Stay updated with the latest happenings in the world of visual arts and photography. From groundbreaking exhibitions to emerging artists making headlines, this section brings you the news that shapes the art scene.
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Marking fifteen years since his secret detention, Ai Weiwei's 'Sewing a Button' transforms his imprisonment into a 24-hour live performance at Manchester's Aviva Studios, accompanied by a major exhibition and a programme of public events.
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Spanning more than six decades, Frank Bowling: Driven to Draw at the Royal Drawing School explores the celebrated artist's lifelong engagement with drawing through sketches, paintings and archival material, while inaugurating a new annual exhibition series dedicated to drawing.
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Monumental new installations, mirrored sculptures and enigmatic voids transform the Hayward Gallery as Anish Kapoor presents an ambitious exhibition that challenges perception and invites audiences to look beyond the visible world.
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Visitors are invited to walk through Jesús Rafael Soto's luminous Pénétrable BBL Jaune as Serpentine launches a summer season featuring major exhibitions, family activities, technological projects and the 25th edition of its annual Pavilion.
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A new participatory artwork by Es Devlin and Google Arts & Culture Lab invites people across the UK to contribute their own digital portraits, creating an evolving collective portrait displayed at the National Portrait Gallery until October 2026.
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A major new volume marking the centenary of Claude Monet's death brings together more than 400 letters, offering rare insight into the artist's creative process, personal relationships and professional struggles through his own words.
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Jack White makes his public art debut with 'These Thoughts May Disappear' at Newport Street Gallery in London. Featuring sculpture, furniture, installations, and found-object assemblages, the exhibition reveals three decades of creative exploration beyond his celebrated musical career.
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An ambitious new exhibition at Palazzo Manfrin sees Anish Kapoor transform sculpture into architecture, bringing together monumental installations, unrealised projects, pigment voids, mirrors, and immersive environments during the 61st La Biennale di Venezia.
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Nalini Malani’s 'Of Woman Born', presented by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art as a Collateral Event at the La Biennale di Venezia 2026, transforms Venice’s Magazzini del Sale into an immersive meditation on myth, violence, and women’s voices.
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India returns to the Venice Biennale with 'Geographies of Distance: remembering home', a group exhibition curated by Amin Jaffer exploring memory, migration and belonging through five artists working with materials rooted in Indian traditions.
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A major exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum presents The Met’s jewellery collection in Asia for the first time, tracing 4,000 years of adornment and exploring jewellery as a medium of culture, identity, and expression.
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India Art Fair 2026 returns to New Delhi with its most ambitious edition yet, bringing together 135 exhibitors, landmark commissions, performance, design, and city-wide collaborations that reflect the evolving global presence of South Asian art.