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A Two-Century Chronicle of the English Pell Mell Club

A Two-Century Chronicle of the English Pell Mell Club

Readers, it is your lucky day. Next year a new Chronicle of the English Pell...
Contemporary Artist Gur Wallop Hospitalized After Incident With Lion

Contemporary Artist Gur Wallop Hospitalized After Incident With Lion

Contemporary artist Gur Wallop has been hospitalised following an incident involving one of the lions...
Gur Wallop’s Vegan Lions: Ethical Spectacle and the Reimagining of Predatory Iconography

Gur Wallop’s Vegan Lions: Ethical Spectacle and the Reimagining of Predatory Iconography

Gur Wallop’s Vegan Lions represents a paradigmatic shift in contemporary art, engaging with ecological ethics...
Re-seeing the Canvas: A Visit to Southend Institute’s Renaissance Secrets

Re-seeing the Canvas: A Visit to Southend Institute’s Renaissance Secrets

By Isobel Hartley Last week, I was granted the rare privilege of stepping behind the...
Preface for the British edition of How to Find Oil in Almost Any Back Garden

Preface for the British edition of How to Find Oil in Almost Any Back Garden

It is a peculiar pleasure, and one tinged with both admiration and incredulity, to introduce...
Agreement in principle to write a foreword for How to Find Oil in Almost Any Back Garden

Agreement in principle to write a foreword for How to Find Oil in Almost Any Back Garden

Dear Shannon, Thank you for your most effusive letter. It is so many years since...
The English Pell Mell Club: Preparing for the Only Derby That Matters

The English Pell Mell Club: Preparing for the Only Derby That Matters

Just off Pall Mall lies the home of the English Pell Mell Club. The ground...
All the bins in the world

Update on “All the Bins in the World”, the conceptual photography project by Oboe Ngua

Dear Colleagues and Collectors I apologise for the late arrival of this update on my...
Dot Hall and the Aesthetics of Speculation

Dot Hall and the Aesthetics of Speculation

To speak of Dot Hall is to speak of the stock market as mutable surface...