Art & Design: upcoming exhibitions, events and news

 

EXHIBITION: Design and Disability
VENUE: V&A South Kensington
DATES: From 7th June 2025 to 15 February 2026

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: Theatre Picasso
VENUE: Tate Modern
DATES: Until 12 April 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: Renoir the Draftsman
VENUE:  Musée d'Orsay
DATES: From 17 March 2026 - 5th July 2026

This exhibition, the first dedicated to Renoir's drawn works, will highlight the importance of graphic techniques in the evolution of his art. It also reveals the intimate links between his paintings and drawings, particularly from the 1880s onwards, when Renoir moved away from Impressionism.

The exhibition, which will feature around a hundred works from around the world, including never-before-seen leaves and several paintings, is designed as a dive into the artist's intimacy and creative process, as close as possible to his research into light, form and color.

 

 

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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: From 7 October 2025 - 11 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: View Finding: Selections from The Walther Collection
VENUE: MET Museum
DATES: From 28 October 2025 - 3 May 2026

The world looks different through a camera's viewfinder - like a picture frame or a windowpane, it redirects the eye. In modern and contemporary photographs from an esteemed private collection, artists use the camera to navigate shifting terrain. Registering and reshaping environment in flux, they look anew at how we traverse them. 

 

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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