Studios & makers
Art
The people making it, the rooms showing it.
Studios, not openings. The people making it, the rooms showing it, and what’s worth arguing about in between.
The Country House Has Become a Gallery
Four historic English estates are running major contemporary art shows at once — an unplanned convergence, and the best stretch on the UK calendar in years.
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Inside London's Working Galleries
Most galleries ask you to be quiet. The ones in this piece would rather you got ink on your hands.
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Bronwyn Katz and the Objects That Remember Being Touched
Bed springs, steel wool, iron ore — and an invented creole built from endangered click consonants.
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Rosa Bonheur Had a Permit for Her Own Trousers
The most commercially successful woman painter of the nineteenth century needed police permission to dress for work.
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Art Diary — Tim Walker’s Fairyland
Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends at the National Portrait Gallery, London, until 7 February 2027.
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Art Diary — Mary Cassatt, Independent
Mary Cassatt: L'indépendante at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, until 31 January 2027. France's first major museum show of the American Impressionist.
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Art Diary — Light and Magic
Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography at Tate Modern, London, until 21 February 2027.
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Art Diary — Louise Bourgeois, Extrême Tension
Louise Bourgeois. Extrême Tension at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 20 October 2026 to 21 February 2027.
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Art Diary — Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia Vicuña at Whitechapel Gallery, London, 7 October 2026 to 14 February 2027.
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Art Diary — Constantinople to Istanbul
Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires at the V&A, London, 7 November 2026 to 9 May 2027.
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Midjourney — Two Blues
Two artists, one colour, two very different ways of arriving at it — a study in how the same brief produces entirely different instincts.
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