French entrepreneur Clément Reisky has built an art distribution model that works in complete contradiction with traditional gallery practices. Instead of sticking to a single sales channel, he has ...

With 2024 year-end best-of lists fresh in our minds, the contemporary art world is already looking ahead to what’s next. Which artists had a breakout year, and who will keep the momentum going in 2025 ...

World-renowned contemporary visual artist Julie Mehretu is known for her large-scale abstract works exploring themes of ...

“I don’t like being a prisoner to the art market,” artist Ken Lum tells Observer. One of the most celebrated contemporary artists hailing from Canada, Lum has enjoyed a multifaceted career—he’s an ...

Work by Ibrahim Mahama is on view at Sessions Arts Club, London, through early 2026 and in his solo exhibition Parliament of ...

Michaël Amy, Distinguished Professor in the School of Art, had an interview with contemporary artist Johan Muyle published in Sculpture. The conversation explores Muyle’s motorized assemblages and ...

The director of the museum looks back on the institution’s role as the epicentre of London’s contemporary-art ecosystem and looks forward to what’s next. An eight-legged visitor has returned to London ...

The recorded interviews with artists by Karl Fortess measure 5.6 linear feet and date from circa 1963 to 1985. The interviews consist of 203 cassettes containing 263 interviews, averaging 35 minutes, ...

It’s too easy to dismiss this wave of confectionery imagery as escapism. As the appetite for figurative painting decisively wanes, different forms of still life have been on the rise. These have taken ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...