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Green with Desire

Inside the world of Salman Toor

"In Someone Like You, spectral, fluid lashings of colour wrap Salman Toor's figures." 

The Great White Lie

Why Pope.L Crawled Through New York

"Pope.L’s subversive practice used humour, contradiction, and discomfort to confront, and often shock, the viewer"

Reality Check

On Art and Reality TV

"this autumn in London, artists Martine Syms and Lizzy Deacon both mine reality TV for parts, bringing yet more dizzying layers of mediation and authenticity to bear on its dazzling wreckage."

Standard Issue

Tanoa Sasraku: Tropical Ken at Vardaxoglou

"What fantasies lay the ground for military conquest, and what myths drive it forward? These are the questions that Tanoa Sasraku, nominee for this year’s Turner Prize, reflects on in her new body of work."

CURED

A solo show by Fleur Simon, 13-18 October 2026

"CURED represents the latest evolution in Simon’s practice. The title itself nods playfully to her signature medium – coloured resins, poured either in layers or simultaneously, before being left to dry or ‘cure’. In several instances here, happy accidents have resulted in a new frothy texture, baked into the works by the summer’s extraordinary heatwaves: their environment preserved, like insects in amber."

Taste Not Want Not

Why Big Tech Suddenly Needs Good Taste

"The people who have spent twenty years destroying the conditions under which taste is formed now believe it is the most important human quality."

Taring Padi and the Art of Resistance

Rakyat Pasti Menang at Ibraaz

"scenes of protest and slogans of resistance born in the Indonesian Reformasi"