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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.
Alina Khalitova
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 3, 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 2, 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
Jenkin van Zyl’s World of Enclosure
Enclosure, a newly commissioned film and installation by Somerset House Studios artist Jenkin van Zyl, opened this week in the Lancaster Rooms at Somerset House. The project is van Zyl’s first major London exhibition and imagines a world in which technological systems have continued developing long after the ideas that once justified them have begun to fall apart. Somerset House
London Gallery Weekend’s Autumn Afterlife
June’s London Gallery Weekend has, in recent years, quietly stopped being a single weekend. Several of the galleries that opened exhibitions to coincide with the event’s private views on 4–7 June kept those same shows running deep into September — Sadie Coles HQ’s presentations by John Currin, Helen Marten and Kiik Amor among them, with both the Currin exhibition at 17 Savile Row and Marten’s presentation at The Shop on Kingly Street scheduled to run until 12 September.
Fifteen Fresh-Flower Mannequins and the Enduring Image of Diana
Somerset House opens the world premiere of Fleurs de Villes DIANA this week, an exhibition in which fifteen of London’s leading floral designers reinterpret defining looks worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, entirely in fresh flowers. Staged in support of The Diana Award, the twenty-one-day exhibition sits at an unusual intersection of fashion history, floristry and charitable fundraising — territory that art criticism does not often venture into.
Deptford’s Open Studios and the Case for London’s Grassroots Art Spaces
Art in Perpetuity Trust opens its Deptford studios to the public this weekend, offering free, direct access to working artists ahead of London’s fair-driven autumn calendar. The event stands as a functioning counterpoint to Frieze week’s VIP-priced access model.
The Sea, Painted Straight: Inside the Royal Society of Marine Artists’ Annual Show
The Royal Society of Marine Artists opens its Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries this week, presenting several hundred works united by a single subject: the sea. Now in its ninth decade, the show offers a functioning market and critical apparatus for figurative marine art outside the contemporary gallery mainstream.
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