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Monthly Art Opinions
The Children’s Game of Connect the Dots in the Curator’s Adult Scenography
Bringing together historical works from the Nina Miller Collection with contemporary practices, NEITHER / NOR: The Intimate Geography of Contradictions at Indra Gallery explores the shifting tension between figuration and abstraction through a curatorial scenography that invites the viewer to mentally “connect the dots” across generations of artistic language.
Tom Denman
Mar 10
From Oil to Art to Influence
Art Basel Qatar 2026 proved that in the Gulf, art is no longer just culture — it’s currency, strategy and soft power all at once.
Alice Hall
Mar 2
Towards the Celestial Empire. New Art of China
Among Chinese artists, 55-year-old Zhang Huan is considered a contemporary art luminary, second only to Ai Weiwei. His artistic journey...
Alice Hall
Mar 20, 2025
Through Fears and Illusions: Anne Imhof
Paris has recently experienced a resurgence of excitement, particularly this autumn, following the lifting of the last health...
Oliver Williams
Jul 4, 2024
Ambiguities of Possession in the Administrative Imaginary
The archive is not preserved; it is fatigued. Loss emerges not from absence but from excess administrative intervention.
Alice Hall
Apr 15, 2024
Duplication as Disruption and the Poetics of Near Symmetry
Duplication unsettles: near symmetry fractures into difference, where fragility becomes the condition for relation.
Oliver Williams
Sep 15, 2023
Combustion Without Witness
Not an exhibition but aftermath: matter lingers, unstable, unspectacular—where combustion has ceased, but its heat remains.
Oliver Williams
Sep 14, 2023
Interdisciplinary Quadrennial. Impressions from Prague
The Prague Quadrennial (PQ) stands as a distinguished international competitive exhibition, showcasing scenography, theatre architecture,...
Oliver Williams
May 3, 2023
Bleeding Edges: Painting as Psychic Residue in a Post-Tactile Age
Grief made atmospheric—images unravel, refusing resolution, holding only what presence fails to contain.
Eva Parker
Mar 28, 2023
The Slow Violence of Attention within Post-Digital Aesthetic Experience
Dmitrieva’s analogue practice challenges the accelerated visual regimes of the post-digital world, using masked and vegetal figures to interrupt the demand for clarity, recognition, and instant meaning. Her slow, tactile method becomes a counter-technology that restores attention as a material practice, allowing subjectivity to emerge as porous, provisional, and resistant to imposed narratives.
Tom Denman
Feb 19, 2023
Syntax Interrupted in the Linguistic Structure of Ruins and the Aftergrammar of Bombed Civic Space in Ukraine
In Fault Lines of Speech, architectural fragments from bombed spaces in Ukraine form fractured grammar, revealing language’s survival through destruction.
Alice Hall
Feb 13, 2023
The Weight of Silence. Sculpture as Breath and Delay
Image © Atticus Gallery One enters Suspended Intuition , Larisa Razumeichenko’s recent solo exhibition at Atticus Gallery in Bath, not through spectacle but through a slow unfolding of restraint. The gallery, dimly lit and meticulously composed, does not assert itself. Rather, it listens. The works do not stand out—they hold space. They emerge not as declarations but as quiet provocations, suspended within a field of perceptual hesitation. This is an exhibition built not upon
Alice Hall
Jan 18, 2023
And Again, Vanitas. Damien Hirst in Prada Mode
In Levenson's Quick Print, transformed into The Pharmacy by Damien Hirst, pills serve as guides to salvation, skeletons serve as...
Eva Parker
Dec 8, 2022
The Ethics of Fragility
Exhibition: The Soft Edge of Being — Atticus Art Gallery , 11a Queen Street, Bath, BA1 1HE, United Kingdom. Dates: 10 November – 23 December 2022. In the quiet rooms of Atticus Art Gallery, The Soft Edge of Being unfolds as an inquiry into what remains of perception after catastrophe. The exhibition was realised through the support of Eastside Projects , Birmingham — an artist-led organisation that provided curatorial and structural assistance in collaboration with The
Alice Hall
Nov 13, 2022
Oxidation as Slow Violence within Domestic Infrastructures
Corrosion speaks as pigment and politics: rust turns domestic fragments into testimony of slow, unspectacular collapse.
Eva Parker
Sep 12, 2022
Perception and Identity in Visual Dialogue at the Small Gallery, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust
Exhibition at GHAT explores identity and perception through intricate patterns, offering a transformative experience.
Oliver Williams
Aug 21, 2022
Top Art Stories
What Tracey Emin’s Tate Modern Retrospective Leaves Behind
Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern brought together four decades of work shaped by autobiography, the body, trauma and survival. From My Bed to recent paintings and bronzes, the retrospective revealed how Emin’s confessional practice has evolved into a meditation on mortality, memory and renewal.
White Cube Bermondsey Marks Twenty Years of Gabriel Orozco with “Chronotopic”
White Cube Bermondsey presents Gabriel Orozco: Chronotopic, bringing together more than 100 works across sculpture, painting, photography and works on paper in a major survey spanning three decades.
UK Museums Search for a "Collective Voice" on Artificial Intelligence
A new Audience Agency report argues that Britain’s cultural sector needs a coordinated approach to artificial intelligence, with museums, galleries and heritage organisations sharing knowledge rather than experimenting in isolation. Based on practical case studies from 16 institutions, Let’s Get Real: AI recommends people-centred processes, flexible guardrails, small-scale experimentation, stronger data practices and sector-wide collaboration.
National Portrait Gallery Names Ina Sarikhani Weston as New Chair
Ina Sarikhani Weston’s appointment as Chair of the National Portrait Gallery highlights the growing importance of philanthropy, private collecting and trustee networks in the governance of Britain’s national museums. Her tenure is expected to emphasise continuity, collaboration and institutional stability as the Gallery navigates a challenging arts-funding environment.
Tate Britain to Open Major Survey of 1990s Art and Fashion This Autumn
Tate Britain’s The 90s: Art and Fashion brings together more than 100 works by nearly 70 artists, photographers and designers to examine how art, fashion, photography and club culture collided in 1990s Britain. Guest curated by Edward Enninful OBE, the exhibition explores identity, class, race and the AIDS crisis while challenging traditional divisions between fashion and fine art.
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