The art berries

30/07/2026

Almost three decades after his first major survey at the Hayward Gallery, Anish Kapoor returns with an exhibition that is both visually spectacular and emotionally unsettling.

His celebrated voids continue to challenge our perception of space, but the exhibition gradually shifts towards a more visceral artistic language. Does this evolution deepen Kapoor’s lifelong exploration of duality, or does it change the way we experience his work?

We explore one of this summer’s most anticipated exhibitions, examining the tension between perception, ritual and the body.

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Anish Kapoor
📍 Hayward Gallery, London
🗓️ 16 June – 18 October 2026

Thanks to Ottavia Castellina for the portrait photographs accompanying this exhibition.

22/07/2026

In an age defined by speed and visual overload, Rothko in Florence creates something increasingly rare: the conditions for a slower, more attentive encounter with art.

Bringing together over 70 masterworks from MoMA, the Met, and Tate Modern, this landmark retrospective traces how Italy transformed Rothko’s practice. From the spiritual restraint of Renaissance masters to the earthy, dark reds of Pompeii that inspired Four Darks in Red (1958), the exhibition reveals an artist in constant dialogue with history.

Spanning three historic Florentine venues, it offers an immersive experience that lingers long after you leave—carrying a sense of stillness that feels both timeless and urgently contemporary.

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Rothko in Florence

📍 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

📅 14 March – 23 August 2026

21/07/2026

Rothko’s timeless dialogue with the viewer

What happens when colour becomes a space for contemplation? Rothko in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi explores the artist’s lifelong search for emotional depth, revealing how colour, architecture and silence transform painting into a profound encounter between artist and viewer....

Discover Rothko in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi, where colour, space and silence reveal the artist’s timeless dialogue between painting and viewer.

10/07/2026

You don’t need to spend a thing to see great art in London this summer. Here’s my pick of the free shows worth your time.

Christo: Air
His final unrealised project, brought to life for the first time.

Delcy Morelos: origo
Tonnes of raw earth, shaped into a world you walk through.

John Currin: Opening Credits
Discomfort has never looked this effortless.

Georg Baselitz: Back Again Bermondsey
Ninety, and still painting the world upside down.

Cecily Brown: Picture Making
Figuration dissolving into abstraction, live.

David Hockney: A Year in Normandie
An iPad diary of a French spring, printed at monumental scale.

Es Devlin: The Everythingists
Beyoncé’s stage designer takes on the climate crisis.

Zineb Sedira
Cinema, archive and memory collide.

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04/07/2026

What is it about wrapping objects that immediately makes them feel significant?

Fifty years ago, Christo and Jeanne-Claude wanted to contain the very air within a gallery. The technology did not exist. Now, posthumously, Gagosian London has finally realised this vision.

‘Christo: Air’ splits the gallery horizontally with a massive polyethylene sack held by white ropes. It forces you to look at the invisible and experience perception itself through a purely bodily encounter.

While they became famous for wrapping giant landmarks and landscapes, this exhibition shows the intimate indoor laboratories where their monumental ideas were born.

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📍 Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill
🗓️ Until 21 August 2026

04/07/2026

How hiding reveals the invisible

What happens when air becomes sculpture? At Gagosian Gallery, Christo: Air reveals how wrapping can transform perception, turning empty space into a physical presence while tracing the origins of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's monumental practice and their pioneering contribution to ephemeral art....

A review of Christo: Air at Gagosian Gallery, London, exploring how wrapping transforms perception and why Christo and Jeanne-Claude remain pioneers of ephemeral art.

04/07/2026

Cuando ocultar revela lo invisible

¿Qué ocurre cuando el aire se convierte en escultura? En Gagosian Gallery, Christo: Air revela cómo el acto de envolver puede transformar la percepción, convirtiendo el espacio vacío en una presencia física, al tiempo que recorre los orígenes de la práctica monumental de Christo y Jeanne-Claude y su contribución pionera al arte efímero....

Reseña de Christo: Air en Gagosian Gallery, Londres. Descubre cómo Christo y Jeanne-Claude transformaron la percepción mediante el arte efímero y el acto de envolver objetos y espacios.

30/06/2026

Por qué algunas exposiciones consiguen atraer público

Con muchos museos todavía por debajo de sus niveles de asistencia previos a la pandemia, atraer visitantes se ha convertido en un ejercicio cada vez más estratégico. Al analizar las principales exposiciones de Londres, emergen patrones que revelan cómo las instituciones se están adaptando a las nuevas expectativas del público....

Mientras museos y galerías afrontan nuevos hábitos de consumo cultural, algunas estrategias expositivas demuestran ser más eficaces para atraer visitantes. Un análisis de los patrones presentes en las principales exposiciones de Londres.

30/06/2026

Why some exhibitions succeed in bringing audiences through the door

With many museums still operating below pre-pandemic attendance levels, attracting visitors has become an increasingly deliberate exercise. Looking across London's major exhibitions, several recurring patterns emerge, revealing how institutions are adapting to changing audience expectations....

As museums and galleries face changing audience habits, certain exhibition strategies are proving more effective than others. An analysis of the approaches attracting visitors across London's major exhibitions.

17/06/2026

Stepping into Shao Fan’s exhibition feels like entering a world suspended between reality and myth. Rabbits, apples, cabbages and imagined creatures become carriers for reflections on transformation, continuity and time.

I was drawn to his apples. What appears at first as an ordinary form gradually takes on the presence of a devotional object. The longer you look, the more you notice the labour embedded in its surface. Each mark carries duration: the time of making, and the time of looking.

The works also echo the language of Chinese *shan shui* painting. Their folds and textures resemble landscapes in motion, where mountains, ridges and weather systems seem to emerge directly from the surface. As Shao Fan has noted, painting is not simply applied but written with the brush, carrying inner feeling into form.

Rather than nostalgia, this return to traditional techniques suggests continuity. Old forms remain active, holding memory and accumulated experience. Animals and vegetables are no longer just subjects but stable presences within a slower rhythm of transformation.

*Shao Fan: Refrain*
White Cube Mason’s Yard, London
Until 27 June 2026

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