{"id":1548,"date":"2015-06-05T19:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2011-03-25T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:31:04","slug":"exhibition-newsfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/exhibition-newsfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitions Newsfeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"rssclass\"><li>8 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2026\/jun\/08\/hong-kong-protests-how-was-your-dream-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hong Kong protests and the erasure of the individual \u2013 in pictures\">Hong Kong protests and the erasure of the individual \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>How Was Your Dream? is a documentary project by Thadde Comar, a Franco-Swiss photographer, created during the extradition bill protests in Hong Kong between June and October 2019. His work is displayed as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfastphotofestival.com\/\">Belfast photo festival<\/a>, which runs until 30 June at venues across the city<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2026\/jun\/08\/hong-kong-protests-how-was-your-dream-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>5 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/terry-winters-review-modern-art-london-paintings\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Terry Winters review \u2013 flashes of magic in patterns science has yet to explain\">Terry Winters review \u2013 flashes of magic in patterns science has yet to explain<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>Modern Art, London<\/strong><br>The mathematically named new works of Along the River are disorienting, illusive and seem to offer a flash of the secret sequences that underpin the physical world<\/p><p>Why do we find things beautiful? More precisely, why do some paintings of coloured dots in rippling patterns inspire in me something like revelation? The idea that beauty is the feeling you get when encountering truth is unfashionable in the arts, but lingers in the sciences. The physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000fw0p\">Paul Dirac<\/a> once proposed that it is more important that a formula is beautiful than that it can be proven: when a perfectly beautiful theory produces results that cannot be real, he argued, then we should not discard the theory but reconsider what is real.<\/p><p>Since the 1970s, <a href=\"https:\/\/matthewmarks.com\/artists\/terry-winters\">Terry Winters<\/a> has been rebuilding that bridge between art and science. Taking inspiration from disciplines including botany \u2013 his early paintings, particularly, evoke sprouting pods and tangled roots \u2013 engineering, computer modelling and cybernetics, his paintings might be understood as diagrammatic approximations of the patterns that govern everything from the division of cells to the constellation of stars. If every era has to renew its standards of beauty to reflect new understandings of how the world is constructed, then Winters comes as close to providing that model as any living painter.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/terry-winters-review-modern-art-london-paintings\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>5 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/the-secret-to-enjoying-an-art-gallery-less-is-more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The secret to enjoying an art gallery? Less is more | Letters\">The secret to enjoying an art gallery? Less is more | Letters<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Readers respond to an article in which Isabel Brooks described feeling overwhelmed by the number of artworks on display<\/p><p>Of course Isabel Brooks is right, and it is very easy to get indigestion when visiting a large gallery (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/may\/30\/big-problem-art-galleries-too-much-art\">The hill I will die on: Let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries. There\u2019s too much art, 30 May<\/a>). No one attending a banquet of hundreds of delicious dishes would attempt to sample them all. Self-discipline is needed in both cases. In Britain\u00a0we must count ourselves lucky that access to our major galleries is free, so there is no discouragement to going often, but for a shorter time. Special exhibitions of a particular artist or\u00a0group, where works are brought\u00a0together from around the world, are of course different \u2013 there the comparison of an artist\u2019s\u00a0development through his or her life justifies a longer focus on all the works.<\/p><p>Having said that, I would agree that the most satisfying galleries are the smaller ones \u2013 for example the Frick Collection in New York or the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. But even at the latter, when we took our nine-year-old granddaughter there, we invited her to look at just one painting, Rembrandt\u2019s Girl at a Window. She subsequently drew her version of it and there is no doubt that that wonderful little painting will now be in her visual memory for life.<br><strong>Peregrine Bryant<\/strong><br><em>London<\/em><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/the-secret-to-enjoying-an-art-gallery-less-is-more\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>5 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/billy-dosanjh-edward-hopper-walsall-sikh-black-country\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018The Edward Hopper of the Black Country\u2019: the photographer whose epic shots captured Sikh life in Walsall\">\u2018The Edward Hopper of the Black Country\u2019: the photographer whose epic shots captured Sikh life in Walsall<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Paths You Walk is a show that finds beauty in images of alienation as Billy Dosanjh turns his lens on race, identity, empire \u2013 and the men who kept the furnaces glowing<\/p><p>It was bitter in Walsall that winter of 1962-3 when snow turned the Black Country white. In After the Storm, Billy Dosanjh\u2019s epic photographic reconstruction of one especially chilly night back then, an elderly Sikh man, recently arrived from the Punjab, stands under an old carriage lamp. He is, the shot suggests, seeing snow for the first time.