Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough Enter Into Conversation at the National Gallery
The National Gallery is staging "Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation," pairing Gainsborough’s 1750 portrait *Mr and Mrs Andrews* with Shonibare’s 1998 sculptural reinterpretation *Mr. and Mrs Andrews without their Heads*. This is the first time the two works share a frame, offering a dialogue across 250 years that probes identity, status, and colonial legacies. Shonibare strips the original of its landscape and heads, dressing the figures in Dutch‑wax fabrics linked to West Africa, turning English aristocratic iconography into a commentary on global trade and hybridity. The exhibition runs from 15 October 2026 to 7 February 2027, bringing the Canadian‑based sculpture to UK audiences for the first time.
Lassonde Art Trail Opens on Toronto’s Waterfront with Major Public Art Programme
The Lassonde Art Trail, Canada’s most ambitious open‑air public‑art destination, opened its 2026 season on Toronto’s waterfront, stretching over four kilometres through Biidaasige Park on the newly created island Ookwemin Minising. The inaugural program features 17 sculptures, including 11 new...
As Above, So Below Brings Oceanic Intelligence to Venice Biennale
One Ocean Foundation and ZEITGEIST19 have launched "As Above, So Below," a landmark group exhibition and interdisciplinary research project staged as a collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale. Curated by Elizabeth Zhivkova and Farah Piriye Coene, the show occupies...
Lubaina Himid Unveils Reading the Label Across Cork Street for 2026 Banners Commission
Lubaina Himid’s new public installation, *Reading the Label*, has been unveiled on Cork Street as part of the 2026 Banners Commission, coinciding with London Gallery Weekend. The work displays a series of male figures painted over the past twelve years...
Synoptico Explores Attention, Memory and Digital Life Through Dance and Video Art in Los Angeles
Synoptico, a large‑scale performance by choreographer Eno Freedman Brodman, will debut at Los Angeles’ Porter Street Studio Gallery on June 26‑27. The work fuses contemporary dance, immersive video projection and installation, letting performers move across a floor that morphs in real time...
Louise Pragnell Selected for National Portrait Gallery’s Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026
British portrait artist Louise Pragnell has been chosen for the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026 at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Her oil portrait of former NBA player and NBA Africa ambassador Pops Mensah‑Bonsu was selected from nearly 1,500...
Almine Rech Now Represent Keita Morimoto
Almine Rech announced that it will represent Japanese painter Keita Morimoto in its New York and Paris locations. Morimoto’s inaugural solo show with the gallery is scheduled for 2025 in New York, followed by a presentation at Art Basel in Switzerland this...
May Auction Report: Rational Exuberance
The May auction cycle delivered $2.5 billion in sales, marking the strongest high‑value supply since last fall’s Lauder auction. While total volume surged, hammer ratios slipped, indicating buyers are paying close to estimates rather than overbidding. The market’s bottom has solidified,...
Paul’s Book of the Month: Marguerite Humeau – Auguries
Marguerite Humeau’s new monograph Auguries (White Cube, 2025) offers a deep dive into the French artist’s Turner‑Prize‑shortlisted practice, featuring essays, an interview, and 176 pages of visuals priced at £45 (≈ $58). The book surveys her recent projects, from the termite‑inspired installation ‘Meys’...
Your Guide to the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art 2026
Glasgow International, Scotland’s premier biennial contemporary art festival, returns from June 5 to June 21, 2026, offering 17 days of exhibitions, talks, workshops, and performances. The programme spans traditional galleries, civic spaces, off‑site venues, and pop‑up locations, exploring themes such...
Antony Gormley Two Exhibitions Two Countries – Miranda Carroll
British sculptor Antony Gormley is presenting two simultaneous shows in 2026: "Geestgrond" at Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA) and "What Holds Us" at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano. In Antwerp a white‑cube gallery houses the steel sculpture "Cave" and...
Lehmann Maupin Now Represent Rana Begum
Lehmann Maupin announced it will represent Bangladeshi‑British artist Rana Begum, whose work fuses light, colour, sculpture and architecture. The gallery will debut a series of her pieces at its Art Basel booth in June and host her first New York solo...
The Art Diary June 2026 – Revd Jonathan Evens
The June 2026 Art Diary spotlights a wave of exhibitions that fuse spirituality, mysticism, and historic religious spaces. Highlights include Sanya Kantarovsky’s Venice site‑specific works, James Turrell’s light‑filled Skyspaces and Roden Crater, and Renaud Muraire’s biblical‑inspired paintings in Canterbury Cathedral....
Interview: Wallace Chan Sculpts Time, Light, Life and Rebirth in Venice
Wallace Chan’s fourth Venice show, timed with the Biennale, occupies the historic Santa Maria della Pietà chapel and the iconic Scala Contarini del Bovolo staircase. Marking his 70th birthday, the exhibition introduces colour‑coded titanium sculptures that explore birth, growth and rebirth, while...
Freya Tewelde: Geometry of Elsewhere
Freya Tewelde’s first solo exhibition with Gallery 1957, "Geometry of Elsewhere," opens on 5 June 2026 as part of London Gallery Weekend and runs through 25 July. The show marks a decisive shift from figurative work to large‑scale abstraction, employing powder pigment,...