Toby Üpson, Author at FAD Magazine

This text is not a cop out; this year’s Art Basel | Basel was a poor show, except for one artwork

17 June 2026 • Toby Üpson

Art Basel | Basel – this year’s edition of the fair was rather subdued

two”sooo fucking good”at Liste 2026

16 June 2026 • Toby Üpson

Among the discoveries at Liste Art Fair 2026, two artists stood out. Kemil Bekteši and Coco Klockner

Various Others 2026: A City Round Up

20 May 2026 • Toby Üpson

I enjoy Munich’s art scene, its ‘system’ as they say.

Various Others 2026

11 May 2026 • Toby Üpson

Various Others returns to Munich from 14th–24th May 2026, transforming the city into a platform for international contemporary art exchange.

The Venice Biennale 2026: the Pavilion hit list

27 April 2026 • Toby Üpson

A focused preview of the Venice Biennale 2026, highlighting five national pavilions that resonate most strongly—

Review: Living, Rehearsing … Chapter 2: Crossings

13 February 2026 • Toby Üpson

I enjoy it when an arts thinglyness demonstrates what it says it’s doing. Such ‘formalisum’ is rare in artworks; rarer… Read More

AI: from aid to auteur / from art to industry

13 January 2026 • Toby Üpson

I am suspicious of the raison d’être guiding art tech collaborations

Media Art?

12 December 2025 • Toby Üpson

Three days immersed in all things ‘Media Art’.

Review: Renata Ottati, Chambers city gallery, Glasgow.

4 December 2025 • Toby Üpson

the way she gives a fat-ass form to the dumb things that linger and replay over and over and over again in her mind is phenomenal

Review: William Nicholson at Pallant House Gallery

26 November 2025 • Toby Üpson

The Nicholson family has been having a moment.

#frieze got ya art history

3 November 2025 • Toby Üpson

frieze magazine kicked off its countdown of ‘The 25 Best Works of the 21st Century’.

Müsings

Four Bs and one C that topped the galleries at Frieze London 2025

17 October 2025 • Toby Üpson

Dashing is the only way I can do art fairs. (I am shit at small talk and social niceties.) I like to get in and out fast,

Thomas Abercromby, Recovery Island

28 September 2025 • Toby Üpson

The careful science of scent occupies a central place in Thomas Abercromby’s multisensory installation Recovery Island.

What’s an Art/Gallery Week/Weekend

1 September 2025 • Toby Üpson

What is an art/gallery week/weekend? Who are these events for? What do they aim to achieve, how?

Review: Guy Oliver, Millennial Prayer

15 August 2025 • Toby Üpson

Guy Oliver’s latest film, Millennial Prayer, is a somewhat nostalgic reflection on the lead-up to and the aftermath of the millennium

Review: Lotte Gertz, Layers of Silt at Cample Line

5 August 2025 • Toby Üpson

The new collection of paintings which compose Lotte Gertz’s solo exhibition, Layers of Silt, at Cample Line (Thornhill, near Dumfries) are dream-like.

Basel’s new buy-annual

11 July 2025 • Toby Üpson

Opening up the art world means exposing the systems that most don’t want to see.

From Paris to the Pier Arts Centre on Orkney, Jonathan Anderson shows an enduring spirit.

8 July 2025 • Toby Üpson

Art, as I come to know it, is nonchalant in the face of novelty for its own sake, seeing the past as an enduring spark, continually resonant and generous