Cecil Beaton: Staging Icons
Harewood House presents over 60 photographs which explore how Beaton reshaped 20th-century portraiture across monarchy, stage and screen.
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Harewood House presents over 60 photographs which explore how Beaton reshaped 20th-century portraiture across monarchy, stage and screen.
Renature, presented at Bildhalle Zürich, explores the shifting relationship between nature, perception and materiality in contemporary lens-based art.
This May, exhibitions around the world interrogate pressing themes, from the importance of proper representation to the future of our natural spaces.
Multidisciplinary artist Lucia Shuyu Li is dedicated to challenging the confines of conventional painting, often through physical de- and re-construction.
LUMA Arles showcases a powerful exhibition from Julianknxx, where sculpture, film, sound, and found objects form a living architecture of memory.
Es Devlin’s The Everythingists, a new 10-metre-wide installation at V&A Storehouse, is made in response to Natalia Goncharova’s spectacular Firebird.
Stills, Edinburgh hosts The Queering of Photography, which explores the relationship between queer representation and photographic tradition.
Two parallel exhibitions at Moderna Museet in Malmö place people at the centre of images marked by presence, atmosphere and timelessness.
A new book from Magnum photographer Sohrab Hura documents the three stages of winter in Kashmir, capturing life under military occupation.
Gallerie d’Italia presents a new body of work by photographer Diana Markosian, which confronts the relationship between love and heartbreak.
This summer, Tate Modern will present a new major exhibition exploring how Frida Kahlo became a global icon and lasting influence on a generation of artists.
The latest edition of Enter Art Fair presents 80 leading galleries, connecting international audiences with some of the most exciting artists working today.
Xin Zhang is a London and Beijing artist and rope practitioner whose practice interrogates the intersections of intimacy, resistance and the body.
Tilda Swinton, an iconic, daring performer and subversive visual artist, takes center stage in a personal exhibition of her artistic collaborators.
We spotlight five photographers from the All About Photo 2026, which this year were selected by Magnum photographer Steve McCurry.
Vietnamese multidisciplinary artist Nhu Xuan Hua reflects on the fragility of how shared stories are communicated – or withheld – across generations.
The four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize are Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku, representing the best of visual art.
We celebrate Earth Day 2026 with five exhibitions that highlight the beauty of our natural environment, as well as the urgent need for sustainable action.
A unique 24-hour performance piece by artist and activist Ai Weiwei will be at Aviva Studios, the home of Factory International, between 3 and 4 July