Artefields is a French-language newsletter of critical essays on visual arts, pairing close visual readings of individual works and exhibitions with questions about power, class and representation. Each issue focuses on a single artist or show, such as Akari Takenobu, Michaël Borremans or Mary Cassatt.

An artist-author shares behind-the-scenes accounts of how his paintings, especially the Dinotopia series, were made. Readers get practical detail on preparatory studies, model posing, maquettes and sources of inspiration.

Alice Gribbin writes long-form essays on art, examining Renaissance and Baroque painters such as Raphael, Tiepolo and Delacroix and questioning what makes an artwork endure. The essays combine close visual description with broader arguments about aesthetics, metaphysics and the will required to look seriously at painting.

Ev Delafose writes long, dense gallery notes on contemporary art exhibitions, with a focus on painting, queer subjectivity and Black critical theory. Readers get theory-heavy close readings of specific shows, framed by philosophical concepts rather than news or listings.