Around the world in art 2026
LA ART SHOW 2026
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Some deliciously good art is coming your way,
all around the world in 2026.
FIVE AMAZING THINGS TO SEE IN
L.A., LONDON, PARIS, SYDNEY & AMSTERDAM
Los Angeles
LA ART show 2026
January 7 – JANUARY 11 2026
Paul Simonon is presented by John Martin Gallery, Booth 508
One of the LA ART SHOW FEATURED ARTISTS is Paul Simonon: Painting and Biking in London and LA. Paul Simonon is the bass guitarist who rocked the casbah with The Clash, and the artistic wizard who came up with the band’s name and their rock and roll style. He’s also part of the supergroup The Good, The Bad & The Queen and played with so many of the greats. If you look him up on Wikipedia you find out that Simonon was arrested for joining the Greenpeace ship Esperanza as “Paul the assistant cook”, and climbed onto an oil rig in protest against Arctic oil drilling. For this act of rebellion, he spent two weeks in a Greenland prison.
Paul Simonon is a man who lives by a code and here’s something less well known about him, he is an accomplished artist. He attended Byam Shaw School of Art and would have made a life in art, had he not learnt to play bass guitar (according to Joe Strummer, he learnt by playing along to The Ramones first record) We’re excited. London bike culture has never looked so good coming from the real deal.
London is calling… LA is answering.
PARIS
PETIT PALACE
Bilal Hamdad
Paname*
*Paname is a common nickname for Paris
ON NOW UNTIL - 8 February 2026
Bilal Hamdad, Reflets, 2024. 245 × 200 cm, oil on canvas. Collection particulière. Courtesy de
l’artiste et TEMPLON, Paris – Bruxelles – New York. Photo © Isabelle Arthuis © Adagp, Paris, 2025
The exhibition at the Petit Palais is particularly exciting because it brings work by artist Bilal Hamdad into conversation with it’s permanent collection, as if the contemporary work is in silent communion with history. Hamdad’s work is infused with inspiration from some of the masters he admires, Rubens, Manet and Courbet. Twenty works are on display and two new ones specially created for this moment.
Born in 1987 in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, Bilal Hamdad lives and works in Paris. He paints scenes from daily life that have an elegant undercurrent of lonlieness. All of us understand the concept of being alone in a crowd, that moment of solitude when someone drifts into their own world, or those who are alone in a sea of faces. The onlooker sees it and Hamdad captures it for us.
LONDON
TATE BRITAIN
the 90’s
8 OCTOBER 2026 – 14 FEBRUARY 2027
Juergen Teller, Young Pink Kate, London 1998 © Juergen Teller, All rights Reserved
For those who lived through the 90s and those who have been influenced by the change makers of the pivotal decade, Edward Enninful OBE (ex Vogue editor) has curated a must see show specially for you. We’re so excited by the roster of names on view. The 90s brings together iconic images by photographers Juergen Teller, Nick Knight, David Sims and Corinne Day. Artists Damien Hirst, Gillian Wearing, and Yinka Shonibare are in the mix alongside the fashion icons Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, and Hussein Chalayan.
London in the 90’s was a defining moment for the world of culture, and continues to influence and inspire. We love the 90’s. And Kate with pink hair… never gets old.
SYDNEY
25th Biennale of Sydney
Rememory
March 14 – June 14, 2026
Sydney Biennale 2026
The Biennale of Sydney is a clarion call for art lovers around the world. Come, come, see what they are doing. In the past The Biennale has represented 2,400 artists from more than 130 countries.
Check out what they’ve got cooking for 2026 from their webiste:
REMEMORY
A means of revisiting, reconstructing, and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed, Rememory signifies the intersection of memory and history, where recollection becomes an act of reassembling fragments of the past—whether personal, familial, or collective.
”History versus memory, and memory versus memorylessness. Rememory as in recollecting and remembering as in reassembling the members of the body, the family, the population of the past.”
– Toni Morrison, Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison, 2019. London: Penguin Random House, p. 323.
AMSTERDAM
The Rijksmuseum
FAKE!
6 February to 25 May 2026
If you thought that disinformation campaigns and the advent of AI were the beginning of manipulation, think again. Using scissors, paper, photographs and glue, since the beginning of image making there have been FAKES!
Some are more fun than others and with a wry sense of humour give the viewer what we all want… a smile.
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