Art Exhibitions
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350
Step into Siena. It’s the beginning of the 14th century in central Italy. A golden moment for art, a catalyst of change. Artists Duccio, Simone Martini and the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti are forging a new way of painting.
Richard Hunt
The first London retrospective of work by Richard Hunt (1935–2023), one of the foremost American sculptors of the 20th and 21st centuries, opens at White Cube Bermondsey in April 2025. Over a seven decade-long career, Hunt staged more than 150 solo shows and completed over 160 large-scale public sculpture commissions worldwide. In 1971, at the age of 35, he achieved a historic milestone as the first African American sculptor to receive a retrospective at New York’s MoMA. Working predominantly in metal, Hunt was profoundly inspired by biological science and the natural world. His hybrid sculptures are characterised by dualities, that of the natural and the industrial, the surreal and the abstract, the geometric and the organic. Throughout his career, the late artist paid tribute to some of America’s greatest heroes in his work, including Martin Luther King Jr., Mary McLeod Bethune, Jesse Owens and Hobart Taylor Jr. In 2022, he was commissioned by Barack Obama to create a work for the Obama Presidential Centre, located in the artist’s hometown of Chicago.
War rugs: Afghanistan's knotted history
Discover how weavers in Afghanistan have recorded the country's turbulent history in traditional rugs in this new display. On 24 December 1979 Soviet troops crossed the border into Afghanistan, beginning a protracted 10-year war. As the country was transformed by conflict, Afghan weavers started to include imagery of modern warfare in their carpets and rugs. Birds were replaced by military helicopters. Guns took the place of flowers. Demons fought alongside tanks. This fusion of traditional crafts with the recording of contemporary history created a new artform: Afghan war rugs.
Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo
Discover the collaborative work of pioneering master printer and publisher, Kip Gresham. This display brings together work from the last two decades featuring Royal Academicians Mali Morris, Stephen Chambers, Alison Wilding, and Hurvin Anderson, amongst others and includes several rare prints.
The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making
Two artist brothers from Bologna in northern Italy, Annibale and Agostino Carracci, visit Rome in 1594. They are about to take on a huge commission – to decorate rooms in the great Farnese Palace. A private family residence, its owner, Odoardo Farnese newly elected cardinal aged just 20, had inherited great wealth.
Anselm Kiefer
In June 2025, White Cube Mason’s Yard will open a solo exhibition by Anselm Kiefer, transforming the gallery with a new painting installation. The exhibition coincides with the artist’s 80th birthday and the major presentation ‘Kiefer / Van Gogh’, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, running from 28 June to 26 October 2025. This marks the first UK exhibition to consider the enduring influence of Van Gogh on Kiefer’s practice.
Future Observatory: Tomorrow's Wardrobe
Tomorrow's Wardrobe brings together a diversity of designers from across the fashion industry who are revolutionising the way we create, make, and wear clothes – including Stella McCartney, Ponda, Ahluwalia, Salomon, Ranra, Phoebe English and Vivobarefoot. The fashion and textile industry is one of the most environmentally damaging design fields at work today. The footprint of our wardrobes extends from textile production in farms and factories to the design process in fashion houses. Though a significant driver of the UK economy, the impact of fashion is felt across the world in the form of material waste, ecological degradation, water pollution, exploitative working conditions and overproduction: annual garment production has doubled since 2000 and is expected to have increased by 60% in 2030. Tomorrow's Wardrobe showcases the urgent research and innovation taking place across the UK to rethink how the world of fashion works. Moving from fabric landscapes to design studios to individual garments, the display presents a future built from both high-tech and low-tech tools: sewing machines, robotic arms, artificial intelligence, digital ids, upcycling, recycling and more.
Admonitions of the instructress to the court ladies
This masterpiece is considered a milestone in Chinese painting history. Traditionally attributed to Gu Kaizhi (about AD 345–406), it probably dates to between AD 400 and 700. Due to conservation precautions, it can only be displayed for six weeks a year. The Admonitions Scroll depicts a poetic text composed by an official Zhang Hua (about AD 232–300) aimed at correcting the behaviour of an empress. The Scroll carries inscriptions by later collectors including the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736–1795). The British Museum purchased the Scroll from Captain Clarence Johnson (1870–1937) who was in Beijing in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901). Originally a handscroll, the painting and later inscriptions were separated and mounted onto panels in 1914.
