Features
Visual Arts Overlooked On Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2015
The Queens Birthday Honours list has again snubbed the Visual Arts. This is the second time since 2015 began, with the New Years Honours List thin...
Podcast: Dominic Shepherd In Conversation With Zavier Ellis And Dr Gavin Parkinson
CHARLIE SMITH London is presenting Dominic Shepherd in the artist's latest exhibition 'Bare Foot Prophet', where Shepherd responds to the progress...
Damien Hirst: Worlds Richest Artist Still Laughing His Way To The Bank
Morbid question one: if Damien Hirst fell into a vat of formaldehyde tomorrow, how would this affect the monetary value of his works? The ultimate...
Roger Hiorns In Race To Bury Boeing Aircraft Before Swiss Rival
The Turner Prize nominated artist Roger Hiorns plans to bury a jumbo jet for a site-specific installation near Birmingham. Meanwhile the Swiss...
Minimalism: A Relatively Empty Vessel For Lifestyle Obsessed Non-Art Lovers
Spot the difference (sorry.. actually not sorry) between Yayoi Kusama and Agnes Martin, the darling of minimalism, whose retrospective at Tate...
Lynn Hershman Leeson Discusses Her Prophetic Oeuvre, Cindy Sherman, And Media Manipulation
Modern Art Oxford is presenting 'Origins of the Species (Part 2)' an expansive exhibition of works by the acclaimed US artist Lynn Hershman Leeson....
Justin Mortimer Discusses His Latest Work, And The Serendipitous Magic Of Painting
British painter Justin Mortimer’s latest works are currently on display at Parafin Gallery, London. The artist's painting reflects upon a...
Bad Art vs Naive Art With All The Pop Cultural References
Art in whatever form – painting, theatre, a child’s potato stamp – is the means by which we express externally an almost infinite...
Hoxton Artists: Redevelopment Or The Devolution Of Cultural Wealth
A decent studio space is hard enough to acquire in London but now it seems it's also hard to hold on to it. Artists at the Cremer Street Studios...
Cat Paintings: The Mysterious Chat Noir Litters Art History
The mysterious chat noir litters (a pun already? Awesome) art history like so much shed fur; the terribly unsubtle feline companion stealing...
The Turner Prize: A Limp Shrug Of Non-Spiration
Writing about the increasingly obsolete Turner Prize is the very definition of shooting fish in a barrel. Waldemar Januszczak has already written...
Curator Kelly Large Discusses The Zabludowicz Collection, YBAs And The Establishment
The Zabludowicz Collection is presenting a major exhibition featuring over 30 leading international artists, including eight Turner Prize winners,...