Exhibitions, institutions, art history, cultural preservation, and real-world art stories connected to SLRandom ArtCrew’s wider creative interests.
Exhibition Where July relevance Type Waldmüller: Landscapes National Gallery, London 2 July to 20 September 2026 Art, landscape painting Ana Mendieta Tate Modern, London 15 July 2026 to 17 January 2027 Contemporary art, performance, earth-body work Tracey Emin: A Second Life Tate Modern, London Open through July, until 31 August 2026 Contemporary art, autobiography, body, … Read more
A look at Surrealism Beyond Borders, the Met and Tate exhibition that reframed Surrealism as a global movement of freedom, resistance, feminism, exile, and anti-colonial imagination.
Open: 1 April to 28 June 2026. Venue: Brunel’s SS Great Britain, Great Western Dockyard, Bristol. Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm.Important note: Closed Mondays, so it is not available on Monday, 8 June 2026Entry: Free with admission to SS Great Britain For anyone looking for an offline exhibition between 8 and 14 … Read more
This is a list of some of the ongoing exhibitions in the UK. Exhibition Where Dates Type Why it fits M.C. Escher. The Exhibition Somerset House, London 5 Jun to 6 Sept 2026 Art Strongest art pick. Pattern, perception, impossible spaces, optical weirdness. Open Tue to Sun, closed Monday. Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait National Portrait … Read more
A quick guide to five London exhibition openings next week, from Baselitz at White Cube and Le Parc at Tate Modern to Panafrica at the Barbican, Hepworth at the Courtauld, and Survivors at Fitzrovia Chapel.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is facing a copyright dispute from British artist Anouska Samms, who claims that a dress she holds the intellectual property rights to was included in a costume exhibition without credit or permission. Samms has publicly stated that the Met should “take responsibility.” This is not a minor administrative oversight. It … Read more
A recently discovered painting by Leonora Carrington, made during her confinement in a Spanish psychiatric hospital in 1940, goes on public display for the first time at the Freud Museum London this summer. This post looks at what the work reveals and why Carrington still matters.
This week’s art news brought a surprisingly human set of stories: children being trusted in gallery spaces, famous painters revealed as serious printmakers, a heritage battle in Rome, and a quiet argument that arts funding needs to grow up.
David Sainsbury has donated £91.2 million to the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich. The gift will fund major upgrades, but it also raises difficult questions about philanthropy and the future of UK museums.
Tracey Emin’s new lithograph series I Need tomorrow arrives alongside her Tate Modern retrospective, reframing her work through survival, illness, printmaking, and the art of continuing.