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

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

By Elizabeth Maisey Photo by Ellie Lawrie On a side street in tourist-heavy Soho, an area full of private galleries and arts corporations...

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

By Pipit Johnson Kate Bush in 1978 In February 1978, at just nineteen years old, Kate Bush released her debut album The Kick Inside and...

If rumours of a new publication by Fitzcarraldo — the painfully chic modern publishing house scattering blue and white volumes across London

Written by Amos Jevons Figure 1: The Lonely Courtesan In the grey pallor of February, when the damp winter air was just lifting, I felt the floating city of Venice appear in my head as an endless source of inspiration. In particular, the sixteenth century and its gilded stiffness that complements the whimsical city. The culture of courtesans thrived in Renaissance Venice and allowed women more agency than before, including education and income they could call their own. Of c

Written by Emma Cormier Portrait of Rebecca Horn, image from Sean Kelly Gallery. Rebecca Horn was a visual artist and director, who...

Neither an Ingenue, nor a Bombshell, or a (real) Blonde Musings on Bette Davis and her 1935 film ‘Dangerous’ Written by Vuk Winrow Part...