The best art exhibitions in London for January 2026
There is no better cure for the post-festive bleakness of January than beauty –specifically, that which can be found in art. For art can expand our aesthetic appreciation, and so improve our every day. Constable’s cloud studies, currently on view at Tate Britain, might awaken a desire to gaze in rapture at the skies. Or perhaps Alessandro Mendini’s Proust Armchair - being shown at the Estorick Collection – will prompt a delving into the wonders of pure colour, the theory of which is being explored in the work of the Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery. To note is that it is our last chance to see a few of last year’s outstanding blockbuster exhibitions, including Cecil Beaton at the National Portrait Gallery, Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy, and Wayne Thiebaud at the Courtauld, but bringing ballast is the promise of exciting new shows to come. And what is certain is that London’s January exhibition offering has something for everyone, with photography, film and design as well as painting, sculpture and installation.
Besides what has already been mentioned, we recommend a trip to The Photographers’ Gallery where the great Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov’s slide show, Yesterday’s Sandwich, demonstrates the unexpected beauty of accidental juxtaposition, and Zofia Rydet’s documentation of rural Polish interiors celebrates the transformative powers of pattern, print, and a personal art collection. Anyone inspired to consider what is on their own walls may want to make a date with the London Art Fair, which is renowned for an offering of very good modern and contemporary art at a broad range of prices. Peter Doig’s House of Music at the Serpentine Gallery has proved an all-ages hit and is an excellent accompaniment to a cobweb-dispelling walk in Kensington Gardens or Hyde Park. While for those keen to mark the new year in style, know that the famed Gallery restaurant at Sketch – open for bookings for afternoon tea or dinner – is, this month, being newly adorned with the witty and joyful artworks of Jonathan Baldock. There’s much more, too.
The best art exhibitions in London for January 2026
1/40Boris Mikhailov: Ukrainian Diary at the Photographers’ Gallery
This extraordinary exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, W1, is the first significant UK retrospective to be afforded to the great Ukrainian artist, Boris Mikhailov. Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1938, his practice straddles documentary photography and conceptual art and explores both social and political subjects, with haunting eloquence. The show begins with the works he made in the 1970s and early 1980s, when the country was still part of the Soviet Union and Boris was associated with the underground Sots art movement, and takes us through the nation’s independence and beyond. The whole is a nuanced capturing of the switch-flick between freedom and oppression, fear and joy, while his slide show, Yesterday’s Sandwich, set to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, is utterly transfixing.
Until February 22; thephotographersgallery.org.uk
Pictured: From the series “At Dusk”, 1993 © Boris Mikhailov, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy Boris and Vita Mikhailov
- This cleverly curated and wondrous exhibition at Tate Britain</a> examines their approaches, lives and legacies, inviting us to examine their brush marks, compositions and cloud studies, and make our own decision as to who was the greater artist – if we can.\nUntil April 12; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.tate.org.uk//">tate.org.uk/nPictured: <em>JMW Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons 16 October 1834, 1835. Cleveland Museum of Art.</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"Howard Agriesti","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":238,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d83a70fc24d196edf08cf/master/w_320,c_limit/jmw.jpg"},{"height":475,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d83a70fc24d196edf08cf/master/w_640,c_limit/jmw.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":475,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d83a70fc24d196edf08cf/master/w_640,c_limit/jmw.jpg"},{"height":951,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d83a70fc24d196edf08cf/master/w_1280,c_limit/jmw.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":760,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d83a70fc24d196edf08cf/master/w_1024,c_limit/jmw.jpg"},{"height":1521,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d83a70fc24d196edf08cf/master/w_2048,c_limit/jmw.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":951,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d83a70fc24d196edf08cf/master/w_1280,c_limit/jmw.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":951,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d83a70fc24d196edf08cf/master/w_1280,c_limit/jmw.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
Howard Agriesti2/40Turner and Constable: Rivals & Originals at Tate Britain
Born within a year of each other, 250 years ago, two of Britain’s greatest painters were also, in their lifetime, the greatest of rivals. Both used landscape to chart the changing world around them – though in completely different ways: one critic of the day compared it to ‘a clash between fire and water.’ This cleverly curated and wondrous exhibition at Tate Britain examines their approaches, lives and legacies, inviting us to examine their brush marks, compositions and cloud studies, and make our own decision as to who was the greater artist – if we can.
Until April 12; tate.org.uk
Pictured: JMW Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons 16 October 1834, 1835. Cleveland Museum of Art.
3/40Alessandro Mendini at the Estorick Collection
Alessandro Mendini was one of post-war Italy’s most creative and influential designers and architects, playing an important part in the development of Post-Modernist and Radical design. As well as having his own practice, he collaborated with brands including Cartier, Hermès, Alessi, Supreme and Louis Vuitton, and was Editor-in-Chief of Domus magazine. The Estorick Collection, N1, is bringing together 50 key works – from furniture to objets, paintings to rugs – that celebrate his witty and exuberant approach, and his irreverent engagement with art history: look out for sofa inspired by Kandinsky’s abstractions, and the Proust Armchair, a neo-Baroque iteration transformed by pointillist colour.
January 16 – May 10; estorickcollection.com
Pictured: Alessandro Mendini, Neo Malevic, 2003 Sculpture in fibreglass and papier-mâché, Archivio Alessandro Mendini
- Jenna Burlingham</a>, <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/thirsk-hall/">Willoughby Gerrish</a>, and Harry Moore-Gwyn, there’s an excellent talks programme, and there are various curated sections including one devoted to Prints & Editions, thus ensuring that the fair has appeal for a wide range of budgets, as well as those who simply to go for the beauty.\nJanuary 20 – 25; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.londonartfair.co.uk//" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>londonartfair.co.uk</em></a>\nPictured: <em>William Scott, Blue and Black Painting, 1959, at Jenna Burlingham</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":257,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba58c9df381920504d072/master/w_320,c_limit/William%20Scott,%20Blue%20and%20Black%20Painting,%201959,%20at%20Jenna%20Burlingham.jpg"},{"height":514,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba58c9df381920504d072/master/w_640,c_limit/William%20Scott,%20Blue%20and%20Black%20Painting,%201959,%20at%20Jenna%20Burlingham.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":514,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba58c9df381920504d072/master/w_640,c_limit/William%20Scott,%20Blue%20and%20Black%20Painting,%201959,%20at%20Jenna%20Burlingham.jpg"},{"height":1028,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba58c9df381920504d072/master/w_1280,c_limit/William%20Scott,%20Blue%20and%20Black%20Painting,%201959,%20at%20Jenna%20Burlingham.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":822,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba58c9df381920504d072/master/w_1024,c_limit/William%20Scott,%20Blue%20and%20Black%20Painting,%201959,%20at%20Jenna%20Burlingham.jpg"},{"height":1645,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba58c9df381920504d072/master/w_2048,c_limit/William%20Scott,%20Blue%20and%20Black%20Painting,%201959,%20at%20Jenna%20Burlingham.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1028,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba58c9df381920504d072/master/w_1280,c_limit/William%20Scott,%20Blue%20and%20Black%20Painting,%201959,%20at%20Jenna%20Burlingham.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1028,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba58c9df381920504d072/master/w_1280,c_limit/William%20Scott,%20Blue%20and%20Black%20Painting,%201959,%20at%20Jenna%20Burlingham.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
4/40The London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre, Islington
The annual London Art Fair, which takes place at the Business Design Centre, N1, is renowned as a destination for some of the best modern and contemporary on the market. Participating galleries include Jenna Burlingham, Willoughby Gerrish, and Harry Moore-Gwyn, there’s an excellent talks programme, and there are various curated sections including one devoted to Prints & Editions, thus ensuring that the fair has appeal for a wide range of budgets, as well as those who simply to go for the beauty.
