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Artichoke works with artists to invade our public spaces and produce extraordinary and ambitious ephemeral events that live in the memory forever, transforming people’s lives by changing the way we see the world.

17/09/2026

📣 Calling all educators!

The BFG has run out of dreams… and he needs young people across the UK to help him! 💭 👀

Introducing Giant Dreams: The BFG’s Literacy Programme – a literacy initiative developed in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, seeking to capture the hopes and dreams of young people in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

We’re inviting primary schools and educators to take part in FREE, fun and creative literacy-based activities inspired by Roald Dahl’s classic. 📚

It’s time for a GIANT leap in literacy! And best of all, at the end of the programme, the children’s favourite dreams will be collated and shared with the nation... and of course, the BFG. 🤫

Registered educators will receive:

📌 Creative & literacy-based activities that meet UK-wide literacy curriculum outcomes
📌 CPD and planning resources
📌 The chance to have children's dreams celebrated on a national scale

🗓️ 22 February – 25 March 2027
🔗 Registration is open now!

Register here: https://www.artichoke.uk.com/project/bfg-giant-dreams/

The BFG: Giant Dreams is produced by Artichoke Trust in association with Roald Dahl Story Company and in partnership with the National Literacy Trust.

The BFG: Giant Dreams by Arts Council England, Bloomberg, Backstage Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, Deborah Loeb Brice Donor Advised Fund, Dame Felicity Dahl, and Hugh Fraser Foundation.

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📣 Yn galw ar bob addysgwr!

Mae’r Cawr Mawr Mwyn wedi rhedeg allan o freuddwydion... ac mae angen help pobl ifanc ledled y DU arno! 💭 👀

Yn cyflwyno Breuddwydion Enfawr y Cawr Mawr Mwyn – rhaglen llythrennedd sydd wedi cael ei datblygu mewn partneriaeth â’r National Literacy Trust. Mae’n ceisio cyfleu gobeithion a breuddwydion pobl ifanc Cymru, Lloegr, yr Alban a Gogledd Iwerddon.

Rydym yn gwahodd ysgolion cynradd ac addysgwyr i gymryd rhan mewn gweithgareddau llythrennedd creadigol hwyliog AM DDIM wedi’u hysbrydoli gan glasur Roald Dahl. 📚

Mae’n amser cymryd cam ENFAWR mewn llythrennedd! A’r peth gorau un, ar ddiwedd y rhaglen, bydd hoff freuddwydion y plant yn cael eu casglu a’u rhannu â’r genedl... ac wrth gwrs, y Cawr Mawr Mwyn. 🤫

Bydd addysgwyr sydd wedi cofrestru yn cael:

📌 Gweithgareddau creadigol a llythrennedd sy’n bodloni deilliannau cwricwlwm llythrennedd ledled y DU
📌 Adnoddau cynllunio a DPP
📌 Y cyfle i freuddwydion plant gael eu dathlu ar raddfa genedlaethol

🗓️ 22 Chwefror – 25 Mawrth 2027
🔗 Mae modd cofrestru nawr!

Cofrestrwch yma: https://www.artichoke.uk.com/project/bfg-giant-dreams/

Mae Breuddwydion Enfawr y Cawr Mawr Mwyn yn rhaglen sy’n cael ei chynhyrchu gan Artichoke Trust ar y cyd â Roald Dahl ac mewn partneriaeth â’r National Literacy Trust.

Cefnogir Breuddwydion Anferth y Cawr Mawr Mwyn gan Arts Council England, Bloomberg, Backstage Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation, Deborah Loeb Brice Donor Advised Fund, Dame Felicity Dahl, a Hugh Fraser Foundation.

09/09/2026

Known for his iconic temples at Burning Man, Nevada Museum of Art presents ‘Sacred Transformations: The Art of David Best’, a major exhibition celebrating the legacy of an artist whose work has shaped the last four decades of contemporary and location-based art 🔥

The exhibition offers the most comprehensive presentation of Best’s artistic career to date, exploring the themes that influence his artworks: life and death, suffering and remembrance, light and dark.

Artichoke worked with Best in 2015 and 2022, for ‘Temple’ and ‘Sanctuary’, two projects built and burnt by the local community in a powerful demonstration of resilience and healing.

