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OBLONG gallery doesn't present, but 'represents' the work of six artists whose practice the gallery's introduction says, resonates with oblongs ethos and view of art, although what that is, is not explicitly stated. the gallery intends to hold individual exhibitions ...Read More

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the new issue of deep sleep, an online quarterly magazine based in shoreditch (well dalston actually) and in cyberspace. this is a new publication started by a group of young london photographers who needed an outlet for their personal work ...Read More

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you might think he was all giant hamburgers and soft telephones, but in 1961 there was a revolutionary and subversive intent. his manifesto: i am for an art Read More

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the white cube gallery reminds us there will be an opportunity to get to hear tracey emin, one of the most enduring, yet always among the most controversial of the group of london artists who came to be dubbed collectively ...Read More

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the rokeby gallery is once again host to circular speculation. in part two of their show whose artists question our preconceptions of physical space and coherent world views (!) a number of new works are presented which ask us to consider ...Read More

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when richard long and his fellow student hamish fulton were at st. martin's in the '60s, the avant-garde was talking about the possibility that art was no longer about producing concrete representations, but should primarily be concerned with ideas. this is ...Read More

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i've had few words to say myself about this exhibition, which seems to have slipped under my radar, probably with all the upheaval of trying to rebuild this website again from scratch, and my recent focus on image. text-based art in ...Read More

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not the sort of thing i usually cover here, but i recently made the acquaintance of natalie holland - russian born painter, who lived for many years in norway, and has recently settled in the uk. her portrait of the ...Read More

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back in the day. schooldays. lord how we laughed at the primitive disbelievers who doubted the certainties of science, suggesting columbus was mad to sail across the atlantic. that columbus couldn't find a westward passage to the indies (he didn't) ...Read More