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