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Benji Reid announced as cover artist for Trebuchet Eight

02/07/2020

No gravity, upward visions. Manchester artist Benji Reid announced as cover artist for Trebuchet Eight: Contemporary Surrealism...

Soho House Announce Inaugural Art Prize

01/07/2020

The prize winner will receive the funds to realise and present a major solo showcase at Soho Beach House Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2020. ...

British Art Show 9: List of Artists and New Dates

29/06/2020

Hayward Gallery Touring announce the artists for British Art Show 9, now opening in Wolverhampton in March 2021 and touring to Aberdeen, Plymouth and Manchester....

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...

Bartholomew Beal (1989-2019)

18/06/2020

Beal passed on Boxing Day 2019, aged 30. His legacy is an incredible body of work from 2012 onwards, and an outstanding inspiration to his contemporaries. ...

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...

Radical Black Resistance

16/06/2020

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, a new show explores the impact of Angela Davis' visit to East Germany in 1972. ...

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....

The Healing Power of Painting

04/06/2020

Abstract artist, Mona Lerch, shapes her paintings with her life experiences. She explores her emotions whilst working and embodies them into her artwork. ...

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....

Blaxploitation and Black Beauty: Mickalene Thomas – beautés du mois

14/05/2020

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....

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. ...

Trebuchet Talks 9 – Dark Arts with Bobby Acharya

02/05/2020

A Podcast featuring an interview with Prof Bobby Acharya from King's College London on the 'Dark Sectors of the Universe'...

Surviving Lockdown: What Do We Surround Ourselves With?

30/04/2020

The next instalment in our series of interviews to pick up tips from the arts to help get through this unusual period....

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....

Genesis P-Orridge Dies After Battle With Leukemia

17/03/2020

The pioneering cult hero, who adopted a third gender, is known for reinventing he/r own body as a work of art....

Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium

06/03/2020

Major exhibition explores the changing historical and aesthetic terms of artistic engagement with mediumship from the 19th century to present day....

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....

Leading Auctioneer Simon de Pury Opens New Gallery Space

19/02/2020

For its inaugural show, Newlands House Gallery will stage an exhibition of original photographs by Helmut Newton....

Tearing the mouth of language

18/02/2020

Nieto: Linguistic chaos. An interview with the most perverse artist in history, maybe....

Report: London Art Fair 2020

30/01/2020

Past highlights include selected works from the infamous Sensation exhibition that launched the careers of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, and paintings by Turner prizewinner Chris Ofili....

Legendary Arts Venue The Horse Hospital Facing Closure

30/01/2020

February marks the 27th anniversary of the venue's inaugural exhibition and also its forced closure if it cannot meet, or successfully contest, a 333% rent increase....