James Wentworth

29 October 2025 This November, London’s National Gallery will open one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the season: Wright of Derby: From the Shadows (7 November 2025 – 10 May 2026). Dedicated entirely to Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797), the exhibition marks the first comprehensive exploration of his celebrated candlelight paintings — works that bridge the rational precision of the Enlightenment with the emotional intensity that would later define Romanticism.

19/09/2025 A painting by Pablo Picasso, unseen for more than eight decades, has been unveiled in Paris, offering a fresh glimpse into the artist’s complex and ever-evolving portrayal of Dora Maar. The work, Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat (Dora Maar), completed in July 1943, had remained in the same private collection since 1944, quietly preserved and virtually unknown to the wider public.