January 20 – 25; londonartfair.co.uk
Pictured: William Scott, Blue and Black Painting, 1959, at Jenna Burlingham
- India Mahdavi</a> design has been made even more distinctive by collaboration with artists who have numbered <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/david-shrigley-studio-tour-brighton/">David Shrigley</a> and Yinka Shonibare. Now it’s the turn of Jonathan Baldock, who is installing an array of playful works across the space that incorporate a range of materials from clay to textiles, and include masks, cocoons, and flowers that that morph into human shapes.\nFrom January 10; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://sketch.london//" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>sketch.london</em></a>\nPictured: <em>Jonathan Baldock, Just a wild mountain rose, 2022, courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, photograph by Mark Blower</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"Mark Blower","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":427,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba5e332c3b4d3469f7a65/master/w_320,c_limit/Jonathan%20Baldock,%20Just%20a%20wild%20mountain%20rose,%202022%20copy.jpg"},{"height":853,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba5e332c3b4d3469f7a65/master/w_640,c_limit/Jonathan%20Baldock,%20Just%20a%20wild%20mountain%20rose,%202022%20copy.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":853,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba5e332c3b4d3469f7a65/master/w_640,c_limit/Jonathan%20Baldock,%20Just%20a%20wild%20mountain%20rose,%202022%20copy.jpg"},{"height":1707,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba5e332c3b4d3469f7a65/master/w_1280,c_limit/Jonathan%20Baldock,%20Just%20a%20wild%20mountain%20rose,%202022%20copy.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":1365,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba5e332c3b4d3469f7a65/master/w_1024,c_limit/Jonathan%20Baldock,%20Just%20a%20wild%20mountain%20rose,%202022%20copy.jpg"},{"height":2731,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba5e332c3b4d3469f7a65/master/w_2048,c_limit/Jonathan%20Baldock,%20Just%20a%20wild%20mountain%20rose,%202022%20copy.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1707,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba5e332c3b4d3469f7a65/master/w_1280,c_limit/Jonathan%20Baldock,%20Just%20a%20wild%20mountain%20rose,%202022%20copy.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1707,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/695ba5e332c3b4d3469f7a65/master/w_1280,c_limit/Jonathan%20Baldock,%20Just%20a%20wild%20mountain%20rose,%202022%20copy.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
Mark Blower5/40Jonathan Baldock: The Gathering at the Gallery Restaurant, Sketch
Ever since the Gallery restaurant at Sketch opened in 2002, taking bookings for afternoon tea or dinner, its India Mahdavi design has been made even more distinctive by collaboration with artists who have numbered David Shrigley and Yinka Shonibare. Now it’s the turn of Jonathan Baldock, who is installing an array of playful works across the space that incorporate a range of materials from clay to textiles, and include masks, cocoons, and flowers that that morph into human shapes.
From January 10; sketch.london
Pictured: Jonathan Baldock, Just a wild mountain rose, 2022, courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, photograph by Mark Blower
- V&A East Storehouse</a>.) But it was far from their only project, and alongside were the unrealised proposals. An exhibition at <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.rocalondongallery.com//" rel=\"nofollow\">Roca London Gallery</a>, SW6, provides insight into their architectural thinking through the lens of Alison Smithson’s annual Christmas cards, spanning 1956-1992, a series of artistic expressions that also served as a joyful means of experimentation.\nDecember 5 – January 31; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.rocalondongallery.com//" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>rocalondongallery.com</em></a>\nPictured: <em>compilation of 4 Alison Smithson-designed cards at different scales</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":323,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d855f55cd5fc474863579/master/w_320,c_limit/Compilation%204%20Alison%20Smithson-designed%20cards%20at%20different%20scales%20copy.jpg"},{"height":646,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d855f55cd5fc474863579/master/w_640,c_limit/Compilation%204%20Alison%20Smithson-designed%20cards%20at%20different%20scales%20copy.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":646,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d855f55cd5fc474863579/master/w_640,c_limit/Compilation%204%20Alison%20Smithson-designed%20cards%20at%20different%20scales%20copy.jpg"},{"height":1292,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d855f55cd5fc474863579/master/w_1280,c_limit/Compilation%204%20Alison%20Smithson-designed%20cards%20at%20different%20scales%20copy.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":1033,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d855f55cd5fc474863579/master/w_1024,c_limit/Compilation%204%20Alison%20Smithson-designed%20cards%20at%20different%20scales%20copy.jpg"},{"height":2067,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d855f55cd5fc474863579/master/w_2048,c_limit/Compilation%204%20Alison%20Smithson-designed%20cards%20at%20different%20scales%20copy.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1292,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d855f55cd5fc474863579/master/w_1280,c_limit/Compilation%204%20Alison%20Smithson-designed%20cards%20at%20different%20scales%20copy.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1292,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d855f55cd5fc474863579/master/w_1280,c_limit/Compilation%204%20Alison%20Smithson-designed%20cards%20at%20different%20scales%20copy.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
6/40Come Deck the Halls! At Roca London Gallery
The architects Alison and Peter Smithson, who died in 1993 and 2003 respectively, are best known for the brutalist Robin Hood Gardens housing complex, part of which (following its demolition) is now in the collection of the V&A (and can be seen at the V&A East Storehouse.) But it was far from their only project, and alongside were the unrealised proposals. An exhibition at Roca London Gallery, SW6, provides insight into their architectural thinking through the lens of Alison Smithson’s annual Christmas cards, spanning 1956-1992, a series of artistic expressions that also served as a joyful means of experimentation.
December 5 – January 31; rocalondongallery.com
Pictured: compilation of 4 Alison Smithson-designed cards at different scales
7/40A Grand Chorus: The Power of Music at The Foundling Museum
The Foundling Museum, WC1, is one of London’s lesser-sung treasures – not least for the history it holds. (Which is particularly applicable to anyone with a child currently reading the school syllabus-approved Coram Boy.) And there’s outstanding art, for several artists were major benefactors of the Foundling Hospital, including William Hogarth. Support also came from George Frideric Handel, who wrote an anthem especially to raise funds for the charity, while performances there of his Messiah became an Eastertime tradition, with proceeds going to help the orphans. This winter, an exhibition explores the power of music through Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, tracing its remarkable journey through three centuries worth of diverse musical traditions, including folk, gospel, and even trance.
Until March 29; foundlingmuseum.org.uk
Pictured: Foundling Hospital chapel interior 1808
8/40Peter Doig: House of Music at Serpentine South
This extraordinary exhibition at Serpentine South in Kensington Gardens, W2, transforms the gallery into something between a club and a dreamland. It’s a space where, while listening to music selected from Peter Doig’s collection of vinyl records and cassette tapes, the viewer (or listener) can simultaneously gaze at the artist’s captivating paintings. There’s Aretha Franklin, Black Truth Rhythm Band, and Neil Young – and surreal lions in de Chirico-reminiscent landscapes, a naked women rollerskating, and revellers carousing around a blue-green lake at night. It’s a show you want to relax into, hang out at – and revisit, time and again.
Until February 8; serpentinegalleries.org
Pictured: Peter Doig, House of Music, Serpentine South; Photo by Prudence Cuming Associates, © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved and Serpentine
9/40Anna Ancher: Painting Light
Dulwich Picture Gallery, SE21, is holding the first exhibition in this country devoted to one of Denmark’s most important artists, Anna Ancher. She studied in Paris, where she was influenced by French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and well as the more realist Barbizon school. She put it all into a Scandinavian context, creating an evocative and beautifully rendered record of everyday life in the remote fishing village of Skagen on the norther point of Jylland. The village was an artists’ colony from the late 1870s until the turn of the century – and was where Anna was born and grew up.
November 4 – March 8; dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
Pictured: Anna Ancher, Sunlight in the blue room, 1891. Oil on canvas. Image courtesy of Skagens Museum
Matt Alexander/PA Media Assignments10/40Wes Anderson: The Archives at the Design Museum
Few contemporary film directors have so stoked the imagination of interiors lovers as Wes Anderson – and now the Design Museum, W8, is giving us his first retrospective, produced in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française. Three decades worth of archives chart the evolution of his vision and the design stories behind films including The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Fantastic Mr. Fox. There are sets and props, including a candy pink model of the Grand Budapest Hotel, the Fendi coat worn by Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum, and the original stop motion fantastical sea creature puppets that featured in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. There is also a screening of Bottle Rocket, the director’s first short film, made in 1993. Booking tickets in advance is strongly advised.
