Dozens of art events happen every month in cosmopolitan cities like London and Sao Paulo. It can be overwhelming to find the best ones, especially if you need to move from site to site to see WHAT’S ON in your area. We make your life easier by gathering in just one place a selection of shows, including key information like venue, date and a brief summary of each exhibition.
Here is our curated page of shows currently happening in London and São Paulo.
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09/11/2024
Fabian Treiber: Bruised
London
Fabian Treiber: Bruised
Cob
Until 09 November 2024
Cob gallery is pleased to present ‘Bruised’, the debut UK solo exhibition of German artist Fabian Treiber.
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06/12/2024
Mythology Reinterpreted: A Journey through Ancient Inspiration in Modern & Contemporary Art
London
Mythology Reinterpreted: A Journey through Ancient Inspiration in Modern & Contemporary Art
Mazzoleni
Until 06 December 2024
The exhibition strives to reinterpret the ancient through the lens of Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico, Salvo and Giulio Paolini and Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake.
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07/12/2024
Ur Kasin: All Is Blurred
London
Ur Kasin: All Is Blurred
British Museum
Until 07 December 2024
This show marks a pivotal moment in his career, showcasing six monumental compositions that explore the psychological journey of a character that he has created, navigating his way through a complex and unforgiving world.
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07/12/2024
Yeonsu Ju: Altar; the Carrier
London
Yeonsu Ju: Altar; the Carrier
Arusha
Until 07 December 2024
Artist Yeonsu Ju explores themes of longing, memory, and ritual through the simple yet powerful act of gathering at a table.
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08/12/2024
Chronoplasticity
London
Chronoplasticity
Raven Row
Until 08 December 2024
The works in Chronoplasticity attempt to fold or stretch time. They ask what and how histories should be told, and consider new conceptions of the ‘historical’, connecting the no-longer to the not-yet. Big events and political struggles of the last half century echo in the show, and many works speak to the tension between the personal and larger surrounding forces.
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08/12/2024
Kevin Klamminger: Promethean Approach
London
Kevin Klamminger: Promethean Approach
Unit
Until 08 December 2024
At its core, Kevin Klamminger’s first solo exhibition with Unit explores an interplay of contradictory forces. Influenced by a balance between conscious and unconscious minds, Promethean Approach presents a series of paintings that combine an almost hyperrealist visual language with a surreal atmosphere.
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08/12/2024
Bobbi Essers: The World at Our Command
London
Bobbi Essers: The World at Our Command
Unit
Until 08 December 2024
The World at Our Command illustrates the importance of intimacy within platonic relationships. Defined by overlapping compositions that echo surrealist photomontages, Essers’ fragmented canvases are full of limbs, bodies, clothes and accessories taken from candid photographs of her friends.
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10/12/2024
Michael Craig-Martin
London
Michael Craig-Martin
Royal Academy
Until 10 December 2024
A key figure in British art, Michael Craig-Martin is one of the most influential artists and teachers of his generation.
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13/12/2024
Golds
London
Golds
Ordovas
Until 13 December 2024
From 4 October to 13 December 2024, Ordovas presents Golds, an exhibition exploring one of the most symbolic colours in the history of art, and how it has been used and represented in the work of significant artists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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14/12/2024
Jake Vanden Berge: I Made My Bed Of Flowers And Now I Have To Step In It
London
Jake Vanden Berge: I Made My Bed Of Flowers And Now I Have To Step In It
LBF Contemporary
Until 14 December 2024
Through an evocative exploration of memory and nostalgia, Vanden Berge’s debut UK solo exhibition reveals a body of work that merges suburban landscapes with dreamlike imagery, capturing a haunting, cinematic view of the ordinary.
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14/12/2024
André Butzer
London
André Butzer
Max Hetzler
Until 14 December 2024
André Butzer’s Synthetic Paintings are a challenge to our image of man. The towering, composite bodies are permeated by technology, maltreated by devices and pieces of apparatus, destroyed from within.
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14/12/2024
Terry Adkins: Disclosure
London
Terry Adkins: Disclosure
Thomas Dane Gallery
Until 14 December 2024
The exhibition brings Adkins’s early sculptures from the 1980s into conversation with work produced in the last decade of his life, drawing out the persisting themes developed, elaborated and refined throughout his career, before his untimely death in 2014.
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14/12/2024
Davide Balliano
London
Davide Balliano
Cardi Gallery
Until 14 December 2024
On view will be a selection of recent works on linen, ranging from large-scale to more intimate size, displaying Balliano’s unique brand of geometric abstraction developed over the last several years.