<\/p><p>\u201cI thought it was quite a fitting note to get him gazing at the snow, looking a little bewildered,\u201d says Dosanjh as we stroll around Paths You Walk, his gripping exhibition of photographs, films and installations at the New Art Gallery Walsall. At the back of the image, three furnace smoke stacks rise up in ghostly fashion, almost like the three crosses on Calvary have been relocated to Mordor.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/billy-dosanjh-edward-hopper-walsall-sikh-black-country\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>5 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/simeon-barclay-review-john-hansard-gallery-southampton-turner-prize\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Simeon Barclay review \u2013 shut out by the gates of a drab modern Britain\">Simeon Barclay review \u2013 shut out by the gates of a drab modern Britain<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>John Hansard Gallery, Southampton<\/strong><br>Farewell Sweet Innocence references cinema, football, music and Windrush \u2013 it\u2019s about trying to fit in, but always falling short, even as a Turner-nominated artist<\/p><p>There\u2019s that old Marxist (Groucho, not Karl) saying about refusing to join any club that would have you as a member. Simeon Barclay takes that idea one step further in his work, because he knows that even if the club would have him, he\u2019d never be truly accepted anyway. He calls his show in Southampton \u201ca lament of sorts, to access and loss\u201d. It comes just a few weeks after he got nominated for the Turner prize, and it\u2019s a damn fine argument for why he should probably win it.<\/p><p>This is an exhibition all about exclusion, about trying to fit in but never quite managing. It\u2019s razor-sharp, funny, pop-cultural, obtuse conceptual art about growing up black in Britain, about trying to make it and knowing you\u2019re bound to fail, because the system is geared towards failure.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/simeon-barclay-review-john-hansard-gallery-southampton-turner-prize\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>5 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/mind-melting-mc-escher-mesmerising-marilyn-and-the-greatness-of-glasgow-the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Mind-melting MC Escher, mesmerising Marilyn and the greatness of Glasgow \u2013 the week in art\">Mind-melting MC Escher, mesmerising Marilyn and the greatness of Glasgow \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Escher\u2019s eye-popping visions enter the video dimension, Pan-Africanism pulls in the big names and agent provocateur Julio Le Parc hits the UK \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><strong>MC Escher<br><\/strong>The great Dutch artist of eye-popping, brain-melting visual paradox gets a rich retrospective of his prints, with video, music and installations adding to the fun. <br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somersethouse.org.uk\/whats-on\/mc-escher-the-exhibition\">Somerset House, London<\/a>, until 6 September<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/mind-melting-mc-escher-mesmerising-marilyn-and-the-greatness-of-glasgow-the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>5 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/namibia-shark-island-herero-nama-genocide-fractured-lifeworlds-spore-initiative-berlin-forensic\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018They are disturbing the dead\u2019: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century\">\u2018They are disturbing the dead\u2019: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonisers scarred a landscape, and a community<\/p><p>Visiting the Namibian port town of L\u00fcderitz in late 2024, I came across a small museum run by descendants of German settlers. Alongside imperial German flags and memorabilia, it displayed artefacts of the Herero tribe that had been recovered from nearby Shark Island. What went unmentioned is that, from 1905 to 1907, Shark Island was the site of a concentration camp where Herero and Nama prisoners were subjected to forced labour, starvation and systematic abuse. At least 3,000 people are estimated to have died there.<\/p><p>Shark Island was used as a tourist campsite when I visited. Monuments on the island honoured Adolf L\u00fcderitz and Heinrich Vogelsang, the German merchants who helped establish the colony known as German South West Africa. Today, it is widely reported that Namibia\u2019s white minority \u2013 less than 2% of the population \u2013 owns roughly 70% of commercial farmland.