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Matthew Holman takes a straight look at a new exhibition of Alice Neel’s work at Xavier Hufkens

Reviews – Words: Matthew Holman – 10 min read

Alice Neel, all skew-whiff

Alice Neel, all skew-whiff

Words: Matthew Holman

Alice Neel, all skew-whiff

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

Reviews – Words: Matthew Holman – 10 min read

Ed Ruscha is still playing word games

Ed Ruscha is still playing word games

Words: Matthew Holman

Ed Ruscha is still playing word games

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

Features Reviews – Words and photography: Joe Bobowicz – 21 min read

“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”

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

Features Reviews – Words and photography: Victoria Comstock-Kershaw – 14 min read

Frieze London 2025 rewind: luxury, lunacy and public humiliation

Frieze London 2025 rewind: luxury, lunacy and public humiliation

Words and photography: Victoria Comstock-Kershaw

Frieze London 2025 rewind: luxury, lunacy and public humiliation

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

Reviews – Words: Eddy Frankel – 6 min read

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

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

Words: Eddy Frankel

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

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

Reviews – Words: Matthew Holman – 9 min read

Tate’s Theatre Picasso fluffs its lines

Tate’s Theatre Picasso fluffs its lines

Words: Matthew Holman

Tate’s Theatre Picasso fluffs its lines

After decades of being Britain’s favourite punching bag, Turner Prize lands a knockout in Bradford this year

Opinion Reviews – Words: Harriet Lloyd-Smith – 8 min read

It’s time to stop shit-talking the Turner Prize

It’s time to stop shit-talking the Turner Prize

Words: Harriet Lloyd-Smith

It’s time to stop shit-talking the Turner Prize

As a new show marks Rauschenberg’s centenary, Matthew Holman probes the artist's greatest ambition

Features Reviews – Words: Matthew Holman – 10 min read

Rauschenberg at 100: the artist who tried collecting the world

Rauschenberg at 100: the artist who tried collecting the world

Words: Matthew Holman

Rauschenberg at 100: the artist who tried collecting the world

Nicolas Vamvouklis visits the first edition of Brussels Art Week AKA RendezVous

Features Reviews – Words and photography: Nicolas Vamvouklis – 10 min read

65 openings, zero chill: dispatch from Brussels

65 openings, zero chill: dispatch from Brussels

Words and photography: Nicolas Vamvouklis

65 openings, zero chill: dispatch from Brussels

Kerry James Marshall, De Style, 1993. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Ruth and Jacob Bloom. © Kerry James Marshall. Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA

Kerry James Marshall, De Style, 1993. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Ruth and Jacob Bloom. © Kerry James Marshall. Photo: © Museum Associates/LACMA

John-Baptiste Odour reflects on Kerry James Marshall’s unapologetic portrayal of Black history, culture and identity at the Royal Academy

Reviews – Words: John-Baptiste Oduor – 9 min read

Kerry James Marshall and the icons in the room

Kerry James Marshall and the icons in the room

Words: John-Baptiste Oduor

Kerry James Marshall and the icons in the room

A photo from Sophy Rickett's 'Pissing Women' series and a photograph from Rut Blees Luxemburg's 'Chance Encounters' series on view at Cob Gallery

A photo from Sophy Rickett's 'Pissing Women' series and a photograph from Rut Blees Luxemburg's 'Chance Encounters' series on view at Cob Gallery

'Stream' revisits iconic projects by artists Rut Blees Luxemburg and Sophy Rickett from the mid 90s

Reviews – Words: Dora Densham Bond – 8 min read

Piss now, ask questions later

Piss now, ask questions later

Words: Dora Densham Bond

Piss now, ask questions later

Performer in Garry Starr's Classic Penguins at Edinburgh Fringe 2025

Performer in Garry Starr's Classic Penguins at Edinburgh Fringe 2025

We dispatched Livia Magyar to the buzzing streets of Edinburgh to capture the mania and majesty of the Art and Fringe festivals

Features Reviews – Words and photography: Livia Magyar – 7 min read

Nude clowns, trad wives and thespians: My trip to Edinburgh for an art-comedy blowout

Nude clowns, trad wives and thespians: My trip to Edinburgh for an art-comedy blowout

Words and photography: Livia Magyar

Nude clowns, trad wives and thespians: My trip to Edinburgh for an art-comedy blowout

20th-century Swedish painter Dick Bengtsson exposed the homegrown horrors beneath his country’s veneer of innocence

Reviews – Words: Matthew Holman – 8 min read

How Dick Bengtsson found rot in Sweden’s fairytale

How Dick Bengtsson found rot in Sweden’s fairytale

Words: Matthew Holman

How Dick Bengtsson found rot in Sweden’s fairytale