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14/12/2024
Peter Buggenhout: The Edge is my Home
London
Peter Buggenhout: The Edge is my Home
Holtermann Fine Art
Until 14 December 2024
Buggenhout’s unique and compelling oeuvre consists of autonomous, seemingly disparate groups of sculptural objects. Resisting interpretation and devoid of symbols, the works engage the viewer in a dialogue on our inability to comprehend the complexity of the world. d outer freedom.
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14/12/2024
Jack Whitten: Speedchaser
London
Jack Whitten: Speedchaser
Hauser & Wirth
Until 14 December 2024
The exhibition includes rare works from Whitten’s landmark, monochromatic Greek Alphabet series (1975 – 1978), which was the focus of a dedicated exhibition at Dia Beacon, New York NY, (2022 – 2023). The exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London goes beyond the monochrome to also display Whitten’s experimentation with color during this process-based period.
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14/12/2024
Alice Baber
London
Alice Baber
Luxembourg + Co.
Until 14 December 2024
Baber is best known for her long-life dedication to study biomorphic forms and the infinite possibilities of light and colour through painting. Showcasing a selection of significant achievements from throughout her career, the works on view span from 1964 to just a year before her untimely death in 1981, and chronicle her experimentation between different mediums, intensities of color, saturation, composition, and forms.
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14/12/2024
Paris: An Experimental Reality
London
Paris: An Experimental Reality
Timothy Taylor
Until 14 December 2024
This group exhibition is dedicated to the dynamic conversations among a group of expatriate painters in Paris in the years immediately following the Second World War, spurring an extraordinary body of work by artists including James Bishop, Sam Francis, Carmen Herrera, Shirley Jaffe, Paul Jenkins, Ellsworth Kelly, and Joan Mitchell.
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18/12/2024
Group Exhibition: Reverb
London
Group Exhibition: Reverb
Stephen Friedman
Until 18 December 2024
Comprising paintings, sculptures, mixed media and sound-based works, Reverb foregrounds the significance of contemporary art from the Caribbean region.
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20/12/2024
Chromatherapie
London
Chromatherapie
Hanina Fine Arts
Until 20 December 2024
This exhibition explores the evolution these ideas and techniques in post-war European art through a selection of artists for whom colour was their primary medium, including Claude Bellegarde who experimented with Chroma Therapy and its physiological affects; James Pichette who sought to use colour to resonate with the energy of jazz music; and Swiss Art Concrete painter Léo Leuppi whose paintings were designed to evoke a serene harmony.
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20/12/2024
Youngju Joung: Way Back Home
London
Youngju Joung: Way Back Home
Almine Rech
Until 20 December 2024
The artist has developed her own technique of applying small pieces of the traditionally and locally made hanji paper onto the surface of the canvas to provide depth and texture to her subjects.
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20/12/2024
Salvo and Andreas Schulze: About Painting
London
Salvo and Andreas Schulze: About Painting
Sprüth Magers
Until 20 December 2024
Salvo and Andreas Schulze both fully embrace the tradition of painting, not trying to deconstruct or reimagine the medium, but rather using it to instigate and reinvigorate our understanding of the world through color, light, texture and mood.
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20/12/2024
David Nash: 45 Years of Drawing
London
David Nash: 45 Years of Drawing
Annely Juda Fine Art
Until 20 December 2024
David Nash’s lifelong exploration of the nature of wood and its habitats has established him as one of Britain’s foremost artists working in sculpture and environmental installations.
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20/12/2024
Nicole Eisenman
London
Nicole Eisenman
Sadie Coles
Until 20 December 2024
Following their acclaimed major survey, What Happened, at Whitechapel Gallery last year, Nicole Eisenman debuts new works at Sadie Coles HQ, London.
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20/12/2024
David Nash: 45 Years of Drawing
London
David Nash: 45 Years of Drawing
Annely Juda Fine Art
Until 20 December 2024
David Nash’s lifelong exploration of the nature of wood and its habitats has established him as one of Britain’s foremost artists working in sculpture and environmental installations.
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21/12/2024
Miguel Ybáñez: La sombra del olvido
London
Miguel Ybáñez: La sombra del olvido
GRIMM
Until 21 December 2024
Ybáñez states that the essence of his work is to express the universal emotions that exist in our shared extra-dimensional space.
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21/12/2024
Anna Calleja: One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
London
Anna Calleja: One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Sim Smith
Until 21 December 2024
This exhibition is an ode to the female experience, the contradictions within sexuality, bodily autonomy and queerness that challenge traditional conventions and expectations of the female role.
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21/12/2024
Cullinan Richards: Second Act. Plot Twist
London
Cullinan Richards: Second Act. Plot Twist
Alma Pearl
Until 21 December 2024
Second Act is defined as “a second period or stage of something, especially in which its initial aspects are followed up, expanded, or further developed”.
