ANISH KAPOOR AT THE HAYWARD GALLERY

HAYWARD GALLERY

Go to my Substack page on this website, for a reciew of Anish Kapoor's retrospective exhibiton at the Hayward Gallery, London.

On carousel: Installation view of Anish Kapoor, 2026. Photo: Dave Morgan. Courtesy of the Hayward Gallery and the artist. © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS, 2026. 

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BRUSK IN BRUGES

A new museum for art - BRUSK - has opened at the heart of Bruges in the historic centre - BRU = Bruges + SK = Schone Kunsten, Flemish for Fine Arts. Two stunning art exhibitions inaugurate the new building. One is 'Bigger Picture' the history of Bruges, the other is Latent City created by the genius of art AI, Turkish-born American Refik Anadol. And on the BRUSK interior walls a permanent fresco The Whispering Walls Rêve (2026)  by Laure Provost.

Read about it here in The Arbuturian online:

BRUSK in Bruges | The Arbuturian

On carousel: Latent City (detail) by Refik Anadol

BRUSK interior (detail). Both images copyright, BRUSK, Bruges, Belgium

THE NEW WORLD

'Was Winston Churchill any good at painting?'

Published in THE NEW WORLD magazine, issue 484, May 28, 2026, pp.30-31. 

Read how Churchill became a painter:

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-was-churchill-any-good-at-painting/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234576

On carousel: 

Sir Winston Churchill painting in Belgium in 1946. Image: Churchill Archives Centre

The Beach at Walmer, 1938  Image: Churchill Archives Centre

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RUTH ASAWA GUGGENHEIM, BILBAO

'Why did artist Ruth Asawa bring her work home with her?

Published in The New World online 20 May and in print 21 May, a feature on Ruth Asawa Retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

This is the centenary year of Asawa's birth.

You can read it here

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-why-did-artist-ruth-asawa-bring-her-work-home-with-her/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234584

On carousel (detail)

Artist Ruth Asawa making wire sculptures, California, United States, November 1954
image: Nat Farbman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock
artwork: © 2026 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., courtesy David Zwirner

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

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MICHAELINA WAUTIER AT THE RA

'There is no mistaking the god — Bacchus, naked apart from a strategically placed leopard skin — sprawled in a wooden barrow, pushed by a bearded satyr, ...amid the tumult, a semi bare-breasted woman stands...' Is it the artist Michaelina Wautier?

Find out here before heading off to the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

In 'Michaelina Wautier at the RA'

Published 5 May 2026 online in The Arbuturian

Michaelina Wautier at the RA | The Arbuturian

On carousel: Michaelina Wautier, The Triumph of Bacchus, c. 1655–59. 

Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Picture Gallery. Photo: © KHM-Museumsverband

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IN BLOOM: HOW PLANTS CHANGED OUR WORLD

Published 6 April 2026 online in The Arbuturian, a review of a major exhibition at The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 'In Bloom: How Plants Chnged Our World'.

A spectacular show.

Read it here:

In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World | The Arbuturian

On carousel: Floregium, commissioned by Mary Somerset, 1703 in bound volume with watercolour on paper. (detail) Image copyright The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2026

Go to SUBSTACK page for review of ZURBARAN at the National Gallery, London

Rosalind Ormiston arts, travel, art historian, author - SUBSTACK articles