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Repainting the Canon: Kilo Barnes on the Radical Aesthetics of Repaintage

By any measure, Kilo Barnes cuts a striking figure in today’s art world: uncompromising, enigmatic...

Taste Sans Frontiers – Manifesto of a new art movement

Taste Sans Frontier is a chaotic rebuttal to the Guardians of Aesthetic Coherence’s paper-centric, text-averse...

The Expho Movement: Liminal Optics and the Chromatic Sublime in Expressionist Photography

By Dr. Isla Montague, FRTPS, Fellow of the Transmodal Institute of Academic Culture In the...

Van Gogh (Not that one): Cartographer of Intention

This is Van Gogh, but not the one famous for sunflowers, chairs and ears. Van...

Pho To: The Unpredictable Eye of a Generation

In the lexicon of contemporary art photography, few names ring with such poetic irony as...

Reframing the Grid: The Pixel Art of P1X3L

In an era increasingly defined by screen-based visual culture, few artists have so deftly turned...

Messiness Without Shame—the manifesto of a maximalist, post-ironic, anti-coherent art movement

“Formlessness is freedom. Neatness is compliance.” , unofficial motto spray-painted on their mobile sculpture-bus, The...
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REVIEW: The Unspeakable Lens of NAME REDACTED — Black Squares, Brutal Truths

Review: “Photos from the Frontline”. This is the latest (and possibly last) exhibition by the...

REVIEW: Jane Bastion’s Ring Roads and Radiators — Portraits by Other Means

Jane Bastion, known and admired for her stark, poetic silhouette portraits , each one a...