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“I’ve always been interested in various ways of mark-making and making the oil behave differently to create a contrast t...
12/10/2026

“I’ve always been interested in various ways of mark-making and making the oil behave differently to create a contrast that hopefully adds friction to a painting.” - Antony Micallef

British artist Antony Micallef explores the boundaries of portraiture between painting and sculpture.

Working with oil paint as a sculptural medium, Micallef allows it to cure over several years before harvesting and reintroducing fragments into new compositions. This distinctive process extends his exploration of texture, also explored in The Future Is Stupid, his ongoing exhibition at MUCA, Munich.

In Gaspanic and Untitled, these accumulated layers become a sculptural material in their own right, transforming the surface of the canvas into abstract silhouettes.

Antony Micallef

When Kate Moss met Juergen Teller!For more than three decades, Juergen Teller and Kate Moss have shared a creative relat...
09/10/2026

When Kate Moss met Juergen Teller!

For more than three decades, Juergen Teller and Kate Moss have shared a creative relationship that helped define the visual language of the 1990s.

Together, they captured something far removed from the polish of traditional fashion imagery, an intimacy and instinctive sense of character that made their collaborations feel as much like cultural documents as fashion photographs.

As The 90s: Art and Fashion opens at Tate Britain, their enduring partnership stands as a reminder of how profoundly the decade blurred the boundaries between art, fashion and popular culture.

Sho Shibuya’s latest Opinion.Now on view as part of Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables at the Utah Museum of Contempor...
07/10/2026

Sho Shibuya’s latest Opinion.

Now on view as part of Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Sho Shibuya exhibits amongst an exceptional roster of artists including Robert Smithson, Kara Walker and Bill Viola.

In Opinion, Shibuya turns his attention from the front page to the editorial pages of The New York Times. The section title, date and headline remain visible, while the content of each piece is painted over, transforming the page from a vehicle for argument into something open to interpretation.

A compelling new development in Shibuya’s ongoing relationship with the newspaper: preserving the trace of a particular moment while asking what remains when the words are no longer there to tell us how to read it.

UMOCA Sho Shibuya

Museum Azman acquires Still Waiting by Jess Allen.The Kuala Lumpur-based museum has added Allen’s monumental work to its...
02/10/2026

Museum Azman acquires Still Waiting by Jess Allen.

The Kuala Lumpur-based museum has added Allen’s monumental work to its renowned permanent collection, placing her alongside an impressive roster of artists including Tracey Emin, Anselm Kiefer, Antony Gormley and Ibrahim Mahama.

Jess Allen’s Still Waiting, conceived for her solo exhibition We Want to Believe in Impossible Things at Unit last year, takes the suspended experience of waiting and makes it almost physical.

As Museum Azman describes it, the work captures “the fragile ache of waiting for a big change that is right on the horizon but hasn’t quite arrived yet”, translating a psychological tension into a striking visual strain.

She “pours our deepest vulnerabilities.” Against a richly textured fabric backdrop.

It’s that contradiction that keeps pulling us back to the painting, the heaviness of being caught between what was and what is to come, alongside the possibility that there might be something quietly beautiful in that state too.

Jess Allen Museum Azman

Heesoo Kim at The Armory Show 2026.Heesoo Kim’s paintings turn everyday encounters into tender reflections on memory and...
28/09/2026

Heesoo Kim at The Armory Show 2026.

Heesoo Kim’s paintings turn everyday encounters into tender reflections on memory and human relationships.

Kim’s distinctive figures inhabit moments that feel both intimate and familiar. Family, friendship and love sit at the centre of his practice, with each work capturing the emotional weight held within seemingly ordinary experiences.

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The artworks not to miss from The Armory Show 2026.Bringing together galleries and artists from around the world, The Ar...
25/09/2026

The artworks not to miss from The Armory Show 2026.

Bringing together galleries and artists from around the world, The Armory Show is one of New York’s major annual art fairs!

With so much to see, it’s impossible to catch everything.
Here are some of the works that caught our eye…

Works featured:

Andrew Sendor - The News Arrived Abruptly, Without Warning or Preparation, Collapsing the Future They Had Imagined Into a Single, Irrevocable Moment
Booth 112
Paul Cadmus - Y.M.C.A. Locker Room
Booth 407
Zoë Pulley - Look No. 22
Booth P10
Willehad Eilers - Alle gegen Alle
Booth P52
Kathia St. Hilaire — Lougaou
Booth 100
Jess Allen — Magpie
Booth 308
Curtis Talwst Santiago - Dingolay FC, Dance Through the Defence
Platform Sector
Laura Rokas - Stiff Peaks
Booth P4
Winnie Truong - Soft Openings
Booth P22
Daniel Arsham — Reliquary for a Future Departure
Booth 139

The Armory Show

24/09/2026

“Sound is the social glue that holds communities together, especially communities facing censorship and oppression.” - Lawrence Abu Hamdan

We spoke with Turner Prize winning artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan at the Barbican about the ways sound shapes our understanding of community and power.

Across this week, a series of performances, installations and film works at the Barbican bring these ideas to life. From the sounds of everyday life in the Syrian Golan Heights to sonic evidence, testimony and acts of listening.

The programme explores how listening can become a way of documenting experience, challenging official accounts and understanding the world around us.

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22/09/2026

“I follow the hand of Turner… the paintings themselves are records that we can all unpick… they are infinite really in their readings.” - Jake Wood-Evans

We spoke with Jake Wood-Evans about his latest institutional exhibition, In Turner’s Wake.

Reflecting on his study of J.M.W. Wood-Evans looks at how boats, figures and landscapes begin to dissolve into something more abstract, capturing the atmosphere of a scene rather than simply what’s in front of him.

Presented at The Historic Dockyard Chatham.

Interview: Marcus Howard-Vyse

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In Turner’s Wake by Jake Wood-Evans.Jake Wood-Evans enters into a striking dialogue with the work of British master J.M....
18/09/2026

In Turner’s Wake by Jake Wood-Evans.

Jake Wood-Evans enters into a striking dialogue with the work of British master J.M.W. Turner. Mirroring and distorting Turner’s dramatic seascapes, he transforms familiar maritime scenes into abstract and imaginary reinterpretations.

Presented at The Historic Dockyard Chatham, a place Turner himself used to paint, the exhibition presents new paintings by Wood-Evans’ alongside loans from Tate of original works by Turner, including a rare public showing of Turner’s Medway Sketchbook and his oil painting Second Sketch for ‘The Battle of Trafalgar’

Jake Wood-Evans The Historic Dockyard Chatham

Pole dancing at Berlin Art Week! FRZNTE was invited by Ersan Mondtag and Nadim Samman to perform in front of Lucas Crana...
16/09/2026

Pole dancing at Berlin Art Week!

FRZNTE was invited by Ersan Mondtag and Nadim Samman to perform in front of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s, The Fountain of Youth at the Gemäldegalerie.

Dressed in a black business suit, FRZNTE slowly climbs, falls and turns on a pole over the course of 30 minutes, among a multitude of performances unfolding simultaneously throughout the galleries.

By bringing pole dance into the museum, the artists challenge conventional representations of ageing and femininity, creating a counter-image to Cranach’s vision of transformation.

“I am 43 years old and I can feel both — the aging and still being young.”

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