We Recommend: Visual Arts
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams
Sat 2 Feb - Sun 1 Sept
V&A
Spanning 1947 to the present day, this exhibition traces the history and impact of one of the 20th century’s most influential couturiers, exploring the enduring influence of the fashion house, and Dior’s relationship with Britain.
Visual Arts
The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain
Wed 27 Mar - Sun 11 Aug
Tate Britain
This major exhibition brings together 45 works by Vincent van Gogh to reveal how he was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British artists.
Visual Arts
Pissaro in Dulwich
Tue 30 Apr - Sun 4 Aug
Dulwich Picture Gallery
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Dulwich College, Dulwich Picture Gallery hosts a special display focusing on Camille Pissarro’s view of the school. A loan from the Fondation Bemberg in Toulouse, the work returns to Dulwich for the first time since it was painted in 1871.
Visual Arts
Structures That Cooperate
Fri 3 May - Sun 2 Jun
Cubitt
Continuing Clémence Seilles's long-term 2018 artwork that re-imagines and implements a new spatial configuration for the gallery, the artist creates a new set of maquettes to welcome artist Ain Bailey into a reinvented space.
Visual Arts
FOOD: Bigger than the Plate
Sat 18 May - Sun 20 Oct
V&A
From gastronomic experiments to urban farming, this exhibition brings together the politics and pleasure of food to ask how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future.
Visual Arts
Huguette Caland
Fri 24 May - Sun 1 Sept
Tate St Ives
Shifting between figuration and abstraction, large, colourful canvasses and detailed drawings from the 1970s and 1980s, this exhibition will explore the delicate balance between the suggestive and the explicit that Caland created in her work.
Visual Arts
Militant Desire: Lionel Soukaz and Sexual Liberation Today
Wed 29 May - Wed 12 Jun
Gasworks
Militant Desire is a programme of film forums and consciousness-raising sessions around the experimental films of French gay liberation pioneer, Lionel Soukaz.
Visual Arts
NOW 5
Sat 1 Jun - Sun 22 Sept
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
The 5th instalment of this series creates temporary works that change over time as they are subjected to natural processes of transformation and decay, thus exploring themes of change and growth.
Visual Arts
Tom Haugomat and Melek Zertal at ELCAF
Sat 8 - Sun 9 Jun
Round Chapel
Paris-based artists Tom Haugomat and Melek Zertal will be part of the 8th East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) happening from 7 to 9 June. Tom Haugomat will run a Stencil Workshop and Melek Zertal talk about comics and Identity.
Visual Arts
The Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019
Fri 28 - Sun 30 Jun
Exhibition Road
The Great Exhibition Road Festival is a new three-day celebration of the arts and science in the spirit of the Great Exhibition of 1851. A unique programme of creative workshops, talks, exhibitions and performances will connect the area’s iconic institutions, including the French Institute, to create a unique weekend of discovery.
Performing Arts, Talks, Visual Arts
Félix Vallotton
Sun 30 Jun - Sun 29 Sept
Royal Academy of Arts
Magnetic, provocative, daring: meet Félix Vallotton (1865–1925). The Royal Academy reveals the vision of a masterful painter and printmaker who captured the emotional undercurrents of Paris at the turn of the last century.
Visual Arts
The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Gauguin Portraits
Mon 7 Oct - Sun 26 Jan
The National Gallery
The first ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of Paul Gauguin. Spanning the later years of his life and focusing solely on his portraits, this exhibition follows Gauguin’s move away from Impressionism towards Symbolism.
Visual Arts
Dora Maar
Wed 20 Nov - Sun 15 Mar
Tate Modern
The largest retrospective of Dora Maar ever held in the UK. During the 1930s, Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism. This exhibition will explore the breadth of Maar's long career in the context of work by her contemporaries.
Visual Arts