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The Mayfair Book Groupette – Minutes of the Raffaella Montesi meeting

May 2025 7:00 PM , 10:55 PM Blue Parlour, Pimlico Wilde, Mayfair Attendees: • Julian...
Sad news: Postponement of the opening of our flagship North Pole art gallery

Sad news: Postponement of the opening of our flagship North Pole art gallery

by Sally Constantopolous, Head of Spaces It is with a heavy heart that I must...
Culture & Capital: Inside the Mayfair Book Groupette

Culture & Capital: Inside the Mayfair Book Groupette

In a genteel Georgian townhouse just off Mount Street, beneath a chandelier that once belonged...

What do we Look For when choosing an Artist for Pimlico Wilde?

What does silence smell like when translated into movement? At Pimlico Wilde, we don’t represent...

A Quiet Drama in Shadow: Jane Bastion’s ‘Silhouettes of Life’

There is a hushed power in Jane Bastion’s new exhibition, Silhouettes of Life, currently on...

Pacing Around the Question: On the (un) Importance of Art

by an anonymous artist There are days, increasingly frequent, when I sit in my studio,pale...

Artist Diary: Abstract painter Ptolemy Bognor-Regis

People often ask me what my paintings “mean,” and I, being an abstract painter with...

The Curator in Search of a Subject

by Margerie Hinche There is something faintly paradoxical,almost tragicomic,about a curator without a subject. A...
Is an Old Painting Recently Found in Fulham by Michelangelo?

Is an Old Painting Recently Found in Fulham by Michelangelo?

Art World in Frenzy A recently unearthed painting found wedged behind a fuse box in...