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February 6, 2026
Tracey Emin: Tate Surveys a Career of Raw Confession
Tate's 2026 survey traces Tracey Emin's astonishing journey from enfant terrible of the Young British Artists to one of…
December 9, 2025
Turner Prize 2025: Nnena Kalu's Historic, Cocoon-Like Win
Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu won the 2025 Turner Prize in Bradford — becoming the first artist with a learning disability to…
November 27, 2025
Turner vs Constable: Tate Britain Stages a 250-Year Rivalry
Marking 250 years since both were born, Tate Britain pitted the era's two giants of landscape — fiery J.M.W. Turner and…
November 4, 2025
Tutankhamun's New Home: The Grand Egyptian Museum Opens
After more than two decades and over $1 billion, the Grand Egyptian Museum opened beside the Pyramids of Giza in Novemb…
October 15, 2025
Frieze London 2025: The Art World Pitches Its Tent in Regent's Park
Each October the global art world descends on Regent's Park for Frieze London and Frieze Masters — and 2025 was no diff…
October 10, 2025
The Forbidden City's Treasures at 100
In 2025 Beijing's Palace Museum, housed in the Forbidden City, marked a century since it opened its imperial collection…
October 8, 2025
Nigerian Modernism: Tate Modern Charts a Nation's Artistic Awakening
A landmark 2025 survey at Tate Modern explored the bold artists who forged a modern Nigerian art around the country's 1…
October 2, 2025
Lee Miller: From Surrealist Muse to Fearless War Photographer
Tate Britain's 2025 retrospective traced the extraordinary life of Lee Miller — model, Surrealist, and one of the most…
September 22, 2025
Au Revoir, for Now: The Centre Pompidou Shuts for a Five-Year Revamp
In 2025 Paris's beloved, pipe-covered Centre Pompidou closed for a sweeping multi-year renovation, sending its modern a…
July 10, 2025
Emily Kam Kngwarray: A Desert Visionary Arrives at Tate Modern
Tate Modern's 2025 show gave Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray her first major UK exhibition — vast, pul…
June 20, 2025
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting Conquers the Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery staged the first major UK museum show for Jenny Saville — three decades of monumental, un…
June 13, 2025
Edward Burra: Britain's Overlooked Painter of the Underworld
Tate Britain's 2025 exhibition rediscovered Edward Burra — the watercolourist who painted jazz bars, dockside dives and…