Until July 26; designmuseum.org
Pictured: Wes Anderson at the Design Museum, Photo Matt Alexander
11/40Zofia Rydet: Sociological Record
Also at the The Photographers’ Gallery, W1, is an extraordinary show from the Polish photographer Zofia Rydet who, in 1978, aged 67, determined to record the interior of every Polish household - and spent the next three decades knocking on doors with a camera in her hand. She captured rural Poland in the period before the fall of communism left its mark – and the images, though black and white, are both the sociological record of the exhibition title, and proof of the eternal worth of pattern, print, and art.
Until Feb 22; thephotographersgallery.org.uk
Pictured: From Sociological Record © Zofia Rydet, courtesy of the Zofia Rydet Foundation
12/40Mark Manders: Room with All Existing Words at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE
Mark Manders’ career has seen him developing what he describes as a ‘self-portrait of a building’ – an evolving body of work where sculptures, objects and texts create a cohesive fictional world in which bronze and clay forms seem frozen in mid-construction, and fragments of language suggest meaning without ever fully revealing it. His new site-specific commission, installed above the ancient Temple of Mithras and alongside Roman artefacts, transforms the London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, EC4, into somewhere suspended between past and present.
January 22 – July; londonmithraeum.com
Pictured: Mark Manders Bonewhite Clay Head, 2025 – 2026. Photograph by Simon Bultnyck
© Kerry James Marshall13/40Kerry James Marshall: The Histories at the Royal Academy of Arts
One of the most talked-about shows of the season, Kerry James Marshall’s paintings build on the Western tradition of history painting to explore an African American narrative, while referring to the civil rights movement, comic books, science fiction, and more. This show at the Royal Academy of Arts, W1, is the largest ever to take place outside the US. There are canvases that examine the absence of black figures from the art of the past, a pantheon of portraits of slaves and servants who, in defiance, murdered their masters, and a suite of paintings made specifically for these rooms that look at some of the more challenging moments in Africa’s history.
September 20 – January 18; royalacademy.org.uk
Pictured: Kerry James Marshall, De Style, 1993. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 264.2 x 309.9 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by Ruth and Jacob Bloom. © Kerry James Marshall. Photo- © Museum Associates/LACMA
- Robin Muir</a>, and gives insight into Cecil’s extraordinary interiors, and well as presenting portraits a plenty, from <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/how-the-bright-young-things-influenced-interior-design/">Bright Young Things</a> to the young Queen Elizabeth II, Jazz Age greats to Lucian Freud.\nOctober 9 – January 11; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.npg.org.uk//" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>npg.org.uk</em></a>\n<em>Pictured: Cecil Beaton, Best Invitation of the Season (Nina De Voe in ball gown by Balmain), 1951, Original colour transparency, The Condé Nast Archive, New York.</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"Cecil Beaton","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":406,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da64b602df92a0c84ad1cb/master/w_320,c_limit/Cecil%20Beaton,%20Best%20Invitation%20of%20the%20Season%20(Nina%20De%20Voe%20in%20ball%20gown%20by%20Balmain),%201951,%20Original%20colour%20transparency,%20The%20Conde%CC%81%20Nast%20Archive,%20New%20York.%20copy.jpg"},{"height":811,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da64b602df92a0c84ad1cb/master/w_640,c_limit/Cecil%20Beaton,%20Best%20Invitation%20of%20the%20Season%20(Nina%20De%20Voe%20in%20ball%20gown%20by%20Balmain),%201951,%20Original%20colour%20transparency,%20The%20Conde%CC%81%20Nast%20Archive,%20New%20York.%20copy.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":811,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da64b602df92a0c84ad1cb/master/w_640,c_limit/Cecil%20Beaton,%20Best%20Invitation%20of%20the%20Season%20(Nina%20De%20Voe%20in%20ball%20gown%20by%20Balmain),%201951,%20Original%20colour%20transparency,%20The%20Conde%CC%81%20Nast%20Archive,%20New%20York.%20copy.jpg"},{"height":1623,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da64b602df92a0c84ad1cb/master/w_1280,c_limit/Cecil%20Beaton,%20Best%20Invitation%20of%20the%20Season%20(Nina%20De%20Voe%20in%20ball%20gown%20by%20Balmain),%201951,%20Original%20colour%20transparency,%20The%20Conde%CC%81%20Nast%20Archive,%20New%20York.%20copy.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":1298,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da64b602df92a0c84ad1cb/master/w_1024,c_limit/Cecil%20Beaton,%20Best%20Invitation%20of%20the%20Season%20(Nina%20De%20Voe%20in%20ball%20gown%20by%20Balmain),%201951,%20Original%20colour%20transparency,%20The%20Conde%CC%81%20Nast%20Archive,%20New%20York.%20copy.jpg"},{"height":2597,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da64b602df92a0c84ad1cb/master/w_2048,c_limit/Cecil%20Beaton,%20Best%20Invitation%20of%20the%20Season%20(Nina%20De%20Voe%20in%20ball%20gown%20by%20Balmain),%201951,%20Original%20colour%20transparency,%20The%20Conde%CC%81%20Nast%20Archive,%20New%20York.%20copy.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1623,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da64b602df92a0c84ad1cb/master/w_1280,c_limit/Cecil%20Beaton,%20Best%20Invitation%20of%20the%20Season%20(Nina%20De%20Voe%20in%20ball%20gown%20by%20Balmain),%201951,%20Original%20colour%20transparency,%20The%20Conde%CC%81%20Nast%20Archive,%20New%20York.%20copy.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1623,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da64b602df92a0c84ad1cb/master/w_1280,c_limit/Cecil%20Beaton,%20Best%20Invitation%20of%20the%20Season%20(Nina%20De%20Voe%20in%20ball%20gown%20by%20Balmain),%201951,%20Original%20colour%20transparency,%20The%20Conde%CC%81%20Nast%20Archive,%20New%20York.%20copy.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
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Cecil Beaton14/40Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World at the National Portrait Gallery
Known as ‘The King of Vogue’, Cecil Beaton was an extraordinary force across several decades of the 20th century. He elevated fashion and portrait photography into an artform, created some of the defining images of the royal family and other society figures, and, through his film work – and his interiors – created a new aesthetic, combining wit and frivolity with glamour and beauty. This exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, W1, is curated by writer and Vogue archivist Robin Muir, and gives insight into Cecil’s extraordinary interiors, and well as presenting portraits a plenty, from Bright Young Things to the young Queen Elizabeth II, Jazz Age greats to Lucian Freud.
October 9 – January 11; npg.org.uk
Pictured: Cecil Beaton, Best Invitation of the Season (Nina De Voe in ball gown by Balmain), 1951, Original colour transparency, The Condé Nast Archive, New York.
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15/40Atelier Fornasetti: The Poetry of Objects at Lyndsey Ingram
A must for all design aficionados, this exhibition at Lyndsey Ingram, W1, celebrates the radical visual universe of Piero Fornasetti, the Italian artist and designer famous for his production of everyday objects decorated in a manner that would bring art into ordinary people’s homes. Developed in collaboration with Fornasetti in Milan, the show spotlights rare early work – a carmine-red tray adorned with painted fruit and vegetables, a paper basket transformed into a miniature architectural folly – that together demonstrate the breadth of Fornasetti’s visual language as he moved between the Renaissance and Surrealism, classical ruins and modernism, and more.
Until January 16; lyndseyingram.com
Pictured: Atelier Fornasetti, Chair 'Sole', image courtesy of Lyndsey Ingram
16/40Howard Hodgkin: In a Public Garden at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Sir John Soane’s former residence in Ealing is hosting a gloriously comprehensive and colour-rich exhibition of works by Howard Hodgkin, whose art was so affected by his deep, life-long relationship with India. Paintings and prints spanning five decades of his career are being shown alongside archive items that relate to his connection with the subcontinent, including photographs, works on paper, and 17th century Mughal tiles. There’s also a fascinating architectural model showing the artist’s planned mural for the British Council building in New Delhi.
