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The Edge of Precision: How to Sharpen a Pencil

If, as Paul Valéry once mused, “a poem is never finished, only abandoned,” then so...

Art Galleries Are the New Football Teams — Why You Should Support Pimlico Wilde

Move over Arsenal, step aside Manchester United , in the 21st Century, the fiercest rivalries...

Priceless Renaissance Painting Lost in East London Pub After Being Left with Stranger ‘Whilst I went to the loo’

In what may be the most appalling art theft of the decade, a priceless Renaissance...

Art in Motion: Dafydda ap Gruffydd’s Parkour as Fine Art

There are few artists alive today who make motion itself the medium. Fewer still approach...

Art World Holds Its Breath as Teton Yu Skydives Without Parachute — and Lands (Mostly) on Target

In what is already being described as either a boundary-pushing performance art piece or “a...
How Hedge Fund Turned Capitalism Into Fine Art — Digitally

How Hedge Fund Turned Capitalism Into Fine Art — Digitally

By Eleanor Griggle In the shifting, feverish landscape of contemporary art, few figures have blurred...

Shadows of the North: The Visionary Quietude of Marco di Manchester

In Marco di Manchester: A Northern Light, art historian Dr. Liviana Helmstrom has given us...

Podcast episode – Art World Exposed #79

Cave Selfies, Chicken Theories, and Dundee’s Moist Abstractions Hosted by Saldo Caluthe & Tomas Sinke...

“Cloud Ownership” by Davos Saved for the Nation — if the nation can raise £500,000

In a quietly astonishing moment for British conceptual art, the work Cloud Ownership (2024) by...