FAD NEWS: Mr Doodle transforms London’s West End with free public art trail
28 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Mr Doodle has taken over London’s West End
Tag: drawing
White Cube now represents Suleman Aqeel Khilji
23 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Suleman Aqeel Khilji is a contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores memory, migration, identity and collective history
FAD NEWS: Rijksmuseum to stage landmark Willem de Kooning exhibition
20 July 2026 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum celebrates Willem de Kooning with its largest exhibition in Europe for more than four decades, bringing together over 120 works across his remarkable career.
David Hockney’s Bigger & Closer returns for special 89th birthday screenings
6 July 2026 • Mark Westall
David Hockney’s Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) returns to Lightroom for one evening only, marking what would have been his 89th birthday
At 92, Frank Bowling is entering a remarkable new chapter
24 June 2026 • Mark Westall
From a major drawing exhibition, launch of a new foundation and a landmark Hong Kong show, Frank Bowling is entering a remarkable new chapter
Inside Basquiat’s Head: the drawings that reveal the artist’s inner world
22 June 2026 • Shireen Ikramullah
Basquiat – Headstrong at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art brought together 50 works focused on the human head
Sir John Soane’s Museum Names Lacey Law and Kanto Ohara Maeda as 2026 Jerwood Artists in Residence
10 June 2026 • Mark Westall
Sir John Soane’s Museum has selected Lacey Law and Kanto Ohara Maeda as its 2026 Jerwood Artists in Residence
Roni Horn Returns to London with Seizure of Hope at Hauser & Wirth
22 May 2026 • Mark Westall
Roni Horn returns to London with Seizure of Hope, a new exhibition exploring repetition, language and the emotional weight of hope.
Tate Britain opens Europe’s largest James McNeill Whistler retrospective in 30 years
19 May 2026 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain launches Europe’s largest James McNeill Whistler retrospective in more than 30 years, bringing together 150 works
Barbara Hepworth’s relationship with colour to take centre stage at The Courtauld Gallery
18 May 2026 • Mark Westall
The Courtauld Gallery will present Hepworth in Colour, the first exhibition dedicated to Barbara Hepworth’s use of colour
Gerhard Richter + Jasper Johns exhibitions opening at David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street
6 May 2026 • Mark Westall
Two landmark exhibitions at David Zwirner bring together Gerhard Richter’s and Jasper Johns
First UK Ken Price solo exhibition in nearly 10 years to open at Lisson.
28 April 2026 • Mark Westall
Lisson Gallery and Matthew Marks present a major Ken Price exhibition in London, showcasing the artist’s groundbreaking ceramics, sculpture and works on paper.
Michael Landy Explores Ruins and Architecture at Sir John Soane’s Museum
9 April 2026 • Mark Westall
Michael Landy presents Future Ruins at Sir John Soane’s Museum, exploring architecture, decay and history through detailed drawings of buildings in collapse.
SHOWstudio Reframes Fashion Illustration as Visual Thinking in Constructive Reasoning
18 March 2026 • Mark Westall
Constructive Reasoning positions drawing not as decoration, but as a way of thinking through fashion itself.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in September
30 August 2020 • Tabish Khan
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see iN London include Horses, hands, penises, London, zombies and miniatures.
New Mythologies at Huxley-Parlour Gallery
15 April 2019 • Irene Machetti
Huxley-Parlour Gallery presents New Mythologies. Figurative Abstraction in Contemporary Painting. Through the compositions of seven artists, the exhibition explores the intertwining of abstraction and figuration.
Marlborough’s line up for Frieze week – Paula Rego & Antoine Catala
24 September 2018 • Irene Machetti
Marlborough’s Frieze exhibitions are Paula Rego – From Mind to Hand, Drawings from 1980 to 2001, and Antoine Catala – Everything is Okay: Season 2. they are must-see during Frieze week.
William Kentridge’s designs for Ornellaia wine raised €140,000 for the upcoming photography centre at the V&A
31 May 2018 • Irene Machetti
Sotheby’s and the Italian winery Ornellaia joined again this year for the tenth edition of the Vendemmia d’Artista. The famous winery from Bolgheri called upon William Kentridge to design the labels for this anniversary. The benefit auction raised €140,000 that will be donated to the Victoria & Albert museum.
Daniel Hosego, Jon Braley & Sam Branton ‘Makers of Marks’
27 February 2018 • Mark Westall
Drawing and printmaking have much shared history and enjoy a deeply interwoven relationship,. In ‘Makers of Marks’ three artists experiment with this relationship against a background of classical references: Daniel Hosego, Sam Branton and Jon Braley
The Top 9 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London
18 June 2017 • Tabish Khan
Japanese architecture, Pieta, ghostly ships, spinning smartphones, a diverse artist, electricity, a skip, guns and students.
Graphic Witness (Group Show) – Drawing Room, Bermondsey, London
14 June 2017 • Staff
Bermondsey’s Drawing Room styles itself as Europe’s only public non-profit gallery dedicated to drawing.
REVIEW: Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors – sex and death in the bullring
29 April 2017 • Syndicate
Gagosian, London
The macho man of Spanish painting was obsessed with bulls. For him they were symbols of mythic power, but also impotence and mortality
Marcelle Joseph Interviews Artist Devlin Shea
27 April 2017 • Staff
2016 Slade graduate and future Bloomberg New Contemporary Devlin Shea reveals what drives her figurative drawing and painting practice.
Marcelle Joseph Interviews Artist Rebecca Ackroyd
6 April 2017 • Staff
Sculptor Rebecca Ackroyd could be described as a millennial Rosemarie Trockel, discovering disparate materials with considered ease and strength of purpose