Elspeth Vince: Soft Tissue to open Refusés’ New Park Royal space
6 October 2026 • Mark Westall
Elspeth Vince explores memory, dreams and absence in Soft Tissue.
Tag: Painting
Salman Toor brings joy, danger and desire to The Courtauld
6 October 2026 • Mark Westall
Salman Toor brings joy, danger and desire to The Courtauld.
Thaddaeus Ropac now represent Denzil Forrester
6 October 2026 • Mark Westall
Thaddaeus Ropac announces representation of painter Denzil Forrester.
Filippo Antonello: Load Path… Kearsey & Gold
5 October 2026 • Mark Westall
Filippo Antonello explores bodies, weight and unstable structures in Load Path.
Hales now represent Shezad Dawood
30 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Shezad Dawood joins Hales, with Frieze London 2026 and a first solo exhibition with the gallery to follow.
Renée Levi transforms Hayward Gallery’s brutalist facade with giant painting
25 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Renée Levi brings sweeping colour to Hayward Gallery’s Brutalist facade with her first large-scale UK public installation.
FAD NEWS: Alexander Koch Wins £6,000 ACS Studio Prize
23 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Painter Alexander Koch wins £6,000 towards an artist’s studio as the ACS Studio Prize celebrates its tenth edition.
National Portrait Gallery opens entries for £35,000 Portrait Award
23 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Artists worldwide can enter the National Portrait Gallery’s 2027 Portrait Award for a chance to win £35,000.
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.
Hattie Quigley on Painting the Body, Desire and Excess: Interview with Rising Star of British Painting
22 September 2026 • Lee Sharrock
Hattie Quigley talks painting, appetite, the body, Brazil and finding beauty in excess.
FAD NEWS: Mohammed Sami Named National Gallery’s 2027 Artist in Residence
21 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Mohammed Sami will spend a year creating new work in dialogue with the National Gallery collection.
6,000 Hand-Painted Postcards Are Coming to Saatchi Gallery
21 September 2026 • Mark Westall
More than 6,000 hand-painted postcards from around the world are heading to Saatchi Gallery.
FAD NEWS: Picasso, Magritte & Man Ray Go on Display at The Courtauld
21 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Rarely seen works by Picasso, Magritte and Man Ray go on display at The Courtauld.
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.
Monumental Monet: Tate Modern Announces Major 2027 Exhibition
17 September 2026 • Mark Westall
More than 60 Monet paintings, including 20 Water Lilies, are coming to Tate Modern.
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.
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.
Dali Schonfelder: Finding Order in the Chaos
15 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Inside Dali Schonfelder’s London studio, where painting, mathematics, architecture and music collide.
FAD NEWS: Gerhard Richter creates a permanent home for his Strip Paintings in Doha
10 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Gerhard Richter turns painting into architecture with a permanent Doha pavilion dedicated to his Strip works.
FAD NEWS: David Hockney exhibition becomes most visited in Serpentine’s history
10 September 2026 • Mark Westall
David Hockney’s Serpentine exhibition attracted nearly 300,000 visitors, setting a new attendance record for the London gallery.
Daria Denisenko talks to Phillip Edward Spradley
9 September 2026 • Phillip Edward Spradley
Daria Denisenko talks portraiture, identity and the private spaces that shape who we are.
FAULT: studies in survival brings together 21 artists exploring endurance, pressure and adaptation
3 September 2026 • Mark Westall
Twenty-one artists explore endurance, pressure and adaptation through painting, sculpture, installation, sound and expanded practice.
Paul’s Show of the Month – John Currin: ‘Opening Credits’ at Sadie Coles, 17 Savile Row, to 12th September
2 September 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent takes another look at John Currin’s strange and contradictory new paintings at Sadie Coles.
Yayoi Kusama Retrospective at Stedelijk Museum to Become a Posthumous Tribute
27 August 2026 • Mark Westall
A major Yayoi Kusama posthumous tribute at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will trace more than seven decades of work, opening just weeks after the artist’s death.