On 15 November 2023, performance artist Marina Abramović addressed an audience at London’s Royal Geographical Society. She appeared in conversation with Tim Marlow, the Chief…
By Tessa Nolan The artist Amy Sherald has pulled her entire exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The move was abrupt. It followed a…
By Alexander Stone On the weekend of 12 July 2025, a visitor at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern France detached a banana from a white…
By Maria Bregman There is a particular kind of hushed, reverential silence unique to the modern mega-gallery. It is the sound of money contemplating itself.…
By Sara Bright Look closer. That simple instruction, so often a casual suggestion, becomes a profound mandate when standing before a work by Donald Rust.…
By Sara Bright Pablo Picasso is not a painter; he is a weather system. An elemental force that swept through the 20th century, tearing up…
By Sara Bright Some paintings are pictures. Others are documents. A select, rare few are crime scenes. Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait of 1434 is…
By Sara Bright She stands in the Louvre, a silent storm of Parian marble, drawing pilgrims by the million. They come to gaze upon what…
The history of the floral still life is often burdened by its own domesticity. Relegated for centuries to the realm of the decorative, painting flowers…
By Sara Bright Jean Marais was a face. Not just any face, but one of the great, heroic faces of 20th-century French cinema – impossibly…