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Art & Design: upcoming exhibitions, events and news

Stay up-to-date with all of the new and exciting events, exhibitions & news in the art world! 

What's new in London

EXHIBITION: National Gallery turns 200
VENUE: The National Gallery
DATES: Until May 2025

As the National Gallery turns 200, keep an eye out for collaborations across the country. From limited edition coins, show gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and an episode of Songs of Praise filmed at the Gallery, there's plenty of ways to join in the celebrations. For the whole year, they are going to celebrate the past and look forward to the future with a year-long festival of art, creativity and imagination which sets the tone for the third century. Click here to find out more!

 

EXHIBITION: Design and Disability
VENUE: V&A South Kensington
DATES: From 7th June 2025 until: to be decided

Both a celebration and a call to action, Design and Disability showcases the radical contributions of Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people and communities to design history and contemporary culture, from the 1940s to now.

Please note reservations must be made directly by the school. 

 

EXHIBITION: Pablo Picasso
VENUE: The Tate Modern
DATES: From September 2025 - Spring 2026

For Picasso, The Three Dancers marked a radical break away from his serene, classical phase and the beginning of a new period of emotional violence and expressionist distortion. It sits at a crossroads between madness, philosophy and the avant-garde: a place where identity is disrupted and the body itself is at stake. Tate Modern’s exhibition tells the story of this landmark painting through a selection of key works from across Picasso’s career, exploring themes of sex, death, and the politics of dance.

 

EXHIBITION: Wes Anderson: The Archives
VENUE: The Design Museum
DATES: 21st November 2025 - 26th July 2026*

The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson's presonal archives, which the filmmaker has built up over three decades. This is the first time most of these objects will be displayed in Britain. Over 600 objects will bring together the director's meticulous craft of filmmaking through original storyboards, polaroids, sketches, paintings, handwritten notebooks, puppets, miniature models, dozens of costumes worn by much-loved characters, and more. 

As well as finished props and sets, the exhibition will feature work-in-progress material and maquettes, and it will look at the variety of traditional and hand-made film-making techniques that the director continues to celebrate through his work, especially connected to puppets and stop-motion animation.

*Education rates available Mon-Thu, term-time only. Excluding the first and last two weeks of the exhibition run.

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Paris

EXHIBITION: The MET at the Louvre
VENUE:  The Louvre
DATES: Until 28th September 2025

The Louvre and The Met have created a unique dialogue between these two collections, which is displayed in the Louvre's permanent galleries. These 'special guest' artworks from The Met, dating from between the late 4th millennium BC and the 5th century AD, show some remarkable connections with the Louvre's collection. In some cases, a pair of objects has been reunited for the first time, while in others, pieces complement each other by virtue of specific historical features of their respective collections. Representing Central Asia, Syria, Iran and Mesopotamia, this dialogue between collections is (re)introducing visitors to these extraordinary, age-old works of art and the stories they tell.

 

EXHIBITION: Leonetto Cappiello Aperitif and Showmanship
VENUE:  The Musee D Orsay
DATES: Until 2nd July 2025

The mock-ups for his advertising and art posters conserved at the Musée d’Orsay are in pastels. Making use of this vibrant medium and with remarkable visual restraint, the artist created sinuous, slender dancing figures with rippling hair, sporting fashion accessories with undulating feathers. In these simple sketches, whether caricature or portrait, a whole world of creation takes shape. Women of fashion, playwrights, composers, actors declaiming, musicians rehearsing, audiences and celebrities put on a real show for us.

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Amsterdam

EXHIBITION: The permanent collection: Van Gogh's masterpieces
VENUE: Van Gogh Museum
DATES: Ongoing

View Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces in the museum and immerse yourself in his development as an artist. Step into Van Gogh's world and discover the ideas and ambitions behind his art. In the permanent collection you can see Vincent van Gogh's famous masterpieces, such as Sunflowers, Almond Blossom and The Potato Eaters, as well as his drawings and letters. You discover the ideas and ambitions behind

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Barcleona

EXHIBITION: Catalan ink against Hitler
VENUE: MNAC
DATES: 7th October 2025 - 11th January 2026

This exhibition is the presentation of the discovery of the only Catalan and Spanish artist who worked massively for British and Allied propaganda during the Second World War. From 1941-1945, the Catalan Mario Armengol Torrella drew around 2,000 cartoons or caricatures in the service of the British Ministry of Information. The exhibition will present a selection of the originals preserved by the author and his family which, together with the publications in which many of those cartoons appeared, become one of the larges collections worldwide of political satire illustrations of the most terrible conflict in history. 

 

EXHIBITION: La Collection Revoir Picasso
VENUE: Picasso Museum
DATES: Until 12 March 2027

The exhibition tells the story of the legendary décor of the Paris flat of art dealer and gallery owner Léonce Rosenberg. Rosenberg wanted to associate his name with late Cubism mixed with figuration, the path opened up by Picasso, an artist he admired and accompanied during the war and the 1920s.

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New York

EXHIBITION: The Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson
VENUE: MET
DATES: September 2025 - May 2026

Gibson’s project for The Met’s Fifth Avenue facade will be the sixth in a series of commissions for the historic exterior. The artist’s new works for the niches will draw upon his longstanding and highly developed iconography, one built upon a dynamic visual language that fuses Indigenous identity and imagery with abstraction, patterning, materiality, and text. 

 

EXHIBITION: Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
VENUE: MoMA
DATES: 19th October 2025 - 7th February 2026

Featuring some 300 artworks, this posthumous survey charts the artist's lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums, including wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works. Taking a cue from her own work, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective offerings numerous points of entry into her art, encouraging close looking.  

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