• FX drawing competition showcases talent

    2 June 2015

    Celebrating visual talent we have in our industry for drawing, the FX Magazine drawing competition, in association with Ecophon, closed on Sunday 31 May and received close to 300 entries.

  • Can Of Coke: The men behind the madness

    14 May 2015

    The pillow fight that lead to a multi-million dollar piece of artwork. Read the exclusive interview with the Tinker Brothers who transformed a standard Coca-Cola can into potentially the world’s most expensive work of art…

  • Drawing a Line – Alexander McQueen’s drawings

    16 March 2015

    As the major exhibition on the iconic work of British fashion designer and couturier Alexander McQueen, Savage Beauty, opens at the V&A, here we publish some of McQueen’s conceptual sketches and republish an essay by the director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum, Abraham Thomas. It appears with 27 other essays in the show’s catalogue book.

  • FX Drawing Competition

    10 March 2015

    Call for entries to FX's drawing competition in association with Ecophon

  • The art of repetition: artists depict The Shard

    2 December 2014

    100 drawings of London by 100 famous architects and designers are going up for auction to raise money for charity Article 25.

  • Behind the scenes at the Folkestone Art Triennial

    13 October 2014

    When a major arts festival is commissioned, the interaction between artists, residents and art is a vital element in the town’s enrichment. Veronica Simpson checks out the behind-the-scenes action for the Folkestone Triennial.

  • Alain de Botton brings his Art as Therapy project to the Rijksmuseum

    27 August 2014

    Alain de Botton is putting theory into practice. The writer and commentator on philosphy, art and architecture has recreated his book Art as Therapy at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Selecting works of art and prints from the museum he has grouped them under populist headings and used ubiquitous yellow sticky notes alongside them to help viewers form a more personal way of responding.

  • Ruin Lust at Tate Britain

    25 March 2014

    Tate Britain, London
    Until 8 May
    Interview by Shumi Bose

  • Public art reaches out beyond the gallery

    20 March 2014

    Public art is a hot topic right now, inspiring new directives, new public debates and greater breadth and imagination deployed in its commissioning and execution than ever before

  • The art of repetition: Soviet-era posters

    31 January 2014

    An exhibition of iconic Soviet-era posters for iconic Soviet-era silent films go on display in London this January, produced using a combination of painterly technique and bold, graphic typography