Wallace Chan’s sculpture & jewellery take us to other worlds in Shanghai
12 August 2026 • Tabish Khan
Wallace Chan’s most ambitious exhibition to date opens in China.
Tag: contemporary art
Justin Caguiat to bring heat-responsive paintings & ringing bells to Serpentine this October
12 August 2026 • Mark Westall
Justin Caguiat takes over Serpentine South with heat-responsive paintings, bronze bells, sound and film for his first UK institutional exhibition
Paul’s Work of the Month: Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom: ‘Patent 3306x’
12 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Fish, T-shirts, sex sounds and Victorian taxonomy:
Two London Galleries announce closures within days of each other
12 August 2026 • Mark Westall
BEERS London and Sid Motion Gallery have announced their closures within days of each other
FAD NEWS: Bernardo Paz announces major new contemporary art museum for Brazil
10 August 2026 • Mark Westall
Inhotim founder Bernardo Paz has announced Museu Bernardo Paz, a vast new contemporary art museum in Brumadinho
FAD NEWS: £85,000 and counting: Removing Banksy from the Royal Courts of Justice
10 August 2026 • Mark Westall
More than £85,000 has been spent trying to remove Banksy’s mural from the Royal Courts of Justice,
Maurizio Cattelan’s first major German solo exhibition at Neue Nationalgalerie
10 August 2026 • Mark Westall
Neue Nationalgalerie will present Maurizio Cattelan’s first major solo exhibition in Germany.
FAD NEWS: Major Gavin Turk exhibition heading to Sir John Soane’s Museum
6 August 2026 • Mark Westall
Gavin Turk will transform Sir John Soane’s Museum with a major exhibition of new works responding to the historic house, its collection & archive.
FAD NEWS: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi appoints Dr Valerie Hillings as inaugural Director
5 August 2026 • Mark Westall
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi has named Dr Valerie Hillings as its inaugural Director, marking a major milestone ahead of its opening
FAD NEWS: The Bronx Museum unveils ‘Unfolding’ Programme ahead of major 2027 expansion
5 August 2026 • Mark Westall
The Bronx Museum unveils an ambitious programme of exhibitions, artist commissions and public projects as it prepares to reopen in Autumn 2027
Beyond The Third Wave: Political Art Takes Over The Free Will Prison
5 August 2026 • Mark Westall
London’s newest alternative art space, The Free Will Prison, opens a politically charged group exhibition
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Wellcome Collection
5 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent selects the Wellcome Collection as his Gallery of the Month
David Zwirner to present first Yoshitomo Nara solo exhibition
4 August 2026 • Mark Westall
David Zwirner will stage its first solo exhibition of Yoshitomo Nara, celebrating the artist’s first major New York exhibition in almost a decade.
Like Music in the Blood: Eight artists explore the body beyond representation
4 August 2026 • Mark Westall
Thaddaeus Ropac London brings together eight contemporary artists for Like Music in the Blood, a group exhibition exploring the body
Artsy’s Foundations 2026 spotlights the next generation of contemporary artists
3 August 2026 • Mark Westall
The 2026 edition brings together more than 1,200 works from 85 galleries across 20 countries and nearly 50 cities
Make Do / Make Space: A new generation of artists reimagines what it means to make work in London
3 August 2026 • Mark Westall
Hypha Curates opens a major new exhibition at Hypha Gallery South Bank, bringing together 36 artists
Piers Secunda on Russia’s Cultural War in Ukraine
3 August 2026 • Mark Westall
Piers Secunda’s new exhibition at Fitzrovia Gallery combines paintings, documentary film and extensive research
FAD NEWS: MoMA PS1 launches new Courtyard Commission programme with Precious Okoyomon’s largest outdoor installation
31 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Combining a living garden, sound, sculpture and poetry, the evolving work will remain on view for more than two years.
FAD NEWS: RM to curate first museum exhibition of his personal art collection at SFMOMA
30 July 2026 • Mark Westall
SFMOMA will stage the first museum exhibition of RM’s personal art collection. RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me
Marc-Aurèle Debut: “Today it can sometimes feel easier to sit on someone’s face than tell them you love them.”
30 July 2026 • Mark Westall
As ON REPEAT closes at GLASSHOUSE, Marc-Aurèle Debut talks to FAD Magazine about dating apps, emotional vulnerability, repetition ..
National Portrait Gallery launches new contemporary programme with Issy Wood exhibition
30 July 2026 • Mark Westall
The National Portrait Gallery has launched Artist Focus, a new free programme championing contemporary portraiture
How Many More Things Need to Be Crocheted Before We Ask Why? Ingrid Wiener and the Afterlife of Textile Art
30 July 2026 • Camille Moreno
Ingrid Wiener’s handwoven tapestries transformed everyday objects into works of sustained attention long before textile art entered the mainstream.
FAD NEWS: Refusés opens first permanent space
29 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Refusés is opening its first permanent space at Queensrollahouse, expanding its artist-led programme with a solo exhibition by Elspeth Vince.
Herald St now represents Amedeo Polazzo
29 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Polazzo creates works on canvas, murals using the fresco secco technique, and functional, hand-painted lamp sculptures