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Out of office: What the Wallpaper* editors are looking forward to in JulyOur editors highlight what’s new, noteworthy and not-to-be-missed in design, culture and beyond this month
By Hannah Silver Published
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Take an exclusive look behind the scenes of Ye’s ‘King’ music videoArtist Bianca Censori directs three music videos from the album ‘Bully’ – here she tells us how she translates sound into vision
By Hannah Silver Published
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In Manchester, Ai Weiwei unveils his largest works yet‘Ai Weiwei: Button Up!’ at Aviva Studios unites new, large-scale works in the home of the Industrial Revolution
By Hannah Silver Published
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London art exhibitions to see in JulyRead our pick of the best London art exhibitions to see this month, from the KNMA Collection's contemporary South Asian art to Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern
By Tianna Williams Last updated
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Pictet Group and Paris Photo bring photography and sustainability into crisp focusBespoke Partnership
A new partnership places Prix Pictet at the heart of the world's leading photography fair, reinforcing a shared commitment to photography as a force for cultural and environmental reflection
By Gavin Hastings Published
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‘I’m drawing in my paintings’: Frank Bowling on the practice behind a life’s workIn London, an exhibition at the Royal Drawing School follows more than 60 years of Bowling’s sketches, experiments and works on paper, reframing one of Britain's greatest painters through the act that has always guided his practice
By Jamilah Rose-Roberts Published
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New York art exhibitions to see in JulyRead our pick of the best New York art exhibitions to see in July from the industrial photography of Christopher Payne to Studio Crosby's football mania
By Tianna Williams Last updated
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Los Angeles art exhibitions: the best shows to see in July 2026Read our pick of the best Los Angeles art exhibitions to see this month, from World Cup watch parties at the Hammer Museum to a Marilyn Monroe exhibition at The Academy
By Carole Dixon Last updated
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After taking a break, British artist Dale Lewis is rediscovering meaning in paintingDale Lewis presents his most personal work yet in his fourth solo show at London gallery, Edel Assanti
By Hannah Silver Published
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In immersive exhibitions in Iceland, Björk works across painting, video and musicThe National Gallery of Iceland celebrates the multifaceted nature of Björk's creativity with two exhibitions
By Craig McLean Published
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At Tate Modern, Nora Chipaumire invites us to experience art through the bodyFor the 2026 Infinities Commission, the artist transforms the East Tank into imagined Zimbabwean landscapes shaped by touch, sound, sculpture, moving images, and live performance
By Jamilah Rose-Roberts Published
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As Martin Parr’s final exhibition opens with the National Trust, Susie Parr reflects on his legacy‘Lacock by Martin Parr’, at the Fox Talbot Museum, unites Parr’s series of portraits of English community and tradition
By Craig McLean Published
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Take a rare chance to see the works of artist Sylvia Sleigh in LondonThe feminist painter’s works nod to classical traditions but were idiosyncratically her own – discover them at Malarkey
By Hannah Silver Published
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A new monograph spotlights Miyako Ishiuchi, photographer of the belongings of Frida Kahlo and Hiroshima victims‘Ishiuchi Miyako: Traces’ offers the most comprehensive account yet of the photographer – a visual archivist of memory and loss
By Anna Solomon Published
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At JW Anderson, a hidden chapter of queer publishing history comes into viewThe brand’s London Soho boutique hosts an exhibition of illustrations from Bob Mizer’s Physique Pictorial, the groundbreaking magazine that normalised the male body as a subject of desire
By Hannah Silver Published
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Tate Modern restores Frida Kahlo to her rightful place in art historyIn a major new exhibition, ‘Frida: The Making of an Icon’, Kahlo’s work is presented alongside that of her peers and later artists influenced by her legacy
By Hannah Silver Published
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Aesop’s Queer Library is back with titles by LGBTQIA+ authors and allies and a new Reading RoomThe Queer Library pop-up in Soho, London is back (3-5 July 2026), this year focuses on the queer body and how it serves as an act of joyful resistance
By Tianna Williams Published
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A giant inflatable mountain has appeared in the heart of ParisBattling hailstorms, heatwaves and engineering challenges, artist JR's vast new installation transforms the Pont-Neuf into a cave-like landscape complete with sound, scent and augmented reality
By Amy Serafin Published
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Jimi Hendrix's memorabilia goes on show in LondonAt Jimi Hendrix's former home, Handel Hendrix House, a vast selection of the musician's treasured possessions are going on show
By Craig McLean Published
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Enter the unsettling world of Lutz Bacher, a radical voice of American conceptual art‘Burning the Days’, a new exhibition at Wiels in Brussels, unites four decades of the artist’s work and eschews easy answers about her practice
By Sam Moore Published
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Anish Kapoor disorientates, delights and disturbs at the Hayward GalleryAnish Kapoor unveils vast new works in his first exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 28 years
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Marc Isaacs takes his cult short film, Lift, back to 2001Twenty-five years ago, award-winning director, Marc Isaacs, earned plaudits for his cult short film, compiling footage from hours spent in a London tower block elevator. Now, to mark the quarter-century anniversary, he’s releasing a new photography book
By Kyle MacNeill Published
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Why are festival line-up poster designs getting so hard to read?As festival line-up posters become more abstract, we look at what is driving the increasingly complicated designs
By Harry Levin Published
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A rare insight into Paul Thek – the ‘artist’s artist’ – at Pace Gallery, New YorkThek had a turbulent life and career. A major new show offers an exploration of his rarely seen works
By Osman Can Yerebakan Published
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David Hockney (1937-2026), the British artist who truly made a bigger splashThe most celebrated British artist of his generation, David Hockney passed away peacefully on 11 June 2026. He leaves a legacy of chromatic brilliance across two centuries
By Finn Blythe Published
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Inside the design of a Persephone bookPersephone books are distinctive for their dove grey covers and colourful endpapers. We go behind the design
By Hannah Silver Published
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‘People were not ready’ for Walter Pfeiffer’s photography in the 1970s; now we can’t get enough‘In Good Company’ at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Italy is the photographer’s first large-scale presentation outside his native Switzerland, featuring 100 works from six decades – we meet
By Zoe Whitfield Published

