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With art sales and gallery footfall consistently down, is this the death of contemporary art? Sam Wilde investigates.
Art With Fangs – Power and Intimacy Exhibition, London, 6th of October 2025
Dinah Kolka reviews the talk of the alternative art scene — the opening night of the ‘Power and Intimacy’ exhibition, which opened this week near King’s Cross in London.
Viriditas: Fiona Mackenzie’s ‘Sacred’ Exhibition at the Highland Print Studio
Dinah Kolka reviews Fiona Mackenzie’s ‘Sacred’ Exhibition, and finds holiness imbued even in those unexplored byways and oft forgotten creatures of Nature’s domain.
Aestheticising Power: On Art and Elite Theory
Amory Crane explores the ways by which power, directly or by means pervasive and diffuse, exercises itself through the production of art.
The Threshold of Our Selves; Or, The Janus Face of Art
Amory Crane examines the means by which art comes to settle and disturbs the formations of our earliest selves
Art in Our Time: Summing up the Art Deco Debate
Amory Crane writes his summing up of, and pays a vote of thanks to the participants in, the debate over Art Deco.
Letter to Editor: Paul Rhoads III
Paul Rhoads offers his third response in the Art Deco debate.
Letter to Editor: Sam Wild Responds
Sam Wild offers his response in the Art Deco debate, arguing for Art Deco as the last style from which a genuine synthesis of all branches of the arts is possible.
Letter to Editor: Paul Rhoads II
Paul Rhoads responds by arguing the roots of Art Deco are nebulous, and that its designation as a style has more in keeping with those of a fashion in decoration like ‘Louis XIII’ than with the contemporaneous styles of painting or sculpture.
Solstice in Eastern European Art
Author: Dinah Kolka I still remember the allure and mysticism of stories about the Solstice in Poland. This Eastern European country, always living at the crossroads of Christianity and paganism found a way to incorporate many old Slavic rituals into their daily lives. Solstice was often called ‘St John’s Night’ to christianise it. The night…
Letter to Editor: Fen de Villiers Responds
Sculptor Fen de Villiers weighs in on the Art Deco debate.
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