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Psychic spiritual medium Kim Alexis searches for spirits on London's gallery capital of Cork Street

Features – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

A psychic medium meets the ghosts haunting London’s art galleries

A psychic medium meets the ghosts haunting London’s art galleries

Words: Jacob Wilson

A psychic medium meets the ghosts haunting London’s art galleries

As 2024 comes to an end, we revisit a year packed with art-world batshit

Features News – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

The weirdest art world moments of 2024

The weirdest art world moments of 2024

Words: Jacob Wilson

The weirdest art world moments of 2024

For nearly three decades, Francis Lobo has been the go-to window cleaner for art galleries in London's west end. Plaster met up with him at Pilar Corrias to find out why, and what he's learned about the art world

Interviews Watch – Words & film: Jacob Wilson – 6 min read

Meet the 73-year-old cleaning London’s gallery windows

Meet the 73-year-old cleaning London’s gallery windows

Words & film: Jacob Wilson

Meet the 73-year-old cleaning London’s gallery windows

Seth Price did his art education backwards, starting with experimental film and only recently turning to paint. Staff writer Jacob Wilson spoke with Price about going back to basics, testing out new tech and making “cool shit.”

Interviews – Words: Jacob Wilson – Photographs: Milly Cope – 13 min read

Where do you start with Seth Price?

Where do you start with Seth Price?

Words: Jacob Wilson

Photographs: Milly Cope

Where do you start with Seth Price?

Jacob Wilson breaks a personal rule and walked down Oxford Street to try and understand what Frank Auerbach saw in the city

Opinion Reviews – Words: Jacob Wilson – 6 min read

Braving Oxford Street for Frank Auerbach

Braving Oxford Street for Frank Auerbach

Words: Jacob Wilson

Braving Oxford Street for Frank Auerbach

The first London launch of New York literary magazine Heavy Traffic promised to draw a crowd to Camden Art Centre. Photographer Isabel MacCarthy and staff writer Jacob Wilson went along to see what went down

Features – Words: Jacob Wilson – Photography: Isabel MacCarthy – 11 min read

Plaster Shoots: Heavy Traffic at Camden Art Centre

Plaster Shoots: Heavy Traffic at Camden Art Centre

Words: Jacob Wilson

Photography: Isabel MacCarthy

Plaster Shoots: Heavy Traffic at Camden Art Centre

Staff writer Jacob Wilson stares into the abyss of disaster when he turns up on the wrong day to Chatham, Kent to review Ralph Steadman’s ‘INKling’, and finds the abyss staring back at him

Features – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

Fear and failing in Chatham

Fear and failing in Chatham

Words: Jacob Wilson

Fear and failing in Chatham

It's 21st century, baby. This is Ai-Da, the first artist robot (apparently)

Opinion – Words: Jacob Wilson – 8 min read

Ai-Da the art robot: art genius or twisted male fantasy?

Ai-Da the art robot: art genius or twisted male fantasy?

Words: Jacob Wilson

Ai-Da the art robot: art genius or twisted male fantasy?

Politically, the US Midwest is now front and centre of the American mind. But what about its culture? Jacob Wilson explores this misunderstood territory and its fight against the "global non-style of Contemporary Art"

Features Opinion – Words: Jacob Wilson – 12 min read

The Midwest ain’t mid

The Midwest ain’t mid

Words: Jacob Wilson

The Midwest ain’t mid

Jacob Wilson finds out what it takes to rawdog an art fair

Features Opinion – Words: Jacob Wilson – 7 min read

I rawdogged Frieze VIP day

I rawdogged Frieze VIP day

Words: Jacob Wilson

I rawdogged Frieze VIP day

We talk to fashion photographer Nick Knight about SHOWstudio’s provocative new group exhibition, ‘SHADOW-BAN’, which squares up to censorship on social media

Interviews – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

Nick Knight exposes all

Nick Knight exposes all

Words: Jacob Wilson

Nick Knight exposes all

Artists' estates are increasingly turning art into intellectual property and collaborating with fashion brands, what do experts make of it?

