In this post, we summarise all the articles and other media coverage by the Critics’ Circle members on art and architecture during June 2026.
Paul Robinson has written about how the Arts Council England Explains New Criteria For National Portfolio Applications, Government Launches National Lottery Good Cause Funding Review After Two Decades, and Unknown Velázquez Portrait of Count-Duke of Olivares Discovered in Private Collection. All for Artlyst.
Tabish Khan previewed The Top Exhibitions To See In London for July 2026, for Londonist. For his newsletter, Londonist Urban Palette, he looks at the problem with graduate art exhibitions, and critiques the art of Jack White. He examines when artists die before their exhibition openings, and asks whether London Gallery Weekend finally hit its stride. He speaks to the founder of the Outsiders Art Club and photographer Emily Allchurch about her series on the Thames. For FAD magazine, he has his weekly top 5 art exhibitions; he interviewed Wallace Chan in Venice, covered Tbilisi’s dynamic art scene, reviewed a major Phyllida Barlow show at Wolterton, and interviewed sculptor Ashley Cluer. As co-host of the podcast The Good, The Bad and The Arty, he has spoken to Wilma Woolff about her art that deals with violence against women, and discussed the importance of play across the world, with the founder of Playrise.
Sue Hubbard writes about Anish Kapoor, Less Is More at Hayward Gallery, and The Frida Kahlo Phenomenon at Tate Modern. Both for Artlyst.
Estelle Lovatt has written on Constable on the beat: how the painter was drawn to ‘the lungs of London’, for Camden New Journal. She has also covered Constable in Celebrating the artist who made Hampstead home, for Barnet Post. She spoke about the death of David Hockney on both Sky News and GB News.
Lead image: Eva Herzog. Courtesy of Wolterton. © Phyllida Barlow Estate.