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Deptford’s Open Studios and the Case for London’s Grassroots Art Spaces

Art in Perpetuity Trust opens its Deptford studios to the public this weekend, offering free, direct access to working artists ahead of London’s fair-driven autumn calendar. The event stands as a functioning counterpoint to Frieze week’s VIP-priced access model.

The Sea, Painted Straight: Inside the Royal Society of Marine Artists’ Annual Show

The Royal Society of Marine Artists opens its Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries this week, presenting several hundred works united by a single subject: the sea. Now in its ninth decade, the show offers a functioning market and critical apparatus for figurative marine art outside the contemporary gallery mainstream.

Deptford’s Open Studios and the Case for London’s Grassroots Art Spaces

Art in Perpetuity Trust opens its Deptford studios to the public this weekend, offering free, direct access to working artists ahead of London’s fair-driven autumn calendar. The event stands as a functioning counterpoint to Frieze week’s VIP-priced access model.

15 hours ago2 min read

The Sea, Painted Straight: Inside the Royal Society of Marine Artists’ Annual Show

The Royal Society of Marine Artists opens its Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries this week, presenting several hundred works united by a single subject: the sea. Now in its ninth decade, the show offers a functioning market and critical apparatus for figurative marine art outside the contemporary gallery mainstream.

2 days ago2 min read

Frieze London Returns to Regent’s Park with New Curated Sections

Frieze London and Frieze Masters return to The Regent’s Park this October with fifty curated presentations and four solo artist stands. The free Frieze Sculpture programme opens weeks earlier, offering the fair’s most accessible point of entry.

3 days ago2 min read

Art Opinion

The Children’s Game of Connect the Dots in the Curator’s Adult Scenography

Bringing together historical works from the Nina Miller Collection with contemporary practices, NEITHER / NOR: The Intimate Geography of Contradictions at Indra Gallery explores the shifting tension between figuration and abstraction through a curatorial scenography that invites the viewer to mentally “connect the dots” across generations of artistic language.