Andy Warhol – Serial Portraits: Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo 

Portraiture was central to Andy Warhol’s artistic approach. The American artist obsessively sketched, photographed, filmed and silkscreened his entourage, and captured some of the most recognisable faces of the 20th century: from Marilyn Monroe and Chairman Mao to Elizabeth Taylor and Blondie. Warhol’s modern-day "saints", elevated in his work to the status of religious icons, became products churned through his factory for mass media and consumer culture. His self-portraits were a means to manufacture his own celebrity, while creating alternative personalities, and confronting his fears of death. This exhibition probes this aspect of his oeuvre, offering a glimpse of rarely seen early works like his ballpoint pen sketches, photo booth snapshots and Polaroids, alongside famous silkscreens such as Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. The exhibition is located at the Louis Vuitton Omotesando Building, 5-7-5 Jingumae, Shibuya, from now until 15th February 2026. Free admission from 12pm to 8pm; espacelouisvuittontokyo.com

Louise Bourgeois. Gathering Wool: Hauser & Wirth New York

 “An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing,” the late French-American artist Louise Bourgeois once proclaimed. Her large-scale sculptures and installations manifest personal and psychological themes, which were drawn from the artist's own life and childhood experiences. Most famous are her spider sculptures, including the monumental Maman, an ode to her mother; her room-like Cells installations filled with collected objects; and her early, towering wooden sculptures inspired by New York's skyscrapers. This exhibition surveys the artist's relationship with abstraction through a series of late sculptures, reliefs and works on paper, many of which have never been exhibited before. It includes her 1990 piece Gathering Wool from which the show takes its name – a series of seven wooden spheres arranged in a circle in front of a four-panel screen. Small mushrooms grow out of the crevices of the spheres, which some interpret as the slippage between the conscious and unconscious realms. Alongside are key works such as Twosome (1991), an installation involving a small tank moving inside a larger one, a reflection on the mother-child relationship, and Mamelles 1991, cast 2005, a bronze fountain sculpture featuring a long frieze of breast-like forms with water spilling from five nipples into a basin –  a comment of motherhood, femininity, nourishment and the passage of time. From now until 24th January on 22nd Street, New York; hauserwirth.com

OOO LA LA Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas: Bury Street, London

Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas, two reputed British artists, are brought together in an exhibition spanning two galleries on London’s Bury Street. The pair are great friends, which introduces an intriguing new facet to the work on display – there's a spark between the artists despite differences in their approach, and underlying synergies, most acutely “their sense of life’s proximity to death and their defiant – defining – exuberance”. The visual juxtaposition is arresting: Lucas’ provocative sculptures, made from found objects and exploring themes of sexuality and the body, are charged by the vigorous brushstrokes and emotional intensity of Hambling’s paintings.
The two first met on 23 October 2000, their shared birthday, at the Colony Room Club in Soho when introduced by their mutual friend, the late artist Sebastian Horsley. Each of the women have subsequently portrayed the other: in Lucas’s sculptural assemblage, Maggi (2012) and Hambling’s oil portraits. Their shared exhibition will launch a new monograph of Hambling’s work, published by Rizzoli New York to coincide with the artist’s 80th birthday. Lucas, meanwhile, is the subject of a survey exhibition at Kiasma in Helsinki titled NAKED EYE , her first extensive solo show in the Nordic region, running until 8th March, 2026. OOO LA LA is open now until 24th January, 2026 at Sadie Coles HQ at 8 Bury Street, and Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert at 38 Bury Street.

David Hockney: Serpentine North 

“I’m excited to present an exhibition at Serpentine in 2026,” says David Hockney of his forthcoming summer show at the Kensington Gardens' gallery, which will be free-to-visit and present the artist’s 90m-long frieze A Year in Normandy in London for the first time. The piece, capturing the changing seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy, is inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, which will also be on display in the UK next year at the British Museum. At 88, the prolific Yorkshire-born artist, now based in London, works everyday despite periods of ill health, and remains one of the most celebrated artists of his age. His oeuvre includes landscape, portraits and still life, which are rendered in luminous colour and explored across different media: painting, drawing, photography and in digital art form on his iPad. He came to fame as one of the leading artists of the  1960s, lauded for his California-inspired paintings depicting sunshine, leisure – freedom. His work explored themes of homosexuality before its decriminalisation in England, a simmering undercurrent in his paintings of swimming pools in iconic works like A Bigger Splash. He is just as well known for his portraiture, particularly of his close circle, often creating portraits of the same people multiple times to show their changing appearance and his evolving relationship with them. The show will run from 12th March to 23rd August 2026. To be notified when the free tickets will be released, sign up to our newsletter here.