‘How much is enough?’ That’s the question asked by one of Matthew Higgs’s framed title pages from an old book, and implicitly by the show as a whole. There’s a lot of...
I hate group shows; the really bad ones make all the artists look like students. But in the spirit of ‘If you can’t think of something nice to say, don’t say anything at...
The first thing you notice is the smell, soapy and sickly-sweet. It emanates from the cellophane and cling-film parcels lining the walls of the entrance-hallway, each filled with a mixture of...
New Yorker Barnaby Furnas has turned his attention away from historic US military figures and war scenes to paint the nearest things to battlefields you can find on American soil: mega-stadia rock...
The myth of Narcissus falling in love with his own reflection already overflows through the history of art. Colombian Oscar Muñoz updates the apocryphal tale by draining a charcoal droplet...
Posed on a mattress on the studio floor, the model in Polly Borland’s ‘Bunny’ photographs wears a variety of different costumes: blonde wigs; black catsuits; polka-dot panties; a...
At first sight, Houshiary’s abstract patterns and nebulae seem merely decorative, with a touch of esoteric otherworldliness and sci-fi romanticism: so far, so inoffensive and unremarkable....
Forget fresh-faced wannabes, old is the hot new thing in art right now. Cynics might argue that this is just the flipside of the same desire for novelty – and a potentially lucrative move by...
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