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1 month ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Harriet Lloyd-Smith |Jacob Wilson
6 min read As the art world winds down for the summer break, Jacob Wilson turns his eye to sport, and asks what art could learn from athletes The galleries are empty.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson
5 min read Artists and collectors protest censorship, response to racist mural, protestors destroy painting, sales turn sour, and lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits! – all in this week’s art news roundup Pigcasso, the porcine artist of our times, dies.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson
6 min read Branded #content, unauthenticated art, shark jumps, giant pigeons, giant ducks, floating bottles, job cuts, and east meets west – all in this week’s art news roundup Did somebody say – forced meme?
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson
8 min read This week, Jacob Wilson goes back to the Courtuald Gallery to review Jasper Johns, drops in to Paolo Gioli at Amanda Wilkinson and goes to Stepney Green to Stuart Middleton at Carlos / Ishikawa London or Los Angeles, where would you rather live? I asked myself this while reading Janelle Zara’s Frieze LA diary. In it, she captures the frenetic energy of a city where the rich and famous are just regular folks, and pool parties are a way of life. LA seems to have everything going for...
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson
15 min read In this interview, Mark Leckey returns to Alexandra Palace Park, where the Turner Prize-winner once had a spiritual awakening Suddenly, it hits you.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson
12 min read Join Plaster in Venice for sun, spritz and suspicious-looking collectors – we’ve got insider tips on where to go, eat, drink and relax Venice… here we go again.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson
7 min read As OG group show New Contemporaries returns to Camden Art Centre for the first time in 20 years, Will Jennings braces for a sensory assault New Contemporaries is not for the faint-hearted. Climbing Camden Art Centre’s staircase is the last moment of calm before an assault upon the senses from a cacophony of creativity. It hits the ears before the eyes: soundtracks to a variety of video works spill from different spaces into the central atrium, hinting at the mass about to be...
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson
6 min read It’s Silly Season, and grafitti artist Banksy managed to capture the international news cycle for over a week with his animal artworks around London, but why do we care so much about such crap art?
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson
9 min read From her East London studio, Polish painter Barbara Wesołowska discusses spirituality and finding faces in paint I’m at Stuart Shave’s gallery, Modern Art, on Bury Street, London, staring at a painting by Barbara Wesołowska. Somewhere in the stretched linen that looks more like a rusted metal sheet are faces. I’m waiting for them to show themselves, and in that moment, I feel the suggestiveness, fragility, and turbulence of the mind reflected in paint. I need to know more. 30...
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson
8 min read The idea behind Condo is simple enough: one gallery hosts another, but as Jacob Wilson finds out from those involved, there’s a lot more to it than that Condo is back in London for the first time since 2020. The large-scale collaborative exhibition sees 20+ galleries across London share their exhibition spaces with galleries based outside the city, ranging from Glasgow and Paris, to Tbilisi and Tehran. Condo was founded in 2016 by Vanessa Carlos, director of Stepney Green gallery...
