More than 300 rare prints from the avid photography fans' collection are on show at a new V&A retrospective divided into eight themes, from reportage and the male body to American photography and celebrity. Works from artists such as Cindy Sherman, Gillian Wearing and Diane Arbus are exhibited alongside fashion photography by the likes of Irving Penn, Horst P Horst and Herb Ritts. Highlights include intimate portraits of Marilyn Monroe, and Nan Goldin’s Thanksgiving series.

Photo: Elton John: Egg On His Face, New York, David LaChapelle, 1999

V&A South Kensington
Cromwell Road
SW7 2RL London

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Tropical Modernism was an architectural style developed in the hot, humid conditions of West Africa in the 1940s. After independence, India and Ghana adopted the style as a symbol of modernity and progressiveness, distinct from colonial culture.

Photo: Senior Staff Club House, Knust, Kumasi by Miro Marasović, Nikso Ciko and John Owuso Addo, film still from "Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence"

V&A South Kensington
Cromwell Road
SW7 2RL London

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A new site-specific commission by Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani responds to the unique context of The Cosmic House and traces the connections between the artist’s thinking and that of Charles Jencks, touching on anthropomorphism, Ad-Hocism, surrealism and the Promethean impulse.

The Cosmic House
19 Lansdowne Walk
W11 3AH London

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Alvaro Barrington's personal exploration of identity and belonging is a journey in three parts honouring his grandmother, sister and mother.

He draws from personal memories across time and place, from his grandmother's Caribbean home where a thunderstorm hammers on the corrugated tin roof, to the exhilarating energy of Carnival. Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries are transformed into a space alive with sound, colour and texture.

Curated by Dominique Heyse-Moore, Senior Curator Contemporary British Art, Hannah Marsh, Assistant Curator, Contemporary British Art, Sade Sarumi, Curatorial Assistant and Chloe Hodge, Project Curator and Manager, Commissions

Photo: (Image credit: Photo © Tate (Seraphina Neville))

Tate Modern
Bankside
SE1 9TG London

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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.

Muholi describes themself as a visual activist. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of South Africa’s Black lesbian, gay, trans, queer, and intersex communities.

The exhibition is based on the artist’s 2020-21 exhibition at Tate Modern and will include new works produced since then.

Tate Modern
Bankside
SE1 9TG London

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Explore the groundbreaking work of a circle of friends and close collaborators known as The Blue Rider. In the early 20th century they came together to form, in their own words, ‘a union of various countries to serve one purpose’ – to transform modern art. The artists rallied around Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter to experiment with colour, sound, and light, creating bold and vibrant art.

Expressionists is a story of friendships told through art. It examines the highly individual creatives that made up The Blue Rider, from Franz Marc’s interest in colour to Alexander Sacharoff’s freestyle performance. The women artists played a central role in the movement. Discover experimental photographs by Gabriele Münter alongside the dramatic paintings of Marianne Werefkin.

Experience a collection of masterpieces from paintings, sculpture, and photography to performance and sound. This landmark exhibition is possible due to a collaboration with Lenbachhaus, Munich, who have offered Tate unprecedented access to their collection. It features over 130 works, brought together in the UK for the first time in over 60 years.

Supported by the Huo Family Foundation. Presented in the Eyal Ofer Galleries.

Photo: Wassily Kandinsky Cossacks 1910-1 Tate Presented by Mrs Hazel McKinley 1938

Tate Modern
Bankside
SE1 9TG London

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A major exhibition exploring the design evolution of one of the world’s most famous dolls: Barbie. Journey into the Barbie universe discovering over 250 remarkable objects, with rare, unique, and innovative dolls dating from 1959 to the present day.

Opening to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the Barbie brand in 2024, the exhibition explores the story of Barbie through a design lens, including fashion, architecture, furniture, and vehicle design.

Highlights include a rare first edition of the very first doll released by Mattel in 1959 (‘Number 1 Barbie’), the groundbreaking Day to Night Barbie from 1985 and the best-selling Barbie of all time, 1992’s Totally Hair Barbie which sold over 10 million across the globe.

Other dolls highlight the diversity of the Barbie range, with examples of the first Black, Hispanic, and Asian dolls to bear the Barbie name, as well as dolls that reflect today’s diverse, multicultural society, including the first Barbie with Down syndrome, the first to use a wheelchair and the first to be designed with a curvy body shape.

There are also on display the friends of Barbie, including her first friend, Midge, and the much-loved Christie and Teresa; as well as the younger sister of Barbie, Skipper. There is a section dedicated to Ken, whit six decades’ worth of Ken dolls on show, showing his evolution from his introduction in 1961.

Other objects from this historic brand include Dreamhouses, vehicles, and furniture, including the first-ever Barbie Dreamhouse™ from 1962. Together these items show how Barbie’s homes, vehicles, and other products have all helped to design the universe in which she exists and have always reflected the tastes and trends of the day, engaging with modern design in an aspirational but accessible way.

Design Museum
224-238 Kensington High St
W8 6AG London

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Brazil: Creating Fashion for Tomorrow shines a spotlight on Brazilian creators and innovators who are guided by socio-environmental values. By highlighting the opulence of Brazil's materials, unique craftsmanship, and novel design processes, the exhibition underscores the evolution of Brazilian fashion towards responsible and sustainable practices in the industry.

Embassy of Brazil in London
14-16 Cockspur Street
SW1Y 5BL London

Contact: bcft@kandhcomms.com

The National Gallery showcases Van Gogh’s most spectacular paintings in the once-in-a-century exhibition. 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.

The exhibition brings together your most loved of Van Gogh’s paintings from across the globe, some of which are rarely seen in public. They will be paired together with his extraordinary drawings.
Over just two years in the south of France, Van Gogh revolutionised his style in a symphony of poetic colour and texture. He was inspired by poets, writers and artists. We look at this time in Arles and Saint-Rémy as a decisive period in his career. His desire to tell stories produced a landscape of poetic imagination and romantic love on an ambitious scale.

Works include ‘Starry Night over the Rhône’ (1888, Musée d’Orsay) and ‘The Yellow House’ (1888, Van Gogh Museum), as well as our own ‘Sunflowers’ (1888) and ‘Van Gogh's Chair’ (1889), among many others.

Trafalgar Square
WC2N 5DN London
P : +44 (0)207

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