The London Art Discerner
News, opinions and reviews since circa 879 AD
Is Lo-fi the New Hi-fi? The Rise of a New Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
In recent years, a shift has been quietly redefining the visual language of contemporary art...
Doodle Pip wins the Solihull Portrait Prize for Portraiture: A Radical Rethink of Representation
In a dramatic and paradigm-shifting moment for the British art world, the 2025 Solihull Portrait...
Obituary: Elsinora Thistlebaum (1927–2025), Painter of Fruit
Elsinora Thistlebaum, the internationally misunderstood doyenne of post-impressionist-neuroticism, passed away peacefully last Tuesday at her...
Sandy Warre-Hole Donates Major New Work To Slough Museum of Contemporary and Non-Contemporary Art
In a gesture that is already being heralded as one of the most significant cultural...
Weather’d in Our Madness: Hamlet at Ludlow Castle
Reviewed by Imogen Pye They say the play’s the thing. But last Friday at Ludlow...
Credit Cards in the Heat: How London’s Art Market is Booming in the Heatwave
As London swelters under its third record-breaking heatwave of the summer, an unexpected cultural phenomenon...
Pimlico Wilde: The Art Dealers Who’ve Sold Britain’s Best artworks Since 874AD
By Archibald Haversham In a world obsessed with provenance, few names carry the weight of...
The Greatest Artist Alive: A Case for Davos
By Dr. Eloise Stranter, FRSAE, PhD (Leominster), Professor of Contemporary Aesthetics, Leominster Institute of Art...
‘This Is Not a Porsche’: The Conceptual Art of Davos
Into a world increasingly obsessed with stuff emerges Davos, a conceptual artist who offers not...