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Britain’s motorway infrastructure serves as subject matter for artist Jen Orpin’s monographThe Modernist Society’s new book ‘The Architecture of Connection’ finds melancholic beauty in the prosaic architecture of the motorway system, as chronicled with care by painter Jen Orpin
By Jonathan Bell Published
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In London, play mini golf designed by Miranda July and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley'The Art of Mini Golf' at Battersea Arts Centre asks nine artists to interpret mini golf's subversive history
By Hannah Silver Published
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The Prix Pictet's next photography prize will explore the jungleThe internationally renowned photography award has unveiled 'Jungle' as the theme for its twelfth cycle, inviting photographers to respond to one of the planet's most vital ecosystems
By Hannah Silver Published
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This New York artist uses real human blood to interrogate sexuality, belonging and baseball fandomIn 'Bases Loaded,' now on view at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, Jordan Eagles blends his love of the Mets with the politics of blood donation
By Osman Can Yerebakan Published
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One of the world’s most famous paintings gets the Lego treatment: Gustav Klimt’s The KissIt takes 4,000 Lego pieces to conjure up this rich evocation of Klimt’s iconic Art Nouveau masterpiece, the latest work from the Lego Art series
By Jonathan Bell Published
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In Aarhus, the history of punk is told through the bodyFrom fishnets and fetishwear to performance and protest, ‘Unruly – The Body in Punk’ at ARoS in Aarhus traces how the body became one of the movement’s most potent sites of rebellion
By Sophie Axon Published
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Vibeke Tandberg was an early champion of photo manipulation. Discover her work in her native NorwayA new exhibition, ‘They Live’, at Kode Bergen Art Museum, walks us through Tandberg's extraordinary career
By Henry Roberts Published
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Tate Modern’s first exhibition dedicated to Ana Mendieta celebrates her sensual engagement with the natural worldMore than 120 of the Cuban-born American artist’s works explore her untraditional approach to depicting the body in nature
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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In Venice, 150 artists gather in two palazzos to consider movement and migrationA few canals from the Arsenale and Giardini and its freight of geopolitics, the eighth edition of ‘Personal Structures’ gathers more than 150 artists across two palazzos and a garden under the theme of ‘Confluences’
By Nargess Banks Published
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At the Fondation Beyeler, step into Pierre Huyghe’s deliciously creepy dystopiaThe artist brings an immersive eeriness to Switzerland's Fondation Beyeler
By Hannah Silver Published
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Artist Danielle Mckinney champions the solitude of the Black female subject, capturing private moments in paintThe American artist cinematically captures moments of stillness and peace in her beautifully rendered oil paintings
By Hannah Silver Published
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As Peckham hot spot Bold Tendencies marks 20 years, step inside its cool curation for the summerFounder Hannah Barry tells Wallpaper* why Bold Tendencies – a non-profit arts organisation atop a multistorey car park in south-east London – is all about exercising your joy
By Zoe Whitfield Published
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Anatomy of a logo: Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup canFor our August US issue, we celebrate American design, encapsulated here in Andy Warhol's can of Campbell's tomato soup
By Hannah Silver Published
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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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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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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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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