October 1 – March 8; pitzhanger.org
Pictured: Howard Hodgkin, Nick, 1977
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- This exhibition at Tate Britain</a> is the most extensive retrospective of her work ever staged in the UK, and explores her position among the Surrealists, as well as her time working for Vogue (she again crossed over with Beaton), which included reporting on World War Two. One of only four female photographers embedded with the US army, her record of the liberation of France, and her discovery of the horrors that had taken place at Buchenwald and Dachau, are acknowledged as some of the most important images of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.\nOctober 2 – February 15; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.tate.org.uk//">tate.org.uk/nPictured: Lee Miller, Portrait of Space, Al Bulwayeb near Siwa 1937. Lee Miller Archives. © Lee Miller Archives, England 2025. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"� Lee Miller Archives, England 2013. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":343,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da65300d0f7eb432783ca5/master/w_320,c_limit/1.%20Lee%20Miller,%20Portrait%20of%20Space,%20Al%20Bulwayeb%20near%20Siwa%201937.%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives.%20%C2%A9%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives,%20England%202025.%20All%20rights%20reserved.%20leemiller.co.uk%20copy.jpg"},{"height":685,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da65300d0f7eb432783ca5/master/w_640,c_limit/1.%20Lee%20Miller,%20Portrait%20of%20Space,%20Al%20Bulwayeb%20near%20Siwa%201937.%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives.%20%C2%A9%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives,%20England%202025.%20All%20rights%20reserved.%20leemiller.co.uk%20copy.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":685,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da65300d0f7eb432783ca5/master/w_640,c_limit/1.%20Lee%20Miller,%20Portrait%20of%20Space,%20Al%20Bulwayeb%20near%20Siwa%201937.%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives.%20%C2%A9%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives,%20England%202025.%20All%20rights%20reserved.%20leemiller.co.uk%20copy.jpg"},{"height":1370,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da65300d0f7eb432783ca5/master/w_1280,c_limit/1.%20Lee%20Miller,%20Portrait%20of%20Space,%20Al%20Bulwayeb%20near%20Siwa%201937.%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives.%20%C2%A9%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives,%20England%202025.%20All%20rights%20reserved.%20leemiller.co.uk%20copy.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":1096,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da65300d0f7eb432783ca5/master/w_1024,c_limit/1.%20Lee%20Miller,%20Portrait%20of%20Space,%20Al%20Bulwayeb%20near%20Siwa%201937.%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives.%20%C2%A9%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives,%20England%202025.%20All%20rights%20reserved.%20leemiller.co.uk%20copy.jpg"},{"height":2192,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da65300d0f7eb432783ca5/master/w_2048,c_limit/1.%20Lee%20Miller,%20Portrait%20of%20Space,%20Al%20Bulwayeb%20near%20Siwa%201937.%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives.%20%C2%A9%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives,%20England%202025.%20All%20rights%20reserved.%20leemiller.co.uk%20copy.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1370,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da65300d0f7eb432783ca5/master/w_1280,c_limit/1.%20Lee%20Miller,%20Portrait%20of%20Space,%20Al%20Bulwayeb%20near%20Siwa%201937.%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives.%20%C2%A9%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives,%20England%202025.%20All%20rights%20reserved.%20leemiller.co.uk%20copy.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1370,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da65300d0f7eb432783ca5/master/w_1280,c_limit/1.%20Lee%20Miller,%20Portrait%20of%20Space,%20Al%20Bulwayeb%20near%20Siwa%201937.%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives.%20%C2%A9%20Lee%20Miller%20Archives,%20England%202025.%20All%20rights%20reserved.%20leemiller.co.uk%20copy.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
� Lee Miller Archives, England 2013. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk17/40Lee Miller at Tate Britain
Lee Miller modelled before she became a photographer, and was photographed by Cecil Beaton. Once behind the lens, she quickly became a leading figure within avant-garde scenes in London, New York, Paris and Cairo. This exhibition at Tate Britain is the most extensive retrospective of her work ever staged in the UK, and explores her position among the Surrealists, as well as her time working for Vogue (she again crossed over with Beaton), which included reporting on World War Two. One of only four female photographers embedded with the US army, her record of the liberation of France, and her discovery of the horrors that had taken place at Buchenwald and Dachau, are acknowledged as some of the most important images of the 20th century.
October 2 – February 15; tate.org.uk
Pictured: Lee Miller, Portrait of Space, Al Bulwayeb near Siwa 1937. Lee Miller Archives. © Lee Miller Archives, England 2025. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk
18/40Saatchi Gallery at 40: The Long Now at the Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi Gallery opened in 1985 in a disused paint factory in St. John’s Wood, from where it proceeded to launch the careers of the YBAs (the Young British Artists) and, in doing so, radicalised ideas about what art could be. It moved to the King’s Road, SW3, in 2008 - and it is there that it is celebrating its fortieth birthday with an exhibition of new work by some of the artists who have had a long history with the gallery, including Damien Hirst, Tim Noble, and Jenny Saville, showing them alongside the ambitious ideas of a newer generation.
Until March 1; saatchigallery.com
Pictured: Ryan Mosley, A Ballad for Water, 2025, courtesy the artist and Josh Lilley Gallery
Photographer: Sergio Araujo19/40Laura Lima: The Drawing Drawing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
Brazilian artist Laura Lima is known for subversive artworks that explore the relationship between bodies and their environment, and for staging unconventional situations. She led a cow onto Ipanema Beach, and orchestrated a ballet of objects that danced through the streets of Rio on a system of pulleys. For her first solo exhibition in London, taking place at the ICA, W1, she is presenting a series of performative installations centring around a new commission that reconceives the traditional life drawing class.
January 27-March 29; ica.art
Pictured: Laura Lima, The Naked Magician, 2008,2010,2013,2015. Casa França Brasil, Rio de Janeiro. Photo Sérgio Arújo
- Maggi Hambling</a> and Sarah Lucas have been good friends even since they met at the legendary Colony Room Club in Soho over twenty-five years ago. They live close to each other in Suffolk, and their work has been shown together before, notably, at Pallant House in Chichester, when they each offered portraits of the other for <em>Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists</em>. This winter, <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.sadiecoles.com/exhibitions/1262-maggi-hambling-and-sarah-lucas-ooo-la-la/press_release_text//" rel=\"nofollow\">a shared exhibition</a> spans two galleries on Bury Street, St. James’s, and explores the contrasts and continuities in their respective practices, their interest in life, sex, death, and their defiant exuberance.\nUntil January 24; <em><a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.sadiecoles.com//" rel=\"nofollow\">sadiecoles.com</a> <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://frankierossiart.com//" rel=\"nofollow\">frankierossiart.com</a> <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://hh-h.com//" rel=\"nofollow\">hh-h.com</a></em>\nPictured: <em>Installation view, OOO LA LA, Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas, presented by Sadie Coles HQ and Frankie Rossi Art. © Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas. Courtesy the Artists, Sadie Coles HQ and Frankie Rossi Art. 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20/40Ooo La La: Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas at Sadie Coles HQ and Frankie Rossi Art at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas have been good friends even since they met at the legendary Colony Room Club in Soho over twenty-five years ago. They live close to each other in Suffolk, and their work has been shown together before, notably, at Pallant House in Chichester, when they each offered portraits of the other for Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists. This winter, a shared exhibition spans two galleries on Bury Street, St. James’s, and explores the contrasts and continuities in their respective practices, their interest in life, sex, death, and their defiant exuberance.
