Matt Dennis: ‘Poussin and the Dance’

The designation ‘a painter’s painter’ gets bandied around far too freely; but if ever it was merited, the painter would surely be Nicolas Poussin....

James Faure Walker: Remembering ‘Artscribe’

'Artscribe' editor James Faure Walker looks back to a time when 20p could really buy you something...

‘A Fly on the Ceiling’: Matt Dennis in conversation with David Evison

David Evison remembers a revolution in sculpture...

Painter Jon Ridge argues that it's hip to be square...

John Bunker: ‘Irreducible Determinations; or, Following the Fault Lines’

John Bunker is feeling conflicted about abstract art...but that's just the way he likes it...

John Bunker on Frank Bowling: ‘Beauty Doesn’t Stop Still’

As Hauser & Wirth and Bristol's Arnolfini Gallery gear up for big summer shows of recent paintings, John Bunker reflects on the extraordinary qualities that set Frank Bowling's abstract art apart....

John Bunker: ‘Phraxos’: Let’s Do the Show Right Here!

By a cruel twist of fate, a virus-besieged England went into its second Covid lockdown in the very week that ‘Phraxos’, John Bunker’s show of new work, was to open at Unit 3 Project Space in east...

Matthew Maxwell: The Five Rules of Rhythm: ‘Electronica from Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers’ at the Design Museum

It’s been said that there are no new ideas in art. You just have to keep repeating them because nobody ever listens. That there is a relationship between the visual arts and music isn’t a new idea, but in The Year of Covid, an...

Frederic Anderson: ‘The Language of Walls’

Frederic Anderson begins his residency at Instantloveland by following the winding path that leads from Artex to Art...