Fernando Botero: In Praise of an Amplified World
Fernando Botero’s work is instantly recognisable and unfortunately, routinely misunderstood. His rounded figures are often described as humorous or simply “fat”, a reading the Colombian artist resisted throughout his life. For Botero, the subject was volume: the sensual, monumental presence created when proportion is deliberately altered. Opera Gallery London’s forthcoming Fernando Botero: In Praise of […]
Slow Dance
Slow Dance arrives at MCA Chicago with a deceptively simple proposition: what happens when the body refuses to keep up? Opening on 12 September, the exhibition brings together six artists who use performance, sculpture, painting and video to examine slowness not as passivity but as a conscious response to the contemporary pressure to be endlessly […]
Amar Kanwar: Into the Darkness
This autumn, Serpentine North will become something close to a darkened cinema, though Amar Kanwar’s work has never sat comfortably within the boundaries of film. The New Delhi-based artist has spent more than three decades using moving image, sound, text and archival material to examine violence, power, memory and justice, often through histories rooted in […]
Fragments and Futures
What does it mean to “unearth” the past today? This summer’s exhibition at Art Space Pythagorion asks us to reconsider how we look at, and live alongside, antiquity. Bringing together painting, sculpture, installation, performance and digital media, Fragments and Futures explores how the visual languages, material remains and mythic narratives of classical archaeology continue to […]
Metamorphoses, Ovid and the Arts
The Galleria Borghese exhibition Metamorphoses is the second incarnation of the innovative collaboration between the Galleria Borghese in Rome and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Here in Rome, the exhibition arises from the very heart of the collection, which showcases art from the finest masters and iconic works spanning two millennia. The exhibition in Rome is […]
Route 66 Turns 100
Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2026, Route 66 shows no sign of losing its hold on the American imagination. Established in 1926 as one of the original roads in the United States Numbered Highway System, it became far more than a way of getting from one place to another. From Chicago to Santa Monica, its […]
Jacques Henri Lartigue: Life in Colour
There is something quietly radical about seeing Jacques Henri Lartigue in colour. For decades, his reputation has rested on those buoyant black-and-white images of early 20th-century France: racing cars tilting forward, aeroplanes lifting off, friends caught mid-laugh. They feel unintentional, almost accidental. Life in Colour focuses on a lesser-known strand of Lartigue’s work, bringing together […]
50 Years of Patek Philippe’s Nautilus
Half a century after Gérald Genta’s audacious 1976 sketch turned the watch world on its head, Patek Philippe is marking the Nautilus’s golden anniversary in the place where the maison safeguards its own history: the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva. The new thematic display traces the watch’s unlikely ascent from the “enfant terrible” of 1970s […]
Ed van der Elsken. Up Close
There are photographers who observe the world and those who seem to plunge straight into it. Ed van der Elsken belonged firmly to the second camp. Never coolly detached, rarely neutral, he photographed with appetite: for faces, for attitude, for youth, for cities in motion. That instinct is at the heart of Ed van der […]
Barbara Hepworth: Reshaping the Rhythm of Art
As The Courtauld Gallery opens The Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen Exhibition: Hepworth in Colour this summer, London is looking again at Dame Barbara Hepworth, not only as one of Britain’s great modernist abstract sculptors, but as a woman who carved out a life of courage, independence and radical self-determination. She entered a world where […]
