Can celebrity and communist praxis co-exist, or is specious to to use fame as a function of class struggle? Ruby Mitchell takes a look the rhinestoned agitprop of Elleana Chapman at Good Eye Project's group show at the Saatchi . Elleana Chapman, Comrade Beyonce, 2025 There’s a persistent lie in contemporary art that political commitment should be visually restrained, morally severe, and suspicious of pleasure. Elleana Chapman ’s practice exists in direct opposition to t

Mexico City Art Week has become an essential February pilgrimage for the international art world, and for London visitors it’s increasingly the week that sets the tempo for the year ahead. Feria Material , now entering its 12th edition, Vol. 12 of the art fair sits at the centre of that ecosystem: Latin American representation, a clear curatorial identity, and a programme that treats the city as part of the experience. “Material has changed venues several times over its 12-y

At the beginning of Frieze Week, Mall Galleries hosted the first joint solo show between artists Bushra Fakhoury and Mal Fostock . Fostock’s show, INCLUSION , included one hundred pieces from the past twenty years, varying in medium: line drawings, prints, paintings, photography and sculpture. Megan O’Neil  speaks to him about how the show came together, the nature of influence, and his creative practice. MO:  Your photography really reminded me of Brassaï. I wondered if he

September 17th, 2025: a palpable feeling of anticipation, an intense atmosphere of secrecy, and the sense that a veil was about to be...

On Saturday 6th September, sticky in the Paris weekend swelter, I went to Le Marais’ galeriepcp for the opening of Ingram Prize-winning Neoromantic painter James Dearlove ’s new show, The Trilling Wire , in collaboration with Gertrude The Art App , Dearlove’s first solo presentation in France. Installation photograph courtesy of Dom Moore His last show, 2023’s Tales of the City, Tales of the Sea at Brushes With Greatness was surreally dread-inducing: three rooms of full-imm

London’s latest indie print arrival, The New Street Guide, is “clunky and amateurish” — at least according to its own founder, Rosa...

Every June and December, 28 local hackney artists get the opportunity to open up their homes or studios to showcase their work, meet...

Alison Jacques ’ current solo show of works by Italian artist Bona de Mandiargues (b.1926,Rome; d.2000, Paris), arrives fashionably late...

Masks don’t conceal here; instead, they display a spiritual inner self. In Tau Lewis ’ The ways of the underworld are perfect at Sadie...

At Somerset House Studios this June, the annual Artists’ Fair returned: twenty artist-led stalls, a weekend of workshops, and the rarest...

"While earlier works rely on the viewer losing themselves in dense abstraction, a 'less is more' approach sharpens Jones' imagery."...

Xu Yang’s Forget Me Not isn’t content with cinematic—it goes for the baroque, the grotesque, the sentimental, and the absurd, often all at once.

Marie Harnett 's Were you dreaming?  at Cristea Roberts Gallery offers a rare opportunity to dwell in the quiet moments that cinema often...

“We don’t perceive beauty as a linear concept,” say Sahara Hirani Harji and Zehra Marikar , the duo behind Home on Me Collective . Their...

Alexandra Suvorova is no stranger to loss. Her early experiences in the wake of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster inspired her to explore...

The primary themes in Cornelia Parker ’ s work are destruction and transformation. After working with the British military to explode a...

Walking is one of the most elemental things we do—so ordinary, so entangled with daily life, that we rarely pause to notice its...

I arrived outside the grand doors of the Swiss Church Covent Garden  with a craving for something innovative, something...

"If we don't remember what we have done, we will do the same thing again.” — Anselm Kiefer Such a quote encapsulates the Anselm Kiefer:...

"I never studied art. I never studied photography. But I studied performance, and that made all the difference." So begins Bex Wade, the...