FAD NEWS: Hypha Studios to Open Major New South Bank Cultural Hub with Galleries, Studios and Artist-Led Programme
Hypha Studios is opening its largest cultural destination, Hypha Gallery South Bank, on 25 June 2026 in Bankside. The venue offers 9,000 sq ft of exhibition space and over 4,000 sq ft of artist studios, supporting roughly 600 artists through shows, studio provision and a sales platform that returns 70% of revenue to creators. Developed with HUB and Bridges Fund Management, the hub also includes a flexible project space and a permanent Hypha Curates showroom launched in 2025. The project expands Hypha’s five‑year track record of activating vacant buildings for the arts.
FAD NEWS: Ugo Rondinone Creates City-Wide Celebration of Light
Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone is launching MORE LIGHT, a three‑part summer project in London that weaves public and gallery installations around the theme of light. A three‑metre‑high rainbow poem crowns the Royal Academy courtyard, while 54 sunrise‑sunset flags line Bond Street, creating...
Artists Amy Douglas & Lou Winwood Unite for First Joint Exhibition, COLLISIO
The COLLISIO exhibition pairs British ceramicist Amy Douglas with mixed‑media artist Lou Winwood for their first joint show, running 11‑14 June 2026 at Studio Two Point in London. The show blends painting, collage, drawing and ceramics, featuring works like Douglas’s...
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...
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...
When AetherCanvas Art Holds Energy: Exploring the Intersection of Material, Emotion, and Spatial Design
Luxury interior design is moving from overt opulence to "quiet luxury," emphasizing calm, focus, and emotional resonance. High‑end homeowners now seek spaces that nurture wellbeing through color, texture, and light. AetherCanvas translates Eastern Five‑Elements philosophy into wall art that uses...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
Silvia Ziranek Presents BY A THREAD Incorporating UNSUNG SONGS at MOCA London
Silvia Ziranek’s new multimedia exhibition BY A THREAD incorporating UNSUNG SONGS opens at MOCA London from 31 May to 5 July 2026. The centerpiece is a 10‑foot mobile, B.A.T., suspended from the ceiling and constructed from everyday textiles, picture frames and carpet tiles. Poetry is woven directly into...
Artist Grows What Could Be the Largest Photograph Ever Made in a Field Near Toulouse
Artist Almudena Romero, in partnership with France’s INRAE, has transformed over 11,000 sqm of farmland near Toulouse into what may be the world’s largest photographic artwork. The piece, titled *Farming Photographs*, uses seeded crops to grow a massive human eye that...
Anne Imhof Exhibition to Open for London Gallery Weekend
Anne Imhof returns to Sprüth Magers for *Citizen*, a solo show opening during London Gallery Weekend. The exhibition runs from June 5 to August 1, 2026, and pairs new large‑scale Wave paintings with a four‑channel film, crowd‑barrier sculptures, oil‑pastel drawings and bronze reliefs. Across media,...
Inside Elsa Sahal’s Studio, Following Her Art Prize Win
French sculptor Elsa Sahal captured the Her Art Prize at Art Paris 2026, taking home €30,000 (about $32,400) and a worldwide promotional campaign led by Marie Claire and Boucheron. The award recognized three new sculptures—Suzanne, Gene and Gilda—displayed by Galerie Papillon, which fuse...