What is Bokeh?
You might have already heard of bokeh, a photographic term that is growing in popularity, but what exactly does it refer to? We look into how photographers create bokeh, and highlight some of the leading contemporary artists using bokeh today.
How to Clean an Oil Painting
It is no secret that oil paintings need that little bit extra care when handling, cleaning and keeping in optimal condition. Whether you’ve purchased a new piece, or discovered an old treasure, knowing how to look after your oil painting, specifically how to clean it, will ensure that your piece remains true to how it was always intended to look. Find out how to properly clean and maintain your oil painting without ruining the surface or compromising its appearance.
Andy Warhol Quotes
The eponymous Mr Warhol was many things: Pop Art superstar, zealous social butterfly and canny filmmaker, to name a few. Discover some of the best Andy Warhol quotes on life, celebrities and art.
Q&A With Secret 7’s Kevin King
Secret 7” is a collaboration between artists and musicians with an aim to raise money for Help Refugees. It takes 7 tracks from 7 of the best-known musicians around and presses each one 100 times to 7” vinyl. Artists are then invited to create artwork for each track. The result is 700 unique records which are exhibited in London before being auctioned. However, buyers don’t know who created the artwork or even which song it’s for, until they have parted with their cash.
Guide to Street Art
Take a look at our guide to Street Art and find out more about the history, developments and styles of this contemporary artistic practice.
Telling Tales: Exhibitions to see in November
Art is neither responsible for the reporting of facts or the creation of fiction. In the gallery space, artists and curators are free to reflect realities or manufacture fantasies as they wish. Whether true, false or somewhere in between, many of the most compelling exhibitions are those that tell stories.
Carrot sticks and sharks: 7 types of non-traditional fine art you’ll find in contemporary galleries
Last week, artist Rafael Perez Evans tipped 29 tonnes of carrots onto the campus of London art school, Goldsmiths College. Photographs of the stunt, shared on social media, soon had people asking: ‘is this art?’. Like it or not, it is. It’s conceptual art, in which the artist’s idea is more important than the finished object. In this case, Perez Evans was making a statement about tensions “between the rural and the city”, echoing the protests of farmers. His orange intervention was also delibera
Caroline List: Landscapes of Sublime Abstraction
Caroline List's enquiry into colour and space sets up a conversation within her paintings, informed by references to signatures observed within nature, colour theory and formal abstraction. This eclectic mix of references generates a spatial language, a visual tension between blended horizons of colour, light & organic shapes. Her paintings play with the push and pull of the picture plane, form and ground, creating compositions with surreal spatial horizons which allude to otherworldly vistas.
Pictures over People: Exhibitions to see in October
Is this the new normal? London’s art world seems to have returned to a time slot-booking, mask-donning cadence. Galleries are quieter and private views are strictly shoulder-rubbing free zones. This seems to have (at least inside the galleries) renewed the emphasis on pictures over people. With a time-windowed slot in an empty gallery, you can’t network. Instead, you’ll have to spend your time looking at what is on the walls. Which is just as well given the quality of these four exhibitions, all
Sound & Vision Drawing Club: Season 2
We are delighted to announce that this October, we will be launching the second season of our online art and music workshop, produced in collaboration with Royal Museums Greenwich, the Sound and Vision Drawing Club.
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