{"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>24 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/24\/bedlam-dreamscapes-digital-age-aliens-and-a-summer-pastoral-the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bedlam dreamscapes, digital-age aliens and a summer pastoral \u2013 the week in art\">Bedlam dreamscapes, digital-age aliens and a summer pastoral \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The terrifying visions of Richard Dadd, UFOs, aliens and Van Gogh\u2019s troubled peasant woman \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>Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam<br><\/strong>Terrifying creatures of the night and surreal dreamscapes galore \u2013 and those are just the \u201csane\u201d canvases this Victorian artist painted before he was confined to Bedlam, where his visions became truly unsettling.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/exhibition\/richard-dadd\">Royal Academy, London, 25 July to 25 October<\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/24\/bedlam-dreamscapes-digital-age-aliens-and-a-summer-pastoral-the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>23 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/23\/ken-turner-100-year-old-artist-crushed-tesla-with-tank\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ken Turner, the 100-year-old artist who flattened a Tesla with a tank: \u2018I\u2019m not a revolutionary, I\u2019m a simple rebel\u2019\">Ken Turner, the 100-year-old artist who flattened a Tesla with a tank: \u2018I\u2019m not a revolutionary, I\u2019m a simple rebel\u2019<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The painter, sculptor and performance artist has devoted his life to making art available to the masses. Now with a new exhibition, the centenarian discusses inequality, inspiration, and why he won\u2019t be stopping any time soon<\/p><p>\u2018Life is short, art long,\u201d says Ken Turner, reading from a book of aphorisms by ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. And he\u2019s half right, really, because at 100 years old \u2013 and very possibly the world\u2019s oldest performance artist \u2013 art might have been long, but life hasn\u2019t been all that short for him, either. And he has filled those years to the brim with radicalism, experimentalism and a singular dedication to pushing ideas as far as he can make them go.<\/p><p>In the 1960s, Turner moved from painting towards a socially conscious form of public art, creating giant inflatable sculptures that visitors could inhabit and interact with decades before immersive art became a thing. He was taught by Fernand L\u00e9ger, he was mates with John Berger, he made frames for Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. Last year, he drove a tank over a Tesla in a performance meant as a damning indictment of corporate greed and rising fascism. His has been a life of rebellion and revolution, of obstinately following his own artistic path no matter what obstacles he encounters, no matter how much easier it would have been to walk down a more well-trodden one.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/23\/ken-turner-100-year-old-artist-crushed-tesla-with-tank\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>21 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/21\/entangled-and-woven-review-textiles-the-whitworth-manchester\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Entangled and Woven review \u2013 exquisitely spun textiles that cross borders, culture and time\">Entangled and Woven review \u2013 exquisitely spun textiles that cross borders, culture and time<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>The Whitworth, Manchester<br><\/strong>Manchester\u2019s past as a centre of textile production forms the starting point of this seamless showcase of skills<strong> <\/strong><\/p><p>How many hands did it take to make this show? That is to say, how many artisans, craftspeople, weavers and artists\u2019 hands did these pieces pass through? For this is a textile exhibition that doesn\u2019t just celebrate a short list of singular artists, but rather the many highly skilled craftspeople and communities repeating the stitches and specialities of their ancestors. Take Entangled Memories, Interwoven Stories by P\u00e9ro for example: it was made by 50 artisans and took 18,000 hours to complete. And that\u2019s one piece, in an exhibition that spans three galleries.<\/p><p>These many hands and hours make Entangled and Woven an exquisitely beautiful exhibition. Every slip of fabric is layered with delicate detail and texture. Fabrics are airy and ethereal one moment, and weighty and dipped in deep indigo the next. It is hot, the fabrics sway and flicker in the fans, and hands flicker quickly in the video works capturing the creation of the pieces. I am mesmerised.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/21\/entangled-and-woven-review-textiles-the-whitworth-manchester\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>21 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/21\/richard-dadd-review-royal-academy-london-beyond-bedlam\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Richard Dadd review \u2013 can his mental illness help explain these arresting, bizarre images?