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Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Lagos Biennial, Constantin Meunier

11/13/2026 • 57 min

As Tate Britain opens Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury, a major show exploring these pivotal figures in British Modernism in a new light, Ben Luke visits the show and takes a tour with the exhibition’s co-curator, Thomas Kennedy. The Lagos Biennial opens this weekend in the Nigerian city and this fifth edition is called The Museum of Things Unseen.… Play episode

Sydney Powerhouse scandal, heritage destruction in Lebanon, Dan Flavin
Edward Hopper biography, Kvareli Foundation in Georgia, Marisa Merz in Tur…
Art Basel Paris opens and closes amid protests, Latin American culture war…
Frieze in London, Tarek Atoui at Tate Modern, Sienese sculptor Francesco d…
Palestinian artists after the ceasefire, Robert Ryman, Katherine Hubbard
Renoir and Love in London, political storm around Kanal in Brussels, Ronal…
Cezanne in Paris, Taryn Simon in New York, Magritte in London
Giotto restored in Florence, Biennale de Lyon, Remedios Varo
The Bayeux Tapestry, damaged heritage in Iran, Tschabalala Self’s Trafalga…
What did you miss? Summer art world news and what’s coming up
Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern, the Brexit effect, a Renaissance tarot deck
Art Basel in Basel, Pierre Huyghe interview, James Turrell
Pan-Africanism in London, the health benefits of art, Barbara Hepworth
Yemen heritage, US flags at the National Gallery in Washington, Felix Gonz…
Smithsonian Women’s Museum chaos, Oliver Beer and Rufus Wainwright, Jasper…
New York auctions, James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain, Edvard Munch
Frieze New York, the Cranach in Hitler’s Munich apartment, Ajamu X
Venice Biennale Special 2026
Zurbarán in London, the Carnegie International, Walter Sickert’s Ennui
Chernobyl 40 years on, Paula Rego at Munch in Oslo, Gluck’s flower painting
Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, Will…
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, Dorothea Tanning book, Leonora Carrington at the F…
Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga…
Matisse’s explosive finale and a new chapter for Hong Kong? Plus, Schiapar…
New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford
Iran war: art communities and heritage in Iran, moderate recovery in the a…
Iran war and culture in the Gulf, the Whitney Biennial, Rembrandt discovery
Venice Biennale details revealed, Beatriz González, Tracey Emin
National Gallery’s deficit bombshell, Simon Schama on birds and art, Vilhe…
The US struggles with history, Stephen Friedman Gallery closes, Tudor Hear…
Art Basel Qatar, Dürer portrait debate, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Edvard …
Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered…
Smithsonian’s African LGBTQ+ exhibition, art and the Iran crisis, Louise N…
Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s B…
The Year Ahead 2026: the big shows and the key openings
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Frank Gehry remembered, Serpentine and FLAG Art Foundation prize, Joan Sem…
Art Basel Miami Beach, Louvre crisis deepens, Helene Schjerfbeck
The US Venice Biennale saga, Queer Islamic art in Oslo, Duane Linklater in…
The $236m Klimt, Cop 30 and the art world, Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid
Studio Museum in Harlem, Grand Egyptian Museum, Stanley Spencer
MFA Boston returns enslaved artist’s work to his heirs, Wifredo Lam, Ghirl…
Gauguin “fake” is real, Mrinalini Mukherjee and her circle, Franz Xaver Me…
Louvre heist: the fallout, RoseLee Goldberg on the Performa Biennial, Wayn…
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Nigerian Modernism, Tehran’s art scene after the war, Wayne Thiebaud’s Cak…
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Kerry James Marshall, National Gallery expansion, Picasso’s Three Dancers

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