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21/12/2024
Hank Willis Thomas: Kinship of the Soul
London
Hank Willis Thomas: Kinship of the Soul
Pace
Until 21 December 2024
The presentation will showcase a new body of retroreflective collages that continue Thomas’s exploration of the histories of abstraction through the lenses of colonization, globalization, and appropriation, with reference to Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, and Henri Matisse.
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21/12/2024
Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: Remarkable Friendship
London
Lenore Tawney & Toshiko Takaezu: Remarkable Friendship
Alison Jacques
Until 21 December 2024
Through showing the work of both artists together, in testament to their 50 year enduring friendship, this exhibition emphasises how both artists, as pioneers and innovators, made their work in an ongoing spiritual quest to express an intangible truth.
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21/12/2024
Sophie Ruigrok: Rapid movement over a landscape
London
Sophie Ruigrok: Rapid movement over a landscape
Sunday Painter
Until 21 December 2024
The Sunday Painter is pleased to announce Sophie Ruigrok’s forthcoming solo exhibition Rapid movement over a landscape.
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29/12/2024
Jack O’Brien: The Reward
London
Jack O’Brien: The Reward
Camden Art Centre
Until 29 December 2024
O’Brien describes the objects and materials he incorporates in his work as “eloquent texts” that encode cultural and historical meaning. Manipulating them by twisting, binding, stretching or puncturing feels charged with the erotic and probes at taboo, fetish and the commodification of queer aesthetics.
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29/12/2024
Nicola L.: I Am The Last Woman Object
London
Nicola L.: I Am The Last Woman Object
Camden Art Centre
Until 29 December 2024
Encompassing sculpture, performance, painting, collage and film—all of which carry an air of wit, playfulness, and radical subversion—the show will be an opportunity to experience all aspects of Nicola L.’s multidisciplinary practice.
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05/01/2025
Haegue Yang: Leap Year
London
Haegue Yang: Leap Year
Hayward Gallery
Until 05 January 2025
Leap Year is the first major survey of the internationally celebrated artist in the UK. It presents a comprehensive study of Yang’s work from the early 2000s to today, highlighting how her artworks resonate on a personal and sensory level while also speaking to social, political and spiritual ideas.
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05/01/2025
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
London
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Tate St Ives
Until 05 January 2025
Mirga-Tas is known for her textile collages created with materials and fabrics that are mainly gathered from family and friends. Her visual storytelling comes from a feminist perspective and challenges stereotypical representations of Roma people.
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05/01/2025
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It Will End In Tears
London
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It Will End In Tears
Barbican
Until 05 January 2025
In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.
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05/01/2025
Fragile Beauty: Elton John and David Furnish
London
Fragile Beauty: Elton John and David Furnish
V&A
Until 05 January 2025
An unparalleled selection of the world’s leading photographers, telling the story of modern and contemporary photography.
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05/01/2025
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
London
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
Barbican
Until 05 January 2025
Featuring artwork by over 30 Indian artists, this major exhibition is bookended by two transformative events in India’s history: Indira Gandhi’s declaration of a state of emergency in 1975 and the Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998.
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11/01/2025
Merlin James
London
Merlin James
Maureen Paley
Until 11 January 2025
The exhibition includes paintings of the Arnold Circus bandstand, an east London landmark visible from the Studio M window.
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11/01/2025
b chehayeb: Tomboy Heaven
London
b chehayeb: Tomboy Heaven
Workplace
Until 11 January 2025
The exhibition will feature new paintings by chehayeb, which explore the complexities of memory, identity and cultural hybridity.
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11/01/2025
Mary Ramsden: Desire Line
London
Mary Ramsden: Desire Line
Pilar Corrias
Until 11 January 2025
The artist brings a range of references to this new body of work, including English landscape painting, the subtle palette and chromatic intelligence of Les Nabis painters Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, and a keen engagement with poetry and literature.
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11/01/2025
Oskar Holweck: One Zero Zero
London
Oskar Holweck: One Zero Zero
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Until 11 January 2025
The title One Zero Zero refers to both, the centenary of his birth as well as his affiliation with Group Zero, an influential post-war art movement that originated in Germany and developed international acclaim.
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12/01/2025
Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation
London
Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation
Whitechapel Gallery
Until 12 January 2025
An Awkward Relation is a new exhibition from artist and educator Sonia Boyce (b.1962, London, UK). It has been especially conceived to be in dialogue with the exhibition of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark, The I and the You showing at the Gallery concurrently.
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14/01/2025
Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet
London
Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet
South London Gallery
Until 14 January 2025
For over 20 years she has been making sculptures that ask you to reconsider your sense of self, space and relation to the object.
