The teetering sculpture of Phyllida Barlow meets the textile poetry of Daisy Parris.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Opening this weekend at Sharjah Art Foundation, Body Quotidian (13 June – 20 September 2026) brings together the practices of Pakistani artists Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar in an exploration of the body’s place within the rhythms…

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The Barbican opens one of its most ambitious exhibitions of the year tomorrow with Project a Black Planet: The Art... Read More

A conversation with Feng Xiao-Min on painting, perception and the pursuit of simplicity.

Invasive Species at Hypha Studios brings together fifteen women artists exploring memory, sensory experience, psychological dissonance and transformation

Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action. is both a major retrospective and a timely tribute to one of the great pioneers of kinetic and participatory art.

Beauty, surgery, rabbits, eyeballs and the Thames.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES At Efie Gallery, In Abstracto, In Concreto (16 May–21 September 2026) brings together four artists whose practices move between figuration and abstraction to examine memory, identity, and belonging through the lens of African and diasporic experience. Curated…

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From Anne Imhof and Shao Fan to Daniel Arsham and Rachel Maclean, here are six standout exhibitions to see during London Gallery Weekend 2026.

Hackney Art Week returns with more than 130 artists, exhibitions, performances and community projects across 60 venues in East London.

Opening this Thursday, 4th June, the National Portrait Gallery is set to mark the centenary of Marilyn Monroe with a major exhibition

Bedsheets, surreal photography, pearls, smoking and pink twine.

MOCA London presents Silvia Ziranek’s BY A THREAD incorporating UNSUNG SONGS, a multimedia installation exploring solidarity, vulnerability and resistance.

Shao Fan discusses painting, repetition, Buddhism and the experience of time in this conversation accompanying Refrain at White Cube.

A journey through Suffolk reveals the landscapes and legacy of John Constable 250 years after his birth.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Presented at Dubai’s Ayyam Gallery, The Eye: An Aperture Into the Soul (13 May – 4 July 2026) brings together a new body of monochromatic paintings by Syrian artist Safwan Dahoul. Continuing his long-running Dream series, Dahoul…

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Anne Imhof opens Citizen at Sprüth Magers during London Gallery Weekend, presenting new paintings, sculpture, film and installation.

Ndayé Kouagou’s Heaven’s truth explores language, AI and uncertainty through a work that asks viewers to slow down and pay attention.

REVIEW: WITH MY ROOTS, where painting, sculpture and installation navigate memory, identity and contemporary experience.

Hurvin Anderson: Country Club: Chicken Wire, 2008 – oil on canvas, 240 x 347 cm Hurvin Anderson’s superb 80-work retrospective... Read More

Eliza Douglas opens GHOSTS at Gagosian, reworking past paintings through layered imagery, memory and hauntological ideas.

Waddesdon Manor’s Art in Nature returns with a new 70-metre collaborative mandala by James Brunt and Jon Foreman.

Ruth Ewan’s The Dagenham Agates will honour the Ford sewing machinists whose historic strikes helped shape the Equal Pay Act.

From colour and material hierarchies to community and collective making, Icheon and Beyond explores Korean ceramics with co-curator Jaemin Cha.

Great Pulteney Street presents Soho Solos, bringing together 4 solo exhibitions by Soho Open prize winners this June.

Hair, ghosts, pink paint, domesticity and a gun.

Roni Horn returns to London with Seizure of Hope, a new exhibition exploring repetition, language and the emotional weight of hope.

Maintenance Work: Practices of Care, brings together artists working across installation, performance, video and sculpture.

Bringing together a bold new body of work spanning painting, sculpture and ideas of form itself

Tabish Khan takes on nearly every national pavilion at the Venice Biennale with fast, funny and brutally concise one-sentence reviews