The Ralph Saltzman Prize 2025
Returning to the Design Museum for its fourth year, The Ralph Saltzman Prize celebrates emerging product designers, in recognition of Saltzman’s design legacy. Each year, a panel of design luminaries select the brightest emerging designers currently making waves in the field of product design. The winner receives an honorarium and has their work displayed in the Design Museum.
Yoshitomo Nara
Dive into the captivating, creative world of Yoshitomo Nara in the largest European retrospective of one of Japan’s most celebrated artists. Featuring more than 150 works in drawing, printmaking, painting, sculpture, installation and ceramics, this comprehensive exhibition offers audiences the opportunity to immerse themselves in Nara’s personal and creative worlds. Nara’s work explores themes of resistance, rebellion, isolation, freedom and spirituality.
Leigh Bowery!
Leigh Bowery’s short but extraordinary life left a distinct, undeniable mark on the art world and beyond. An artist, performer, model, TV personality, club promoter, fashion designer and musician, Bowery took on many different roles, all the while refusing to be limited by convention.
Claudio Parmiggiani
The Estorick Collection presents the first ever institutional UK exhibition dedicated to pioneering contemporary Italian master Claudio Parmiggiani. Featuring selected works from the past 50 years, the exhibition highlights the artist's distinctive exploration of memory, absence and silence in his "search for an image, object or assemblage that transcends time and individual experience to evoke a universal, existential truth". After the Second World War, during a period of crisis for traditional figurative art, Parmiggiani developed a visual language that was both deeply personal and profoundly innovative. His approach established him as a pioneering figure, redefining artistic expression through a unique and introspective lens. At the heart of the exhibition are the Delocazioni (Italian for 'displacements') that employ smoke and soot to create ghostly impressions of objects such as bottles, books and the human form. Originally conceived in the 1970s, this has become one of Parmiggiani's most emblematic techniques. The exhibition presents both monumental and more intimate pieces from this iconic body of work, poetic meditations on absence and memory. Also on view are works on paper and mixed-media sculptures that the artist describes as "sculpted paintings". The exhibition is organised in collaboration with the artist's Archive and Tornabuoni Art, and is supported by the Consulate General of Italy in London.
London Open Live
Originally established in 1932 as an open call exhibition to showcase local artists and the creative energy of the East End, The London Open has evolved over the years to encompass the whole city as a hub of global artistic activity and offer a potent snapshot of prescient themes and issues. It has provided an important launch pad for a great range of artists including Larry Achiampong, Frank Bowling, Alice Channer, Anish Kapoor, Heather Phillipson, Paula Rego, Veronica Ryan, and Bob and Roberta Smith. For 2025, the Open’s focus will be on performance and live art. The live art scene was badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, not least due to the cancellation of live events and programmes during the various lockdowns. This inevitably resulted in decreased visibility as well as lack of investment and support. London Open Live aims to create new opportunities for artists working across live art practices, while showcasing the importance of collective activity, of coming together and fostering intimacy through a dynamic programme of new and recent live art.
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting is the first major museum exhibition in the UK dedicated to the work of one of the world’s foremost contemporary artists. Saville rose to prominence in the early 1990s, following her acclaimed degree show at the Glasgow School of Art. In the years since she has played a leading role in the reinvigoration of figurative painting – a genre that she continues to test the limits of to this day. Her unique ability to create visceral portraits from thick layers of paint reveals an artist with a deep passion for the process itself, an act that she experiences as both energetic and bodily. Bringing together 50 works made throughout the artist’s career, Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting will trace the development of her practice from the 1990s to today, spotlighting key artworks from her career and while exploring her lasting connection to art history. From charcoal drawings to large-scale oil paintings of the human form, this broadly chronological display will include works that question the conventional and historical notions of female beauty, as well as the monumental nudes that launched Saville to acclaim in 1992 and new ‘portraits’ made for the twenty-first century. Rendered in fluorescent, saturated tones, this pioneering series interrogates the connections between the physical and virtual in our image saturated age. Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting has been created in close collaboration with the artist, with works borrowed from important public and private collections from around the world.
