Mandy El-Sayeg, Jewel Tones, Exhibition view Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery-London, 2026, Photo: Damian Griffiths, Courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery

ART CITIES:London, Mandy El Sayeg

By emphasising the boundaries of her chosen medium, Mandy El-Sayegh draws attention to the systems that determine how information is categorised, contained and understood. She creates ‘quasi-archives’ in her table vitrines, suggesting associations and references through the objects’ placement in a shared, delineated space. In her “Net-Grid” canvases, overpainted grids simultaneously structure …

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst (7/6/1965- )

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Damien Hirst (7/6/1965- ), since emerging onto the international art scene in the late …

Kenjiro Okazaki, Et egredietur virga de radice Iesse, et flos de radice eius ascendet. And for all this, nature is never spent. Generations have trod, have trod, have trod. I got old. Landscape plotted and pieced — Off side of my thought? fold, fallow, and plough. For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow. The world is charged with the grandeur of God. Whatever is fickle, freckled — And still — it blooms. who knows how? The light is calm. We were struck by the sudden appearance of yucca trees The blossoms are not. Ring-a-ring o’ roses, come again another day. Praise him. The blossoms that remain are falling blossoms. That day, sunset seeing a butterfly fall. Nothing is so beautiful as Spring — when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush. (2026) © Kenjiro Okazaki

ART CITIES: London-Kenjiro Okazaki

With a unifying emphasis on form, Kenjiro Okazaki explores themes related to time, space, and the human experience through a postmodernist lens. …

Yona Friedman

ARCHITECTURE: Yona Friedman

Yona Friedman (5/6/1923-20/2/2020) is a historical figure of prospective architecture with more than 92 years of experience that has led him to …

Donald Judd (3/6/1928-12/2/1994)

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the American artist Donald Judd (3/6/1928-12/2/1994), associated with Minimalism. In his work, Judd sought …

Richard Long

Richard Long (2/6/1945- )

Today is the occasion to bear in mind the British artist Richard Long RA CBE (2/6/1945- ). He is an English sculptor …

Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc (23/9/1928-30/5/2026)

Julio Le Parc (23/9/1928-30/5/2026) was an Argentine-born artist whose pioneering experiments with light, movement, perception, and viewer participation made him one of …

ARCHITECTURE: Norman Foster

Norman Foster was born 1/6/1935 in Manchester. He became the 21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999. He has been awarded the …

Arnaldo Pomodoro, Forma X, I, 1968-1969, steel, ø 200 cm, Collezione Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano, Photo Carlos Tettamanzi. Courtesy Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano

PRESENTATION: Arnaldo Pomodoro-Una Vita

Arnaldo Pomodoro was an influential Italian sculptor renowned for his large-scale bronze sculptures that combine geometric precision with rich symbolic meaning. His …

ARCHITECTURE: Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito (1/6/1941- ) is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical …

Jasper Johns, Untitled, 1964-65, Oil and charcoal on canvas with objects (4 panels), 182.9 x 426.7 cm, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, © Jasper Johns, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2026

TRIBUTE: Jasper Johns-Night Driver

Far from Expressionist rhetoric, Jasper Johns’s oeuvre is defined by an ironic, restrained approach that nonetheless carries emotional weight and is widely …

ARCHITECTURE: Frei Paul Otto

The German architect Frei Paul Otto (31/5/1925-9/3/2015) was best known for the huge roof canopies designed for the 1972 Olympics in Munich. …

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