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The Mayfair Book Groupette – Minutes of the Book of Margery Kemp Meeting

Date: Thursday, 18th July 2025 Time: 7:00 PM , 10:30 PM Location: Private Salon, 3rd...

A Grammar of Grief: The Art of Elias Favière and the Alchemy of Tears

By Julien Rochefort, Ph.D. for the Handbook of Lesser-known Artists Department of Contemporary Aesthetics, École...

A Smile Reframed: Was the Mona Lisa Actually Mrs. Yelland of Surrey, England?

In a tantalising discovery, a recently unearthed cache of correspondence housed in a disintegrating trunk...

The Art of Giving: Inside the World of Philanthropist and Art Collector Margot Leclair

In a sunlit Parisian hôtel particulier overlooking the Seine, where 18th-century paneling meets contemporary sculpture...

Was Piero Della Frampton-on-Sea Ahead of His Time?

The recent surfacing of a cache of panel paintings attributed to the long-rumoured Essexian painter...

INTERVIEW: Graffiti Artist 2Cool on The Permanence of Cool

A conversation between 2Cool and Esmerelda Pink, Head of People Engineering at Pimlico Wilde First...

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Cabbage- The Musical

Some shows at the Edinburgh Fringe make you laugh, some make you cry, and some...

Disaster in the Gallery: Visitor Accidentally Damages Sandy Warre-Hole Portrait at Slough Museum of Contemporary and Non-Contemporary Art

A quiet afternoon visit to the Slough Museum of Contemporary and Non-Contemporary Art took an...

Letter: Marco di Manchester? Marco di Merseyside more like!

Dear Sir, As someone who has spent three decades preserving, cataloguing, and,when necessary,defending the ecclesiastical...