Painting Archives

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.

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

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

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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

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Whitney Museum reconsiders Roy Lichtenstein for the digital age

23 July 2026 • Mark Westall

The Whitney will stage one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Roy Lichtenstein’s work in decades this autumn

Tom Wesselmann’s New York studio to open to the public for the first time

22 July 2026 • Mark Westall

Tom Wesselmann’s former Cooper Square studio will welcome visitors for the first time this September.

Arthur Jafa’s largest museum survey to date to open at the New Museum

20 July 2026 • Mark Westall

The New Museum will stage the largest survey of Arthur Jafa’s career, featuring films alongside new installations, paintings, sculptures and photography.

George Condo to open major exhibitions in Paris + Palo Alto

20 July 2026 • Mark Westall

George Condo will present major exhibitions in Paris and Palo Alto, launching his first projects with Hauser & Wirth since rejoining the gallery.

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.

MK Gallery to stage first major L.S. Lowry exhibition in over 13 years

16 July 2026 • Mark Westall

MK Gallery presents the first major L.S. Lowry exhibition in over 13 years, bringing together more than 140 paintings and drawings.

Paul’s Show of the Month – Chico da Silva: And the Soul Is for the Birds at Nottingham Contemporary

8 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent reviews Chico da Silva’s first European institutional solo exhibition, where 36 paintings reveal a vivid cosmology of hybrid creatures..

Catherine Goodman: In the House of Tapestries at Boughton House

5 July 2026 • Yichun Huang

Catherine Goodman at Boughton House, where monumental paintings and tapestries explore fire, grief, hope and renewal.

Early Bridget Riley paintings go on long-term view at Dia Beacon

3 July 2026 • Mark Westall

A focused exhibition of Bridget Riley’s early black-and-white paintings opens today at Dia Beacon, bringing together works created between 1961 and 1964.