Tate Britain and Turner Contemporary take their eco-missions beyond the gallery walls
The London museum is building a sustainable garden while the Margate institution has launched a biennial summit exploring our oceans
Comment | Lismore Castle exhibition makes a creative case for more seating in galleries
The exhibition ‘Salon’ at the Irish venue features work by artists including Denzil Forrester and Margot Bergman, as well as an eccentric assortment of chairs
Glasgow International 2026 offers reminder of city’s cultural power at a challenging time
The latest edition of the art festival brings together potent work by artists both local and global across more than 30 venues
Anish Kapoor: ‘Just because a thing is big, it doesn’t mean it’s of any interest or even good’
With a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London, the Turner Prize-winning artist—known for his monumental creations and use of rich pigments—explains why he continues to be drawn to feminine imagery, how rituals are important to his art, and what it is like working with the blackest black
London Gallery Weekend 2026: our critics pick their top shows
With over 120 galleries across the UK capital participating in this year's London Gallery Weekend, our critics have chosen their top 20 shows to guide you through the weekend
Venice verdicts: art world figures give their thoughts on the 2026 Biennale
From Tai Shani to Ekow Eshun, seven leading art world figures reflect on Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys, the main exhibition, as well as the national pavilions and other collateral and institutional exhibitions
Boats and trains, not planes: reflections on a greener—but sometimes greenwashed—Venice Biennale
From curator Koyo Kouoh’s foregrounding of “all earthly elements” to Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo's new sustainable art island, references to the environment can be found throughout the Italian city
At Birmingham's Ikon Gallery, Angela de la Cruz's audacious, visceral art takes no prisoners
“Upright” is the artist's first exhibition in a UK institution since 2010
Lubaina Himid on capturing the 'uneasiness' of Britain for her Venice Biennale pavilion
The artist, who was born in Zanzibar, describes Britain as having "all the hallmarks of safety and calm, but has an underlying loathing of the Other"
Lee Ufan: ‘I try to bring together those things which are made and unmade’
The South Korean artist, whose work is on show in Venice's Piazza San Marco during the Biennale, describes how his work combines the natural and industrial, and why he taught himself to draw breath—literally
‘It’s really important that the public is not just a silent witness’: Marina Abramović on her Venice Biennale exhibition
The self-styled “grandmother of performance art” is the first female living artist to exhibit at the Gallerie dell’Accademia—and she wants everyone to join in
Paul McCarthy: ‘The world is now an extreme absurdity. The work is a reaction to that’
The veteran provocateur talks about his return to the enduring motif of Santa Claus, and his ongoing collaboration with the German actress Lilith Stangenberg, as an exhibition of his taboo-busting work opens in Paris
Slags, bings and pipelines: Edinburgh landscape offers fitting backdrop for exhibition on fossil fuel extraction
While Jupiter Artland show brings together five artists whose work explores energy histories, the sculpture park and gallery has transitioned to nearly 100% renewable energy
Defiant women and daring paintings: Emin, Webster and Wylie create a buzz in the UK's exhibition calendar
Solo shows of strong women artists provide inspiration in gloomy times
Demise of world's largest mangrove forest inspires Bangladeshi artist Soma Surovi Jannat's new works
The links between natural disasters and social inequalities in Bangladesh underpin the exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
Comment | Beryl Cook UK retrospective shows there is much more to the artist than amazing bums
The artist was as much an explorer of gender, class and body image as of saucy pleasure
Rose Wylie: ‘It’s very, very fragile where a painting ends. All the time it sits on a precarious edge’
After beginning her career in the 1950s, and then taking 25 years out to raise a family, the artist finally hit her stride in the 2000s. Now, she is the first female painter to have a show in the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts in London
Art collective Cooking Sections’ food projects are helping save the planet
Art duo are delivering actionable ecological change through sustainable food production and consumption schemes
At London’s Freud Museum, the artist Cathie Pilkington has made a ghostly intervention
The British artist’s exhibition explores Freud’s housekeeper as a poltergeist figure
Tracey Emin: ‘I’ve done more in my last five years than in the whole rest of my life’
Tate Modern is hosting the largest retrospective to date of one of the UK’s biggest artists, who has never shrunk away from laying bare the most intimate and even traumatic details of her personal life
Practice what you preach: artists reflect on ocean crisis at England's Baltic as centre wins sustainability award
Shezad Dawood, Joan Jonas and Otobong Nkanga are among the artists included in the group exhibition 'For All At Last Return'
Inside the star-studded party celebrating 30 years of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Through her Turin-based foundation, collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaundengo has shaped the art world as we know it today
Paris exhibition provides a new canon-busting vision of Minimalism
Bourse de Commerce show celebrates the movement's unsung stars such as Meg Webster
Enrico David: ‘It’s as if the objects are there as an avatar for something that has gone’
From mutated humanoid figures to sculptural furniture and miniature theatrical scenes, the Italian artist’s exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli teems with proxies for loss
How ‘archaeological ceramicist’ Yasmin Smith has forever changed the way I look at flint
“Elemental Life” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia shows the artist's unique use of sculpture and glazes to explore history, ecology and geology
Comment | As Cop30 opens in Brazil, it is time for the art world to embrace ethics with aesthetics
Ten years on from Gustav Metzger’s visionary environmental art project “Remember Nature”, global leaders and gallerists alike must engage with the climate crisis, writes Louisa Buck
Tehching Hsieh: ‘I didn’t try to be a superman, my work is not about heroism’
The Taiwan-born artist is best known for a series of year-long performances which subjected his mind and body to near-torturous conditions. As a major retrospective of his work opens in the US, he discusses these remarkable pieces
Comment | I went to see Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst sculptures in an ancient UK cave system—and it was eerily brilliant
Clearwell Caves provided a unique backdrop for an exhibition of 70 contemporary works
Everyone’s a winner, baby: prizes abound during Frieze London
We take stock of who has won what, from the Tate Frieze Fund to the Circa 2025 prize
Thinking bigger: gallery stalwarts Sadie Coles, Maureen Paley and Stuart Shave on why they're expanding to new London spaces
Amid a challenging art market, the gallerists remain positive about London's resilience as an international hub






























