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to 21 March 2026
Nan Goldin. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
This exhibition includes all 126 photographs from Nan Goldin’s genre-defining photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
First conceived as a slideshow accompanied by a soundtrack that emphasises its operatic nature, The Ballad debuted in New York nightclubs and public art exhibitions before its 1986 publication by Aperture. The first of Goldin’s books, it is now in its 23rd printing.
Gagosian, 17–19 Davies Street, London
Above. Cookie at Tin Pan Alley, New York City (1983) from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.
3 March to 28 August 2026
Na Kim, Oblique Time / 김영나, 느슨한 시간
Weekdays, 10am to 5pm
KAIST Art Museum, Exhibition Terrace 6 & 7
E9, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea
to 22 March 2026
A complex fashion icon, Marie Antoinette's timeless appeal is defined by her style, youth and notoriety. Explore the lasting influence of the most fashionable (and ill-fated) queen in history – with over 250 years of design, fashion, film and art.
Admission: Weekday £23.00 / Weekend £25.00, Concessions apply
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
to 22 March 2026
Tom Lloyd (1929-96) was an early pioneer in using electric light as an artistic medium. Collaborating with an RCA engineer, he developed a highly experimental and technologically advanced art practice in the 1960s that challenged popular understandings of the work and role of Black artists. For the first time, Lloyd's assemblages, electronically programmed light sculptures, and works on paper will be shown together and alongside materials that illuminate his efforts to transform the New York art world.
Wed-Sun, 11am-6pm (until 9pm Fri-Sat)
Admission, from ‘pay-what-you-can’ to $16
Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W 125th Street
New York, NY 10027, United States
to 28 March 2026
The Bechers’ joint artistic practice documented industrial architecture across Europe and North America. This solo exhibition featuring several groupings of the artists’ most recognisable archetypal forms: gas tanks, water towers, winding towers and framework houses. This will be the first exhibitionin London since Hilla Becher’s passing in 2015.
Tue–Sat, 10am–6pm and by appointment.
Sprüth Magers, 7A Grafton St., London W1S 4EJ
Above: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gas Tank, Hornsey, London, UK, 2009. Silver gelatin print, 60 × 50 cm.
to 29 March 2026
Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s
A major exhibition on the legendary Blitz club night that transformed 1980s London style, and generated a creative scene that had an enormous impact on popular culture in the decade that followed — from fashion and music, to film, art and design. 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. Developed in close collaboration with some of the leading ‘Blitz Kids’ including ‘sonic architect’ Rusty Egan, the exhibition will feature more than 250 items, ranging from clothing and accessories, design sketches, musical instruments (including the SDSV electronic drums designed by Richard James Burgess, flyers, magazines (including The Face and Blitz), furniture, artworks, photography, vinyl records and rare film footage.
The museum is open daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
Admission: £7-£14
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
See also ‘Dress to express!’ on the Eye blog.
Top. Marilyn at Club for Heroes, 1982. Photo Robert Rosen.
to 29 March 2026
Laura Lima: The Drawing Drawing
Marking a significant introduction of her work to UK audiences, the exhibition will unfold across the Upper and Lower Galleries in a series of installations involving sculpture, movement, live performers and public participation. At the heart of The Drawing Drawing will be a new interactive sculptural installation of the same name which reimagines the traditional framework of the life drawing class.
Hours: Tue to Sun: 12 – 8pm
Admission: £8.75, Pay what you can: 12 – 1pm, Tickets are available for 1 hour slots
ICA, 12 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Image above: Laura Lima, Ascenseur, 2013 / 2016, Art Basel 2016. Image courtesy the artist.
to 6 April 2026
Young Graphic Design Switzerland!
Switzerland has a rich tradition in graphic design. What new impulses does the young scene bring? The exhibition highlights the latest work by graphic designers up to their mid-30s and shows how the new generation contributes to the graphic design landscape.
Day admission: Regular CHF 15, Reduced CHF 10
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10am–5pm, Thursday 10am–8pm, Closed on Monday
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Pfingstweidstrasse 968005 Zurich
to 11 April 2026
Stefan Sagmeister: I Look Like This
This exhibition features not just any posters, but those that could be considered self-portraits. Images taken of graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister by other people, others designed by him or shaped by a studio and sent out into the world. Sagmeister says, ‘If that qualifies as a self-portrait, then this show is full of them.’
See ‘The perils of interdisciplinarity’ from Eye 107 and ‘Giant monkeys in Sagmeister’s soul’ from Eye 83.
Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
to 11 April 2026
An exhibition of rare prints from ‘In the American West’, more than 40 years since the series’ debut, curated by Avedon’s granddaughter Caroline Avedon.
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, 20 Grosvenor Hill, London W1K 3QD
Above. Annette Gonzales, housewife, and her sister Lydia Ranck, secretary, Santuario de Chimayo, New Mexico, Easter Sunday, 6 April, 1980. Photograph by Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation.
to 12 April 2026
Utopia in Our Time: The Posters of Molly Crabapple
Enchanting, haunting, and poignant, beloved illustrator Molly Crabapple’s posters showcase the resilience of community, the power in solidarity, and the spirit of celebration. Deeply intersectional, her messaging touches on global issues, from activism against anti-Muslim sentiment to the uplifting of Puerto Rican culture, burlesque entertainment to new technological innovations.
