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“Rakyat Pasti Menang is Taring Padi’s first solo exhibition in London celebrating their nearly three decades-long practi...
31/08/2026

“Rakyat Pasti Menang is Taring Padi’s first solo exhibition in London celebrating their nearly three decades-long practice of utilising art and artmaking as a tool for collective action, education, and transformation. The exhibition title, which translates to ‘people united will never be defeated,’ refers to a political chant used throughout their mass public demonstrations.” — kennnedyrandall

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Rakyat Pasti Menang is Ibraaz until 22 Nov 2026

“Big Tech seems set on colonising taste itself – the idea being that when AI can make more and more things instantaneous...
25/08/2026

“Big Tech seems set on colonising taste itself – the idea being that when AI can make more and more things instantaneously, what you decide to make will become all the more important.” — Sammi Gale

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21/08/2026

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“On its by turns craggy, clotty and slick surface, Anish Kapoor’s Hayward Gallery exhibition is an attempt to produce th...
28/07/2026

“On its by turns craggy, clotty and slick surface, Anish Kapoor’s Hayward Gallery exhibition is an attempt to produce the sublime. Standing before something vast, overwhelming and beyond comprehension, ordinary perception is interrupted and the viewer should be stopped in her tracks. But these artworks have the opposite effect: staged one after the other, the encounters are propulsive.” — Sammi Gale

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Oliver Beer’s Resonance Paintings are created by allowing sound vibrations to act directly on pigment, producing ripplin...
25/07/2026

Oliver Beer’s Resonance Paintings are created by allowing sound vibrations to act directly on pigment, producing rippling patterns that preserve a fleeting moment of sonic activity as a permanent image.

On view at Thaddaeus Ropac London until 31 July.

“Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta spent most of her career treading this line between presence and absence. Looking at...
22/07/2026

“Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta spent most of her career treading this line between presence and absence. Looking at her work posthumously, the vitality of her form continues to assert itself, even when she herself is not in the image. Seeing her work is similar to catching your reflection when you don’t expect to: the momentary gap between seeing yourself and recognising yourself. There is a connection, but you are not yet enclosed within familiarity.” — 📝

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From Terracotta to Travis Scott, The Odyssey endures because every age finds a new version of itself in Homer's story.1....
21/07/2026

From Terracotta to Travis Scott, The Odyssey endures because every age finds a new version of itself in Homer's story.

1. Odysseus Beneath a Ram (Imperial era)

This marble sculpture depicts Odysseus clinging beneath a ram as he slips past Polyphemus.

2. The Mykonos Vase (c. 675–670 BC)

The earliest surviving image of the Trojan Horse appears on a Greek burial urn, soldiers peering out from the portholes.

3. The Blinding of Polyphemus, Sperlonga Sculptures (1st century AD)

Created for the Emperor Tiberius's seaside grotto, this monumental marble group depicts Odysseus and his men driving a burning stake into the eye of the Cyclops. Carved in the theatrical style of Hellenistic Baroque sculpture, the group is full of straining muscle and swirling motion, staged to overwhelm viewers in the dim cave facing the sea.

4. J.M.W. Turner, Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)

Turner turns Homer into a Romantic vision of light and nature. Odysseus's ship disappears into a blaze of sunlight, while the defeated Cyclops fades into the landscape.

5. Richard Hamilton, The Transmogrifications of Bloom (1984–85)

A slight detour: Hamilton was not illustrating Homer directly, but James Joyce’s Ulysses, itself a modern reimagining of the ancient epic.

6. Pablo Picasso, Ulysses and the Sirens (1947)

Odysseus tied to the mast, resisting a temptation he knows he cannot trust himself to face. Picasso himself may have benefited from a similar strategy.

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of our beloved co-founder, Chloe Grimshaw, who died on 16th May 2026....
16/07/2026

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of our beloved co-founder, Chloe Grimshaw, who died on 16th May 2026.

Chloe was at the heart of Plinth from the very beginning. Alongside Paul, she founded Plinth in 2015 with a belief that art could bring people together — creating connections between artists, ideas and audiences.

Creativity was woven through Chloe’s life, but warmth, wisdom and generosity were at its centre. She had a rare ability to make people feel valued and heard, bringing kindness, curiosity and care to every conversation and every project.

Through Plinth, and through her work as Creative Director of the .Foundation, Chloe championed artists, designers and young people, always encouraging others to explore, imagine and create.

Beyond her extraordinary professional achievements, Chloe was a much-loved wife, mother, sister, daughter and friend. She will be deeply missed by all who had the privilege of knowing her.

We are immensely grateful for the kindness and care shown to Chloe and her family by the incredible team at University College Hospital. In her memory, we are fundraising for the , helping support the vital work they do for patients and families.

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04/07/2026

Margate-based sculptor .watson Watson has constructed a hulking, life-sized galleon in the lower floor of gallery in Vauxhall.

Maren Hassinger’s installation Love anchors ’s new exhibition Nomenclature for the Time Being. The intervention takes place in the seldom-used top floor flat – a space that, much to my surprise, resembles an eclectic time capsule of the 1970s.

“We live amid an endless circulation of cute animals: cats, dogs and rescued wildlife flattened into swipeable content, ...
24/06/2026

“We live amid an endless circulation of cute animals: cats, dogs and rescued wildlife flattened into swipeable content, endlessly reassuring us that nature is still on our side. Piccinini’s work refuses that comfort. It drags those impulses back toward something stranger and less easily consumed – where fear and care are not opposites but adjacent responses. Holding Tight and Letting Go suggests that compassion may begin precisely at the point where instinct tells us to recoil – and that what we call monstrous might simply be the moment before recognition.” —

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