Matthew Holman travels between London and Paris to discover how art’s coolest wordsmith is still reinventing himself

Ed Ruscha is still playing word games

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Words: Matthew Holman

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In a season of global art fair fatigue, Joe Bobowicz finds Paris holding its own

“Wake the fuck up, it’s Art Basel Paris”

“Wake the fuck up, it’s Art Basel Paris”

Words and photography: Joe Bobowicz

“Wake the fuck up, it’s Art Basel Paris”

Writer Hannah Sargeant has 15 years’ experience in hospitality, but as she was reminded at Frieze London this year, nothing is quite like working an art fair

Confessions of an art fair service worker

Confessions of an art fair service worker

Words and photography: Hannah Sargeant

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Victoria Comstock-Kershaw reports from the art world's annual fever dream

Frieze London 2025 rewind: luxury, lunacy and public humiliation

Frieze London 2025 rewind: luxury, lunacy and public humiliation

Words and photography: Victoria Comstock-Kershaw

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Merry Alpern’s controversial 1990s photo series leaves Eddy Frankel wrestling with ethics and excess

“Perfect, nasty images”: Merry Alpern’s ‘Dirty Windows’

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Words: Eddy Frankel

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Were you snapped at our Frieze Week celebrations?

Plaster Shoots: our Frieze Week celebrations in Soho

Plaster Shoots: our Frieze Week celebrations in Soho

Plaster Shoots: our Frieze Week celebrations in Soho

We're back with a Frieze London special of The Radar: the series that spotlights our favourite up-and-coming artists

The Radar: Mika Horibuchi, Rasoul Ashtary and Anton Munar

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Tune into our myth-busting new podcast

Introducing the ‘What the hell do you actually do?’ podcast

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A collage of people's shoes at Frieze London 2025 A collage of people's shoes at Frieze London 2025

Are you sitting comfortably? Good. These are the craziest things we eavesdropped this Frieze London

“He’s giving paid-for blue tick”: the best stuff we heard you say at Frieze

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Arthur Jafa photographed by Saffron McLeod for Plaster magazine Arthur Jafa photographed by Saffron McLeod for Plaster magazine

Were you snapped?

Plaster Shoots: Arthur Jafa at Sadie Coles HQ

Plaster Shoots: Arthur Jafa at Sadie Coles HQ

Photography: Saffron McLeod

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Sadie Coles photographed by Jack Andrew Davidson Sadie Coles photographed by Jack Andrew Davidson

Sadie Coles is the next guest on Give me a break

Episode 10: Give me a break with Sadie Coles

Episode 10: Give me a break with Sadie Coles

Episode 10: Give me a break with Sadie Coles

Get yourself prepped for Frieze Week with Plaster's all-out guide

The Frieze London 2025 guide no one asked for

The Frieze London 2025 guide no one asked for

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Tate Modern’s latest Picasso show promises theatre but delivers amateur dramatics

Tate’s Theatre Picasso fluffs its lines

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Words: Matthew Holman

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