When you meander through the glittering coastlines and rolling hills of the south of France in the summer, it’s all too easy to understand why so many great artists of the C20th chose to live, work and play there…
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Following a quieter August, London’s autumn art season gets underway in September with an exciting and inventive mix of exhibitions, from major surveys and new commissions to ambitious presentations by some of the most influential artists working today…
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Here are the literary festivals in London worth putting in your diary for autumn 2026, including dates, locations, ticket prices and where to book…
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From Monet and Munch to David Hockney, Sonia Boyce and Algerian artist Baya, the exhibitions will range across centuries, continents and disciplines, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, installation, film and design. Here are the major London art exhibitions to have on your radar in 2027…
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Denmark does museums rather well. A museum visit can mean a walk by the water, a building worth seeing in its own right, or an hour spent looking at the sky through a hole in the ceiling. Below is our pick of four museums in Denmark worth making time for…
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Enter Art Fair has established itself as an important meeting point between the Scandinavian art scene and the wider international market. Founded in Copenhagen in 2019 by Julie Leopold, the fair was created to give the Danish and Nordic art scene a stronger international platform…
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The annual photography festival held in Arles from July to October spans over 50 official exhibitions, dozens of off site shows, and a range of institutional collaborations. One of the pleasures of visiting the festival is the mix of established and emerging artists presented, from some of the biggest names in photography to artists at the start of their careers…
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London is having a particularly good year for photography. Across the city, exhibitions are bringing together intimate portraits, vivid street photography, documentary images and bold new approaches to the medium…
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London’s art scene comes back to life in September, with galleries and museums reopening their doors to a packed programme of exhibitions. The months ahead bring major shows exploring everything from the cultural energy of the 1990s to questions of identity, memory, politics and justice, alongside ambitious new commissions…
Read MoreGalleries, museums, sculpture parks and historic houses across the UK are showing exhibitions worth making time for this summer. From Lynn Chadwick’s sculptures at Houghton Hall to contemporary Indigenous North American art at Yorkshire Sculpture Park…
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The Free Books Campaign marked five years of its festivals with another free book event at Brixton House over the first weekend of August. It represents something more than half a decade of commitment, hard work and defying the odds required to make it happen…
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To this reviewer, the American-born James McNeill Whistler will always be a printmaker first, a painter second. Alongside his brother-in-law Francis Seymour Haden, who compiled one of the first catalogues raisonnés of Rembrandt's prints, the pair contributed heavily to the Etching Revival in 19th-century Britain. To everyone else, however, Whistler is the painter of…
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The Design Museum in London is set to open The Nue Black Aesthetic this autumn, a major exhibition exploring the work of some of the most innovative contemporary Black designers working today. Guest curated by author and journalist Charlene Prempeh…
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Every summer, the charming city of Arles in south-west France becomes a mecca for photographers and photography-lovers. Lucien Clergue, Michel Tournier and Jean‑Maurice Rouquette founded the annual photography festival Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles in 1970 and it remains…
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Heading to Europe this summer? Make time for its museums, too. Beyond the beaches and city breaks, there’s plenty to discover, from blockbuster retrospectives and ambitious new commissions to acclaimed touring exhibitions…
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Some exhibitions are admired. Others are experienced. Beyond Bedlam belongs firmly to the latter. Richard Dadd’s story is one of the most tragic and compelling in British art. A gifted young painter, he travelled through Greece, Turkey, Syria and Egypt…
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From Henry Moore’s monumental sculptures at Kew Gardens, Tracey Emin’s career-spanning retrospective at Tate Modern, and work by the late David Hockney at the Serpentine. Here are the shows not to miss in London this summer…
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Located in the picturesque mountain town of Mougins, an artist hotspot once home to Picasso and many others, FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins) was founded by collector Christian Levett in 2024 and is exclusively dedicated to women artists…
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Nestled in the heart of New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibition, The Face of Life: Modern Portraits, features 80 portraits that capture the rapid transformations and shifting identities of the 20th century. The exhibited artists include Marsden Hartley, Gino Severini, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Catlett, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, and others…
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Pierre Huyghe at the Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland, is on view until 13 September 2026…
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