Hamad Butt: Apprehensions
_Hamad Butt: Apprehensions_ is the first major survey of **Hamad Butt** (b. 1962, Lahore, Pakistan; d. 1994, London, UK). One of the most innovative artists of his generation, Hamad Butt was a pioneer of intermedia art, bringing art into conversation with science, whilst also referencing his Queer and diasporic experiences. He offered a nuanced artistic response to the AIDS crisis in the UK, taking a conceptual rather than activist approach. Butt’s conceptually and technically ambitious works seamlessly interweave popular culture, science, alchemy, science fiction, and social and cultural concerns, as forms that are simultaneously poetic and provocative. They imagine sex and desire in a time of ‘plague’ as seductive yet frightening, intimate yet isolating, compelling yet dangerous – literally, in some cases, threatening to kill or injure. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, and raised in East London, Butt was British South Asian, Muslim by upbringing, and Queer. A contemporary of the Young British Artists, and their peer at Goldsmiths’ College, London, Butt was described by art critics as epitomising the new ‘hazardism’ in art of the 1990s, as his works often imply physical risk or endangerment. Before his untimely death in 1994, aged 32 of AIDS-related complications, Butt had completed and shown four major sculptural works; _Transmission_ (1990) and the three-part installation, _Familiars_ (1992), as well as leaving behind writings, drawings and plans for new installations. Butt’s work offered a potent and critical response to HIV/AIDS, while opening up new dialogues between art and science to explore themes of precarity, toxicity, the spread of viruses, homophobia and racism – issues that continue to resonate with frightening poignancy today.
Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice
‘Zines Forever! DIY Publications and Disability Justice’ looks at how zines have been used to share experiences of disability and disabled identity. A form of radical self-publishing, zines come in all shapes, sizes and media, from single-page handwritten mini-zines to tactile zines exploring accessibility through braille and audio.
Dennis Morris: Music + Life
Discover music, culture and Black British identity through the lens of Dennis Morris. This major retrospective celebrates the work of British-Jamaican photographer Dennis Morris. Renowned for his intimate portraits of cultural icons such as Bob Marley, the Sex Pistols and Marianne Faithfull, Morris’s images are a vivid exploration of music, identity and social change. Music + Life captures the spirit of some of the most pivotal moments in 20th-century culture, from the soulful vibrancy of reggae to the rebellious energy of punk. Morris provides a rare glimpse into the lives of legendary musicians, revealing the trust and connection he forged with his subjects. His candid photographs of Bob Marley, both on stage and off, along with the raw, chaotic world of the Sex Pistols, illustrate his unique ability to capture the personalities behind the music. His long and fruitful collaboration with Bob Marley began when he was just 14. He bunked off school and asked Marley if he could photograph him. Of their lifelong partnership, he said ‘It was much more than just taking the photos. It was a teaching, a learning, a growing.’ Music + Life also highlights Morris’s early documentary work, which reflects life in the multicultural neighbourhoods of post-war London. His powerful series of photographs, such as Growing Up Black and Southall, document everyday Black British culture and celebrate the pride and resilience of communities often overlooked, capturing their challenges and triumphs with authenticity and respect.
Popcorn!
_Popcorn!_ is a new participatory exhibition by artist **Jenny Pengilly** inviting audiences of all ages to explore the sonic world through our voices, bodies, and props. This exhibition is inspired by Foley artists, sound designers who produce the sounds we hear in films, television programmes and video games that can’t be recorded live on set. They often use surprising objects and inventive methods such as bubble wrap in place of popcorn, shaking leather gloves to mimic flapping wings, and snapping celery to replicate the sound of breaking bones. Featuring a playful DIY punk aesthetic characteristic of Pengilly’s practice, the multi-sensory exhibition invites audiences of all ages into an imaginative world that explores the magic of sound and sound effects. Visitors can interact with a range of unusual props, image boards and soundtracks to create their own acoustic adventures. Alongside sound, visual prompts and moving image, the exhibition features a recording den ‘Static Studios’ where audiences can record Foley sounds to accompany an improvised film. Pengilly’s practice is informed by her ongoing research into experimental music and children’s learning. The exhibition has been developed through a series of workshops at Whitechapel Gallery and Phoenix School in Tower Hamlets, which supports children and young people with autism. Music and drawings from Pengilly’s ongoing collaboration with her niece Robin also feature in the exhibition.