Features – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

What’s the deal with all the artist × brand collabs?

What’s the deal with all the artist × brand collabs?

Words: Jacob Wilson

What’s the deal with all the artist × brand collabs?

Why can’t the art world today be honest with itself?

Column Opinion – Words: Jacob Wilson – 5 min read

Seen Report: false columns and fake friends

Seen Report: false columns and fake friends

Words: Jacob Wilson

Seen Report: false columns and fake friends

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Psychic spiritual medium Kim Alexis searches for spirits on London's gallery capital of Cork Street

Features – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

A psychic medium meets the ghosts haunting London’s art galleries

Words: Jacob Wilson

As 2024 comes to an end, we revisit a year packed with art-world batshit

Features News – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

The weirdest art world moments of 2024

Words: Jacob Wilson

For nearly three decades, Francis Lobo has been the go-to window cleaner for art galleries in London's west end. Plaster met up with him at Pilar Corrias to find out why, and what he's learned about the art world

Interviews Watch – Words & film: Jacob Wilson – 6 min read

Meet the 73-year-old cleaning London’s gallery windows

Words & film: Jacob Wilson

Seth Price did his art education backwards, starting with experimental film and only recently turning to paint. Staff writer Jacob Wilson spoke with Price about going back to basics, testing out new tech and making “cool shit.”

Interviews – Words: Jacob Wilson – Photographs: Milly Cope – 13 min read

Where do you start with Seth Price?

Words: Jacob Wilson

Photographs: Milly Cope

Jacob Wilson breaks a personal rule and walked down Oxford Street to try and understand what Frank Auerbach saw in the city

Opinion Reviews – Words: Jacob Wilson – 6 min read

Braving Oxford Street for Frank Auerbach

Words: Jacob Wilson

The first London launch of New York literary magazine Heavy Traffic promised to draw a crowd to Camden Art Centre. Photographer Isabel MacCarthy and staff writer Jacob Wilson went along to see what went down

Features – Words: Jacob Wilson – Photography: Isabel MacCarthy – 11 min read

Plaster Shoots: Heavy Traffic at Camden Art Centre

Words: Jacob Wilson

Photography: Isabel MacCarthy

Staff writer Jacob Wilson stares into the abyss of disaster when he turns up on the wrong day to Chatham, Kent to review Ralph Steadman’s ‘INKling’, and finds the abyss staring back at him

Features – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

Fear and failing in Chatham

Words: Jacob Wilson

It's 21st century, baby. This is Ai-Da, the first artist robot (apparently)

Opinion – Words: Jacob Wilson – 8 min read

Ai-Da the art robot: art genius or twisted male fantasy?

Words: Jacob Wilson

Politically, the US Midwest is now front and centre of the American mind. But what about its culture? Jacob Wilson explores this misunderstood territory and its fight against the "global non-style of Contemporary Art"

Features Opinion – Words: Jacob Wilson – 12 min read

The Midwest ain’t mid

Words: Jacob Wilson

Jacob Wilson finds out what it takes to rawdog an art fair

Features Opinion – Words: Jacob Wilson – 7 min read

I rawdogged Frieze VIP day

Words: Jacob Wilson

We talk to fashion photographer Nick Knight about SHOWstudio’s provocative new group exhibition, ‘SHADOW-BAN’, which squares up to censorship on social media

Interviews – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

Nick Knight exposes all

Words: Jacob Wilson

Artists' estates are increasingly turning art into intellectual property and collaborating with fashion brands, what do experts make of it?

Features – Words: Jacob Wilson – 11 min read

What’s the deal with all the artist × brand collabs?

Words: Jacob Wilson

Why can’t the art world today be honest with itself?

Column Opinion – Words: Jacob Wilson – 5 min read

Seen Report: false columns and fake friends

Words: Jacob Wilson

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