Millie Walton

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Dora Bond |Millie Walton

8 min read At a sensual new show of Tom Wesselmann’s work, Millie Walton meets the American artist’s former studio assistant to discuss his oft-misunderstood relationship with sex My first thought on encountering Tom Wesselmann’s two-metre painting of an erect penis is: why are men so obsessed with their dicks? I’m being reductive, but it’s also a question that underpins the Pop artist’s provocative choice of subject as well as the mixed reception to these works which were created between...

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Dora Bond |Millie Walton

8 min read At a sensual new show of Tom Wesselmann’s work, Millie Walton meets the American artist’s former studio assistant to discuss his oft-misunderstood relationship with sex My first thought on encountering Tom Wesselmann’s two-metre painting of an erect penis is: why are men so obsessed with their dicks? I’m being reductive, but it’s also a question that underpins the Pop artist’s provocative choice of subject as well as the mixed reception to these works which were created between...

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Millie Walton

9 min read As London pulsates with ‘erotic’ art, Millie Walton explores the distinctions between artistic appreciation and sexual arousal I am standing in a haze of smoke that smells something like a cross between Lynx Africa and Dior Sauvage, teenage boys’ bedrooms, too much alcohol, bad decisions. It’s musky and overpowering. It’s making my eyes water and my throat scratch. This is not the intended effect. The scent is a pheromone cologne, artificially engineered to make me feel horny. What...

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Millie Walton

An arched torso bows towards us from a slender, arrow-slit-sized canvas: the planetary outlines of breasts, taut white skin, the inner press of a belly button, down to the clam-like fray of labial lips. Imperfect Symmetry by London-based artist Saskia Colwell is one in a series of drawings that make up ‘Skin on Skin’, her solo exhibition at Victoria Miro, Venice.

Jan 21, 2025 | citizen-femme.com | Millie Walton

In our ongoing series, Millie Walton selects and explores the world’s best art hotels. In this edition, she travels to Monteverdi in Tuscany. Monteverdi sits perched high up on a steep hilltop overlooking the Val d’Orcia: picture-perfect Tuscany where the morning mist rolls away to uncover the spearlike silhouettes of cypress trees, verdant sloping vineyards and olive groves.