\">Richard Dadd review \u2013 can his mental illness help explain these arresting, bizarre images?<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>Royal Academy, London<br><\/strong>Dadd was already a remarkable artist \u2013 with fairies as his hit theme \u2013 before he was locked up for murder. Yet it was within the confines of Bedlam that he saw nature and art afresh<\/p><p>The young man in the garden must be one of Richard Dadd\u2019s fellow patients in Bedlam, you think. His unkempt hair and ruffled clothes are sure indications of a distracted mind as he sits, half his face in shadow, hands nervously clasped, on a fabulously twisted wooden bench surrounded by greenery that\u2019s almost too lush for comfort. Yet the subject of Dadd\u2019s 1853 Portrait of a Young Man is probably the superintendent of Bethlem Hospital, Dr Charles Hood. The painter sees reflections of his own mental state in this frail-seeming young clinician. Patient and doctor are not so different, he suggests. There is the finest of lines between \u201csanity\u201d and \u201cmadness\u201d.<\/p><p>Dadd crossed that line when he murdered his father whom he thought was the devil, then tried to kill a stranger while fleeing to Paris. He was quickly caught and would spend the rest of his life in Bedlam and Broadmoor. But how much does his mental illness explain his arresting, bizarre, sometimes unforgettable images? Is he a kind of Victorian acid casualty whose visions of fairies are the peculiar fruit of his psychosis?<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/21\/richard-dadd-review-royal-academy-london-beyond-bedlam\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>17 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/17\/hockneys-graphic-1960s-linder-hits-blackpool-and-warhols-american-republic-the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hockney\u2019s Pop pals, Warhol\u2019s American republic and Linder punks Blackpool \u2013 the week in art\">Hockney\u2019s Pop pals, Warhol\u2019s American republic and Linder punks Blackpool \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Patrick Caulfield, Claes Oldenburg and Jasper Johns put Hockney in context while Helen Chadwick\u2019s provocations have a wild Welsh setting \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>Pop Revisited<br><\/strong>David Hockney\u2019s brilliantly inventive prints are shown with other graphic masterpieces of the 1960s by Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and more.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/cristearoberts.com\/exhibitions\/288-pop-revisited\/\">Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, from 23 July to 20 August<\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/17\/hockneys-graphic-1960s-linder-hits-blackpool-and-warhols-american-republic-the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>17 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/17\/john-wood-photographer-solo-show-in-glasgow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019m not into leather at all!\u2019: John Wood on privately photographing Glasgow\u2019s gay underground, and the comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe\">\u2018I\u2019m not into leather at all!\u2019: John Wood on privately photographing Glasgow\u2019s gay underground, and the comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>He was a telecoms engineer by day \u2013 and documented the Scottish city\u2019s leather scene by night. Now the 79-year-old has opened his erotic archives and received his first ever solo exhibition<\/p><p>What is the story behind John Wood\u2019s photographs? Some might guess that his portraits, which capture male subjects in various states of undress, very often wearing black leather jackets, gloves and boots, were taken in New York in the era of BDSM photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/gallery\/2017\/oct\/28\/robert-mapplethorpe-the-male-gaze-in-pictures\">Robert Mapplethorpe<\/a> and Studio 54. Or maybe they were created in a <em>very<\/em> different kind of darkroom \u2013 the type of spaces that inspired the homoerotic imagery of the artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2017\/aug\/01\/tom-of-finland-leather-legendary-gay-aesthetic-touko-laaksonen\">Tom of Finland<\/a>? If you were given a hundred tries, you\u2019d probably never guess that these erotic, intimate, kinky portraits were taken in a converted attic in the West End of Glasgow, unbeknown to the world (and the neighbours) for decades.<\/p><p>The story of Wood himself is equally unusual. At 79, he is showcasing his first ever solo show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galleryceline.com\/\">Celine<\/a> gallery in Glasgow. To say it has been a long time coming would be an understatement: Wood has been making photographs since his teens, when he began teaching himself by studying the images in magazines. The portraits in the show span a 20-year period, from \u2018Cal\u2019, a small Polaroid of a man standing nude next to a white doorway, taken in 1982, to \u2018June 2002\u2019, a gelatin silver print of an unnamed man clad in a leather waistcoat, while a black leather military-style cap and a cigarette obscure most of his face.