Imagine an Artworld Without State FundingJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview29 May 2025State funding tends to come with strings attached, trapping arts organisations into bureaucratic policies. So who wants it?
Is Ed Atkins an Artist for Our Time, or a Symptom of It?J.J. CharlesworthArtReview22 May 2025Atkins’s work is emblematic of a tension in our culture’s current view of what it means to be human
Finding Barbara SteveniJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview09 May 2025How Steveni went about relocating the artist from the seclusion of the gallery into the social world
Noah Davis’s Mythical Social RealismJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview23 April 2025The late artist’s painting, on show at the Barbican, positions ordinary people and ordinary life as a thing to be cherished
Who’s Afraid of Identity?J.J. CharlesworthArtReview16 April 2025After Trump’s second coming, the artworld will have to work hard to regain its legitimacy
Takashi Murakami: Something Like a PhenomenonJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview14 April 2025From 2007: J.J. Charlesworth probes Murakami’s attitude to making culture, both inside and outside the artworld
Grayson Perry: Insider or Outsider?J.J. Charlesworthartreview.com04 April 2025In ‘Delusions of Grandeur’ at the Wallace Collection, the British artist pokes fun at the artworld’s hierarchies of class and taste. But is he really in on the joke?