Until January 24; sadiecoles.com frankierossiart.com hh-h.com
Pictured: Installation view, OOO LA LA, Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas, presented by Sadie Coles HQ and Frankie Rossi Art. © Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas. Courtesy the Artists, Sadie Coles HQ and Frankie Rossi Art. Photo Katie Morrison
- this feature</a> from the <em>House & Garden</em> archive, of the artist’s 1969 studio flat in Notting Hill.\nNovember 7 - February 28; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.annelyjudafineart.co.uk//" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>annelyjudafineart.co.uk</em></a>\nPictured: <em>David Hockney Vincent's Chair and Gauguin's Chair, 4 July 2025, 2025, acrylic on canvas © David Hockney</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"Jonathan Wilkinson","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":241,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/690394d5b1072b97cc34c31a/master/w_320,c_limit/David%20Hockney%20Vincent's%20Chair%20and%20Gauguin's%20Chair,%204%20July%202025,%202025%20acrylic%20on%20canvas%2091.4%20x%20121.9%20cm%20%C2%A9%20David%20Hockney.jpg"},{"height":481,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/690394d5b1072b97cc34c31a/master/w_640,c_limit/David%20Hockney%20Vincent's%20Chair%20and%20Gauguin's%20Chair,%204%20July%202025,%202025%20acrylic%20on%20canvas%2091.4%20x%20121.9%20cm%20%C2%A9%20David%20Hockney.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":481,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/690394d5b1072b97cc34c31a/master/w_640,c_limit/David%20Hockney%20Vincent's%20Chair%20and%20Gauguin's%20Chair,%204%20July%202025,%202025%20acrylic%20on%20canvas%2091.4%20x%20121.9%20cm%20%C2%A9%20David%20Hockney.jpg"},{"height":962,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/690394d5b1072b97cc34c31a/master/w_1280,c_limit/David%20Hockney%20Vincent's%20Chair%20and%20Gauguin's%20Chair,%204%20July%202025,%202025%20acrylic%20on%20canvas%2091.4%20x%20121.9%20cm%20%C2%A9%20David%20Hockney.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":770,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/690394d5b1072b97cc34c31a/master/w_1024,c_limit/David%20Hockney%20Vincent's%20Chair%20and%20Gauguin's%20Chair,%204%20July%202025,%202025%20acrylic%20on%20canvas%2091.4%20x%20121.9%20cm%20%C2%A9%20David%20Hockney.jpg"},{"height":1539,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/690394d5b1072b97cc34c31a/master/w_2048,c_limit/David%20Hockney%20Vincent's%20Chair%20and%20Gauguin's%20Chair,%204%20July%202025,%202025%20acrylic%20on%20canvas%2091.4%20x%20121.9%20cm%20%C2%A9%20David%20Hockney.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":962,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/690394d5b1072b97cc34c31a/master/w_1280,c_limit/David%20Hockney%20Vincent's%20Chair%20and%20Gauguin's%20Chair,%204%20July%202025,%202025%20acrylic%20on%20canvas%2091.4%20x%20121.9%20cm%20%C2%A9%20David%20Hockney.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":962,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/690394d5b1072b97cc34c31a/master/w_1280,c_limit/David%20Hockney%20Vincent's%20Chair%20and%20Gauguin's%20Chair,%204%20July%202025,%202025%20acrylic%20on%20canvas%2091.4%20x%20121.9%20cm%20%C2%A9%20David%20Hockney.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
Jonathan Wilkinson21/40David Hockney: Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings not yet Shown in Paris
There’s another new gallery space in Mayfair – and Annely Juda Fine Art is inaugurating theirs, on Hanover Square, W1, with a show of David Hockney’s latest works, comprising both paintings and iPad paintings. There are vibrant interior scenes from the last six months, and the full set of his 2020 series featuring the night sky outside his house in Normandy. Alongside, you might be intrigued to see this feature from the House & Garden archive, of the artist’s 1969 studio flat in Notting Hill.
November 7 - February 28; annelyjudafineart.co.uk
Pictured: David Hockney Vincent's Chair and Gauguin's Chair, 4 July 2025, 2025, acrylic on canvas © David Hockney
- Chantal Joffe</a>, that is inspired by the late American artist and writer Joe Brainard’s memoir and poetic prompts that evoke the atmosphere and time of memories. Chantal’s paintings offer a reflective and deeply personal insight into the artist’s childhood, and the show coincides with the publication of <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.amazon.co.uk/Painting-Writing-Texting-Chantal-Joffe/dp/1917651309/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1UKZ9MQDKSATM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ax6V5mGyA1GQCDJYcbu2vA.YLH2p09PpqljR2mf8WMGR9HEaTJlFIHdu96bszLmKCs&dib_tag=se&keywords=painting+writing+texting&qid=1760900254&sprefix=painting+writing+%2Caps%2C112&sr=8-1\%22 rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Painting Writing Texting</em></a>, a new book that chronicles the decade-long friendship between Chantal and <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/olivia-laing-suffolk-house/">Olivia Laing</a>.\nNovember 14 – January 17; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.victoria-miro.com//" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>victoria-miro.com</em></a>\nPictured: <em>Chantal Joffe, Matrushka Dolls, 2025 © Chantal Joffe Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":427,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/69039501a70aad3484e0854d/master/w_320,c_limit/Chantal%20Joffe,%20Matrushka%20Dolls,%202025%20%C2%A9%20Chantal%20Joffe%20Courtesy%20the%20artist%20and%20Victoria%20Miro.jpg"},{"height":853,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/69039501a70aad3484e0854d/master/w_640,c_limit/Chantal%20Joffe,%20Matrushka%20Dolls,%202025%20%C2%A9%20Chantal%20Joffe%20Courtesy%20the%20artist%20and%20Victoria%20Miro.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":853,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/69039501a70aad3484e0854d/master/w_640,c_limit/Chantal%20Joffe,%20Matrushka%20Dolls,%202025%20%C2%A9%20Chantal%20Joffe%20Courtesy%20the%20artist%20and%20Victoria%20Miro.jpg"},{"height":1706,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/69039501a70aad3484e0854d/master/w_1280,c_limit/Chantal%20Joffe,%20Matrushka%20Dolls,%202025%20%C2%A9%20Chantal%20Joffe%20Courtesy%20the%20artist%20and%20Victoria%20Miro.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":1365,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/69039501a70aad3484e0854d/master/w_1024,c_limit/Chantal%20Joffe,%20Matrushka%20Dolls,%202025%20%C2%A9%20Chantal%20Joffe%20Courtesy%20the%20artist%20and%20Victoria%20Miro.jpg"},{"height":2730,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/69039501a70aad3484e0854d/master/w_2048,c_limit/Chantal%20Joffe,%20Matrushka%20Dolls,%202025%20%C2%A9%20Chantal%20Joffe%20Courtesy%20the%20artist%20and%20Victoria%20Miro.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1706,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/69039501a70aad3484e0854d/master/w_1280,c_limit/Chantal%20Joffe,%20Matrushka%20Dolls,%202025%20%C2%A9%20Chantal%20Joffe%20Courtesy%20the%20artist%20and%20Victoria%20Miro.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1706,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/69039501a70aad3484e0854d/master/w_1280,c_limit/Chantal%20Joffe,%20Matrushka%20Dolls,%202025%20%C2%A9%20Chantal%20Joffe%20Courtesy%20the%20artist%20and%20Victoria%20Miro.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
22/40Chantal Joffe: I Remember at Victoria Miro
The Victoria Miro Gallery, N1, is presenting a new series of work by Chantal Joffe, that is inspired by the late American artist and writer Joe Brainard’s memoir and poetic prompts that evoke the atmosphere and time of memories. Chantal’s paintings offer a reflective and deeply personal insight into the artist’s childhood, and the show coincides with the publication of Painting Writing Texting, a new book that chronicles the decade-long friendship between Chantal and Olivia Laing.
November 14 – January 17; victoria-miro.com
Pictured: Chantal Joffe, Matrushka Dolls, 2025 © Chantal Joffe Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
23/40Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life at the Courtauld Gallery
Now widely considered one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century, Wayne Thiebaud is known for his vibrant representations of commonplace objects that are often uniquely and quintessentially post-war American: diner food, gumball dispensers, pinball machines. He saw his work as being a continuation of the legacy of artists such as Chardin, Monet, Cézanne, and other artists in the Courtauld’s permanent collection. This exhibition there is the first museum show of his work in the UK.
October 10 – January 18; courtauld.ac.uk
Pictured: Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963, Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 182.9cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. © Wayne Thiebaud VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2025. Image Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
24/40Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey at Whitechapel Gallery
Joy Gregory has been a pioneering force in contemporary photography for four decades, but this show is her first major survey in a British institution, and comes as a result of her winning the Freelands Award. Using a diverse range of media and methods, from Victorian photographic techniques to digital media and performance, Joy’s work explores identity, history, race, gender and societal ideals of beauty – all while retaining an undeniable beauty of its own.
