Hayward Gallery Touring has tapped curator and writer Ekow Eshun to steer the British Art Show 10, opening September 2026 in Coventry before rolling out to Swansea, Bristol, Sheffield, and Newcastle Gateshead. Marking the exhibition's most ambitious geographic reach...
London's streets have long been a battleground for visual dissent, but few have weaponised pop iconography as precisely as Dean Stockton, better known as D*Face. Emerging in the late 1990s, his work dissects celebrity, consumerism, and mortality with the gleeful...
Vincent van Gogh. Born 30 March 1853 (Died 29 July 1890) in the rural Dutch village of Zundert, his existence was a paradox of blazing creativity and consuming despair. In just ten turbulent years, he redefined what painting could express, turning canvas into a diary...
Happy 88th Birthday David Hockney! Few artists have traversed the terrain of contemporary art with the same vitality, irreverence, and formal restlessness as David Hockney. Born in Bradford in 1937, he has spent over six decades dismantling and reimagining the...
I love London in the Summer, though many might argue. I love the art in parks, the getting out and discovering new lost and unfound museums and galleries, and occasionally escaping on a train to the seaside, but whilst the tourists crowd the big attractions, I go...
For the June diary, I begin with two important recently published books about religion and contemporary art. Next, I highlight several exhibitions and artists whose work connects with the themes explored in these books. These include Anselm Kiefer, Vincent van Gogh...
Alan Yentob, the respected BBC broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, and arts champion, has passed away aged 78. Over a career spanning five decades, he became one of British television’s most influential figures, leaving an enormous mark on the British cultural...
Dara Birnbaum (1946–2025), who passed away last week, spent five decades laying siege to the apparatus of television, rewriting its language from within, and—crucially—holding a mirror up to the coded myths of popular culture. The Marian Goodman Gallery announced her...
Sue Hubbard went to Scarborough to see the completed coastal art and nature trail, featuring works by Jeremy Deller, Emma Smith, Ryan Gander, Shezad Dawood with Daisy Hildyard, Paul Morrison and Juneau Projects. It was a glorious spring day, the sun glinting on...