⭐️: Sacred Transformations: The Art of David Best
📆: 24 October 2026 - 26 March 2028
📍: Nevada Museum of Art, 160 West LibertyReno, Nevada, United States 89501
🎟️: Members - FREE | General admission - $15 | Concessions and free student admission available

📸 (1): Sanctuary, David Best, 2022. Produced by Artichoke in association with Imagineer. Photo by Andrew Moore
📸 (2): Sanctuary, David Best, 2022. Produced by Artichoke in association with Imagineer. Photo by Jo Metson-Scott
📸 (3): Drawing for the Temple of Stars, 2004. Nevada Museum of Art, Institute for Art + Environment Archive Collections. Courtesy of David Best

01/09/2026

Ten years since ‘Orozco Garden’ was permanently commissioned for the South London Gallery, White Cube Bermondsey and Gabriel Orozco present the artists’ next major solo exhibition, ‘Chronotopic’.

The exhibition showcases over 100 new and existing artworks by the artist, spanning sculpture, painting, photography, assemblage and works on paper.

’Chronotopic’ also marks 20 years since Orozco’s inaugural show with the White Cube, and 30 years since his London solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Curated by art historian Briony Fer and emerging from Orozco’s recent solo show ‘Politécnico Nacional’ at the in Mexico City, the works function as objects that travel through time, changing meaning as they move between sites, contexts, histories and interpretive systems.

⭐️: Chronotopic: Gabriel Orozco Solo Exhibition
📆: 16 September - 8 November 2026
📍: Bermondsey, 144-152 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3TQ
🎟️: FREE - no admission charge

📸: Gabriel Orozco, Sundial, 2026, Tempera and gold leaf on linen. © Gabriel Orozco. Photo © White Cube (Gerardo Landa Rojano).

27/08/2026

The extraordinary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama 草間彌生 has died aged 97.

Inspired by American abstract impressionism, Kusama moved to New York City in 1958 and spent more than seven decades developing a unique and internationally-recognised visual language.

Through her work in public and shared spaces around the world, Kusama transformed everyday environments into immersive experiences, inviting people to encounter art collectively and see familiar places anew. We’re grateful to experience this daily on our way into the Artichoke office, passing ‘Infinite Accumulation’ near Liverpool Street station.

Our deepest condolences to Kusama’s friends, family and colleagues. From polka dots to Infinity Room installations, pumpkins to Obliteration Rooms, Kusama’s endless pursuit of creativity and discovery will undoubtedly inspire generations to come.

”She continued to paint until her final days, never setting aside her brush, and continued exploration of forever love and eternal soul.” — Yayoi Kusama Inc

📸(1): ©Benesse Art Site Naoshima
📸(2): Photograph by Theirry Bal
📸(3): Photograph by Guy Bell. Courtesy of Rex and Shuttershock
📸(4): Photograph by Ina Fassbender. Courtesy of AFP and Getty Images

25/08/2026

The first Courtyard Commission outside MoMA PS1 has landed with Precious Okoyomon’s “Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation” 🐻

The artists’ largest outdoor installation to date features a 25ft-long teddy bear that visitors can enter; featuring a tunnel inside playing poetry read by the artist 📖 and even a slide!

The bear is surrounded by a dynamic landscape of native and invasive plants, wildflowers and weeds to attract pollinators and wildlife 🐝

By anticipating the landscapes of the future, Okoyomon creates a bold garden for the city, inviting softness, rest and rebirth 🧘‍♂️

Follow the artist: Precious Okoyomon

⭐️: Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation
📍: 22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens, NY 11101, United States
📆: 31 July 2026 - 2028
🎟️: FREE - No booking required

📸: Photos by John Kim

29/07/2026

BUILDHOLLYWOOD are taking art out of galleries and onto the streets of Edinburgh with Sandra George’s photography work 📸 💟

An artist who dedicated her life to documenting and working with social action projects and communities, Sandra George created an incredible legacy of photography.

To commemorate the launch of City Art Centre’s exhibition, partners and creative advertising mavericks Build Hollywood are presenting George’s work on billboards from Meadowbank to Fountainbridge, bringing the works back to the streets of the city where they were made.

