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Autumn has arrived, and London is preparing for a new season of art exhibitions. First up is the highly anticipated arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry...

  The recurring female figures of Iraqi-born Hayv Kahraman serve as a semi-autobiographical tool to explore the trauma of displacement,...

The August Art Diary focuses on retrospectives for a range of artists whose work engaged with aspects of spirituality, including Mark Rothko, Paul...

  Everyone loves a cushion, don't they? To prop you up when you're reading, or breastfeeding a baby, to rest a swollen ankle or place worn feet...

Looking at one of John Constable's sketchbooks and seeing one of his drawings of a fir tree on Hampstead Heath, the poet William Blake exclaimed,...

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of the distinguished art critic, writer and poet Edward Lucie-Smith (1933–2026). For the last...

Prix Pictet has announced that the theme for its twelfth cycle will be Jungle; the news was revealed by Maxime Bertocchi, a member of the Prix...

The Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace reopens this week with its most significant re-display in a generation. From Thursday 9 July, visitors will...

In Estonia in June, the days are long, the nights short, and the light is incredible. Saaremaa, the country’s largest island, is green, flat, with...

 Hastings Contemporary is well worth a visit for the current three shows: Miguel Rothschild’s ‘Undercurrents’, a joint show of Lucian Freud and...

The July 2026 Art Diary begins with group exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth Menorca and GRIMM exploring disorientation and complexity as zeitgeist...

  In the midst of a brutal heat wave, the Fondazione Prada was truly one of Milan’s chillest destinations. Air conditioning prevailed, from the...