

TEFAF Maastricht and the Art Market’s Flight to Certainty
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


Parallel Universe: The World of David Devant & His Spirit Wife
By Pipit Johnson A world of performance, personas, art & magic. Photo of the band in the 90s – image taken from...


An 1860s Ensemble: Battling with an Extortionate Amount of Apple-Green Taffeta.
Written by Amos Jevons In the depths of the bleak midwinter, I should like to take a moment to focus on one of the (many) summer...


Tanks and Tutus: a glimpse into the strange affinity between pirouettes and politics
By Fran Osborne Moscow 1991 — as residents awoke on the 19th of August 1991, they’d have been forgiven for thinking it was a perfectly...


Why I Can't Stop Thinking About 'Barca Nostra'
This article was previously published in the special edition, VENICE (July 2019). I was, admittedly, a little nervous to write this piece...


'Don't Look Now': Venice in Film
This article was previously published in the special edition, VENICE (July 2019). ‘Venice is like a city in aspic, wrapped over from a...


Open Space 2019: In Conversation with Huma Kabackı
This article was previously published in Issue 20, ISLANDS (March 2019). Pluto's Kitchen by Işıl Eğrikavuk, Co-commissioned by Block...


Olivia Laing on the Art of Being Alone
This article was previously published in Issue 20, ISLANDS (March 2019). Following a difficult breakup and a transatlantic move to New...


Floating Roots
This article was previously published in Issue 20, ISLANDS (March 2019). A native-born islander’s relationship with their home can be...


Smirna Kulenović: In the Absence, The Artist is Present
This article was previously published in Issue 19, ABSENCE (December 2018). Bosnian artist Smirna Kulenović was born in Sarajevo in 1994...


