September 14, 2023

Sholto Blissett

Arboreal at Peres Projects Milan
August 30, 2023

Ambera Wellmann's Antipoem

At the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Canadian artist Ambera Wellmann transports us into otherworldly realms, bridging the gap between ancestral pasts and unpredictable futures, where any norm is dissected and reexamined, primarily through the lens of imagination.
August 1, 2023

The legality of borders: Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s 45th Parallel

August 22, 2023

When No One is Around, Dance Gracefully

Dayou Geng at ShanghART gallery M50, Shanghai
July 29, 2023

Allow Cookies at Kupfer

Allow Cookies is a group exhibition exploring the tension between manipulation and desire, inaugurating Kupfer’s new exhibition space on Scrutton Street in Shoreditch, London.
July 20, 2023

BODY LANGUAGE

Leon Scott-Engel’s ‘Handle With Care’ at Pipeline, London
June 8, 2023

THE MAIN COURSE

Magali Reus at Centre d'Art Contemporain la Synagogue de Delme
May 24, 2023

All Interlaced: Facing Gaia at Peres Projects

ExHypnosis, 2023: Dylan Solomon Kraus
January 31, 2023

Grotto

Walking into Stanislava Kovalcikova’s current show at the revered Belvedere 21 in Vienna on a remarkably bright winters day, one can have an almost out of body experience.
May 16, 2023

Craig Kauffman - Constructed Paintings 1973 - 1976

Craig Kauffman's constructed paintings were particularly influential in the development of post-minimalism, which sought to move beyond the strict formalism of minimalism and explore more conceptual and experiential aspects of art.
April 17, 2023

The perseverance of the feminine: Patricia Hurl’s Irish Gothic

The artist’s first retrospective institutional show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is filled with figures of the past; imbued with the traces that trauma leaves behind.
April 28, 2023

It loves me, it loves me not

Jaylon Israel Hicks, Gothica at Maximillian William
February 17, 2023

Diving into the Obscure

‘A Gift to the Dark’, at Vin Vin, Vienna presents an intriguing ensemble of works from 8 artists which, through different techniques, mediums and subject matters, explore’s Freud’s ‘Unheimlich’, offering a glimpse into the human experience and the strangeness of the subconscious.
February 12, 2023

Art as gut reaction

The sun rises under the pillar of your tongue at The Approach, East London
January 4, 2023

The ashes of elusive time

A look inside the intriguing ceramics of Alma Berrow
January 15, 2023

Meaning’s Loose Ends: Fern O’Carolan’s You’ll Never Get to Heaven at No Gallery

December 9, 2022

“Polychrome claustrophobia, an essay on Karin Kneffel’s portraiture” by Chris Hayes

“When I paint, I always paint with what already exists against what already exists.”
October 21, 2022

Horizons

A conversation with Stijn Cole, in Ghent
November 17, 2022

Somaya Critchlow - Afternoon’s Darkness

In Somaya Critchlow’s new show Afternoon’s Darkness at Maximilian William in London, her painted figures have settled into domestic settings that feel deeply ambiguous. It’s something to do with the quality of the light she creates, which exudes the eerie liminality of dusk or dawn.
October 1, 2022

Altering conditions: After Work by Céline Condorelli at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

Using installation, print, film, drawing, objects and sound, Céline Condorelli explores the politics of display, the future of work, the conditions of how we work together and its relationship to leisure, play and the technology of colour.
October 4, 2022

The morning after

A conversation with Peter Buggenhout in Madrid
September 29, 2022

Mark Grotjahn’s Waking Formalism

I called some paintings “perspectives” but I’m not interested in perspective; I called some “butterflies” but I don’t think they are butterflies; I call my sculptures “masks” but they are not masks. — Mark Grotjahn
September 2, 2022

Shannon Cartier Lucy, the self-aware painter

An intimate coversation with Lorraine de Thibault
August 3, 2022

Alma, Alma, Alma: Soshiro Matsubara’s Golden Sorrow at Union Pacific

Golden Sorrow at Union Pacific, London, is the latest in a series of presentations that imaginatively explores an impassioned love affair between two artists in the mid-twentieth century by Japanese, Berlin-based artist, Soshiro Matsubara.
August 4, 2022

Zippers and a bowl of fruit

On Hannah Beerman's Paintings
April 13, 2022

The late-night hours will make you wonder.

Private Ceremonies, Diane Dal-Pra's first solo show at Massimo De Carlo gallery, is a tale of contrasts, told through a poetic examination of our relationship with objects and the implications of latent states of consciousness.
April 11, 2022

Yellow saddles at the ready

The Artist Room by Taymour Grahne Projects presents Grace Mattingly’s first solo exhibition "Yellow Horses" in which the tame and wild live side-by-side
January 27, 2022

Clyde

A review of Stephen Polatch's solo exhibition at Soft Opening, London
July 6, 2021

WHAT DO YOU CALL A SECOND, WHEN IT MOVES LIKE LAVA ?

Burned against the rear fender at Lehmann + Silva
July 28, 2021

Modelling the Flesh

Body Topographies at Lehmann Maupin
October 8, 2021

False shadows and nonreflecting mirrors

A walk through Christopher Page’s solo exhibition at Ben Hunter
December 7, 2020

Matthew Barney: Mythology, Astronomy and Hunting

Cosmic Hunt – an exhibition both online and in the gallery – presents the artist’s ideas as a network, a crucial response to a new mode of pandemic-induced connectivity
November 10, 2020

What music says about the gallery: Toyin Ojih Odutola and Peter Adjaye at The Barbican

Whether it’s a soundtrack which directly responds to the artwork or the space, or a gallery employee’s Drake-heavy Spotify playlist, music in the gallery has a transformative effect on the visual display which, in the case of the former, can aim to dismantle the paradigm of the exhibition.
September 22, 2020

Looking at corners

As with all symbols, the the image of the corner (the corner of a room, or the corner of a box) has a complex politics, which apparently allows for 800 words solely about corners
September 7, 2020

Ella Kruglyanskaya: is it intimacy?

Lockdown stretched the capacity for art to induce a yearning for intimacy, all the way from Thomas Dane Gallery to BBC drama 'Normal People'
August 27, 2020

Ewa Juszkiewicz: a harsh incorporation of history

The influences of any work of art are often the first port of call when it comes to analysing them. So, what happens when those influences – the incorporation of historical ideas of painting – are so blatantly included that the image becomes oddly familiar and unfamiliar at once?
July 6, 2020

From the gallery to the website: leave everything behind

As exhibitions, in one way or another, were forced to jump in a lifeboat and head online, it became clear that the task of ‘virtual curation’ was not to be underestimated.
August 13, 2020

The Gallery Game

The new Virtual/Augmented Reality online gallery viewing application Vortic Collect presents a game-like experience, but one where everything is a little bit more bizarre, confusing, and 'for sale'.
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