Virtual Beauty
A thought-provoking exhibition exploring the impact of digital culture and technologies on the traditional definitions of beauty today. Featuring over 20 international artists, Virtual Beauty will delve into the influence of artificial intelligence, social media, and virtual identities on self-image. The exhibition will feature interactive installations and pioneering works that challenge traditional beauty standards. Highlights include ORLAN’s Omniprésence (1993), a groundbreaking performance in which the artist live-streamed her own facial aesthetic surgery to critique Western beauty ideals, and Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections, a powerful commentary on the authenticity of social media personas. Artificial intelligence’s perception of beauty will be examined through AI-generated portraits by Minnie Atairu, Ben Cullen Williams, and Isamaya Ffrench, while Harriet Davey, Frederik Heyman, and Andrew Thomas Huang explore digital self-expression and the creation of avatars beyond human boundaries. From social media filters to machine-generated faces, Virtual Beauty will question how technology influences self-representation and who holds the power to define beauty. In an age where digital self-curation is second nature, the exhibition will invite audiences to reflect on identity, empowerment, and the shifting boundaries of beauty in the post-internet era. Contributing artists announced so far include Anan Fries, Andrew Thomas Huang, Angelfire, Amalia Ulman, Aleksander Nærbø, Ben Cullen Williams and Isamaya Ffrench, Bunny Kinney, Frederik Heyman, Harriet Davey, Hyungkoo Lee, Ines Alpha, Minne Atairu, ORLAN and Qualeasha Wood. The exhibition, a project initiated by HEK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel), is co-curated by Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Mathilde Friis, Bunny Kinney and supported by Claire Catterall, Senior Curator at Somerset House.
More than Human
Why has design traditionally only focused on the needs of humans, when we exist alongside billions of animals, plants and other living beings? This groundbreaking exhibition offers a new perspective, one that will be crucial to enabling the planet to thrive. This will be the first major exhibition on a growing movement of ' more-than-human ' design, presenting a new generation of international designers whose practices embrace the idea that human activities can only flourish alongside other species and systems. It is created in collaboration with Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition. Featuring art, design, architecture and technology, this thought-provoking show will present visitors with radical ideas on how to design with — and better understand — the living world.
Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2025
The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award returns for 2025. The prestigious painting competition celebrates the very best in contemporary portraiture and will include captivating works from around the world, by both self-taught and more established painters.
Edward Burra – Ithell Colquhoun
Two exhibitions, two influential British artists, one ticket. Edward Burra's retrospective showcases his vibrant, satirical scenes of urban underworld and queer culture, while Ithell Colquhoun's exhibition explores her radical contributions to British Surrealism, featuring over 140 artworks and archival materials.
Ancient India: living traditions
This exhibition explores the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art in the ancient and powerful nature spirits of India, and the spread of this art beyond the subcontinent. It showcases more than 180 objects from the South Asian collection at the British Museum as well as generous loans from national and international partners.
Mumbai + London: new perspectives on the ancient world
Three sculptures from cultures rarely seen side by side have been brought together from ancient Egypt, the Mediterranean and India as part of a groundbreaking project. Co-curated with one of India's leading museums, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), this display highlights the Mumbai museum's ambitious Ancient World Project, realised in collaboration with the British Museum as part of a long-standing partnership between the two institutions. It reflects the varied ways ancient civilisations imagined the divine and gave it physical form, using the same approach as a recent exhibition at CSMVS. The next phase of the project, opening in Mumbai in December 2025 will look more widely at ancient India's relationship with the world around it.
