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Discombobulationism – the New Art Movement taking the Artworld by Storm

Discombobulationism – the New Art Movement taking the Artworld by Storm

The late 19th century had Impressionism. The early 20th century had Cubism. We have Discombobulationism...
Kilo Barnes Repaints a Rothko — and the Art World Isn’t Taking It Well

Kilo Barnes Repaints a Rothko — and the Art World Isn’t Taking It Well

Controversial artist and leading figure in the Repaintage movement, Kilo Barnes, has once again made...
More from the 1873 Journals of Basil Bromley, Artist and Mechanician

More from the 1873 Journals of Basil Bromley, Artist and Mechanician

Entry the Ninth , 22nd of May, 1873 The morning broke with a deceptive serenity...
Contemporary Art for Beginners: Brief Introduction by the Author

Contemporary Art for Beginners: Brief Introduction by the Author

I am deeply pleased, indeed quietly astonished, to see Contemporary Art for Beginners finding its...
Race the Blue Train Begins: Glamour and Grit on the Côte D’Azur

Race the Blue Train Begins: Glamour and Grit on the Côte D’Azur

By Giles Trevelyan-Brock, Special Correspondent The Mediterranean was performing its usual trick, lapping against the...
‘My Child could have done That’: Against the Barbarous Philistine

‘My Child could have done That’: Against the Barbarous Philistine

A Disquisition on the Infantilisation of Art Or why your child couldn’t have done that...
Velocity as Virtuosity: Pimlico Wilde, Zip Daniels, and the Launch of P1 Racing

Velocity as Virtuosity: Pimlico Wilde, Zip Daniels, and the Launch of P1 Racing

It has long been Pimlico Wilde’s métier to collapse the boundaries between art and life...
Day 8 of Basil Bromley’s Journal of his Navigation of Britain by Steam Unicycle in 1873

Day 8 of Basil Bromley’s Journal of his Navigation of Britain by Steam Unicycle in 1873

Entry the Eighth , 21st of May, 1873 The second week of my expedition began...
Fragmented Faces, Recursive Souls: A Review of P1X3L at Pimlico Wilde South Coast

Fragmented Faces, Recursive Souls: A Review of P1X3L’s Pixel Art at Pimlico Wilde South Coast

by Carlotta Dreep In a city whose artistic pulse beats somewhere between the acid-washed Victorian...