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GIRL POWER. A brand new boutique artwork truthful for women-led galleries, Echo Soho, will debut in London from October 16 to 19, operating alongside Frieze London. Launched by gallery proprietor India Rose James, the truthful will happen at Artist’s Home on Manette Avenue—house to Soho Revue Gallery’s residency program—and have 12 exhibitors throughout two flooring of a Georgian townhouse. James, who based Soho Revue in 2019, stated she was impressed by the colourful satellite tv for pc truthful scenes in cities like Miami. “Yearly I am going to Frieze and surprise why London doesn’t have extra alternate options,” she informed the Artwork Newspaper . Whereas not positioned as a competitor to Frieze, Echo Soho goals to be a extra accessible, complementary platform for mid-sized and rising galleries. With stand costs beginning at simply £850 ($1,150) and sales space sizes starting from 20 to 30 sq. toes, the truthful seeks to decrease obstacles for participation. “We’ll assist with installs, present an artwork handler, take sales space images—it’s designed to be as simple as doable,” James stated. The truthful additionally underscores her dedication to feminine illustration. “Our program is basically feminine, as is my community,” she defined. “And when writing the exhibitor listing, we realized how few female-led galleries there really are.” Confirmed contributors embody Pipeline, Gillian Jason Gallery , and Awita, which can curate the “Resonant Areas” exhibition within the venue’s former chapel. Echo Soho is supported by Soho Estates and companions together with Soho Home and Cass Artwork.
THAT’S A SNAP. Subsequent 12 months, Picture London, the UK’s main pictures truthful, will relocate to Olympia’s Nationwide Corridor in West London, the Artwork Newspaper stories. The transfer will finish a 10-year run on the historic Somerset Home on the banks of the River Thames and aligns with Olympia’s £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) redevelopment, led by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC. “Olympia’s new cross-cultural profile means we’ll profit from elevated synergy with different arts, leisure, and artistic companies, creating alternatives for the event of audiences and concepts while enhancing the truthful’s attraction to guests and simplifying our structure to make sure a extra unified expertise for all collaborating galleries,” truthful director Sophie Parker stated. In 2026, galleries and guests can look ahead to improved sightlines and navigation, extra space, and devoted VIP and collector areas. First opened in 1896 and designed by Henry Edward Coe, Olympia reopens on the finish of this 12 months and has lengthy served as a venue for international exhibitions and cultural occasions. Picture London organising store there alerts its ambition to compete immediately with Paris Picture, which has simply returned to the refurbished Grand Palais. Picture London has been instrumental to the pictures market, as soon as a distinct segment nook of the artwork world. The truthful now ranks among the many high pictures gala’s globally, representing a medium that holds its personal within the artwork market, regardless of accounting for just one p.c of worldwide public sale gross sales, based on Artwork Basel and UBS’s 2025 Artwork Market Report. The eleventh version of Picture London will happen at Olympia from Might 14 to 17, 2026, with a preview on Might 13.
The Digest
Paris is about to open a brand new museum honoring Hector Guimard, the creator of its iconic Artwork Nouveau metro entrances. The museum’s founders hope its launch will “proper a historic fallacious” and provides long-overdue recognition to the once-forgotten artist. [Time Out]
The Museu de l’Artwork Prohibit in Barcelona, the world’s first museum devoted to censored artwork, has closed indefinitely lower than two years after its launch. Described by the Occasions in London as “probably the most offensive museum on the earth,” it opened in October 2023 below the path of Catalan journalist and entrepreneur Tatxo Benet. The museum showcased banned works by artists together with Ai Weiwei,David Wojnarowicz, and Abel Azcona. Its closure in late June adopted ongoing disruption from hanging employees who had been picketing the establishment. [ The Art Newspaper]
Nicola Lees, director of the Aspen Artwork Museum, informed Apollo how her establishment—what she calls the “Serpentine within the mountains”—is reworking artists into leaders. [Apollo]
Lumin Wakoa, a rising painter whose artwork was a part of a quest to raised discover ways to see the world round her, has died at 43. Her dying was introduced by her gallery, Harper’s, on Monday. [ARTnews]
The Kicker
MATISSE AFTER VAN GOGH. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam not too long ago acquired Olive Grove in Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse to spotlight the profound affect Vincent van Gogh had on Twentieth-century artwork. Although painted 15 years after Van Gogh’s dying, Matisse’s vivid, expressive panorama displays the Dutch grasp’s impression—intensely private, anti-naturalistic, and radical in coloration and approach, Jo Lawson-Tancred writes in Artnet Information. The work exemplifies how Van Gogh helped form Matisse’s early Fauvist fashion, marked by daring palettes and free, energetic brushwork. Matisse first found Van Gogh’s artwork in 1897 whereas visiting John Russell, an Australian painter and good friend of Van Gogh. Deeply moved, Matisse was gifted a Van Gogh drawing, Haystacks (1888), which he proudly displayed alongside works by Cézanne and Gauguin. Some say his fashion modified in a single day. But Matisse additionally drew from different sources, together with the pointillism of Georges Seurat, seen in his use of spaced, deliberate brushstrokes. Lisa Smit , curator of work on the Van Gogh Museum, described the Matisse work as “an explosion of confetti” and an important addition to the museum’s assortment. The acquisition strengthens the museum’s narrative of Van Gogh’s legacy, which prolonged to artists like Picasso, Hockney, Kirchner, and Kandinsky. “It fills a major hole,” she stated, displaying Van Gogh’s enduring function in shaping trendy artwork.