October 8 – March 1; whitechapelgallery.org
Pictured: Joy Gregory Little or no breeze from ‘Seeds of Empire’ 2021 Archival digital print on fine art paper © Joy Gregory
Ardon Bar-Hama25/40Egypt: Influencing British Design 1775-2025 at Sir John Soane’s Museum
The waves of Egyptomania never quite recede entirely before the next comes along – to the extent that Egyptian-esque ornament has decorated Regency homes, Victorian cemeteries, and Art Deco factories and cinemas. This show at Sir John Soane’s Museum, WC1 - which, in terms of Egyptian antiquities, is well stocked with the real deal - explores our fascination with the ancient civilisation, and all the ways people have brought it into their homes, via Wedgewood china, Liberty fabrics, an Egyptian-style Singer sewing machine, biscuit tins, and more.
October 8 – January 18; soane.org
Pictured: Robert Adam, design for an unexecuted lodge and gateway, Bothwell Castle, Lanarkshire, 1775, pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper, SM Adam vol. 21167 copy
26/40Ibrahim Mahama: Parliament of Ghosts at Ibraaz
There’s a brand-new institution – or rather space for art, culture, and ideas – opening in a building in Bloomsbury that has previously been a synagogue and a German cultural centre. An initiative of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Ibraaz has got an exhibition space, a library, a café, a cross-disciplinary programme, and it is all completely free to go and explore. The inaugural show features Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama’s presentation of a site-specific adaptation of an ongoing production. Using colonial-era furniture and jute sacks, he has transformed the main space of the building into a meditation on memory and restitution that speaks to Ghana’s post-independence transition.
October 3 – February 15; ibraaz.org
Pictured: Ibrahim Mahama, Parliament of Ghosts, courtesy of Ibraaz and Ibrahim Mahama; photo by Hugo Glendinning
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Théo van Rysselberghe (1862 - 1926)27/40Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery
The second half of the 19th century saw a revolution in art - but while it was the Impressionists who broke away from classical academic representation, it was the Neo-Impressionists who paved a way forward. One of the first Pan-European movements, artists including Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Théo van Rysselberghe, and Vincent Van Gogh used a technique that has become known as pointillism, applying small dots of pure colour to the canvas. Based on scientific principles of colour theory, they believed it afforded a more intense hue than the traditional mixing of colours on a palette. This exhibition at the National Gallery, W1, (the first to be mounted in the newly revamped Sainsbury wing), is drawn largely from the Netherlands-based collection of Helene Kröller-Müller, supplemented by works from public and private collections from around the world. It’s an opportunity to appreciate the breadth and extraordinary luminosity of paintings that influenced so many later artists and movements, and that were a precursor to abstraction.
September 13 – April 8; nationalgallery.org.uk
Pictured: Théo van Rysselberghe (1862 - 1926) Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1899 Oil on canvas Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands © Collection Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands Photographer- Rik Klein Gotink
- Castle Howard</a> in North Yorkshire. Now <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.lissongallery.com//" rel=\"nofollow\">Lisson Gallery</a>, NW1, is holding an exhibition of new and recent work, in stainless steel, bronze and stone, centred around the latest in his series of <em>Incident</em> sculptures. There are numerous upright forms, resembling standing figures or columnar pillars, but which are abstracted through the artist’s rigorous process of hand carving.\nUntil January 31; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.lissongallery.com//" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>lissongallery.com</em></a>\nPictured: <em>Tony Cragg, Contradiction, 2024, Bronze © Tony Cragg, Courtesy Lisson Gallery</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"George Darrell","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":427,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d8757e9d7228317958d4e/master/w_320,c_limit/Tony%20Cragg%20%20Contradiction,%202024%20%20Bronze%20%20340%20x%20117%20x%20131%20cm%20%20133%207_8%20x%2046%201_8%20x%2051%205_8%20in%20%20%C2%A9%20Tony%20Cragg,%20Courtesy%20Lisson%20Gallery%20.jpg"},{"height":853,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d8757e9d7228317958d4e/master/w_640,c_limit/Tony%20Cragg%20%20Contradiction,%202024%20%20Bronze%20%20340%20x%20117%20x%20131%20cm%20%20133%207_8%20x%2046%201_8%20x%2051%205_8%20in%20%20%C2%A9%20Tony%20Cragg,%20Courtesy%20Lisson%20Gallery%20.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":853,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d8757e9d7228317958d4e/master/w_640,c_limit/Tony%20Cragg%20%20Contradiction,%202024%20%20Bronze%20%20340%20x%20117%20x%20131%20cm%20%20133%207_8%20x%2046%201_8%20x%2051%205_8%20in%20%20%C2%A9%20Tony%20Cragg,%20Courtesy%20Lisson%20Gallery%20.jpg"},{"height":1707,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d8757e9d7228317958d4e/master/w_1280,c_limit/Tony%20Cragg%20%20Contradiction,%202024%20%20Bronze%20%20340%20x%20117%20x%20131%20cm%20%20133%207_8%20x%2046%201_8%20x%2051%205_8%20in%20%20%C2%A9%20Tony%20Cragg,%20Courtesy%20Lisson%20Gallery%20.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":1365,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d8757e9d7228317958d4e/master/w_1024,c_limit/Tony%20Cragg%20%20Contradiction,%202024%20%20Bronze%20%20340%20x%20117%20x%20131%20cm%20%20133%207_8%20x%2046%201_8%20x%2051%205_8%20in%20%20%C2%A9%20Tony%20Cragg,%20Courtesy%20Lisson%20Gallery%20.jpg"},{"height":2731,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d8757e9d7228317958d4e/master/w_2048,c_limit/Tony%20Cragg%20%20Contradiction,%202024%20%20Bronze%20%20340%20x%20117%20x%20131%20cm%20%20133%207_8%20x%2046%201_8%20x%2051%205_8%20in%20%20%C2%A9%20Tony%20Cragg,%20Courtesy%20Lisson%20Gallery%20.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1707,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d8757e9d7228317958d4e/master/w_1280,c_limit/Tony%20Cragg%20%20Contradiction,%202024%20%20Bronze%20%20340%20x%20117%20x%20131%20cm%20%20133%207_8%20x%2046%201_8%20x%2051%205_8%20in%20%20%C2%A9%20Tony%20Cragg,%20Courtesy%20Lisson%20Gallery%20.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1707,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/692d8757e9d7228317958d4e/master/w_1280,c_limit/Tony%20Cragg%20%20Contradiction,%202024%20%20Bronze%20%20340%20x%20117%20x%20131%20cm%20%20133%207_8%20x%2046%201_8%20x%2051%205_8%20in%20%20%C2%A9%20Tony%20Cragg,%20Courtesy%20Lisson%20Gallery%20.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
George Darrell28/40Tony Cragg at Lisson Gallery
Last summer, Tony Cragg’s wondrous sculptures, that combine his interests in the natural and manmade worlds and explore the possibilities of material, adorned the gardens and grand rooms of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire. Now Lisson Gallery, NW1, is holding an exhibition of new and recent work, in stainless steel, bronze and stone, centred around the latest in his series of Incident sculptures. There are numerous upright forms, resembling standing figures or columnar pillars, but which are abstracted through the artist’s rigorous process of hand carving.
Until January 31; lissongallery.com
Pictured: Tony Cragg, Contradiction, 2024, Bronze © Tony Cragg, Courtesy Lisson Gallery
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29/40Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles at William Morris Gallery
William Morris Gallery, which is based in the Arts and Crafts designer’s former home in Walthamstow, E17, is presenting an exhibition conceived in partnership with Liberty. The show surveys the evolving influence and status of women within textiles, while bringing together iconic patters by artists and designers including Althea McNish, Sonia Delaunay, and Lucienne Day. There are over 100 works, spanning garments, fabric, original designs, film, and historic photographs.