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/17\/john-wood-photographer-solo-show-in-glasgow\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>16 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/16\/madelon-vriesendorp-review-sir-john-soanes-museum-london-skyscrapers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Madelon Vriesendorp review \u2013 sex-crazed visions of skyscrapers copulating\">Madelon Vriesendorp review \u2013 sex-crazed visions of skyscrapers copulating<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>Sir John Soane\u2019s Museum, London<br><\/strong>The Empire State building is caught in bed with the Chrysler Building and a milk bottle turns into a dragon in the raunchy and cheekily provocative work of the Dutch artist and architect<\/p><p>In a high-rise New York apartment with a wide window that surveys the Manhattan grid below, the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings are in bed together. The Chrysler melts in a silvery swoon, shagged out, while the beacon atop the Empire State Building still glows fiery red and on the bedside table the Statue of Liberty\u2019s arm holds up a torch suggesting more passion to come. But oh no! The lovers have been caught at it. At the door is the forbidding RCA Building, which has left its usual station at 30 Rockefeller Plaza to see this!<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madelonvriesendorp.com\/\">Madelon Vriesendorp<\/a>\u2019s 1975 skyscraper sex romp drawing Flagrant D\u00e9lit \u2013 \u201ccaught in the act\u201d \u2013 can be seen twice in her exhibition Mind Games: as a standalone print and as the cover of Delirious New York, the 1978 book by her ex-husband Rem Koolhaas that is both a surreal history of the city and a subversive manifesto for a new kind of modern architecture. Vriesendorp is what exactly? An architectural cartoonist? A cartoonist architect? She is certainly more than just a graphic prankster, and won the 2025 Soane Medal given to visionaries who have \u201cfurthered and enriched the public understanding of architecture\u201d. Hence this show. And it all started with skyscrapers copulating.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/16\/madelon-vriesendorp-review-sir-john-soanes-museum-london-skyscrapers\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>16 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jul\/16\/emergencies-on-planet-earth-images-from-the-climate-crisis-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Emergencies on planet Earth: images from the climate crisis \u2013 in pictures\">Emergencies on planet Earth: images from the climate crisis \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>From fierce flooding and escaped pigs to birds that can\u2019t fly due to the weight of plastic in their stomachs, mankind\u2019s biggest challenges are on stark display at Summit Photo 2026<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jul\/16\/emergencies-on-planet-earth-images-from-the-climate-crisis-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>15 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/15\/del-lagrace-volcano-photography-s-and-m-leather-lesbians-drag-king\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018The world wasn\u2019t ready for me\u2019: Del LaGrace Volcano on photographing S&amp;M scenes, leather-clad lesbians and a drag king self-portrait\">\u2018The world wasn\u2019t ready for me\u2019: Del LaGrace Volcano on photographing S&amp;M scenes, leather-clad lesbians and a drag king self-portrait<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Their scandalous work was once banned. Now it\u2019s in museums. The photographer talks about a lifetime defying conformity \u2013 and their \u2018very active\u2019 sex life<\/p><p>The peaceful Swedish city of \u00d6rebro is not where you might expect to find Del LaGrace Volcano, the US photographer known for their subversive images depicting LGBTQ+ communities, drag kings and sexual desire. Yet this is the place they have called home for the last two decades, having moved with their ex-partner, Matilda Wurm, an associate professor at the city\u2019s university. Now, their days are punctuated by walks around a nearby forest and trips to the local outdoor swimming pool with the pair\u2019s two children. It is a far cry from the life Volcano previously had in London, where they lived in squats, attended S&amp;M fetish parties and documented lesbian cruising culture.<\/p><p>\u201cI do miss it. I think London will always be my city,\u201d Volcano tells me when they pick me up from my hotel in \u00d6rebro\u2019s (virtually empty) city centre. Halfway between Stockholm and Gothenburg, the former trading hub \u2013 known for its medieval castle \u2013 is \u201cnot a queer city\u201d, the photographer admits. Most of their neighbours don\u2019t even know they are queer. Volcano, 68, is intersex and calls themself a \u201chermaphrodyke\u201d \u2013 but these days they \u201cpass as apparently a little old man\u201d, they say with a grimace.