Podcast | Art boom as the UK busts: how the economic crisis is affecting the market

Podcast | Art boom as the UK busts: how the economic crisis is affecting the market

This week: Ben Luke talks to Anny Shaw, a contributing editor at The Art Newspaper, about the atmosphere at the Frieze London and Frieze Masters fairs amid the UK’s economic struggles and... Read more »
Community-centred art pavilion to be unveiled at London’s Notting Hill Carnival

Community-centred art pavilion to be unveiled at London’s Notting Hill Carnival

The Notting Hill Carnival, which takes place in west London this weekend after a two-year pandemic hiatus, is getting a striking new art and architectural landmark. The London-based artist Alvaro Barrington and... Read more »
Life imitates art as a wild fox is caught on camera staring at a street art version of his species

Life imitates art as a wild fox is caught on camera staring at a street art version of his species

Who are you looking at? Life imitates art as a wild fox is caught on camera staring at a street art version of his species in stunning series of photographs The ginger... Read more »
London exhibition to examine surrealism’s influence on design | Art and design

London exhibition to examine surrealism’s influence on design | Art and design

Surrealism often brings to mind the melted clocks of Salvador Dalí or René Magritte’s image of a pipe, placed aptly above the words “this is not a pipe”. However, despite the success... Read more »
Horniman Museum in London wins Art Fund’s Museum of the Year Award

Horniman Museum in London wins Art Fund’s Museum of the Year Award

The Horniman Museum in London has won the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year Award 2022. The historic museum, set across 16 acres in Forest Hill, south-east London, was presented with the... Read more »
South London galleries join forces and relocate to Fitzrovia as emerging art market matures

South London galleries join forces and relocate to Fitzrovia as emerging art market matures

Two galleries which cut their teeth in Deptford, southeast London, are relocating to larger premises in the centre of the UK capital. Castor and Indigo+Madder are jointly taking over a 2,200 sq... Read more »
I’ve Turned My South London Flat Into A Haven Of Black Art

I’ve Turned My South London Flat Into A Haven Of Black Art

What has been even more interesting has been going from seeing no one who looked like me in art to being a subject myself. Last year, I was asked to sit for... Read more »
Grade II-listing for Art Deco south London home saved from demolition

Grade II-listing for Art Deco south London home saved from demolition

A “remarkably well-preserved” Art Deco house in south London saved from demolition earlier this year has now been given Grade II-listed status. On the advice of Historic England, the government has added... Read more »
Delve Architects adds miniature art gallery to South London home

Delve Architects adds miniature art gallery to South London home

Local studio Delve Architects has extended a terraced home in south London by adding a brick-lined kitchen designed to be easily transformed into the Ivanhoe Gallery exhibition space for displaying work by local artists. Commissioned... Read more »
London art world pays tribute to the late, inimitable arts patron Delfina Entrecanales

London art world pays tribute to the late, inimitable arts patron Delfina Entrecanales

A requiem mass at Brompton Oratory church in west London, sandwiched between a breakfast and a lunch attended by some of the leading names in contemporary art, was a fitting send-off for... Read more »