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What should be on your cultural radar this October and a very special private tour of Minor Attrations Art Fair.
Minor Attractions returns to London for a week-long art fair where art and nightlife collide. Founded in 2023, the fair brings together commercial galleries and not-for-profit art spaces from around the world, inviting them to show bold, daring work in a fresh context. It's a place where international collectors in town for the season can mingle with the artists and art workers who keep the scene turning, all set against the energy of London's buzzing art calendar.
This year’s edition runs from 13th to 17th October at The Newman hotel, bringing together more than 75 galleries from around the world. We’re hosting a guided tour for our members and wider photography community on Tuesday 14th October 2026 at 12:30pm. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, so if you’d like to join us, get in touch to secure your place.
See you there!
Frieze London & Frieze Masters
The Regent's Park, 15 – 18 October 2026
Frieze returns to Regent’s Park and this year’s curated sections feature 50 presentations, platforming young global galleries and experimental new voices. One-artist stands include Myrlande Constant, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Anish Kapoor and Dalton Paula. The free Frieze Sculpture trail in the park runs until 1 November. Alongside the fairs, Frieze Week fringe events take place across the city, including at Tate Britain, the British Museum, the Barbican and the Hayward Gallery.
Tate Britain, until 14 February 2027
Curated by Edward Enninful OBE, this exhibition revisits the decade when art, fashion, photography and design collided and changed British culture. As the country emerged from recession, a new generation of diverse talent tore up old hierarchies and let high art and pop culture feed into one another. Expect iconic images by Juergen Teller, David Sims and Corinne Day, shown alongside work by Steve McQueen, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Yinka Shonibare. There are also fashion film, music culture, and collections from Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.
Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends,
National Portrait Gallery, until 7 February 2027
Billed as the largest exhibition ever devoted to the British photographer, Fairyland takes Tim Walker’s dreamlike visual language in a new direction. Over five years, he photographed around fifty activists, artists and figures from British queer culture, from Ian McKellen to Miriam Margolyes and filmmaker Isaac Julien, staging his sitters after sixteenth-century portraitists Hans Holbein the Younger and Nicholas Hilliard. Each portrait started with a letter and a phone call in which Walker asked the sitter how they wanted to be celebrated. Designed by his long-time collaborator Shona Heath, the show moves from formal portraiture into staged imagery and closes with works inspired by fairy tales and nursery rhymes, with a second half devoted to fashion, make-up and drag as self-expression.
What Rose from the Cut
Graces Mews, 14 October – 30 January 2027
Opening this week at Graces Mews, What Rose from the Cut is a group show about collage as a feminist tool. The exhibition was developed with curator Fiona Rogers (V&A), artist Justine Kurland and collector Sarah Miller Meigs. It brings together nearly fifty artists across generations, from Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington and Martha Rosler to Linder, Lubaina Himid, Gee Vaucher, Frida Orupabo and Mari Katayama.
The show treats cutting and tearing as acts of repair rather than violence. These artists salvage images, including photography’s colonial archive and punk and feminist zines like Spare Rib. They reassemble those fragments into new histories, queer possibilities and alternative futures. There is also a strong British thread running through the show, from the Black arts movement to punk.
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Zina Ona
Art Practice Gallery, opening 22 October 2026
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a solo exhibition by Zina Ona at Art Practice Gallery, London, which opens on the 22nd of October and explores the relationship between memory, documentation and performance. The work takes as its points of departure a theatre lobby in the artist’s hometown in Lithuania and the concept of twice-behaved behaviour—actions that are repeated, rehearsed and performed again. Zina Ona combines documentary photography, staged scenes, self-portraiture and camera-less colour fields to deconstruct and reconstruct a remembered space. Through repetition and sequencing, the exhibition invites viewers to question where documentation ends and performance begins.
