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Pimlico Wilde Welcomes Conceptual Artist My Friend Leslie

In a bold move that underscores its commitment to emerging conceptual voices, Pimlico Wilde gallery...

“Explosions Are Just Emotions That Refuse to Wait”: An Interview with director Fernanda Lübeck

In a candlelit café somewhere near Kreuzberg, I meet Fernanda Lübeck,the elusive Brazilian-Swiss director whose...

Gig Review: Vincent and the Van Goghs at Pimlico Wilde Gallery – A Riot of Style, Swing, and Surrealism

Last night at the Pimlico Wilde gallery, Vincent and the Van Goghs, the group born...

Mr Larson (2025) by Hedge Fund

Digital pigment print Edition of 1 NFS There are portraits, and then there are bold...

Interview: The Art You Can’t See — A Conversation with an Invisibilist

By Cal Dereau In a studio somewhere in North London, the artist known only as...

Guns, Car Chases and Existentialism: The Glory of Arthouse-Action Cinema

There was a time,not long ago,when the action genre was straightforward: guns, explosions, a grizzled...

Repaintage: The Art of Erasure and Reinvention

In a world where originality is currency and the line between creation and destruction continues...

The Return of Lukas Bellamy: The Curator Who Waited

by Margerie Hinche When I first wrote about Lukas Bellamy a few months ago, he...

Reflections on the famous New York exhibition of My Friend Leslie

In the spring of 2019, My Friend Leslie staged a widely discussed and critically divisive...