Until June 21; wmgallery.org.uk
Pictured: Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell, Quickstep, c.1970 (C) Sarah Campbell
- This exhibition at Tate Modern</a>, SE1, which celebrates the centenary of his famous painting <em>The Three Dancers</em>, is being staged in a space that has been transformed into a theatre. It is thus paying homage to Picasso’s fascination with performance - he designed sets and costumes for the Ballets Russes, and painted flamenco dancers, circus workers, entertainers, and bullfighters. There are major loans coming from across Europe, some of which have never been seen before in the UK.\nSeptember 17 – April 12; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.tate.org.uk//">tate.org.uk/nPictured: <em>Girl in a Chemise (1905) Tate. © Succession Picasso DACS, London 2025 copy</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"Tate Photography","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":387,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68adda61899a934c85529240/master/w_320,c_limit/Girl%20in%20a%20Chemise%20(1905)%20Tate.%20%C2%A9%20Succession%20Picasso%20DACS,%20London%202025%20copy.jpg"},{"height":774,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68adda61899a934c85529240/master/w_640,c_limit/Girl%20in%20a%20Chemise%20(1905)%20Tate.%20%C2%A9%20Succession%20Picasso%20DACS,%20London%202025%20copy.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":774,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68adda61899a934c85529240/master/w_640,c_limit/Girl%20in%20a%20Chemise%20(1905)%20Tate.%20%C2%A9%20Succession%20Picasso%20DACS,%20London%202025%20copy.jpg"},{"height":1547,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68adda61899a934c85529240/master/w_1280,c_limit/Girl%20in%20a%20Chemise%20(1905)%20Tate.%20%C2%A9%20Succession%20Picasso%20DACS,%20London%202025%20copy.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":1238,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68adda61899a934c85529240/master/w_1024,c_limit/Girl%20in%20a%20Chemise%20(1905)%20Tate.%20%C2%A9%20Succession%20Picasso%20DACS,%20London%202025%20copy.jpg"},{"height":2476,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68adda61899a934c85529240/master/w_2048,c_limit/Girl%20in%20a%20Chemise%20(1905)%20Tate.%20%C2%A9%20Succession%20Picasso%20DACS,%20London%202025%20copy.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1547,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68adda61899a934c85529240/master/w_1280,c_limit/Girl%20in%20a%20Chemise%20(1905)%20Tate.%20%C2%A9%20Succession%20Picasso%20DACS,%20London%202025%20copy.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1547,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68adda61899a934c85529240/master/w_1280,c_limit/Girl%20in%20a%20Chemise%20(1905)%20Tate.%20%C2%A9%20Succession%20Picasso%20DACS,%20London%202025%20copy.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
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Tate Photography30/40Theatre Picasso at Tate Modern
This exhibition at Tate Modern, SE1, which celebrates the centenary of his famous painting The Three Dancers, is being staged in a space that has been transformed into a theatre. It is thus paying homage to Picasso’s fascination with performance - he designed sets and costumes for the Ballets Russes, and painted flamenco dancers, circus workers, entertainers, and bullfighters. There are major loans coming from across Europe, some of which have never been seen before in the UK.
September 17 – April 12; tate.org.uk
Pictured: Girl in a Chemise (1905) Tate. © Succession Picasso DACS, London 2025 copy
31/40A Story of South Asian Art at the Royal Academy
This show at the Royal Academy, W1, looks at the avant-garde artists who have shaped Indian modernism from the 1930s to the present day, with particular focus on the radical work of sculptor and textile artist Mrinalini Mukherjee, which fused abstraction with the human form. The exhibition also features work by her parents Leela Mukherjee and Benode Behari Mukherji, who taught at Kala Bhavana in Santiniketan, West Bengal the pioneering art school founded in 1919 by the poet Rabindranath Tagore.
Until February 24; royalacademy.org.uk
Pictured: Mrinalini Mukherjee and works in progress at her garage studio. New Friends Colony, New Delhi, c.1985. Courtesy of Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation and Asia Art Archive. Photo by Ranjit Singh.
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32/40Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern
Also atTate Modern, SE1, this show brings together the work of over 50 artists who were working in the years leading up to and following Nigeria’s 1960 national independence. It tells the stories of different artistic networks, and shows how the fusing of African and European traditions created something vibrant and new.
October 8 – May 10; tate.org.uk
Pictured: Jimo Akolo Fulani Horsemen 1962 Courtesy Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
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- Gilbert & George</a> have become renowned for addressing traditional taboo subjects – which, they maintain, is to “de-shock” the viewer, and thus promote tolerance. <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gilbert-george-21st-century-pictures//" rel=\"nofollow\">This exhibition</a> at the Hayward Gallery presents their pictures from the last twenty-five years.\nOctober 7 – January 11; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk//" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>southbankcentre.co.uk</em></a>\n<em>Pictured: Gilbert & George, HA-HA, 2022. Mixed media. 74.8 x 88.98 x 1.5 inches, 190 x 226 x 3.81 cm. © Gilbert & George. Courtesy the artists and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London</em>","contentType":"photo","credit":"","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":269,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da6ac202df92a0c84ad1cf/master/w_320,c_limit/Gilbert%20&%20George,%20HA-HA,%202022.%20Mixed%20media.%2074.8%20x%2088.98%20x%201.5%20inches,%20190%20x%20226%20x%203.81%20cm.%20%C2%A9%20Gilbert%20&%20George.%20Courtesy%20the%20artists%20and%20Lehmann%20Maupin,%20New%20York,%20Seoul,%20and%20London%20copy.jpg"},{"height":538,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da6ac202df92a0c84ad1cf/master/w_640,c_limit/Gilbert%20&%20George,%20HA-HA,%202022.%20Mixed%20media.%2074.8%20x%2088.98%20x%201.5%20inches,%20190%20x%20226%20x%203.81%20cm.%20%C2%A9%20Gilbert%20&%20George.%20Courtesy%20the%20artists%20and%20Lehmann%20Maupin,%20New%20York,%20Seoul,%20and%20London%20copy.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":538,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da6ac202df92a0c84ad1cf/master/w_640,c_limit/Gilbert%20&%20George,%20HA-HA,%202022.%20Mixed%20media.%2074.8%20x%2088.98%20x%201.5%20inches,%20190%20x%20226%20x%203.81%20cm.%20%C2%A9%20Gilbert%20&%20George.%20Courtesy%20the%20artists%20and%20Lehmann%20Maupin,%20New%20York,%20Seoul,%20and%20London%20copy.jpg"},{"height":1075,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da6ac202df92a0c84ad1cf/master/w_1280,c_limit/Gilbert%20&%20George,%20HA-HA,%202022.%20Mixed%20media.%2074.8%20x%2088.98%20x%201.5%20inches,%20190%20x%20226%20x%203.81%20cm.%20%C2%A9%20Gilbert%20&%20George.%20Courtesy%20the%20artists%20and%20Lehmann%20Maupin,%20New%20York,%20Seoul,%20and%20London%20copy.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":860,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da6ac202df92a0c84ad1cf/master/w_1024,c_limit/Gilbert%20&%20George,%20HA-HA,%202022.%20Mixed%20media.%2074.8%20x%2088.98%20x%201.5%20inches,%20190%20x%20226%20x%203.81%20cm.%20%C2%A9%20Gilbert%20&%20George.%20Courtesy%20the%20artists%20and%20Lehmann%20Maupin,%20New%20York,%20Seoul,%20and%20London%20copy.jpg"},{"height":1720,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da6ac202df92a0c84ad1cf/master/w_2048,c_limit/Gilbert%20&%20George,%20HA-HA,%202022.%20Mixed%20media.%2074.8%20x%2088.98%20x%201.5%20inches,%20190%20x%20226%20x%203.81%20cm.%20%C2%A9%20Gilbert%20&%20George.%20Courtesy%20the%20artists%20and%20Lehmann%20Maupin,%20New%20York,%20Seoul,%20and%20London%20copy.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1075,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da6ac202df92a0c84ad1cf/master/w_1280,c_limit/Gilbert%20&%20George,%20HA-HA,%202022.%20Mixed%20media.%2074.8%20x%2088.98%20x%201.5%20inches,%20190%20x%20226%20x%203.81%20cm.%20%C2%A9%20Gilbert%20&%20George.%20Courtesy%20the%20artists%20and%20Lehmann%20Maupin,%20New%20York,%20Seoul,%20and%20London%20copy.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1075,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/68da6ac202df92a0c84ad1cf/master/w_1280,c_limit/Gilbert%20&%20George,%20HA-HA,%202022.%20Mixed%20media.%2074.8%20x%2088.98%20x%201.5%20inches,%20190%20x%20226%20x%203.81%20cm.%20%C2%A9%20Gilbert%20&%20George.%20Courtesy%20the%20artists%20and%20Lehmann%20Maupin,%20New%20York,%20Seoul,%20and%20London%20copy.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
33/40Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures at the Hayward Gallery
The iconoclastic duo Gilbert & George have become renowned for addressing traditional taboo subjects – which, they maintain, is to “de-shock” the viewer, and thus promote tolerance. This exhibition at the Hayward Gallery presents their pictures from the last twenty-five years.
