By Sara Bright We have a habit of treating art as a form of decoration. We see it as a beautiful, profound, or challenging commentary…
In the rapidly expanding and often hyper-kinetic ecosystem of digital art, where hyper-realistic rendering and futuristic aesthetics frequently take precedence over emotional resonance, the work…
In 2000, the Japanese conceptual artist Shimabuku (born 1969 in Kobe) initiated one of the most rigorously eccentric interspecies collaborations in contemporary art history. Entitled…
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…