The Robot Zoo
How do chameleons change colour? What makes grasshoppers leap so high? How do bats see at night? Enter the fascinating world of The Robot Zoo and discover the mechanisms that give animals their amazing abilities. This family-friendly exhibition features larger-than-life animals that have been innovatively recreated using a variety of familiar machine parts and gadgets to reveal how their real life counterparts see, eat, hunt and hide. Interactive exhibits also give you the chance to try jet-propelled squid racing, and shoot a chameleon’s ‘tongue-gun’. There are also two specially commissioned interactive murals by artist Giulia Casarotto, inspired by the exhibition. Spot the chameleons hiding on a mural co-produced with a local Polish singing group for children, or play a sorting game to match animals with their correct habitat.
1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader
'1880 THAT' is a new exhibition, which explores sign language and the right to communicate. It brings together new and recent work by the artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader. The exhibition explores the idea of language as a home - an essential place of belonging - and what it means to live with the threat of losing one's language. The exhibition title refers to the Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf, held in Milan in 1880, and its influence on Deaf education around the world. The term THAT is an emphatic expression in American Sign Language (ASL), which adds weight and significance to a preceding statement. Kim and Mader’s playful artworks use humour to draw attention to the ripple effects of the conference on Deaf education and identity. Through film and sculpture, '1880 THAT' addresses the fundamental right to communicate and explores new possibilities for understanding between signed and spoken languages.
Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES
Discover the duo’s pictures from the past 25 years, with vibrant, large-scale images that centre the human experience and reflect their motto, ‘Art for All’. This exhibition showcases Gilbert & George’s artistic journey, highlighting new pictures created since the start of the millennium. With bold, single-word titles, each piece delves into societal norms and taboos, spanning the mundane and the illicit. Their art challenges boundaries of taste and propriety. _21ST CENTURY PICTURES_ features key series like _NEW HORNY PICTURES_ (2001), _THE LONDON PICTURES_ (2011), _THE BEARD PICTURES_ (2016), and _THE CORPSING PICTURES_ (2022), exploring themes of hope, fear, sex, religion, corruption and death.
Enthoven Unboxed: 100 Years of Collecting Performance
Marking 100 years since Gabrielle Enthoven founded the theatre and performance collection at the V&A, this display explores an A–Z of themes to show how performance continues to entertain, provoke and inspire.
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World
Renowned as a fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist and writer, Cecil Beaton – ‘The King of Vogue’ – was an extraordinary force in the 20th-century British and American creative scenes. Elevating fashion and portrait photography into an art form, his era-defining photographs captured beauty, glamour, and star power in the interwar and early post-war eras. No previous exhibition has exclusively spotlighted his ground-breaking fashion work, a pivotal aspect of his career that laid the foundation for his later successes. With this in mind, Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World will showcase Beaton at his most triumphant – from the Jazz Age and the Bright Young Things, to the high fashion brilliance of the fifties and the glittering, Oscar-winning success of My Fair Lady. In between, he endured the hardship of war as a photographer of the home front and of the Western Desert campaign and further beyond. From 1939 as a royal photographer, by appointment to the House of Windsor, he propelled the monarchy into the modern age.
PLATFORM: Bethan Laura Wood
PLATFORM is a new initiative to expand our exhibitions programme with free, annual displays showcasing the work of a designer or studio who are making an impact on contemporary design discourse. The inaugural PLATFORM display presents the work of Bethan Laura Wood. Wood is a multi-disciplinary designer whose work is characterised by material investigation, artisan collaboration and a passion for colour, detail and decoration. She is fascinated by the connections we make with the everyday objects that surround us and, as a collector herself, likes to explore what drives people to hold onto one particular object while discarding another. Visit to see the full spectrum of Wood’s work, from furniture, ceramics, textiles and lighting.
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize showcases the work of talented young photographers, gifted amateurs and established professionals in the very best of contemporary photography. The competition celebrates a diverse range of images and tells the fascinating stories behind the creation of works, from formal commissioned portraits to more spontaneous and intimate moments capturing friends and family. The selected images, many of which are on display for the first time, explore both traditional and contemporary approaches to the photographic portrait whilst capturing a range of characters, moods and locations. The annual In Focus display will also highlight new work by an established photographer. The 2025 edition will see the unveiling of a new commission for the Gallery’s Collection, to be announced in November 2024. A new publication, including all works exhibited as part of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, will be available from November 2025.
