The strike marks the culmination of 3 days of protest led by the collective Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) Demonstrators protest in front of the Giardini this afternoon... Photo: Tien Albert Tien Albert, Editor-in-Chief At least 236 artists, curators, and art workers involved in the Venice Biennale are taking part in a 24 hour strike that has culminated in a protest in front of Venice’s Giardini this afternoon. Several hundred demonstrators participated, chanting pro-Palest

Tien Albert, Editor-in-Chief The 25-year-old Lagosian painter brings vibrancy, and colour to London’s Saatchi Yates as he turns it into his studio for the month. It’s a shame the art can be slightly boring… A half pipe turned into a collaborative artwork... Courtesy of Saatchi Yates. Around 30 canvases, a skate ramp, a Nintendo Switch 2, and a Big Mac meal on the floor. These scenes greet the visitor as they enter the Saatchi Yates gallery on Bury Street, in London. Just a tw

Sofia Stefani Press Image for Mirror / Rite of Spring . Header image ©️ Thomas Alexander Mirror, a striking new contemporary dance piece from the Alexander Whitley Dance Company (AWDC), opens as an intimate duet. A pair of dancers take the stage, moving in fluid embrace as their performance begins. Immediately evident in their costume design, however, is a foreshadowing of technological disruption to their dance. The performance’s titular theme of interrogating the risks of d

Where is the art market headed in 2026? Is Certainty Truly Certain? Yuval Aluf Image courtesy of TEFAF. By mid-afternoon on the preview day of TEFAF Maastricht, small red dots begin to appear. One by one, they mark the walls of the fair: beside an Old Master portrait, next to a glazed Egyptian bronze, on the label of a twentieth-century sculpture. Dealers lean toward collectors in low conversations; champagne glasses clink, waiters balance trays between the vitrines. Between

Julia Antonczuk Black Madonna of Częstochowa, unknown artist (attributed to St. Luke), c. 13th–14th century. Tempera on wood panel, Housed at the Jasna Góra Monastery, Częstochowa. “ Fast from Words ” is this year’s Lenten theme in the Catholic Church. It encourages the faithful to abstain not only from harmful speech, such as gossip, criticism, and negativity, particularly on social media -- but also to cultivate intentional silence. This silence is not merely the absence

Dana Aben David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting , installation view, Serpentine North, 2026 © David Hockney. Photo: Dana Aben. At the Serpentine North Gallery, David Hockney’s A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts About Painting unfolds as both a meditation on time and a reconfiguration of how painting operates in the digital age. Moving from Kensington Gardens into the gallery, one is struck by a subtle continuity: the landscape seem

Eliza Pritchett Photo: Eliza Pritchett On the 24th of October in SW10, Silver Press Images held its first ever exhibit, which was made up entirely of original press photographs. A time capsule into the iconic 1960s and 70s opened on Hollywood Road, Chelsea. The show was buzzing from 6pm until early hours of the morning, and I had the pleasure of soaking up the atmosphere and photographing this special evening. This piece serves as a private viewing of the hottest new photogra

By Eva-Dawn Speight There is a song that has been swimming around my head lately. It centres around a refrain that becomes increasingly distorted as it repeats— echo, echo, echo, echo, I love you —fracturing into uncertainty, urgency, and then finally desperation. It is not a question, but it probes like one at the vulnerable concern of who we are to someone else, or even ourselves. I think in many ways Joanna van Son paints in search of an answer. She explores the echo’s s

Yuval Aluf View of the exhibition of Claudine Monchaussé "Sourdre", La Verrière, 2025 © Adagp, Paris, 2025 © Isabelle Arthuis / Fondation d’entreprise Hermès Coffee machines hiss; cutlery strikes porcelain; chairs drag lightly across the floor. Joël Riff and I meet in a busy café in Highbury & Islington, the room layered with overlapping conversations. He gestures toward the noise rather than away from it. For him, the setting is not a distraction, but a part of the experienc

Sofia Stefani Petra Feriancová, I was in the shower with a moth (2025) and Untitled (Hands/Skulls) (2016/2026). Photographed by Sofia Stefani. The risk of an exhibition built on diverse literary references and multiple media is that it becomes discontinuous. Petra Feriancová’s solo show, “Echo’s Bones,” at Elizabeth Xi Bauer (EXB), Exmouth Market, fits many such references—from archeology and autobiography to Ovid’s Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus, Samuel Beckett’s short st