London

10 October 2024 - 19 January 2025

National Portrait Gallery

Three Studies for a Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne, 1965 by Francis Bacon © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2024. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia.

14 September 2024 – 19 January 2025

The National Gallery London

Be blown away by Van Gogh’s most spectacular paintings in our 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.

We’re bringing 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.

See up-close his ‘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.

Join us in celebrating our 200th birthday with Van Gogh’s ‘Poets and Lovers’.

More www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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V&A South Kensington
22 June 2024 – 6 April 2025

The V&A will open the major exhibition NAOMI: In Fashion, which explores the
unequalled 40-year career of fashion model and cultural icon Naomi Campbell (b. 1970).
A trailblazer in the field, her celebrated ability to ‘walk’ the catwalk, along with the special
alchemy she creates through collaborations with every major fashion house, fashion publication
and leading fashion photographers, ensure that after four decades in the fashion
industry, Campbell continues to star in catwalk shows, advertising campaigns
and editorial fashion shoots around the world. In parallel, Campbell’s cultural leadership,
activism and championing of emerging creatives transcend the traditional parameters of the
fashion model role.
Produced in collaboration with Campbell and foregrounding her voice and perspective, NAOMI:
In Fashion is the first exhibition of its kind. The exhibition draws upon Campbell’s own extensive
wardrobe of haute couture and ready-to-wear ensembles from key moments in her career along
with loans from designer archives and objects from the V&A’s collections. Highlights include a
dramatic 1989 Thierry Mugler car-inspired corset, Campbell’s look from Sarah Burton’s last Alexander McQueen show, a pink Valentino ensemble worn at the 2019 Met Gala and a pair of
staggeringly high Vivienne Westwood platform shoes worn by Campbell during her famous 1993
catwalk fall. The exhibition includes around 100 looks and accessories from the best of global
high fashion chronicling her 40 years in the industry. Visitors can encounter designs by
Alexander McQueen, Anna Sui, Azzedine Alaïa, Burberry, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Gianni and
Donatella Versace, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Kenneth Ize, Torishéju
Dumi, Valentino, Virgil Abloh, Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent and many others.

Naomi Campbell said: “I’m honoured to be asked by the V&A to share my life in clothes with the
world.”

More www.vam.ac.uk

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Serpentine South
4 October 2024 – 2 March 2025

Serpentine presents the first ever UK exhibition of the LA-based artist who will transform the gallery into an immersive funk garden with a site-specific installation responding to Kensington Gardens

Serpentine is delighted to present emajendat, the first UK exhibition of Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles, USA). On view at Serpentine South from 4 October 2024 to 2 March 2025, the exhibition will transform the gallery into an immersive environment that responds to Serpentine’s location in Kensington Gardens.

For the past decade, Lauren Halsey has developed a distinctive visual vocabulary deeply rooted in the South Central neighbourhood of Los Angeles where she and her family have lived for generations. Through maximalist installations and stand-alone objects, Halsey archives and remixes the signs and symbols that populate her environment. She has described herself as obsessed with material culture. Her regular wanderings through her neighbourhood, in which she documents the changing streetscape, are accompanied by a gathering of objects, posters, flyers, commercial signs, slogans and tags that celebrate local businesses and the communities’ activism which she adds to her studio archive. These eventually find their way into her floor- and wall-based assemblages, and miniature dioramas embedded in her ‘funkmound’ sculptures.

Halsey’s vibrant and energetic work merges past, present and future via her interests in the iconography of cultures in the African diaspora, ancient Egypt, Black and queer icons, visionary architecture and the visual and sonic maximalism associated with funk. At once radical and collaborative, Halsey’s practice extends to Summaeverythang, the community centre she founded in 2019 that is ‘dedicated to the empowerment and transcendence of Black and Brown folks socio-politically, economically, intellectually and artistically.’

emajendat, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK, builds on several recent major projects including the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (l), for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Roof Garden Commission, New York (2023) and keepers of the krown at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) where the artist reconfigured the form of the Hathoric column by carving the capitals with the likenesses and stories of people from her local community. Both of these projects offer increasingly ambitious architectural schemes that engage with their surroundings while functioning as testing grounds for Halsey’s ultimate ambition to create a public sculpture park sited in South Central Los Angeles.

More www.serpentinegalleries.org

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