This project is produced in partnership with , an arts and heritage centre based in Craigmillar, who hold Sandra’s collection in their community archive.

Catch the exhibition:

⭐️ Sandra George: Start from the Level
📅: 27 June - 27 September 2026
📍: City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE
🎟️: Advance tickets from £8 | Concessions available, more information on Culture Edinburgh

OR, see a selection of artworks on BUILDHOLLYWOOD billboards at Meadowbank, Fountainpark, Teviot and East Fountainbridge for FREE!

📸: Photos courtesy of BUILDHOLLYWOOD

28/07/2026

Roosegaarde

From organic fireworks to the worlds’ largest outdoor air purifier, Studio Roosegaarde seamlessly blends the worlds of art and social design with their forward thinking practice.

Discover Studio Roosengaarde’s work:

⭐️ Lichtsporen | Permanent Public Artwork
📍Thor Park, Genk, Belgium
🎟️: FREE, no booking required - open to the public

⭐️ Van Gogh Roosengaarde Cycle Path | Permanent Public Pathway
📍: Eisenhowerlaan, 5641 AP Eindhoven, Netherlands
🎟️: FREE, no booking required - open to the public

Follow the artist: Daan Roosegaarde Studio Roosegaarde

📸 (2-6): Lumiere 2009, 2011, 2013 & 2018. Photos by Matthew Andrews
📸 (1, 7-9): Images courtesy of Studio Roosegaarde

22/07/2026

Did you know that New York City has a plinth dedicated to public artworks like the one in London’s Trafalgar Square? 🗽🇺🇸

Now on view until Autumn 2027 is a giant twenty-seven-foot-tall Buddha by Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen 🪷

Inspired by one of the two Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, Nguyen’s sculpture reutilises artillery shell metal salvaged from Afghanistan to create the Buddha’s hands.

Tuan Andrew Nyugen’s practice often explores lost or forgotten histories, and memories that have been erased by global conflict and violence, with work drawing upon reparation and giving voice to the stories of those who have been overlooked.

The statue is a reminder “that even in the midst of chaos and violence, we can remain compassionate and fearless,” Nguyen told the The New York Times late last year.

🎨: ‘The Light That Shines Through the Universe’ by Tuan Andrew Nguyen
📆 : Spring 2026 - Autumn 2027
📍: On the High Line at the Spur, at 30th St. and 10th Ave, NYC
📸: Photos by Timothy Schenck

21/07/2026

✨ One month to go until The Light Durham opens its doors!

A brand-new cultural venue for the North East, the first exhibition will feature past artists Chila Burman, Tracey Emin, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Liz West! 💡

Exploring the use of light as an artistic medium, the exhibition reflects humanity’s enduring fascination with the sun, and our timeless desire to capture, harness, and recreate its brilliance.

⭐️ Victory Over the Sun: Encounters with Light
📆 22 August 2026 - 17 January 2027
📍, Aykley Heads. Durham DH1 5TU
🎟️ Tickets from £10 online

📸 : ‘In Our Spectral Vision’ by Liz West © Hannah Devereux

15/07/2026

📣 Recently unveiled: The Dagenham Agates by ewanruth, a new permanent artwork honouring the Ford Dagenham sewing machinists’ fight for equal pay ✊

The sister sculptures, ‘Dagenham Agate (1968)’ and ‘Dagenham Agate (1984–85)’, now stand 2.1m high on Chequers Lane, right by the site of the original picket line.

Inspired by “Fordite” — layered car paint waste once salvaged by Ford workers and turned into jewellery — each sculpture is made of hand-painted layers: 187 for the women who struck in 1968, 150 for those who struck in 1984–85. Every layer was painted by local residents and students from , in colours matched to the cars in production at the time. 🎨

The strikes helped win the 1970 Equal Pay Act. Now they mark the start of a new heritage trail across Dagenham Green.

The Dagenham Agates are curated and produced by UP Projects and commissioned by Peabody and Hill Residential Limited.  Find out more via UP Projects website.

🎟️ FREE - always on view
📍 Chequers Lane, Dagenham Green
📸 (1): Photo by Jack Hall / PA Media Assignments
📸 (2-3): Photo by Zoë Scholes

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