Photoworks Festival 2026: From fighting fish to Ecuadorian midwives in Brighton and Hove
The photography festival opens on 2 October under the theme ‘Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams’. Selected works explore care, ecology, migration and memory.
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The Swan documentary reunites contestants to revisit the 2004 makeover show
Erin Lee Carr’s new film brings former contestants and producers back to The Swan, with participants describing isolation, surgery and a pageant they say was disclosed only...
City Museum opens Itty Bitty gallery with St. Louis artists’ miniature work
A 1:12-scale gallery inside a third-floor curio cabinet features local art and small references to the St. Louis museum itself.
Alejandro T. Acierto’s Model Home examines Phoenix-area growth in Scottsdale
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art lists the installation through February 7, 2027. Its model-home setting brings documentary material about desert development into the...
England’s national museums will stay free for overseas visitors
Ministers have decided against charging international tourists to enter England’s national museums, citing possible effects on domestic visitors and uneven benefits across the...
Memphis Art Museum details four commissions across its new riverfront building
Works by Jordan Ann Craig, Yunhee Min, Carlos Rosales-Silva and Eso Tolson are planned for the museum’s December 6 opening, from its street-facing windows to its rooftop garden...
Katherine Hubbard’s photographs of her mother come to London’s Studio Voltaire
The Great Room brings five years of portraits and body prints to London. Hubbard describes how caregiving shaped the work, and why her mother’s willingness mattered as they...
How Hondo Crouch made Luckenbach a gathering place for country musicians
A new account of the tiny Texas community traces its musical reputation through Crouch’s 1971 purchase, Jerry Jeff Walker’s live album and a Waylon Jennings hit.
Palazzo Strozzi exhibition explores what broken sculptures can reveal
Broken: The Power of the Fragment brings more than 80 works to Florence, from an ancient image of Akhenaten to sculptures damaged by political upheaval.
Stevie Wonder releases four songs from the Songs in the Key of Life sessions
The four-track EP marks 50 years since Wonder’s 1976 album and arrives ahead of an announced tour on which he plans to perform the record in full.
Daytona Beach rezones land for The Brown museum expansion as drainage review continues
Commissioners approved zoning for a proposed 90,000-square-foot museum and larger planetarium. Site-plan and permit reviews, including scrutiny of flood storage, remain.
Mighty Sparrow dies at 91 after a career that carried calypso worldwide
The singer and songwriter behind ‘Jean and Dinah’ died in New York after what his family described as a brief illness. His songs made Caribbean life and politics heard far...
BAVA Gallery Cooperative marks Green Bay opening with work by 15 local artists
The artist-run gallery on Dousman Street offers paintings, pottery and sculpture. Its vice president says artists retain most of each sale price.
Republica recall how they made ‘Ready to Go’ in a Shoreditch studio
Saffron Sprackling and Johnny Male describe the writing, recording and changing sound of the band’s best-known song in a newly published interview.
Textile Study Group returns to Stroud with free UNmaking exhibition
The group’s first collective Stroud show since 2017 runs at the Museum in the Park until 8 November, with free artist sessions and bookable workshops.
Eriskay islanders care for rare native ponies as population estimates differ
A new account of village life shows how owners feed and monitor the ponies, while breed organisations give different estimates of how many remain worldwide.
Red-chalk drawing of child in Italian collection attributed to Édouard Manet
Art historian Emily Beeny points to the drawing’s style and a faded studio stamp, but its subject, original purpose and early history remain uncertain.
Lucas Museum opens in Exposition Park with stories beyond Star Wars
The Los Angeles museum opened September 22 with galleries spanning illustration, painting, comics and cinema. Opening-day visitors praised the range, while some wanted more...