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 […]
Pomellato, Le Joaillier Révolutionnaire
Founded in Milan in 1967 by Pino Rabolini, Pomellato arrived at a moment when fashion, design and women’s lives were being rewritten, and treated jewellery with the same modern instinct that Italian prêt-à-porter was bringing to clothes: desirable, sensual, independent and made to be lived in. That spirit sits at the centre of Pomellato, Le […]
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait
Timed to mark the centenary of Marilyn’s birth, Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait is a landmark exhibition that brings together paintings, photographs and rarely seen material to discover the real woman behind the most recognisable face in 20th-century popular culture, the woman who understood, perhaps better than anyone, how images could both build and imprison a […]
Serpentine Pavilion 2026 by LANZA Atelier
For its 25th edition, the Serpentine Pavilion commissioned LANZA atelier, the Mexico City-based practice founded by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, whose design, a serpentine, is rooted in one of England’s most ingenious architectural forms: the crinkle-crankle wall. The design is spectacular in its modesty. Its winding brick wall curves across the lawn at Serpentine […]
Sylvia Safdie: TERRA
Now on view at the National Gallery of Canadam Sylvia Safdie: TERRA, feels disarmingly modest. There is no drama, there are no pyrotechnics, just her lifelong, primal relationship with the Earth, using literal raw soil as her primary art medium. This is the first major exhibition dedicated to the Montreal-based artist at the institution and […]
Winston Churchill: The Painter
When Winston Churchill is brought back into view, it is usually as war leader, orator, bulldog spirit of defiance. Much less often is he considered as a painter, which is precisely what makes Winston Churchill: The Painter such an intriguing proposition. Opening at the Wallace Collection this May, the exhibition is billed as the first […]
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art at the V&A
At the V&A South Kensington, Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art is a reminder that Elsa Schiaparelli treated fashion as provocation, performance, wit and visual shock long before such words became part of the industry’s default vocabulary. Born in Rome in 1890, Schiaparelli arrived in Paris with none of the obedient instincts expected of a couturier. Where […]
Jadine Collingwood: A Curator in Motion
There is no such thing as overnight success. Jadine Collingwood, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at MCA Chicago, has carved her own path through the world of art, moving between scholarship, institutional practice and contemporary exhibition-making with a consistent interest in performance, feminist theory, new media and the pressures produced by contemporary life. At the MCA, […]
Dancing the Revolution
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Dancing the Revolution approaches dancehall and reggaetón from an entirely new perspective, as cultural engines shaped by colonial histories, diasporic movement and collective resistance. Opening in April 2026, the exhibition marks the first major museum presentation to explore how these forms have influenced contemporary visual art while remaining […]