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/05\/namibia-shark-island-herero-nama-genocide-fractured-lifeworlds-spore-initiative-berlin-forensic\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>4 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jun\/04\/new-york-upstate-photography-biennial-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lesbian rebels, exotic dancing and domesticity: New York\u2019s Upstate Photography Biennial \u2013 in pictures\">Lesbian rebels, exotic dancing and domesticity: New York\u2019s Upstate Photography Biennial \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The Center for Photography at Woodstock (in Kingston, New York) recently opened the first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/cpw.org\/exhibition\/upstate-photography-biennial\/\">New York Upstate Photography Biennial<\/a>, featuring the work of 39 artists who live and work across the Hudson valley and beyond. The show, co-curated by Marina Chao and Adam Giles Ryan, highlights the diverse work of photographers in the upstate region. Their images will be on view until 6 September 2026<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jun\/04\/new-york-upstate-photography-biennial-exhibition\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>4 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/04\/hold-this-earth-indigenous-american-artists-yorkshire-sculpture-park\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018We have a shared sky and stars\u2019: the Indigenous American artists challenging our relationship to the natural world\">\u2018We have a shared sky and stars\u2019: the Indigenous American artists challenging our relationship to the natural world<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>As the largest display of Native North American art ever seen in Britain arrives in Yorkshire, its artists are asking timely questions about their history, our planet, and humanity\u2019s place within it<\/p><p>Hold to This Earth, the largest exhibition of contemporary Native North American art to be shown in Britain, arrives as the United States gears up to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Selected from Santa Fe\u2019s Tia Collection, its artists represent more than 35 tribal nations, offering a counterpoint to that colonialist history. Their work explores a continent whose beliefs and traditions date back not centuries but millennia, and whose more recent past is marked by its original people\u2019s exploitation, their experiences too often buried or ignored. Perhaps above all, though, \u201cthe work is incredibly timely\u201d, as the show\u2019s curator, Sarah Coulson, points out. \u201cThese artists are dealing with pertinent issues now.\u201d<\/p><p>Many artists tackle present-day concerns head-on. Yatika Starr Fields\u2019s sculptures, for instance, use tents salvaged from an encampment of thousands of demonstrators fighting the Dakota access pipeline that threatened the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux. Politics mixes with pop culture and global tradition in another new commission, a huge vessel by the ceramicist Diego Romero. It has a palette that recalls ancient Greek pottery, but its celebratory comic book-style characters are drawn from an old sci-fi movie about Mayans going to space.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/04\/hold-this-earth-indigenous-american-artists-yorkshire-sculpture-park\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>3 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/03\/met-museum-portrait-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018A kind of reconnecting with the past\u2019: the Met celebrates the art of the portrait\">\u2018A kind of reconnecting with the past\u2019: the Met celebrates the art of the portrait<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>In a new exhibition, work from artists including Pablo Picasso and Wifredo Lam offer different ways to see what a portrait can represent<\/p><p>What exactly is a portrait? At its simplest, it might be an attempt to depict oneself or someone else via a painting. But then consider German expressionist Max Beckmann\u2019s masterpiece The Beginning, a triptych of scenes from his childhood, or Cuban artist Wifredo Lam\u2019s \u00cddolo, a melange of forms based around the goddess Oy\u00e1. Rooted more in memory and myth than a mere physical likeness, these pieces stretch just what we might decide counts as a portrait.<\/p><p>Works such as the Beckmann and the Lam \u2013 as well as cubist abstractions, an ornate hand mirror, and one of Joan Mir\u00f3\u2019s pieces of \u201cpainting-poetry\u201d, \u2014 are all portraits as defined by The Met\u2019s new show The Face of Modern Life, which gathers close to 80 works from the museum\u2019s permanent collection. A boisterous and effusive selection of work from one of the nation\u2019s most storied museums, this show gives audiences a peek into the museum\u2019s estimable archives and a chance to wonder just what defines this seemingly simple but truly elusive form.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jun\/03\/met-museum-portrait-exhibition\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>2 June: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jun\/02\/i-wasnt-expecting-that-joel-meyerowitz-and-the-art-of-surprise-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018I wasn\u2019t expecting that!\u2019: Joel Meyerowitz and the art of surprise \u2013 in pictures\">\u2018I wasn\u2019t expecting that!\u2019: Joel Meyerowitz and the art of surprise \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>It could be the puff of steam from a manhole or a horse wandering into view \u2013 whatever the \u2018moment\u2019, the iconic US photographer has always had a camera in hand to capture it <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jun\/02\/i-wasnt-expecting-that-joel-meyerowitz-and-the-art-of-surprise-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>31 May: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/31\/elizabeth-blackadder-exhibition-burlingham-gallery-kingsclere\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Elizabeth Blackadder exhibition reveals wintry Tuscan landscapes and minimalist still lifes\">Elizabeth Blackadder exhibition reveals wintry Tuscan landscapes and minimalist still lifes<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Early works show a less familiar side to the Scottish artist celebrated for her flower and cat paintings<\/p><p>She may be best known for accessible paintings of flowers and cats but a new exhibition of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2021\/aug\/25\/dame-elizabeth-blackadder-obituary\"> Elizabeth Blackadder\u2019s<\/a> work focuses instead on chilly landscapes and pared-back still life compositions.