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The Aura of the Art Book

How literacy is giving way to luxury in the art world

Feb 13 • Henry Tudor Pole

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January 2026

Against art

It’s apt that a statue worn by centuries of exposure looks Cycladic, an emblem of the passage of time; it would hold me till the last blank speck had…

Jan 30 • Henry Tudor Pole

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Was Joseph Wright afraid of the dark?

a painter of contrasts, and a great, small exhibition at the National Gallery

Jan 23 • Henry Tudor Pole

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On silence before art

Lost for words? You might be getting somewhere

Jan 16 • Henry Tudor Pole

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Angelico of Death

a look at: a Florentine lamentation

Jan 9 • Henry Tudor Pole

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December 2025

A Coral Reef

On now! Work by Aidan Quinn and Hallam Wood at SET Lewisham

Dec 8, 2025 • Henry Tudor Pole

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November 2025

The sky is not a limit

Young Syrian artists in London

Nov 13, 2025 • Henry Tudor Pole

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October 2025

Films about Monks

On how bad art makes Tarkovsky cry

Oct 22, 2025 • Henry Tudor Pole

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June 2025

Somerstown Gallery Roundup

Machines, vitrines, illusions and fear

Jun 6, 2025 • Henry Tudor Pole

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May 2025

Abstraction: a family history

A different kind of exhibition text for Geoffrey Rigden: ‘Under Cover’ APT Gallery, Deptford on display from 22 May – 1 June 2025

May 27, 2025 • Henry Tudor Pole

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February 2025

Let's start a family

Amedeo Polazzo's exhibition 'Die Strudlhofstiege' at Herald Street, London is a picture of life

Feb 20, 2025 • Henry Tudor Pole

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Vincent van Gogh

In case you missed it, here is a summary of the recent Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery

Feb 6, 2025 • Henry Tudor Pole

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