Brazilian Art at Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2026
Brazilian art featured across both Frieze fairs in London, held from 14 to 18 October 2026.
Five British Galleries at Frieze 2026: Lisson Gallery, Victoria Miro, White Cube, Hales, and Sadie Coles HQ
A walk through Frieze quickly reveals the extent to which the fair is rooted in the city that gave birth to it.
Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips: Auction Results During Frieze Week
Frieze, held in Regent’s Park, made London one of the key meeting points of the international art market. Alongside the galleries participating in Frieze London and Frieze Masters, the week’s programme included modern and contemporary art auctions held by three of the world’s most established auction houses: Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips.
Yayoi Kusama: Art, Perception, and Mental Health
“If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.” This sentence, often quoted in interviews, captures the intensity with which Yayoi Kusama understood her relationship to art and to her own psychological struggles.
Spoilt for Choice: São Paulo’s Art Scene This September
This year, São Paulo has been offering a rich programme of art exhibitions across major institutions and galleries, with September proving particularly generous.
Between Forms, Signs and Constellations: Miró Comes to São Paulo
Lines that become signs, essential forms and colours of great intensity: Miró built a visual language as singular as it is immediately familiar.
Ibiza and its cultural sites
Ibiza (Castilian), also known as Eivissa (Catalan), takes its name from Ibossim, as the Phoenicians called the island when they settled there around the 7th century BCE, naming it for Bes, god of the household, dance, and joy.
Anish Kapoor at the Hayward Gallery
Anish Kapoor’s aesthetic exploration of how objects inhabit, distort, and negate space is on full show at his Hayward Gallery exhibition, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in the ideas that have pre-occupied him for the past four decades.
São Paulo: What to See in the Second Half of 2026
As we do every semester, we’ve put together a selection of exhibitions and events planned for the second half of 2026 in São Paulo.
Comedian and Jerry Gogosian: The Art System as Performance
In recent weeks, two unrelated events in the art world have drawn attention to questions about the art market and the ways in which it operates.
Inhotim in 2026: New works and a season of celebration
Between February and April, Inhotim opened three new exhibitions and two site-specific works, confirming what the season’s curatorial direction suggested: this anniversary would not be a retrospective exercise in self-congratulation, but a statement on the place of contemporary Brazilian art today.
Light, Colour, Action: Julio Le Parc at Tate Modern
Julio Le Parc died in Paris on the 30th May 2026, aged 97, just days before the opening of this retrospective at Tate Modern, which he had been eagerly awaiting and had hoped to attend.
La Città è la Mostra: the parallel circuit of the 61st Venice Biennale
During the Biennale months, Venice transforms its 16th-century palazzos, baroque churches and industrial warehouses into art spaces, and the city itself becomes one vast, sprawling exhibition of contemporary art.
Minor Keys, Loud Disruptions: The Venice Biennale 2026 in focus
In every other year since 1895, countries from all around the world have been invited to curate an exhibition representing their nation at the Venice Biennale.
Brazil at the Venice Biennale: the plant that silences and the pavilion that speaks
In every other year since 1895, countries from all around the world have been invited to curate an exhibition representing their nation at the Venice Biennale.
National Pavilions – Venice Biennale 2026
In every other year since 1895, countries from all around the world have been invited to curate an exhibition representing their nation at the Venice Biennale.
Art funding art: Arte para Arte breaks its own record
Arte para Arte is a charity auction now in its fourth edition and this one ended with a new record: R$5.2 million raised, the highest total since the project began.
V&A East
V&A East opened on 18 April 2026 as the final piece of East Bank, the ambitious cultural quarter built on the former Olympic Park site in Stratford.
SP-Arte 2026 and everything worth doing in São Paulo that week
Here we run through some of the highlights from the fair itself, alongside the exhibitions and events happening across the city that same week, so you can plan your visit properly.
ARCOmadrid 2026
Founded in 1982, ARCOmadrid was among the pioneers of the modern European art fair. More than four decades later, Spain’s leading contemporary art event continues to occupy a distinctive position within the international circuit.
Theatre Picasso
Despite the numerous Picasso exhibitions we have all seen over the years, Tate Modern offers us yet another.
A Must-See Museum: Inhotim at Twenty and Brumadinho on the World Stage
It is neither a sculpture park nor merely a museum with a garden. Inhotim is a place where art was conceived to coexist with the landscape, built in a constant, living dialogue with it.
A Panorama of Must-See Exhibitions in Brazil in 2026
We have selected the year’s must-see programs, bringing together shows set to shape the country’s cultural agenda.
The Cultural Scene of Fortaleza
Fortaleza is experiencing a moment of intense activity in the visual arts, being one of the main cultural hubs of Northeast Brazil.
What to look forward to in 2026
London rarely fails to satisfy the culturally curious, and 2026 offers ample evidence of its continued standing as one of the world’s most varied and ambitious centres for art.
Beatriz Milhazes, Além do Horizonte (Beyond the Horizon)
Just before closing for Christmas, White Cube presents an exhibition by the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes.
10 Art Moments That Defined 2025
We have selected 10 remarkable events or moments that shaped 2025 in the arts, with our special focus on contemporary art and São Paulo.
Xaiure maaraesé xasaysu ndé (I came because I love you): from ashes to creation
From 22 November to 23 February 2026, the Lasar Segall Museum presents a new exhibition by contemporary artist Alessandra Rehder, who was born in Sao Paulo and developed her photographic practice at the SPEOS Institute in Paris
The Best Current Art Shows in São Paulo and Why You Should Visit Them
Come learn about the best art shows on display in São Paulo. You’ll see photography and modern and contemporary art.