<\/p><p>The show in Hampshire, far from Blackadder\u2019s Scottish home, presents a less familiar side of the artist, with most of the pieces exhibited for the first time.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/31\/elizabeth-blackadder-exhibition-burlingham-gallery-kingsclere\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>30 May: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/may\/30\/marilyn-monroe-exhibition-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018America\u2019s sweetheart\u2019: exhibition explores Marilyn Monroe\u2019s complex relationship to stardom\">\u2018America\u2019s sweetheart\u2019: exhibition explores Marilyn Monroe\u2019s complex relationship to stardom<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The new exhibition at LA\u2019s Academy museum features some of the star\u2019s most intimate belongings that have never been available for public viewing<\/p><p>There\u2019s an unsettling moment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academymuseum.org\/exhibitions\/marilyn-monroe-hollywood-icon\">Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon<\/a>, a new exhibition opening in Los Angeles this weekend, where some of the star\u2019s last recorded words emanate from the gallery walls.<\/p><p>Her voice, gentle and unassuming, is taken from a restored audio recording of her final interview, published in Life magazine the day before she died.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/may\/30\/marilyn-monroe-exhibition-los-angeles\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>29 May: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/29\/british-landscapes-a-sense-of-place-wendy-mcmurdo-jack-white\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts \u2013 the week in art\">Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>British landscape painting from Gainsborough to Hepworth, Wendy McMurdo\u2019s uncanny portraits and Jack White\u2019s debut exhibition \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><strong>British Landscapes: A Sense of Place<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>The romance and mystery of Britain\u2019s green and pleasant land, as captured by artists from Gainsborough to Hepworth.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/pallant.org.uk\/whats-on\/british-landscapes-a-sense-of-place\/\">Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, from 30 May to 1 November<\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/29\/british-landscapes-a-sense-of-place-wendy-mcmurdo-jack-white\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>29 May: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/29\/tenderness-and-rage-how-groups-affected-by-hiv-found-power-comfort-and-joy-in-aids-activism\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tenderness and Rage: how groups affected by HIV found power, comfort and joy in Aids activism\">Tenderness and Rage: how groups affected by HIV found power, comfort and joy in Aids activism<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>London exhibition explores how care and protest improved rights and dignity of those living with disease<\/p><p>From photos of a mass \u201cdie-in\u201d by Aids activists in Trafalgar Square, London, in the 1990s to plushie breasts, lips and vulvas hand-stitched by HIV-positive women, a new exhibition explores how care and protest have improved the rights and dignity of those living with the disease.<\/p><p>The show, <a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/exhibitions\/tenderness-and-rage\">Tenderness and Rage<\/a>, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/\">Wellcome Collection<\/a>, London, reflects how different groups affected by HIV, including gay men, women of colour, and refugees in the UK and around the world have found power, solidarity, comfort and joy in Aids activism and support services.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/29\/tenderness-and-rage-how-groups-affected-by-hiv-found-power-comfort-and-joy-in-aids-activism\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>28 May: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/28\/leonora-carrington-work-painted-during-psychiatric-confinement-to-go-on-show-for-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Leonora Carrington work painted during psychiatric confinement to go on show for first time\">Leonora Carrington work painted during psychiatric confinement to go on show for first time<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Exclusive: Villa Pilar, painted in 1940 during the surrealist artist\u2019s stay in a Spanish sanatorium, will be displayed at London\u2019s Freud museum<\/p><p>A recently discovered painting by the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, made during her confinement in a Spanish psychiatric hospital during the second world war, will go on public display for the first time in London this summer.<\/p><p>Known as Villa Pilar, the work was painted in 1940 while Carrington was a patient at sanatorium Morales in Santander, after fleeing Nazi-occupied France after the arrest of her partner, the German artist Max Ernst.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/28\/leonora-carrington-work-painted-during-psychiatric-confinement-to-go-on-show-for-first-time\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>25 May: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/may\/25\/food-orders-and-phone-bills-jimi-hendrix-memorabilia-to-go-on-display-in-london\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Food orders and phone bills: Jimi Hendrix memorabilia to go on display in London\">Food orders and phone bills: Jimi Hendrix memorabilia to go on display in London<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Exclusive: Exhibition to include letters, work permits and dry cleaning tickets that reveal little moments of domesticity in rock icon\u2019s life<\/p><p>When Jimi Hendrix lived in a bohemian London flat in the 1960s, he had little need for its kitchen as he had meals sent up from Mr Love, a groovy restaurant on the ground floor of his building.