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/15\/del-lagrace-volcano-photography-s-and-m-leather-lesbians-drag-king\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>14 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/jul\/14\/ancient-dna-analysis-reveals-upton-lovell-shaman-was-woman-wiltshire\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire\u2019s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman\">Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire\u2019s Upton Lovell Shaman was a woman<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Exclusive: Analysis offers \u2018smoking gun evidence\u2019 that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was male<\/p><p>The Upton Lovell Shaman, a bronze age individual who has been depicted in museum exhibits as a bearded spiritual leader and metalworker, was female, an ancient DNA analysis has revealed.<\/p><p>The 4,000-year-old skeleton, along with the extensive collection of stone axes, metalworking tools and the remains of an elaborate ceremonial cloak found in the grave, is viewed as among the most significant bronze age burials in Britain.<\/p><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.vuelio.co.uk\/tracking\/click?d=SncqCPNIGrj16EQ8jbYrOjuFkKgFXIxGqeeihoH0M7Ou7tE4xqrGRf5VHLwGSyEhTO30wfUYWtVPxbrnIgRBaYfMbJO_gbPo8bPkueVKGk46RlyjFVO_CnURRWeKk8kU3Kqx48C9IP6ZZsPvRFAs3AD-alBexn1kwPbMWG9Z020NphhpaIH6ubrcegnj2thlNQ2\">We Go Way Back<\/a> opens at the Francis Crick Institute on 16 July<\/em><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/jul\/14\/ancient-dna-analysis-reveals-upton-lovell-shaman-was-woman-wiltshire\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>14 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2026\/jul\/14\/yoko-ono-cut-piece-the-broad-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018A frightening piece to perform\u2019: can Yoko Ono\u2019s Cut Piece still shock?\">\u2018A frightening piece to perform\u2019: can Yoko Ono\u2019s Cut Piece still shock?<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Sixty years after its first staging, performance artist MPA is restaging the provocative piece in Los Angeles<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebroad.org\/art\/special-exhibitions\/yoko-ono-music-mind\">Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind<\/a>, a traveling retrospective on view at Los Angeles\u2019s The Broad museum, features black and white footage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/yoko-ono\">Ono<\/a>\u2019s 1965 Carnegie Hall performance of Cut Piece<em> <\/em>projected on to one of its walls. It was a landmark event in performance art history, in which the artist, aged 31, sat motionless on the stage as strangers took turns with a pair of scissors to cut away pieces of her clothing. As an emblem of the Fluxus artistic tradition, Cut Piece \u201crelies on the audience\u2019s actions to complete the performance\u201d, says Sarah Loyer, curator and exhibitions manager at The Broad. This is precisely the work\u2019s inherent risk: it leaves the artist\u2019s body totally vulnerable to the viewer\u2019s unpredictable whims. Consequently, as Ono herself told the art historian Ina Blom in a 1992 interview, \u201cIt is a frightening piece to perform.\u201d<\/p><p>The tension in the footage is palpable, particularly as Ono struggles to retain her composure while a young man snips away at the straps of her undergarments. But as Loyer points out, \u201cLooking at documentation of Cut Piece in the gallery, we are a step removed.\u201d In order to convey the full impact of the piece, the museum is staging Cut Piece live twice at the Redcat theater on 18 and 19 July to be performed by the Los Angeles based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/artistmpa.com\/\">MPA<\/a>.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2026\/jul\/14\/yoko-ono-cut-piece-the-broad-los-angeles\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>14 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jul\/14\/earth-photo-award-winners\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Can you spot the poacher\u2019s handprint? Earth Photo award winners \u2013 in pictures\">Can you spot the poacher\u2019s handprint? Earth Photo award winners \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>From scientific tricks to stop turtle traffickers to stranded seals and displaced workers, these images all scooped prizes at this year\u2019s Earth Photo awards<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jul\/14\/earth-photo-award-winners\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>13 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/13\/ana-mendieta-review-tate-modern-london\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ana Mendieta review \u2013 were she still alive she\u2019d be at the forefront of art in this century\">Ana Mendieta review \u2013 