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Black and white photograph of Lynn Chadwick in his studio, seated at a long grey worktable with scale models of abstract metal sculptures, tall windows behind him, architectural forms visible in the background

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Lynn Chadwick’s final retrospective chapter arrives in Shanghai

Perrotin Shanghai closes the Hypercycle trilogy with Vigilants, a remarkable gathering of works from the late period of the British sculptor's career. The exhibition marks the third and final chapter of an ambitious three year, three continent retrospective curated by Matthieu Poirier.

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West Bund Art & Design promotional poster with flying butterflies in shades of blue, brown and yellow scattered across a bright orange background

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White Cube assembles its roster at Shanghai’s West Bund

For its November presentation at West Bund Art & Design, the London gallery brings key works by Damien Hirst, Georg Baselitz, Louise Giovanelli and eight other represented artists to Shanghai Art Week.

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Green greeting card with gold lettering reading 'Merry Christmas from Hatchards' above descriptive text of rare books, special editions and Hatchards Library collections, bordered by hand-illustrated festive foliage including red poinsettia, white flowers, golden fruit slices, pinecones and verdant leaves

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Hatchards Christmas Shop opens its rare and curated selections

London's oldest bookshop since 1797 unveils its festive retail experience with signed editions, rare volumes and exclusive publishing from its own imprint.

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Max Adams signs copies of her book Domesday at Hatchards Piccadilly

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Hatchards welcomes authors Max Adams and Bonnie Garmus

The Piccadilly institution hosts two celebrated writers for intimate book signings, offering readers the chance to acquire personally inscribed editions of their latest works.

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Yu Hong, Field of Asura, 2025, a large-scale allegorical painting depicting figures in a fantastical landscape

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Yu Hong’s apocalyptic visions arrive at Lisson New York

The Chinese painter's debut at the gallery presents sweeping allegorical compositions inspired by Renaissance altarpieces, where figures caught in extremis inhabit fantastical worlds drawn from real lives.

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Wolfgang Tillmans' No Man Is An Island needlepoint work, showing detailed stitching in seventeen colours of stranded cotton on canvas

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Wolfgang Tillmans and Fine Cell Work unite art and purpose

The celebrated photographer's political poster is reimagined as an exquisite needlepoint work stitched by hand in UK prisons, merging artistic vision with transformative rehabilitation.

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Elizabeth Peyton's monumental banner featuring Abraham Lincoln on the Metropolitan Opera facade in New York

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Elizabeth Peyton’s Lincoln commands the Metropolitan Opera facade

A monumental banner work by the celebrated painter adorns New York's opera house, marking a rare moment when contemporary art meets the grandeur of one of the city's most storied cultural institutions.

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Richard Serra's handwritten Verb List, 1967, showing a series of action verbs

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Richard Serra’s Verb List: Process as Sculpture

On his birthday, the gallery celebrates the late artist's foundational 1967 manifesto, a series of verbs that became the conceptual bedrock of his monumental steel practice.

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Installation view of Ding Yi's abstract paintings and stone steles at Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice

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Ding Yi’s Venice retrospective traces three decades of cosmic abstraction

The Chinese artist's first solo exhibition in Venice since 1993 opens at Fondazione Querini Stampalia, bringing together decades of work alongside meditative stone steles that echo ancient ritual sites.

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Frank Walter, Dancing Man: a gestural figure rendered in warm, expressive colour against an abstract background

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Frank Walter’s chromatic vision commands two continents

The Antiguan master's expansive practice unfolds across Salvador and Los Angeles, revealing how colour becomes the language of identity, nature and Caribbean memory.

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