October 7 – January 11; southbankcentre.co.uk
Pictured: Gilbert & George, HA-HA, 2022. Mixed media. 74.8 x 88.98 x 1.5 inches, 190 x 226 x 3.81 cm. © Gilbert & George. Courtesy the artists and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London
34/40Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum at the Barbican Centre
The second of three Barbican exhibitions organised in partnership with the Fondation Giacometti, this show presents his work – including the iconic Woman with Her Throat Cut of 1932 - in dialogue with that of the Lebanese artist Mona Hatoum. Staged in the Barbican’s new Level 2 gallery space, almost a century of artmaking is spanned, and
there are sculptures in plaster, bronze, steel and brass, alongside installation, works on paper, and video. Both artists have worked in times of global conflict and have a common interest in how art can serve to bring viewers into a disquieting reality.
September 3 – January 11; barbican.org.uk
Pictured: Alberto Giacometti, Project for the Chase Manhattan Plaza: Walking Man, Standing Woman, Head on a Base, 1959, courtesy Fondation Giacometti
- Emily Kam Kngwarray</a>. A founding member of the Utopia Women’s Batik Group, the show features her vibrant textiles as well as vast paintings that reflect her ancestral heritage, and are an unexpectedly moving record of love for an area of land.\nJuly 10 – January 11; <a href=https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/"https://www.tate.org.uk//">tate.org.uk/nPictured: <em>Emily Kam Kngwarray, Ntang Dreaming 1989. NGA, Canberra © Emily Kam Kngwarry Copyright Agency. Licensed by DACS 2025 cop</em>y","contentType":"photo","credit":"","segmentedSources":{"sm":[{"height":302,"width":320,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/6863aaca4b463f88eb7e0606/master/w_320,c_limit/1.%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarray,%20Ntang%20Dreaming%201989.%20NGA,%20Canberra..%20%C2%A9%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarry%20Copyright%20Agency.%20Licensed%20by%20DACS%202025%20copy.jpg"},{"height":605,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/6863aaca4b463f88eb7e0606/master/w_640,c_limit/1.%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarray,%20Ntang%20Dreaming%201989.%20NGA,%20Canberra..%20%C2%A9%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarry%20Copyright%20Agency.%20Licensed%20by%20DACS%202025%20copy.jpg"}],"md":[{"height":605,"width":640,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/6863aaca4b463f88eb7e0606/master/w_640,c_limit/1.%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarray,%20Ntang%20Dreaming%201989.%20NGA,%20Canberra..%20%C2%A9%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarry%20Copyright%20Agency.%20Licensed%20by%20DACS%202025%20copy.jpg"},{"height":1210,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/6863aaca4b463f88eb7e0606/master/w_1280,c_limit/1.%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarray,%20Ntang%20Dreaming%201989.%20NGA,%20Canberra..%20%C2%A9%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarry%20Copyright%20Agency.%20Licensed%20by%20DACS%202025%20copy.jpg"}],"lg":[{"height":968,"width":1024,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/6863aaca4b463f88eb7e0606/master/w_1024,c_limit/1.%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarray,%20Ntang%20Dreaming%201989.%20NGA,%20Canberra..%20%C2%A9%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarry%20Copyright%20Agency.%20Licensed%20by%20DACS%202025%20copy.jpg"},{"height":1935,"width":2048,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/6863aaca4b463f88eb7e0606/master/w_2048,c_limit/1.%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarray,%20Ntang%20Dreaming%201989.%20NGA,%20Canberra..%20%C2%A9%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarry%20Copyright%20Agency.%20Licensed%20by%20DACS%202025%20copy.jpg"}],"xl":[{"height":1210,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/6863aaca4b463f88eb7e0606/master/w_1280,c_limit/1.%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarray,%20Ntang%20Dreaming%201989.%20NGA,%20Canberra..%20%C2%A9%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarry%20Copyright%20Agency.%20Licensed%20by%20DACS%202025%20copy.jpg"}],"xxl":[{"height":1210,"width":1280,"url":"https://media.houseandgarden.co.uk/photos/6863aaca4b463f88eb7e0606/master/w_1280,c_limit/1.%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarray,%20Ntang%20Dreaming%201989.%20NGA,%20Canberra..%20%C2%A9%20Emily%20Kam%20Kngwarry%20Copyright%20Agency.%20Licensed%20by%20DACS%202025%20copy.jpg"}]}}}" data-testid="GallerySlideWrapper">
35/40Emily Kam Kngwarray
Tate Modern, SE1, is holding the largest ever presentation devoted to the renowned Aboriginal Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray. A founding member of the Utopia Women’s Batik Group, the show features her vibrant textiles as well as vast paintings that reflect her ancestral heritage, and are an unexpectedly moving record of love for an area of land.
July 10 – January 11; tate.org.uk
Pictured: Emily Kam Kngwarray, Ntang Dreaming 1989. NGA, Canberra © Emily Kam Kngwarry Copyright Agency. Licensed by DACS 2025 copy
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36/40Shifting Ground: Art by First Nations Women of Australia at The Arts Club
For more from Emily Kam Kngwarray, head to The Arts Club on Dover Street were work by her is being shown alongside other leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women artists, affirming their place in the global narrative of modern and contemporary art. And while The Arts Club is members only, the exhibition is open to non-members, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, by appointment.
October 6 – January 24; theartsclub.co.uk
Pictured: Yukultji Napangati, Untitled (2019)
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37/40The Barber in London: Highlights from a Remarkable Collection at The Courtauld Gallery
Birmingham’s loss is our gain – as exceptional paintings from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts go on display at The Courtauld Gallery, WC2. The two institutions were founded at the same time; both were intended to encourage the study and public appreciation of art, and both are home to two of the finest collections of European art in this country. Among the highlights are paintings by Frans Hals, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Abbott McNeil Whistler, and Edgar Degas.
Until February 22, 2026; courtauld.ac.uk
Pictured: Claude Monet, The Church at Varengeville, The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham
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On exiting the Courtauld, don’t miss Louise Giovanelli’s new commission, presented by Create London and Westminster City Council, which responds to James Gibb’s baroque jewel of a church, St. Mary-le-Strand, by way of a temporary intervention consisting of a sculptural trompe l’oeil.
Until January 18; createlondon.org
Pictured: The installation ‘Decades' by artist Louise Giovanelli illuminated at St Mary-le-Strand Church in London, courtesy Westminster City Council and Create London, photo Damian Griffiths
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39/40Victoria Cantons: A Formula for How to Find Love at Mimosa House
This delectably named exhibition at the non-profit art institution Mimosa House, WC1, is the artist’s first solo presentation within the UK. Her paintings draw for inspiration on Degas, Manet, Titian, and classical art - Victoria describes them as abstract self-portraits – and the show also comprises moving image, sound, installation, and text-based works that carry philosophical expressions of emotion.
January 23 – March 28; mimosahouse.co.uk
Pictured: Victoria Cantons, Untitled (The lesson will be repeated until it is learnt), 2024
40/40Charles March: Sandscript at Hamiltons Gallery
“I want my pictures to create an impression, a feeling, by holding onto a moment in nature that would otherwise be lost as soon as it appears,” says Charles March, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, of this new body of work that is being shown at Hamiltons Gallery, W1. The photographs continue Charles’s journey into abstraction, through images captured along the shoreline, each the result of patient observation of shadows, lines, and textures that appear as calligraphic inscriptions before being swept away by wind or tide.
November 4 – January 16; hamiltonsgallery.com
Pictured: Charles March, Sandscript, Seriess 1, 01 © Charles March
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