Can We Separate Art from Artist?

Can we separate art from artist? Victoria Comstock-Kershaw argues that we not only can, but must, and that refusing to do so is making criticism weaker, culture flatter, and all of us a little bit stupider - and makes the case for Kanye West and Jay-Z’s 2011 album ‘Watch the Throne’ as the greatest piece of twenty-first century art.

25 Mar 2026

Is the Artist Residency Worth It?

The artist residency is one of the few things in the art world that artists will defend with genuine warmth. It can change your practice, your network, your sense of what you're even making work for. It can also cost you a month of lost income, a donated work and a $25 application fee for something that turns out to be a big fat scam. Underregulated, uneven and increasingly crowded with programmes that range from life-changing to exploitative, we set out to work out whether the artist residency is actually worth it.

18 Mar 2026

How Should Artists Price Their Works?

What's your artwork actually worth? A 2024 study analysed 34,000 auction sales and found that the visual qualities of an artwork barely influence its price. The honest answer involves your social network, your collectors' net worth, and a behavioural economics concept called the endowment effect. We asked artists, gallerists, and researchers how to approach the ever-difficult task of pricing.

11 Mar 2026

What Does a Solo Show Mean Today?

From refusal to rite of passage, the solo exhibition has travelled a long way. Once a workaround for artists shut out of academies and salons, it now sits at the centre of how careers are built, valued, and remembered. Drawing on conversations with artists, curators, and gallerists, Victoria Comstock-Kershaw traces the history of the solo show from acts of artistic insubordination to today’s prestige format, asking whether one artist in one room can still be a space for experimentation rather than expectation.

25 Feb 2026

Can We Trust the Art Critic?

Writing about being asked to speak at the ICA in 1977 for a conference on the Crisis in British Art, Victor Burgin said the following: “I never did learn what the ‘Crisis in British Art’ was; nor, I suspect, did anyone else. In retrospect I now see a textbook example of what psychoanalysis terms projection: the crisis sensed was not in ‘art’ but in criticism itself.” Writing in early 2026, we set out to speak to critics to find out just how this crisis has mutated, and whether there’s any hope for those of wanting to trust critics again.

4 Feb 2026

Condo 2026: Critic's Picks

It’s sometimes difficult to know how to judge a show in Condo. Is it solely down to the art, or is it the way the host space and visiting gallery create a new context together? The following shows, presented in no particular order, demonstrate in my humble but correct opinion the many kinds of “good” you can find across this year's exhibitions. This is less a definitive ranking than a small taxonomy of Condo success: sometimes it’s host/guest alchemy and the generation of a third thing; sometimes it’s simply two strong programmes sharing space; sometimes it’s a pairing that only makes sense once you’re in the room - and sometimes it’s just pure visual pleasure.

28 Jan 2026

What Can We Expect from the Art World in 2026?

Happy 2026 everyone! As we all know, ins and outs lists are boring and passé, unless they’re yours. I’ve gathered a few of my own predictions for the coming year.

19 Jan 2026

Has Social Media Made Art Worse?

Is the internet the best cultural infrastructure we’ve ever built, or the reason everyone’s making the same work, saying the same things, and spiralling in public? brave speaks to artists across generations about what social media gives, what it takes, and what’s left

12 Jan 2026

How Do Curators Actually Pick Artists?

Exhibitions don’t appear by magic. They are built through relationships, timing, labour and decisions most artists are never taught to read. Victoria Comstock-Kershaw looks at how shows actually come together, and why understanding the structure matters more than believing the myth.

15 Dec 2025

Should You Go to Art School?

“I wouldn't be where I am without art school.... But then again I wouldn't be where I am without art school.” Art schools promise community, credibility and a career. Most artists get debt, precarity and a second job. Victoria Comstock-Kershaw talks to artists, advisors and curators to ask: in 2025, is art school still worth it - or is the work all that really matters?

5 Dec 2025