<\/p><p>While celebrities were downstairs, dining at heart-shaped tables and served by waitresses in hot pants, the American rock musician was upstairs, tucking into steaks and hamburgers.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/may\/25\/food-orders-and-phone-bills-jimi-hendrix-memorabilia-to-go-on-display-in-london\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>25 May: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/25\/the-joy-of-museums-aimed-at-children\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Origami dragons and a story arcade! The joy of museums aimed at children\">Origami dragons and a story arcade! The joy of museums aimed at children<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The best of these  reject any \u2018don\u2019t touch\u2019 attitude in favour of an open invitation to curiosity that might just see your toddler tell you to sit down and read a book<\/p><p>Play cafes are not for me, but that doesn\u2019t make me a monster. I don\u2019t drag my toddler around museums and galleries demanding that we look at art every day of the week (what fresh hell that would be). Instead there is, I\u2019ve discovered, a middle ground. Museums that are family oriented and fun and capable of sparking curiosity in arts and culture while they\u2019re at it. Museums such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storymuseum.org.uk\/\">the Story Museum<\/a> in Oxford.<\/p><p>The place is a gem. I love it from the moment we\u2019re given colourful wristbands that will allow us to come and go throughout the day (no pressure to power through when whining turns to wailing). Tucked away from the tourists in a higgledy-piggledy former post office and telephone exchange building on Pembroke Street, it\u2019s full of imaginative galleries that invite you to step inside the pages of great children\u2019s books from across the ages.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/25\/the-joy-of-museums-aimed-at-children\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>22 May: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/22\/phyllida-barlow-disruptor-review-wolterton-norfolk\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor review \u2013 sexy latex and gobs of gum as a stately home gets trashed\">Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor review \u2013 sexy latex and gobs of gum as a stately home gets trashed<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>Wolterton, Norfolk<\/strong> <br>From an explosion of plywood chairs to something akin to bubblegum stuck to the walls, this imaginative exhibition reverberates with Barlow\u2019s punk irreverence<\/p><p>Wolterton Hall is folded so deeply into the countryside of the Bure Valley that you can\u2019t even see the grand Palladian mansion when you enter the gates to the estate. This was once one of the four power houses of Norfolk, built by Thomas Ripley for Horatio Walpole. Inside, Wolterton is dripping in 18th-century treasures, furniture, then-fashionable Belgian tapestries, fusty old portraits of important types \u2013 but now also, knobbly bodily things, strange almost familiar shapes stuck to walls and chucked down the stairs, as if someone\u2013 namely Phyllida Barlow \u2013 had come in and trashed the place.<\/p><p>It\u2019s a difficult thing to know what to do with these former country stately homes. Many have adopted a contemporary art programme as a way of challenging their history and bringing in new visitors. Simon Oldfield \u2013 Wolterton\u2019s artistic director, brought in by the new owners, the Ellis family, two years ago \u2013 has done more than that. He has reinvented the space, making room for new ideas to take over. There\u2019s no better artist for that than Barlow, whose works seem to take on a life of their own wherever they go. Her exhibition begins at the entrance, where the explosive installation Untitled: Stacked Chairs greets you. The cacophony of red plywood chairs feels like a statement about throwing things out and starting again. It\u2019s rebellious, disruptive and direct.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/22\/phyllida-barlow-disruptor-review-wolterton-norfolk\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>22 May: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/22\/lo-fi-sci-fi-hollow-metal-people-winston-churchill-paintings-the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Lo-fi sci-fi, hollow metal people and Churchill\u2019s big guns \u2013 the week in art\">Lo-fi sci-fi, hollow metal people and Churchill\u2019s big guns \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>First major retrospective for the wartime PM\u2019s paintings, shadows of Berlin Dada, hopeful science and the outrageous art of Valie Export \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Winston Churchill: The Painter<br><\/strong>Britain\u2019s eloquent war leader kept himself sane by puffing on cigars, swilling brandy \u2013 and painting the world around him.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallacecollection.org\/whats-on\/exhibitions-displays\/winston-churchill-the-painter\/\">The Wallace Collection, London<\/a>, from 23 May to 29 November<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/may\/22\/lo-fi-sci-fi-hollow-metal-people-winston-churchill-paintings-the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[121,1182,205],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-eyeplug","tag-exhibitions","tag-newsfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}