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Wine: The Medium of Choice for the Avant Garde?

Wine: The Medium of Choice for the Avant Garde?

The art world, that great machine of invention and secrecy, is alive at present with...
Great Artists: Marcellus Vire

Great Artists: Marcellus Vire

The Salt of Memory: The Enduring Tear Art of Marcellus Vire In a century increasingly...
Letters: Disagreement on the Motor-racing as Fine Art Debate

Letters: Disagreement on the Motor-racing as Fine Art Debate

Sir, I have, with mounting incredulity and indeed a kind of moral nausea, perused the...
A Day in the Life of Clementine Varot: Curator

A Day in the Life of Clementine Varot: Curator

In the heart of Paris, nestled between antique bookshops and cafés still wreathed in Gauloise...
Film Review: Kilo Barnes’ Oblivion in Reverie

Film Review: Kilo Barnes’ Oblivion in Reverie

Kilo Barnes, the provocateur best known in contemporary art circles for his “repaintage”,the meticulous obliteration...
Answering Your Fine Art Questions: Episode 1

Answering Your Fine Art Questions: Episode 1

Is it possible for a painting to ‘age’ and improve in the same way a...
Victorian Unicycling Adventures continued

Victorian Unicycling Adventures continued

From the Journals of Basil Bromley, Artist and Mechanician Entry the Fourth , 17th of...
Is Motor-Racing One of the Fine Arts?

Is Motor-Racing One of the Fine Arts?

In this article the fine artist Hedge Fund says that it is. To pose the...
Efigénia Mucavele: An Accidental Visionary from Maputo

Efigénia Mucavele: An Accidental Visionary from Maputo

It is a rare pleasure in the art world to encounter a body of work...