Sophie Smorczewski

London possesses one of the world’s most extensive and geographically dispersed gallery ecosystems. London Gallery Weekend 2026 brings together more than 120 galleries, over 80 public events, a growing network of institutional partnerships and a citywide programme spanning multiple neighbourhoods. Now in its sixth edition, the initiative has become a key fixture in the international art calendar, creating a framework

Art Osaka 2026 enters a new phase with an expanded two venue format spanning Grand Green and Creative Center. Bringing together more than 60 galleries from Japan and across Asia, the fair connects commercial presentations, large scale installations, and regional histories through a distinctly Kansai perspective. Founded in 2002, Art Osaka is among Japan’s longest-running contemporary art fairs. Organised by

Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor at Wolterton brings together more than seventy works spanning five decades of the artist’s career. Installed throughout the Grade I-listed Norfolk estate, the exhibition places Barlow’s unruly sculptures in direct dialogue with historic architecture, creating a powerful encounter between permanence and disruption. Curated by Simon Oldfield with guest curator Clare Lilley, Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor takes place across

A potential fixture in London’s summer art calendar, Illuminated gathers over 100 contemporary artists in a curated exhibition by the RSA and AOAP Projects. It links artistic practice with social purpose, combining accessibility, philanthropy, and intergenerational exchange rooted in the RSA’s commitment to collective progress. Launching at the RSA’s historic headquarters on John Adam Street, Illuminated inaugurates a new annual

Christie’s spring sales in New York offered a stark picture of today’s art market, generating more than $1.1 billion in a single evening while resetting records for Jackson Pollock, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko, and Joan Miró. The results confirmed continued demand for rare, museum-quality works. The defining moment of the week was Jackson Pollock’s Number 7A (1948), which sold for

At Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, Christo: Air brings together Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s early works on air, containment, and perception with a long-unrealized 1968 installation, Air Package on a Ceiling. Now realized at full scale, it turns empty space into something physical, weighted, and unexpectedly intimate. Organized around the idea of air as both material and absence, the exhibition returns to a