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18/01/2025
Goshka Macuga: Born From Stone
London
Goshka Macuga: Born From Stone
London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE
Until 18 January 2025
Inspired by the ancient Roman temple of Mithras discovered on the Bloomberg site, Macuga invites viewers to delve into the rich tapestry of Roman mythology, particularly the intriguing narrative surrounding the god Mithras, to whom the temple was dedicated.
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19/01/2025
Francis Bacon: Human Presence
London
Francis Bacon: Human Presence
National Portrait Gallery
Until 19 January 2025
Featuring more than 50 works from the 1940s onwards, this exhibition explores Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre.
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19/01/2025
Monet and London: Views of the Thames
London
Monet and London: Views of the Thames
Courtauld
Until 19 January 2025
The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Monet and London. Views of the Thames realises Monet’s unfulfilled ambition of showing this extraordinary group of paintings in London, and just 300 metres from the Savoy Hotel where many of them were painted.
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19/01/2025
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent
London
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent
Whitechapel Gallery
Until 19 January 2025
Archive of Dissent marks one of the most extensive displays of Kennard’s work to date and has been specially conceived for Whitechapel Gallery. uo.
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19/01/2025
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
London
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
National Gallery
Until 19 January 2025
Walk with a pair of lovers beneath a starry night. Look up at swirling clouds and cypress trees swaying in the wind. Stay a little while in Van Gogh’s favourite park, the ‘Poet’s Garden’, or under a shady tree in Saint-Rémy.
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25/01/2025
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga: Nature Morte
London
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga: Nature Morte
October Gallery
Until 25 January 2025
In Kamuanga’s fourth solo show at October Gallery, his striking paintings explore the hidden consequences of the toxic waste-matter that is poisoning the environment upon which local Congolese communities are dependent for survival and the basic necessities of life.
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25/01/2025
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix: The Archipelago on Fire
London
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix: The Archipelago on Fire
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
Until 25 January 2025
The third solo show of the artist at the gallery is dedicated to sharing and spreading the notion of the decaying of our planet, one of the themes for Le Bas’s practice increasingly important in recent years.
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26/01/2025
Zanele Muholi
London
Zanele Muholi
Tate Modern
Until 26 January 2025
Zanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date. The exhibition is based on the artist’s 2020-21 exhibition at Tate Modern and will include new works produced since then.
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02/02/2025
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call
London
Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call
Serpentine
Until 02 February 2025
A collaboration between artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and Serpentine Arts Technologies, The Call proposes new cultural, legal, and technical rituals for art in the age of AI.
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23/02/2025
Barbie®: The Exhibition
London
Barbie®: The Exhibition
Design Museum
Until 23 February 2025
A major exhibition exploring the design evolution of one of the world’s most famous dolls: Barbie®. Journey into the Barbie universe and discover over 250 remarkable objects, with rare, unique and innovative dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.
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23/02/2025
Colin Davidson: Silent Testimony
London
Colin Davidson: Silent Testimony
National Portrait Gallery
Until 23 February 2025
Featuring 18 large-scale portraits, Silent Testimony is a display by Belfast-born artist Colin Davidson. Connected by the theme of loss, the display reveals – through portraiture – the personal stories and experiences of those whose lives were impacted, and continue to be affected, by the Troubles, a 30-year period of conflict in Northern Ireland.
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08/03/2025
Drawing the Italian Renaissance
London
Drawing the Italian Renaissance
The King’s Gallery
Until 08 March 2025
This exhibition brings together the widest range of drawings from this revolutionary artistic period ever to be shown in the UK.
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16/03/2025
Mire Lee: Open Wound
London
Mire Lee: Open Wound
Tate Modern
Until 16 March 2025
Since Tate Modern opened in 2000, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art, reaching an audience of millions each year. The annual Hyundai Commission gives artists an opportunity to create new work for this unique context.
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30/03/2025
Picasso: Printmaker
London
Picasso: Printmaker
British Museum
Until 30 March 2025
This exhibition offers insights into Picasso’s life through his art, including his complex relationships with women and his partnerships with printers, publishers and other artists.
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06/04/2025
Naomi: In Fashion
London
Naomi: In Fashion
V&A
Until 06 April 2025
The first exhibition of its kind exploring the extraordinary career of fashion model Naomi Campbell. Through the work of leading global designers and photographers we celebrate her creative collaborations, activism and far-reaching cultural impact.
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21/04/2025
The World of Tim Burton
London
The World of Tim Burton
Design Museum
Until 21 April 2025
Delve into the fantastical world of Tim Burton in this major exhibition exploring his remarkable creations and key collaborations with designers.
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27/04/2025
Anthony McCall: Solid Light
London
Anthony McCall: Solid Light
Tate Modern
Until 27 April 2025
Your movements and interactions bring artworks to life inside Solid Light, a focused exhibition dedicated to the immersive works of Anthony McCall.