were she still alive she\u2019d be at the forefront of art in this century<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>Tate Modern, London<br><\/strong>This exhibition makes nothing of the Cuban-American artist\u2019s controversial death \u2013 instead it focuses on the astounding way she left an imprint of herself on the earth using blood, feathers and gunpowder<\/p><p>A huge colour photo of a ruined ancient site greets you outside Ana Mendieta\u2019s engrossing exhibition and it immediately tells you this is going to be different. It\u2019s the kind of thing that seems to belong more to a British Museum show about a lost pre-Columbian civilisation than in the concrete citadel of Tate Modern\u2019s Blavatnik wing. Yet in her imagination, that\u2019s where Mendieta belonged, too. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1948, she was sent to the US when she was 12 to flee the revolution. She felt like an outsider among white Americans. Home, for her, was the past, and she would excavate the very origins of art and mythology.<\/p><p>Mendieta made art from blood, feathers, flowers and sand and in such fresh ways you\u2019d think these primeval substances were new inventions. She literally played with fire, drawing a human figure with gunpowder on the ground or on the trunk of a tree, then setting it alight. The flames leave behind a scorched shadow of a person, like the victims of a nuclear bomb or the dead of Pompeii entombed in ash. Confronted by a row of these burnt ghosts emerging from real tree trunks you almost expect them to speak to you like the shades of the dead.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/13\/ana-mendieta-review-tate-modern-london\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>12 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/12\/new-ls-lowry-exhibition-aims-to-demolish-naive-and-uncultured-myth\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New LS Lowry exhibition aims to demolish \u2018naive and uncultured\u2019 myth\">New LS Lowry exhibition aims to demolish \u2018naive and uncultured\u2019 myth<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Gallery director says collection of 140 paintings will offer a more balanced view of Manchester painter\u2019s work<\/p><p>A new exhibition of work by LS Lowry will \u201cbust a few myths\u201d about the Mancunian artist, who the show\u2019s co-curator says is still wrongly derided for being \u201cnaive and uncultured\u201d.<\/p><p>LS Lowry: the Theatre of Life features 140 paintings by the artist, who captured working-class life in the industrial north-west of England during the early and mid 20th century.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/12\/new-ls-lowry-exhibition-aims-to-demolish-naive-and-uncultured-myth\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>10 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/10\/test-runs-shock-absorbing-cage-how-bayeux-tapestry-transported-to-uk\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Test runs and a shock-absorbing cage: how Bayeux tapestry was moved to UK\">Test runs and a shock-absorbing cage: how Bayeux tapestry was moved to UK<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Medieval artwork safely delivered to British Museum before going on display from September in tightly controlled conditions<\/p><ul><li><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/10\/bayeux-tapestry-arrives-british-museum-exhibition\">Bayeux tapestry crosses Channel in dead of night<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul><p>The Bayeux tapestry has survived myriad perils, from cathedral fires to its potential destruction for use as wagon covers. Now, with the embroidery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/01\/bayeux-tapestry-ticket-sales-british-museum-art\">about to be displayed in a blockbuster London exhibition<\/a>, experts must contend with a host of more insidious dangers.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/10\/bayeux-tapestry-arrives-british-museum-exhibition\">arrival of the tapestry at the British Museum<\/a> in the small hours of Friday morning was a historic moment \u2013 albeit less dramatic than the landing of William the Conqueror it portrays.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/10\/test-runs-shock-absorbing-cage-how-bayeux-tapestry-transported-to-uk\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>10 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/10\/the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Feathered frolics, webcam landscapes and The Hay Wain \u2013 the week in art\">Feathered frolics, webcam landscapes and The Hay Wain \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Tate Modern hosts a major exhibition of Ana Mendieta, Constable turns 250 and the accidental beauty captured by unattended online cameras \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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jul\/01\/ana-mendieta-art-death\">Ana Mendieta<\/a> <br><\/strong>Neolithic monuments inspired this Cuban-born American artist to create her ephemeral, raw, poetic