Radical Harmony
When critics first saw Georges Seurat’s new style of painting, they thought it might bring about the death of painting itself. But what was it about artists like Paul Signac, Anna Boch, Jan Toorop and Henri-Edmond Cross, that ruffled so many feathers?
Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?
Find out in our latest exhibition! Snap a selfie with a piece of Mars, touch a fragment of the Moon and lay your hands on a meteorite older than our planet. Travel from Earth’s extreme environments out into space, stopping off at asteroids, Mars, the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn and planets beyond our solar system in the search for life. Suitable for all ages but recommended for life forms aged 8+.
Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s
Behind a door in a Covent Garden side street, the Blitz club was the place where 1980s style began. Inspired by everything from David Bowie, the punk and soul scenes, to continental cinema and cabaret culture, the brightest young talents of their generation came together to revolutionise fashion, music and design, turning a niche club night into a launchpad for global superstardom. Forty years after its closure, visitors will be able to revisit the trailblazing club's history and atmosphere with a sensory extravaganza of music, flamboyant fashions, and pioneering art, film and graphic design. Developed in collaboration with some of the leading ‘Blitz Kids’ who were there, it will feature garments, drawings, photographs and videos from the Blitz club and beyond, featuring items that have never been on public display.
Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus
Sharing lesser-known stories from IWM’s collections, Emergency Exits is IWM’s first exhibition to explore the wave of independence movements that followed the end of the Second World War, as many of Britain’s former imperial territories gained independence.
Encounters: Giacometti
Three groundbreaking exhibitions position historic sculptures by Alberto Giacometti with new works by contemporary artists, in an intimate new space. One of the most significant European sculptors of the 20th century, Giacometti is known for his distinctive, elongated sculptures which experiment with the human form. Responding to the pain and devastation caused by the Second World War, his works proposed a new perspective on humanity and the collective psyche. Organised in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, this year-long series launches in May with an exhibition of works by Huma Bhabha, followed by Mona Hatoum in September and Lynda Benglis in February 2026. Their artworks resonate with and respond to Giacometti’s sculptures, opening up new intergenerational dialogues through the timeless themes of death, fragmentation, the domestic, memory, trauma, the erotic, horror and humour. This is the first time that their sculptures will be seen alongside Giacometti’s works.
Wes Anderson: The Exhibition
Each Wes Anderson picture plunges the viewer into a world with its own codes, motifs, references, and sumptuous and instantly recognisable sets and costumes. This exhibition will be the first time museum visitors have the opportunity to delve into the art of his complete filmography, examining his inspirations, homages, and the meticulous craftsmanship that define his work. Through a curated collection of original props, costumes, and behind-the-scenes insights, including from his personal collection, this exhibition offers an unprecedented look into the world of Wes Anderson, celebrating his enduring influence on contemporary cinema. From the melancholic charm of The Royal Tenenbaums to the youthful adventure of Moonrise Kingdom, discover how Anderson's unique vision and dedication to detail have created some of the most visually and emotionally compelling films of recent times.
Wright of Derby: From the Shadows
'Wright of Derby: From the Shadows' is the first major exhibition dedicated to the British artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings. We celebrate and look again at his most admired works. Illuminated faces gather around a variety of objects – from classical sculptures and scientific instruments to bones, bladders and animals. Through his unflinching scenes of people watching, Wright of Derby proposes moral questions about acts of looking. The strong light and deep shadows create drama, reminding us of great painters from earlier centuries like Caravaggio. This exhibition looks beyond his position as the ‘painter of light’ and explores deeper themes, including death, melancholy, morality, scepticism and the sublime. With over twenty works, including other paintings, mezzotints, works on paper and objects, the exhibition explores both Wright of Derby’s artistic practice and the historic context of scientific and artistic development in which they were made.
The Music Is Black: A British Story
125 years of Black music-making in Britain. This landmark exhibition will reveal how Black British music has shaped British culture. Spanning four continents and 12 decades, this is a story of excellence and struggle, resilience and joy.