

Intimate Exposures: Wolfgang Tillmans’ Politically Amorous Photographs at Centre Pompidou
Jamie Zhou Wolfgang Tillmans. The State We’re In, A , 2015 Prior to the five-year closure of the Centre Pompidou in September, Wolfgang Tillmans transformed its vacated public library into a space that exposes the fragility and endurance of human connection amidst a fractured political climate. In the exhibition video, Tillmans introduces one of the defining pieces of the exhibition, The State We’re In , A (2015). A photograph of a boundless seascape of disquieting turbulence


Is Abstract Art Over? Review of Gagosian’s Frieze Week Exhibitions
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


A Litmus Test with a Yellow Stripe: All Eyes on Christie’s as the Weis Collection Meets the Gavel
Harry Laventure Matisse’s Figure et bouquet (Tête ocre) above the Weis family sofa. Credit: Artlyst The deaths of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis, in October 2015 and 2024, marked the loss of two of the art world’s most private, understated collectors. The taste and acquisition harboured thereby held the instinctive and refined symmetry of a dragonfly’s wings. For over seventy years, the pair plucked a coherent anthology of postwar masterpieces from the market, gently am


Korg Funk 5: Nadia Lee Cohen’s Surreal Raid on the Male Gaze
Alexandra Patterson The catapulted middle finger in a moment of defiance. Credit: Still from Korg Funk 5 (dir. Nadia Lee Cohen and Charlie Denis, 2025) “He’s behind you!” Clowns, cowboys, and an AI uprising- Nadia Lee Cohen and Charlie Denis stage their own surrealist pantomime, pulling us into a delirious spectacle. Their short film takes Aphex Twin’s 2017 track Korg Funk 5, a collaboration between Richard D. James and the Japanese synth powerhouse Korg and reimagines it as


Trouble, Tripled? Messrs Hirst, Fairey, and Invader Converge at Newport Street Gallery
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


Satiating a visual appetite or expanding the power of painting one's (still) life? – Wayne Thiebaud Review
Madeline Cheeseman, Press Reviews Editor Tien Albert, Editor-in-Chief Stunning colour and brushwork beyond mere replication... Wayne...


Behind the scenes with Pay Matthis Karsten : Breaking the Frame: Risk, Purpose and Berlin’s Art Scene
Yuval Aluf Photo: Galerie Judin, Berlin Most university students don’t really know what they want to do after graduation. Pay...


Government Art Collection Commissions New Print Based on Whale Song Vibrations
Tien Albert, Editor-in-Chief Photo credit: David Parry_PA Media Assignments Scottish artist Anya Gallacio’s eight hours of whale song...


Defining the skeleton: the search for stability in the art market
Harry Laventure P aul Cézanne's The Card Players (1894-5). Credit: Wikipedia In 2011, one of Cézanne’s Card Players series set...


The RE:VISION opening night in photos - East Wing Biennial
Eliza Pritchett One week on from the opening of the East Wing Biennial's 16th edition, RE:VISION, we look back on the night with a series...