This exhibition attempts to capture the artist’s boundless spirit and beautiful work by framing it in a world all her own. Much like her life experience, Molly’s posters are far-reaching, but, most importantly, they are centered around humanity.
Poster House, Entry Foyer, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011
to 19 April 2026
The Weight of Being
Vulnerability, Resilience, and Mental Health in Art
Curated by Angela Thomas, this new exhibition will explore artistic expression and mental health. Through depictions of deeply personal and collective experiences, it examines the powerful ways in which artists capture vulnerability, resilience, and their search for solace.
Including the work of a diverse range of twentieth century and contemporary artists and their varying perspectives, The Weight of Being will showcase how artists have captured the psychological and emotional impact of societal pressures, resilience in the face of adversity, and existential uncertainty.
Admission is free.
Hours:
Monday: CLOSED
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 11am-6pm
Wednesday: 11am – 9pm
Sunday: 11am – 4.30pm
Last entry is 20 mins before closing
*Please note we will be closed on Saturday 21 February
Two Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD
Image Above: John Wilson McCracken (1936-1982), Moving Torso, 1974, Oil on board. (c) Estate of the artist Image courtesy of Hartlepool Borough Council
to 26 April 2026
Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov
By the time she left art school in New York in 1967, Christine Kozlov (1945–2005) was already contributing significantly to a radical new direction in art practice that became known as Conceptual Art. This exhibition reveals the scope of Kozlov’s activity, with a focus on her objects and ideas that contributed to Conceptual Art from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, shown with work by a network of her peers.
Conceptual Art emerged as a theoretical and left political position that rejected the Minimalism, high modernism and Pop Art that dominated the discourse of the mid-to-late 1960s. Materialised in ways that were resistant to the production of art objects, works of Conceptual Art were often produced using readily available materials such as office supplies and photocopies, and devices to hand such as typewriters and sound recorders. Works were sometimes readymades, or took the form of documentation or information. Many conceptual artists tilted toward the politics of daily life and antiauthoritarian protest. From 1968 through to the mid-1970s, the positions and camps of global Conceptual Art were represented predominantly in the form of group exhibitions, some of which Kozlov coorganised. Nearly all of the works Kozlov contributed to these exhibitions will be on view here.
A broader context for this way of working and Kozlov’s thinking is raised in the exhibition through the relationships between her artworks and those of her friends and interlocutors. These include stanley brouwn, Douglas Huebler, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Adrian Piper and Lawrence Weiner. Collective and group work absorbed Kozlov from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s. This exhibition reflects her collaborations with psychedelic band The Red Krayola, as well as Art & Language, Joan Jonas and Robert Rauschenberg. Kozlov moved to the UK in 1977. The last of her works in this exhibition was made here, in response to the first Gulf War.
Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London e1 7ls
Image: Christine Kozlov, Self-Portraits (detail), 1968–70, © Christine Kozlov Estate
to 30 April 2026
Tadanori Yokoo – Poster Art: Original Posters from 1965 – 2025
The exhibition features more than 200 original posters by Tadanori Yokoo (see Eye 83) — a legendary Japanese artist, graphic designer and painter, who turns 90 this year.
Since the 1960s, Yokoo’s poster design has evolved through a wide range of influences, from Pop Art and traditional Japanese painting to calligraphy, ukiyo-e, Japanese folk colours, Indian patterns, digital art, collage and photography. Over time, these diverse sources have converged into his singular graphic style and philosophy.
Admission: €3-5. Opening hours: Mon − Fri: 09 : 00 − 17 : 00, Sat : 12 : 00 − 18 : 00
Center for Visual Arts Berlin, Unter den Eichen 101, 12203 Berlin
to 10 May 2026
This exhibition brings together around 50 key
works that celebrate the playful and poetic career of Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019), one of postwar Italy’s most creative and influential designers and architects. Born in Milan, Mendini worked with figures such as Robert Venturi and Ettore Sottsass in
addition to editing Casabella, Domus and Modo (which he founded), becoming a
central voice in postmodernism.
Monday and Tuesday: Closed; Wednesday - Saturday: 11.00-18.00; Sunday: 12.00-17.00; Open until 21.00 on the last Thursday of every month, with free entry for full time students after 17.00.
Adult £9.50; Concessions £7.50; National Art Pass £4.75; Full-time Students £4.00 (incl. access to library, by appointment only); Universal Credit £1.00; Free entry to Estorick Collection Members, Under 18s and Carers.
Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London, N1 2AN
Above. Alessandro Mendini, Untitled, 1986. Acrylic on wood.
to 10 May 2026
Laure Prouvost. WE FELT A STAR DYING
A multisensory experience of images, sounds, and scents that intertwines art, philosophy, and science. OGR Turin presents WE FELT A STAR DYING, an immersive installation by artist Laure Prouvost that explores the mysteries of quantum computing and its ability to redefine our relationship with reality.
