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How to Collect Contemporary Art – New Book Coming Soon
A Guide for New, Emerging and Established Collectors in the 21st Century In the ever-evolving...
Review: Doodle Pip’s Ten Minutes Crammed Into Nine Minutes
Shortlisted for the Llandudno Art Prize 2025 Doodle Pip has never been an easy artist...
The Stick Insects: A Retrospective in Fragments @ Pimlico Wilde, London
It is rare for a group show to carry the atmospherics of a family saga...
Beyond the Banana: A Review of the Exmouth Academy’s Brazil Painting Show
The Exmouth Academy’s much-anticipated exhibition, “Brushstrokes of Brazil: Liminal Vibrancy in the Tropics”, promises a...
Who Was Sellario Mounteback, and Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Him?
Until recently, the name Sellario Mounteback was known only to a handful of dusty academics...
The Catalogue Essay for Stillness in Orbit: The Slow Modernities of Ellinor Cade
Dr. Penelope Voss, Reader in Temporal Aesthetics, University of Lowestoft “We do not dwell in...
A quick survey of upcoming exhibitions in London
1. Stillness in Orbit: The Slow Modernities of Ellinor Cade Venue: Saville Row Gallery Dates:...
Michelangelo’s Socks Fetch Record Price at Auction
Yesterday a pair of 16th-century woollen socks – allegedly once worn by Michelangelo Buonarroti and...
New work: Chester Hubble
Brompton Road, 2025 In Brompton Road, Chester Hubble continues his quest to interrogate the porous...
