From Stillness to Spectacle: Two Exhibitions in Deptford
18 November 2025 • Kate McIlwee
Two neighbouring shows – each offering a different way of experiencing art through meditation and performance.
REVIEWS
Art reviews, The most interesting art exhibitions reviewed by FAD magazine.
Review: Lottie Stoddart – Dismember My Monster at The Tagli
14 November 2025 • Yichun Huang
Walking into The Tagli, Lottie Stoddart’s exhibition feels like entering a small theatre.
Review: Highgate Art Fair 2025
10 November 2025 • Oliver Malin
Highgate Art Fair has enjoyed a second successful edition
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London right NOW
9 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
Flowers, exploding landscapes, shadows, a church and a uterus.
The Architectural, Spiritual and Personal: Karl Singporewala at SOAS Gallery
7 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
It’s a surreal, otherworldly artwork and a nod to artist Karl Singporewala’s other life as an architect
Review: “The Print and the Time” — Reflections on Counter Editions: 25 Years
7 November 2025 • Yichun Huang
Counter Editions: 25 Years unfolds as a vivid survey of contemporary printmaking. Bringing 70+ leading artists & over 140 limited-edition works
Review: Wandering Till the Wind Whispers My Land
4 November 2025 • Mark Westall
Wandering Till the Wind Whispers My Land unfolds as a poetic investigation into wind, wandering, and the perennial search for belonging.
Flora Yukhnovich Turns Rococo Excess into Modern Chaos at Hauser & Wirth
4 November 2025 • Jane Horowitz
Flora Yukhnovich arrived in New York in 2024 — just as Donald Trump won a second term — and, according to curator Eleanor Nairne, the timing mattered.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in November
3 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
Ruins, craft, swearing, fox hunting and ghosts.
The Top 5 things to see at Artissima and Highlights from Turin Art Week
1 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
Highlights from an impressive art fair and the top exhibitions in Turin.
Infinite Bodies at Somerset House — Movement, Multiplicity & the Edge of the Possible
31 October 2025 • Mark Westall
Somerset House marks the culmination of it’s 25th birthday celebrations not with a retrospective, but a living, breathing experiment. Infinite Bodies, a landmark exhibition
Review: Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts
28 October 2025 • Yichun Huang
The show splits open tradition like a pot cracking in the kiln, revealing a territory where heritage is not a museum relic but something far more alive—and fragile
Art of a Feather: Kate MccGwire’s works come to life at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham
28 October 2025 • Tabish Khan
Feathers emerge from the floor and walls, and are encased within vitrines.
Take me Somewhere 2025: “challenging our perception of what performance is, what it can be, and who it is for.”
27 October 2025 • Beth Primrose
A writhing, frenzied ball of taut limbs, streamers and visceral emotion pulsates in anguish on a darkened stage.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see this Autumn in London
27 October 2025 • Tabish Khan
Tentacles, flames, concrete, architecture and knots.
A moment of serendipity at Art Basel Paris
24 October 2025 • Mark Westall
Then came a moment of serendipity — the kind that slips past even the most meticulous planning
Review: More Than Meets the Eye at Rath Museum
23 October 2025 • Camille Moreno
A series of dimly lit rooms unfold across two levels, each softly upholstered from floor to ceiling in luminous, velvety finishes.
Paul’s Frieze for Real
22 October 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Having gone through the initial stage of my chemo cycle I was able to make a quick visit to Frieze London towards the end of the fair
At Home in the 17th Century, Rijksmuseum
22 October 2025 • Marta Bogna-Drew
Seven curators have worked for nearly four years on this ambitious project, bringing together archaeology, anthropology and decorative arts
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in late October
19 October 2025 • Tabish Khan
Raging storms, concealment, birdsong, vultures and the power of art.
Art in the Mountains: The Orobie Biennial brings art to Italian communities
19 October 2025 • Tabish Khan
Art scales mountains to engage with local communities.
Xin Liu: Insomnia, Public Gallery, Frieze London
19 October 2025 • Yichun Huang
Her installation, Insomnia, unfolds as a living system — a meditation on plants, food, circulation, and the human body as parts of one interconnected organism.
Small is beautiful at Frieze London* this year.
18 October 2025 • Mark Westall
I found myself drawn to some equally refined small artworks at Frieze London, *and one at Frieze Masters.
Review: FOCUS Art Fair London 2025 at Saatchi Gallery.
18 October 2025 • Yichun Huang
FOCUS Art Fair 2025 captures a moment when Asian contemporary art no longer stands as the “other” in Western art discourse, but as an integral part of it