Review: Huidi Xiang at YveYANG: Tail as an Apocalypse
5 October 2026 • Chunbum Park
Chunbum Park on Huidi Xiang’s strange, seductive world of tails at YveYANG.
REVIEWS
Art reviews, The most interesting art exhibitions reviewed by FAD magazine.
REVIEW: Karolina Bielawska, Sparrow’s Heart
4 October 2026 • Toby Üpson
Karolina Bielawska’s Sparrow’s Heart turns birds, painting and installation into a meditation on vulnerability, interdependence and space.
Art and Architecture in Three Acts
4 October 2026 • Meike Brunkhorst
Three London exhibitions explore very different relationships between art and architecture, from opulent and theatrical to minimal and site-specific.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to See in London in October
4 October 2026 • Tabish Khan
Photography, sculpture, design and printmaking: five London exhibitions to see this October.
A Soft, Bright Moment: Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy of Arts
3 October 2026 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
A sun-soaked Royal Academy exhibition traces how the French Riviera shaped modern art — and what gets lost when history is softened by the light.
REVIEW: Yanjie Gao: Growing Within the Greenhouse
2 October 2026 • Mark Westall
Yanjie Gao’s Greenhouse Plants turns blown glass, cultivated forms and family relationships into a meditation on growth, care and constraint.
Journey into the Wonderworld of Es Devlin
30 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Es Devlin turns 30 years of projects, models and archives into a magical journey through Other Worlds at the Design Museum.
Between Seams and Open Space: What Textiles Made Visible at The Armory Show 2026
29 September 2026 • Kun Sok
Kun Sok follows fabric and fiber works across The Armory Show 2026, from visible seams to open space and shifting viewpoints.
Paul’s Book of the Month: Jennifer Higgie – ‘Andy Holden: Weight of Imagination’
29 September 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent reviews Jennifer Higgie’s new Andy Holden monograph, Weight of Imagination.
REVIEW: This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte
28 September 2026 • Herbert Wright
Magritte meets 45 later artists in a wide-ranging Gagosian exhibition exploring his lasting influence.
Four sought-after sculptures from Contemporary Istanbul
28 September 2026 • Ida Ivanka Hamilton
Four sculptures from Contemporary Istanbul exploring form, light, movement and imagination.
6 Booths to see at the SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC
27 September 2026 • Chunbum Park
Six standout booths at SPRING/BREAK Art Show during Armory Week New York 2026.
10 Works that stood out at Contemporary Istanbul 2026
27 September 2026 • Camille Moreno
Ten works that made us stop, think and want to write home from Contemporary Istanbul 2026.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in September
25 September 2026 • Tabish Khan
Beauty, apocalypse, cars, protests and mirrors.
Turner Prize 2026 opens at MIMA as Middlesbrough Art Week gets underway
25 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Turner Prize 2026 opens at MIMA with four shortlisted artists as Middlesbrough Art Week unfolds across the town.
A car that goes nowhere, a sculpture I wanted to drive: MSCHF & Lexus’s MOTOMORPHOSIS
25 September 2026 • Kun Sok
Kun Sok encounters MSCHF’s twisted and stretched Lexus sculptures — including one he unexpectedly wanted to drive.
REVIEW: Why Is Paper Still Beneath Painting? Pierre Soulages’s Paintings on Paper
22 September 2026 • Kun Sok
Kun Sok considers painting, paper and material hierarchy in Pierre Soulages’s New York exhibition.
When Was the Last Time You Saw a Firefly?
21 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Bala Ayyappa turns memories of fireflies, kolam and her mother’s daily ritual into a painting about care, ecology and cultural inheritance.
REVIEW: Rachel Fäth, Honesty Box
21 September 2026 • Toby Üpson
Rachel Fäth turns scrap, found glass and the gallery itself into material for her first UK solo exhibition.
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in Central London in September
18 September 2026 • Tabish Khan
A world on fire, an alphabet, family, pigments and a studio.
REVIEW: Michael Wilkinson’s Fluorochiaroscuro at P·P·O·W
16 September 2026 • Rayya Fadlo Khuri
Rayya encounters Michael Wilkinson’s fluorescent still lifes and their play with light, time and nature.
Do the Crossing Currents of Hamburg’s debut art week flow together?
16 September 2026 • Tabish Khan
A verdict on the inaugural Hamburg Art Week and its attempt to bring the city’s art scene together.
THREE FLOORS, THREE WAYS OF LOOKING — Nikki Maloof, Aryo Toh Djojo and Young-Il Ahn at Perrotin New York
16 September 2026 • Kun Sok
Kun Sok encounters three artists and three very different ways of looking at Perrotin New York.
REVIEW: The shamanistic symbolic abstraction of Hijo Nam at Space 776
14 September 2026 • Chunbum Park
Chunbum Park reviews Hijo Nam at Space 776, exploring shamanistic abstraction, memory and cyclical time.