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London edition of Dallas Invitational set to open at former US embassy in 2026

The Eero Saarinen-designed building will host around 15 galleries during next year's Frieze week

Frieze London diary: art historical speed dating and frozen faeces

Plus: Tracey Emin and Nicholas Cullinan get confessional and Kate Bush gets artists running up that hill

From fossils to fine art: top sales at Frieze Masters London

The fair makes headway with the sale of a Triceratops skull on opening night

Frieze London diary: hair at the fair, art takes the streets and dreamers hit the sheets

Plus: the surprising benefits of reindeer pelts and where to take selfies with nudes in socks

‘Greater balance and fairness’ in stand pricing brings diverse galleries to Frieze London

The new pricing structure, introduced in last year in 2024, continues to encourage growth and participation

‘We are in a very special situation as collectors’: Petr Pudil on opening the Kunsthalle Praha in Prague, and the art he collects

Alongside catching London’s museum shows, the co-founder of the Pudil Family Foundation likes to jog along the Thames and head out for a curry

‘It was the cheapest possible art form I could imagine’: Sophia Al-Maria performs stand-up for Frieze London

As the winner of this year’s Frieze London Artist Award, the artist will perform daily this week

U-Haul Gallery—briefly—brings art to the streets during Frieze London

The mobile gallery has been showing art from parking spots for over a year, but its stay at Regent's Park was short lived

Frieze London's Artist-to-Artist section highlights talent emerging amid political tensions

While leaders around the world are placing a great deal of focus on people's differences, here unity and collectivity come to the fore

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

The Art Newspaper and L'OFFICIEL to launch Frieze week pop-up at historic London newsagent

Join us this weekend at Shreeji, Marylebone, for complimentary drinks, and to grab your free copy of all our Frieze daily editions

‘There is always something else to discover’: Glenn Brown on the art he collects and why

The artist known for his reinterpretations of others’ works explains why he treasures an early Hockney drawing and why he’ll be steering clear of Frieze week parties

A tale of two philanthropies: why private foundations differ in London and Paris

While the new Fondation Cartier exemplifies the heft of corporate giving in Paris, the additions of YDP and Ibraaz bring London greater diversity

New London venue to focus on global majority arts—and host ‘necessary conversations’

Ibraaz, funded by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation and opening on 15 October, is a multi-disciplinary art space in Fitzrovia that seeks to address “urgent questions”

Almine Rech shuts London gallery but will open another there 'soon'

The prominent art dealership has closed its London operations in “a technical step to restructure a lease that no longer aligned with its plans”

Michael Landy's memorial to aid workers, in development for over a decade, unveiled in London

The work, which is located at Gunnersbury Park Museum, relays the stories of individuals involved with humanitarian assistance

London's Postal Museum launches collaboration with victims of Post Office Horizon scandal

The group of sub-postmasters will work with the museum to tell their own stories, in their own words

Kerry James Marshall offers a fresh lesson in art history at his London retrospective

The US artist’s paintings that nod knowingly to the past will be joined by new works in a vast survey at the Royal Academy of Arts

After years of underrepresentation, new public sculptures show London is finally celebrating its daughters

Since 2021, more women have been commemorated in the capital than in second half of 20th century

Ch-ch-changes at V&A as David Bowie Centre opens

The centres opens on 13 September at the V&A East Storehouse, and mines a vast archive to explore the musician’s artistic processes, networks and influences

‘Sometimes you just have to go for it’: as others close, Ben Hunter expands his London gallery

The art dealer, who has taken over an entire townhouse in coveted St James’s, talks overheads, growth and balancing the primary and secondary markets

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Saatchi Yates raises a glass to London

The gallery has launched an exhibition dedicated to the capital, featuring artists including Jenny Saville and Peter Doig

Artists travel back in time with work created from ancient wood discovered at site of lost London river

Jane and Louise Wilson’s work will go on show at site of Roman temple in the heart of London

Christie’s celebrates the late Syrian artist Marwan with non-selling London show

The exhibition is auction house’s third dedicated to Middle Eastern art, part of a strategy to support the region

London urban oasis hosts artist’s multimedia investigation into plants’ resilience in the face of climate crisis

Vivienne Schadinsky, artist-in-residence at OmVed Gardens, in north London has used the two-acre plot as a “living laboratory” to make ink paintings, films, sculptures and prints devoted to beans and their ecology

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Knockin’ on Halcyon’s door: Bob Dylan's latest artworks on show in London gallery

"Point Blank" exhibition features 97 paintings created between 2021 and 2022

Painted Roman plaster discovered in London may reveal name of interior decorator who lived almost 2,000 years ago

The name of the decorator may yet emerge from a huge jigsaw of fragments of found in Southwark, just south of the Thames

London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows

From a stolen portrait of Francis Bacon to encromancy, here's our selection of outstanding shows to see in the UK capital

Pallets, not plinths: the V&A opens its vast storehouse to the public

The V&A East Storehouse, opening at the 2012 London Olympics site on Saturday 31 May, offers visitors an experience akin to a trip to Ikea—including the chance to “order an object”

Dexter Dalwood: ‘If we want art history to change, we need to include artists in creating shows’

The Bristol-born artist has been back in the UK to co-curate a show at the National Gallery dedicated to José María Velasco, a painter well known in Dalwood’s adopted home, Mexico, but virtually unheard of here