· Exhibitions, David Hockney
Art News: David Hockney Exhibition at Tate in 2027
The David Hockney exhibition at Tate Britain opens on 7 October 2027 with more than 200 works, after a Turbine Hall installation of his opera designs at Tate Modern.
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· Exhibitions, David Hockney
The David Hockney exhibition at Tate Britain opens on 7 October 2027 with more than 200 works, after a Turbine Hall installation of his opera designs at Tate Modern.
· Exhibitions
The Monet exhibition at Tate Modern opens on 25 February 2027, with more than 60 paintings and 20 Water Lilies. Dates, ticket prices and what to expect.
· Art fairs, Auction market
Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2026 dates and times, Frieze Sculpture, PAD London and 1-54, plus the auctions: Mondrian, Hockney, Banksy and Van Gogh.
· Banksy, Auction market
Banksy's anti-Brexit Keep Ou T goes to auction in London on 15 October, after a $17.94m canvas, a print record and a new statue. Banksy's 2026 so far.
Few works of art have been argued over as long, or as passionately, as the Bayeux Tapestry. For more than 900 years this strip of cloth has been a sacred object, a war trophy, a propaganda tool and a diplomatic bargaining chip.
A single-artist Hockney sale in London where 58 of the 75 lots sold beat their high estimates, single-owner collections that ran far past their estimates in New York and Paris, and steady sales at the fairs in Seoul and New York. What September showed sellers, and what October brings.
Dog Painting 17, Hockney's 1995 portrait of his dachshund Stanley asleep on a cushion, is the first of the dog paintings ever offered at auction, at Christie's London on 14 October. Only six are thought to be in private hands. Here is where the others are.
No photograph has set a new auction record this year, and the fairs report careful buyers. But the middle of the market is trading steadily, and the difference between a vintage print and a later one has never mattered more.
Auction turnover recovered sharply this year, but not evenly. Prints and editions had the better half of the story — and the gap between one title and another matters far more than any artist average.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK type an artist's name into Google every month. Almost none of them own anything they could sell.

Whitebank Fine Art is a London art advisory and gallery. A photograph and a few details are enough to begin — a valuation carries no obligation to proceed.
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