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World’s Most Expensive Artwork Sells for $3 Billion: ‘Untitled (Probably a Fish)’ Stuns the Market

History was made last night at an exclusive auction in Ramsgate when the enigmatic artwork...

Ephraim Velour’s Sock Soliloquy – a review

In the heart of the bustling city, amidst the towering skyscrapers and the ceaseless hum...

Book Review: Dada, You’re Doing It Again: The Avant-Garde as a Prolonged Temper Tantrum by Professor Malvina Jibber

In Dada, You’re Doing It Again, noted cultural provocateur and self-styled “historian of art hysteria”...

Have Henry V’s Watercolours of Agincourt and Other Battles Been Discovered in a Cellar in Monmouth?

The sleepy Welsh town of Monmouth, birthplace of King Henry V, has been thrust into...

Artist Ephraim Velour Embarks on a Radical New Chapter: The Art of ‘Conceptual Laundry’

By Mirabel Finch Ephraim Velour, the avant-garde darling of the post-minimalist-near-maximalist movement, has stunned the...

Peregrine Luxford becomes World’s first Curator of Shadows

The art world is a universe of nuance, and no one understands that better than...

Breaking news: New Colour discovered!

In a groundbreaking turn of events, scientists have just unveiled the discovery of an entirely...

Podcast Show Notes for Episode 68 of Art World Exposed

Title: “Fame, Fortune, and Faux Pas: The Art World’s Beautiful Mess” Welcome back, cultural connoisseurs...

January newsletter

As we usher in 2025, London’s art scene is poised to dazzle and delight with...