Autumn 2026 Art Preview: From Bayeux Tapestry to Nan Goldin

Key facts

• Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at British Museum, London, 10 September to 11 July.
• Tschabalala Self's 'Lady in Blue' on Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, from 10 September.
• Turner Prize at MIMA, Middlesbrough, 26 September to 29 March, featuring Kira Freije, Simeon Barclay, Marguerite Humeau, Tanoa Sasraku.
• Sunil Gupta retrospective at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 19 September to 31 January.
• Beverly Buchanan 'Weathering' at Spike Island, Bristol, 26 September to 31 January.
• 'Painting the French Riviera' at Royal Academy, London, 2 October to 31 January.
• Salman Toor at Courtauld, London, 2 October to 10 January.
• Sophie Calle at Turner Contemporary, Margate, 3 October to 24 January.
• Katherine Hubbard at Studio Voltaire, London, 7 October to 10 January.
• 'The 90s: Art and Fashion' at Tate Britain, London, 8 October to 14 February.
• Robert Ryman at Barbican, London, 8 October to 28 February.
• 'Aphrodite: The Making of a Goddess' at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 8 October to 11 April.
• Willem de Kooning at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 9 October to 17 January.
• Pope.L at Modern Art, London, 13 October to 14 November.
• Tarek Atoui Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern, London, 13 October to 11 April.
• 'Constantinople to Istanbul' at V&A, London, 7 November to 9 May.
• Van Eyck: The Portraits at National Gallery, London, 21 November to 11 April.
• Alfred Wallis at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 21 November to 2 May.
• Nan Goldin at Hayward Gallery, London, 24 November to 7 March.
• Es Devlin retrospective at Design Museum, London, 2 October to 4 April.
• Michael Landy 'Future Ruins' at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 14 October to 17 January.
• James Stirling exhibition at RIBA North, Liverpool, 23 October to 24 January.
• 'The Nue Black Aesthetic' at Design Museum, London, 2 November to 8 August.
• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi mentioned as upcoming.