works that embrace nature in a truly original way. <br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/ana-mendieta\">Tate Modern, London, from 15 July to 17 January<\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/10\/the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>10 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/10\/bayeux-tapestry-arrives-british-museum-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bayeux tapestry crosses Channel in dead of night for historic UK exhibition\">Bayeux tapestry crosses Channel in dead of night for historic UK exhibition<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Cloak-and-dagger operation delivers 70-metre medieval artwork to British Museum, as gathered diplomats applaud<\/p><p>Like the man whose conquest of England almost a millennium ago it recounts, the Bayeux tapestry crossed the Channel in the dead of night, in as much secrecy as possible, landing on the country\u2019s south coast early the following day.<\/p><p>The artefact\u2019s arrival on Friday marked the first time it has returned to England in nearly 1,000 years, and British Museum staff will begin to prepare it for exhibition during its year-long loan.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/10\/bayeux-tapestry-arrives-british-museum-exhibition\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>10 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jul\/10\/bronx-documentary-center-latin-american-foto-festival-gallery\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Indigenous rebels, migrant bravery and joyful dance: New York\u2019s Latin American Foto Festival \u2013 in pictures\">Indigenous rebels, migrant bravery and joyful dance: New York\u2019s Latin American Foto Festival \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>This month Bronx Documentary Center is hosting the ninth edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronxdoc.org\/bronx-documentary-center\/exhibits\/past-exhibits\/7th-annual-latin-american-foto-festival\/\">Latin American Foto Festival<\/a>, on view in New York from 9 to 26 July. The show brings together the work of photographers exploring social, environmental and political issues from across Latin America and the Caribbean<\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jul\/10\/bronx-documentary-center-latin-american-foto-festival-gallery\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>7 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/07\/ushida-findlay-unbroken-spaces-review-kathryn-findlay-review-v-and-a-dundee\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ushida Findlay review: the mighty culture clash that gave us the dazzling Soft and Hairy House\">Ushida Findlay review: the mighty culture clash that gave us the dazzling Soft and Hairy House<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>V&amp;A Dundee<br><\/strong>When Kathryn Findlay and Eisaku Ushida joined forces, a sensual kind of architecture was born \u2013 resulting in a hairy blue pod in Tokyo and a starfish beach palace in Qatar<br><\/p><p>\u2018The future of architecture,\u201d pronounced Salvador Dal\u00ed on meeting Le Corbusier in 1922, \u201cwill be soft and hairy.\u201d Fast forward over 70 years to Tokyo, and his surrealist prophecy was the stimulus for the Soft and Hairy House, one of a series of startlingly expressive dwellings designed by the talented Scottish-Japanese architectural partnership of Kathryn Findlay and Eisaku Ushida. Melding diverse design cultures \u2013 Celtic coiling and Japanese \u201crawness\u201d \u2013 overlaid by an interest in the natural world, as well as fractal geometries and chaos theory, the pair contrived a uniquely sensual and surreal architecture.<\/p><p>Completed in 1994, <a href=\"https:\/\/archintojapan.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/04\/soft-and-hairy-house-2\/comment-page-1\/\">the Soft and Hairy House<\/a> was based on a classic courtyard plan form, radically reworked for pre-millennial Tokyo, its softness accentuated by plumply rounded contours, its hairiness by a shaggy fringe of greenery embellishing the roof. A bright blue, porthole-percolated bathroom pod intruded into the courtyard like a giant fungal entity. The interior was suggestive of the glamorous dream space of a Hollywood star, with soft draperies and seductive lighting.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jul\/07\/ushida-findlay-unbroken-spaces-review-kathryn-findlay-review-v-and-a-dundee\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>7 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jul\/07\/best-of-arles-photography-festival-2026-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pedal to the metal! The best of Arles 2026 \u2013 in pictures\">Pedal to the metal! The best of Arles 2026 \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The iconic photography festival is back for the 57th time with images of dogs, diners, UFOs and more<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jul\/07\/best-of-arles-photography-festival-2026-in-pictures\">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}]}}