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.
A personal reflection on using AI in the arts as a support tool for thinking, writing, research, and planning, while keeping final art outcomes grounded in human authorship.
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.
Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint Garden Museum, London, 2 June to 20 September 2026 This exhibition revisits Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines’s Suffolk home, a creative hub merging painting, gardening, teaching, and lively discussion. Explore connections to Lucian Freud, Maggi Hambling, Beth Chatto, Elizabeth David, Benjamin Britten, and Peter Pears. A newly … Read more
Second Life art deserves to be written about as contemporary art. Not as a cute digital footnote. Not as nostalgia. With Raglan Shire’s 21st Artwalk opening across five regions, it is doing what art is supposed to do: gathering people around images, spaces, and shared attention.
A reflection on learning inside Second Life, prompted by a VWEC Lifelong Learning conversation about what virtual worlds are actually good for, who they leave out, and why the messy version matters more than the shiny one.
Over the last couple of weeks, the posts on this site have been doing something I did not entirely plan. They have been forming a shape. At first glance, the range looks scattered: Second Life exhibitions, art news from the physical world, queer history, museum politics, disability, AI anxieties, virtual charity events, Substack writing, personal … Read more
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.