Arthur Jafa, APEX, 2013, Soundtrack by Robert Hood, © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy the Artist, Gladstone Gallery, Sprüth Magers and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Installation View, photograph by Stefanos Carras “Follow the light at the end of the tunnel,” I am told as I look for the entrance to Paradigm Shift, the new moving image exhibition at 180 Studios. Did I experience a figurative death, resurfacing from this subterranean maze with my mind renewed? Unfortunately, I did not.

Anna Buriak Entering the Turbine Hall, one expects spectacle: vast scale, cinematic intervention, sensory surprise. But in “Hyundai Commission: Máret Ánne Sara: Goavve-Geabbil,” the spectacle is measured, even restrained, and it asks you to slow down. You do not immediately grasp this as a “blockbuster,” but rather as a challenge, a call to attunement. And that is in many ways the project’s strongest move.  From the south end of the hall the monumental vertical column Goavve 

Martina Campagnoli Ed Ruscha, New Hey , 2024, Acrylic on linen, © Ed Ruscha Photo: Jeff McLane Courtesy Gagosian In time for Frieze Week 2025, Gagosian’s three London galleries — Burlington Arcade, Grosvenor Hill, and Davies Street — have mounted a coordinated effort to command attention. Yet despite the scale, what is on offer feels more like repetition than revelation. Abstraction, as presented here, reads less like reinvention and more like a remix. Brice Marden: Etched Le

Harry Laventure Damien Hirst is 'challenging' the establishment by bringing a street artist into the gallery space. But given the gallery in question is his own, is the punch actually landing on the target's geographic jugular? Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd Gower Street Waterstones, 4.44pm. The cortado has gone cold. For the last fifteen minutes or so I’ve been on the phone between the buffets of UCL flaneurs and conversing street-side ornaments. The music of

Madeline Cheeseman, Press Reviews Editor Tien Albert, Editor-in-Chief Stunning colour and brushwork beyond mere replication... Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963, Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 182.9cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. © Wayne Thiebaud VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025. Image Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington It is the first time Wayne Thiebaud’s paintings have been displayed in the United Kingdom, and it is certainly an indulgent joy to see them in

Harry Laventure Courtesy of the artist and Saatchi Yates Marina Abramović Reimagines Video Portrait Gallery in New Saatchi Yates...

Alexandra Patterson Petra Feriancová, In the beginning was the word and the word was water. I caught myself going on about it telling...

Bowie Sharp Brian Griffiths, Head-back, Chin-up (No No to Knock-Knocks), 2023. Wood, plywood, metal, cardboard, paint, tools, fixtures...

Elizabeth Maisey Paul McCartney, Self-portrait in my room at the Asher family home, Wimpole Street, London, December 1963 © Paul...

By Bowie Sharp 'I Saw the World End' at Picadilly Circus. Image courtesy of Es Devlin. As dusk fell on August 6th, 2025 - exactly 80...