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
Tag: Museums
FAD NEWS: The Box Plymouth wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2026
26 June 2026 • Mark Westall
The Box Plymouth has been named Art Fund Museum of the Year 2026, taking home the world’s largest museum prize after just five years
London Museum to open at Smithfield this November
18 June 2026 • Mark Westall
London Museum has announced that it will open the doors to its long-awaited new home in Smithfield on 28th November 2026,
Museum of Art & Photography expands as new sculpture park planned in India’s Blue Mountains.
18 June 2026 • Mark Westall
Award-winning MAP Bengaluru is expanding while plans are unveiled for a new 240-acre sculpture park in India’s spectacular Nilgiri Mountains.
Louis Vuitton announces major three-year sponsorship of The Frick Collection
14 May 2026 • Mark Westall
The Frick Collection has announced a major three-year sponsorship by Louis Vuitton, supporting exhibitions, public programming and curatorial research
Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Stolen in Rapid Heist at Italian Museum
30 March 2026 • Mark Westall
Paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse have been stolen from Italy’s Magnani Rocca Foundation in a rapid, highly coordinated museum heist.
Museum Journeys: The most unusual art museums to visit
29 July 2024 • Gaston La-Gaffe
In the realm of cultural exploration, art museums are seen as the epitome of imaginative human activities. However, some places… Read More
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in London: Spring 2022
11 April 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see right now in museums and institutional art galleries. Each one comes with a… Read More
What’s Wrong With Art? No Photography
3 April 2018 • Tabish Khan
What’s Wrong With Art? No Photography: Tabish Khan loves art and visits hundreds of exhibitions a year. But every now and then he comes across something in the art world that doesn’t meet his approval.
Car, shed … elevator? The Los Angeles art spaces proving smaller is better
10 July 2017 • Mark Westall
A range of alternative galleries have sprung up in the city, creating micro-museums that offer unique experiences not found in ‘white-walled galleries’
How galleries became the best places to rave
4 July 2017 • Syndicate
Bad sound and indifferent crowds have traditionally made galleries dangerous places for live music, but a new breed of curators are changing the tune
South Africa’s golden rhino to star in British Museum exhibition
15 August 2016 • Mark Westall
Figures and objects from Mapungubwe, site of the first kingdom in southern Africa, are part of an exploration of 100,000 years of art
Pink Floyd’s psychedelic revolution will rock the V&A
11 August 2016 • Syndicate
Museum to celebrate career of pioneers who transformed live music with their dazzling light shows
Damien Hirst and Picasso: coming soon to a National Gallery near you?
7 March 2016 • Syndicate
Gabriele Finaldi is right. The Tate shouldn’t have exclusive access to 20th-century art. It’s time to end these closed-minded historical art wars
Serpentine pavilion ‘unzipped’: first look at Bjarke Ingels’ design
25 February 2016 • Mark Westall
The Danish architect offers a sculptural space ‘like a mountain of ice cubes’ stretching across the London gallery’s lawn, to be complemented by four radical summer houses
Hieronymus Bosch – a heavenly host of delights on the road to hell
15 February 2016 • Mark Westall
Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
An astonishing homecoming for this madly inventive artist sets the grotesque against a deep but compassionate melancholy that burns into your soul
Jeremy Deller flies flag for Thomas More’s Utopia, 500 years later
26 January 2016 • Staff
Giant smiley marks launch of year-long celebration of radical book, to take in everything from street art to fashion
Five of the best art exhibitions for Christmas 2015
9 December 2015 • Mark Westall
Wonder at Botticini’s Paradise, see Turner’s bracing vistas in Edinburgh, and explore the roots of the European winter festival at the V&A
The magnificent Musée Rodin reopens in Paris – with a chocolate surprise
8 November 2015 • Mark Westall
It was a ruin when he lived there, then nearly ruined by millions of trampling tourists after his death. Now the Musée Rodin has been playfully vamped up – and it’s even got a giant chocolate tribute to France’s most famous sculptor
V&A brings Japanese craftsmanship back to life for gallery reopening
2 November 2015 • Mark Westall
From 700-year-old swords and 19th-century ‘living doll’ to Hello Kitty cooker, army of conservators have painstaking revived museum collection
REVIEW: Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he’s sobered with age
8 October 2015 • Mark Westall
Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight
#GOODIDEAS: Saving Museum Budgets by Freecycling Exhibition Materials
8 September 2015 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
When architecture practice boss Caroline Keppel Palmer saw how much exhibition material museums had to throw away for lack of storage space she had a very #GOODIDEA…
Botticelli Reimagined exhibition coming to V&A after opening in Berlin
27 August 2015 • Mark Westall
London show will feature modern artwork, fashion, film and music inspired by the Renaissance artist, as well as large collection of original Botticelli paintings
Evolution of sneakers explored at Brooklyn Museum exhibition
9 July 2015 • Mark Westall
The cultural impact of designs such as the Air Jordan and Rick Owen’s high-end efforts chart how the footwear went from casual runaround to chic statement