...

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Nothing About Us, Without Us: Active Bodies at the ICA

A review of Decriminalised Futures at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), an exhibition showing sex work as artwork....

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Flash Nails and Glamour: SYRETT

The challenge of SYRETT is that it feels punkish and out of step with what we’re used to seeing within contemporary art. Good....

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Shooting Down Babylon by Tracey Rose

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town will host a large-scale exhibition of revolutionary artist Tracey Rose...

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MACRO Radically Rethinks the Role of the Museum

The Museum for Preventive Imagination project at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome explores dynamic and evolving exhibition formats...

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The Socialism of the Lonely

Jonathan Jones’ biography shows that Tracey Emin remains one of the most important, engaging and unique voices in today’s contemporary art world. ...

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Feel Flows: Richard Stone & Lorena García Mateu

A review of joint contemporary art exhibition, A Splendour Amongst Shadows, at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge. ...

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Blaxploitation and Black Beauty: Mickalene Thomas – beautés du mois

This essay looks at the conception of black beauty in the 70s in terms of contemporary art. Mickalene Thomas' work draws upon popular culture and makes beautiful paintings from it....

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The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy

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. ...

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South London Gallery Fire Station Coming Soon

The South London Gallery will open the former Peckham Road Fire Station as a new contemporary arts space and annexe to the main site on 22 September....

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Chelsea Manning In First UK Appearance

Chelsea Manning to be honoured at this year’s annual Friends of the Institute of Contemporary Arts dinner, marking her first public appearance in the uk....

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Losing Religion For Photography

Artist and musician Michael Stipe will join writer and critic Miranda Sawyer in conversation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts for the launch of Stipe’s photography book, Volume 1....

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Bloomberg New Contemporaries

When the idea is to introduce new voices in contemporary art, it helps not to have the judging panel overshadow the artists...

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Trebuchet 18: Foreign Objects / Out Now

The creation and dismantling of otherness / 144 pages / Luxury print / Available UK & Worldwide...

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Emilija Škarnulyté at Tate St Ives

Škarnulyté’s visually stunning meditation on mythology, technology and deep time...

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Paul Sietsema at Marian Goodman Gallery Paris: Material Memory and the Weight of Objects 

The LA artist's new exhibition explores the physical residue of cultural value through obsolete telephones, coins, and paint-soaked media...

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Gallery of Everything, Ectoplasmix and Everyone

A preview of Ectoplasmix at the Gallery of Everything, 2025....

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30% Summer Sale on Trebuchet Back Issues

30% Off Summer Sales Trebuchet Discount ...

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David Lynch: Conjurer of Dreams

A review of the artistic work of American artist and icon of world cinema David Lynch's exhibition 'Up in Flames'...

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Rankin: Embracing the Absurdity

Photographer Rankin on Creativity and AI, social unpreparedness and the absurdity of it all....

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Vesna Petresin, 1971-2025 

Transdisciplinary artist who explored the fluid boundaries between consciousness, technology, and the future...

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Juergen Teller Refactors Intimacy in Greek Retrospective

A preview of Juergen Teller’s ‘you are invited’ at Onassis Ready (October 2025)...

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Can Messages From the Future Be Hauntological?

Broad, historic perspectives on how artists have been compelled to capture the uncanny and unseen...

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The Last Years of Pablo Picasso

PoMo Trondheim presents works from the last decade of Pablo Picasso's life. ...

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Madre: Delcy Morelos’ Immersive Installation in Dialogue with Joseph Beuys

A preview of Madre, Berlin 2025, by installation artist Delcy Morelos...

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Lost and Found in Amsterdam

Why getting lost in Amsterdam Art Week might be the only way to find what matters...

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Money, Fame and the Future: Tate Modern’s 25th

£43 million secured to launch Tate's endowment fund, but why? ...

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Frieze: Can it Still Deliver in 2025?

The mammoth art fair is set to return but can it cut it in a troubled art economy? ...

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