Yuval Aluf Courtesy of Adora Mba I first met Adora Mba on a grey November morning at a quiet café off Ladbroke Grove. Our conversation quickly moved beyond Ghana’s recent visibility in the global art world toward the deeper cultural and structural shifts that shaped it from within. When Adora moved to Accra, Ghana, a decade ago, the artists were already there but the infrastructure wasn’t. "The talent in Accra was enormous. These artists had nowhere to show, so they left.” Ra

Yuval Aluf LUMA Arles... Photo: Adrian Deweerdt. Courtesy of LUMA Arles. Paris Art Basel hums with the usual urgency; collectors move from booth to booth as conversations drift between languages. Stickers are quickly changed from green to red under the glass ceiling of the Grand Palais Éphémère. Amid the commotion, I meet Simon Castets in a quiet café nearby, where the pace finally slows enough for reflection.  After nearly a decade running New York’s Swiss Institute, Castets

Yuval Aluf Photo: Galerie Judin, Berlin     Most university students don’t really know what they want to do after graduation. Pay...

Alexandra Patterson Image courtesy of Sigmund Fraud In a fake bookshop in Bangkok, an anti-therapist invites you to confess your 21 st...

Tien Albert The East Wing Biennial is the bi-annual student exhibition at the Courtauld Institute of Art. The Courtauldian interviewed Romy Brill Allen and Madeline Cheeseman, Director and Head Curator of the 16th edition, RE:VISION, ahead of its opening on the 24th of September. Interviewer: Tien Albert Editor: Gus Donald Camera: Saman Deev

By Tien Albert In the 60s, many celebrated the female nude as an expression of sexual liberation. However, some women artists like Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams, rejected art they saw as ‘titillating’ male audiences. Instead, they embraced the ‘Abstract Erotic’, which kept sexual overtones whilst displaying non-figural subjects. They were the only three women to display in 'Eccentric Abstraction', a seminal 1965 exhibition. 60 years later, The Courtauld Gallery

By Tien Albert This short documentary tells the story of how Elliott Roy, a fine artist, chose to ditch his paintbrush for an iPhone at the Institute of Contemporary Art's New Contemporaries exhibition earlier this year. Rather than showing his paintings, Roy instead displayed a large screen showing TikTok videos he had produced over the last year. The ICA has presented this unusual display as a democratisation of art, recognising the free creation of videos using TikTok as a

Words by Tien Albert Photos courtesy of Gethyn Davies   Gethyn Davies has been a painter his entire life, graduating in 1976 from the Kingston College of Art with an honours in fine art. In 2022, the then 68-year-old started his Instagram account, following a recommendation from a friend at a local gallery. His first videos, in which he described in detail the composition, tonal modelling, and brushwork of his landscapes and expressionist figural pieces, garnered under a hund

Written by Marie Greindl Slim Aarons, Seafood Smorgasbord , A buffet of Seafood at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas.   Easy to dismiss, harder...

Caz Egelie is featured in Open Space’s exhibition Forum: Bread and Games at the Ugly Duck in Bermondsey. The Dutch artist transcends the...