Presented together with the group exhibition ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet (see Eye 108), the exhibition project traces a time span from the pioneering experiments of the late twentieth century to contemporary research on quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Admission: €5-7
Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday: 9am-6pm, Friday: 9am-10 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 10am-8pm, Closed on Tuesdays.
OGR Torino, Track 1, Corso Castelfidardo, 22, 10128 Torino TO, Italy
to 10 May 2026
This is the first duo show by Ala Younis and Ali Eyal. Through works that interweave personal and collective experiences, Younis and Eyal expose the erosion of families, museums, and ideologies. They examine the traces left by the politically charged events in the Arab World creating spaces for affective solidarities. Can I Hug All These Flowers? is the third exhibition in the five-year programme Systems and Territories curated by Silvia Franceschini. The program focuses on monographic and thematic exhibitions, which stem from long-term investigations and collaborations between artists, researchers, and communities critically examining categories, structures and ideologies upholding global modernity.
Exhibition Opening Event: Doors 7pm / Event 7:30-10pm.
7 February to 10 May 2026: Open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 12-5pm.
Onomatopee, Lucas Gasselstraat 2a, 5613 LB, Eindhoven
to 17 May 2026
The most expansive North American exhibition of Keïta’s work to date, this features 280 works, brought to life with unique insights from his family. Keïta recorded Mali’s evolution through their choices of backdrops, accessories and apparel, from traditional finery to European suits. These bold yet sensitive photographs began to circulate in West Africa nearly 80 years ago. In the early 1990s, they reached Western viewers, rocking the art world and cementing Keïta as the premier studio photographer of twentieth-century Africa – a peer of August Sander, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am – 6pm
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052, US
Above: Seydou Keïta. Untitled, 1954. Vintage gelatin silver print. © SKPEAC / Seydou Keïta, courtesy The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art and Danziger Gallery, NY
25 May 2026
At a time when image manipulation using AI is attracting widespread attention, this exhibition demonstrates that altering images is nothing new – from the very beginnings of photography, images were being altered using scissors and glue. Featuring more than 50 historical photographic images from the museum’s own collection, the exhibition shows how photo manipulation developed from the birth of the medium up to the Second World War – and reveals the motives behind it.
Admission: Adults - £25 and free for visitors under 18.
Open daily from 9am to 5pm.
Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam, Holland
Image above: French man carries head on a wheelbarrow, anonymous, ca. 1900-10.
to 31 May 2026
This exhibition of photographic portraits by American artist Catherine Opie is the first major museum exhibition of her work to be shown in the UK, bringing together more than 80 photographs spanning 30 years of Opie’s career, including her first major work, Being and Having (1991), ennobling portraits of LGBTQ+ friends inspired by court painter Hans Holbein and Baroque-like portraits of artists.
Admission: £19.50 / £21.50 with donation / Free for Members
Hours: Open daily: 10.30-18.00, Friday & Saturday 10.30-21.00
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE
to 7 June 2026
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, established in 1996, identifies and rewards artists that have made a significant contribution to photography in the past 12 months. The shortlisted artists for the Prize 2026 are Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, Amak Mahmoodian and Rene Matić. The 2026 shortlisted features collaborative photographic projects; long-term investigative documentary photography; installations, video and sound pieces; and experimental conceptual photography. This exhibition explores themes of exile and memory; gender inequalities and advocacy; identity and belonging, subculture and class; and the shifting boundaries between photographic fact and fiction.
Jane Evelyn Atwood's Too Much Time explores the realities of women in prison through long-term documentary photography addressing social justice.
Weronika Gęsicka's Encyclopaedia reinterprets fake entries and highlights the tension between truth and invention, as well as the fragile line between fact and fiction.
Amak Mahmoodian's One Hundred and Twenty Minutes focuses on recurring dreams and the effects of exile on memory and identity.
Rene Matić's exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH reflects on identity, belonging, subculture, class and family through diaristic, snapshot-like photography.
The Photographers‘ Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
Photo above by Weronika Gęsicka.
to 7 June 2026
Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-1964: Eyes of the Storm
Between December of 1963 and February of 1964, The Beatles were catapulted from British sensation to global superstars. In stadiums, streets, and on The Ed Sullivan Show, their arrival in North America marked a major cultural shift. Greeted by screaming fans and press at every turn, Paul McCartney stood in the eyes of the storm and his photographs offer a unique perspective on what it was like to be a Beatle at the start of Beatlemania.
Organised by the National Portrait Gallery in London, from Paul McCartney’s personal archive, comes more than 250 photographs of this incredible moment in time. A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise of one of the world’s most celebrated bands, these images reveal Paul McCartney as a multifaceted artist.
These intimate and historic photographs, shown alongside video clips and archival materials, capture both the intensity of The Beatles touring schedule and the energy of the era, as well more intimate views of his bandmates John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Exclusive Members' Access: 18-26 February 2026
Members' & Annual Passholder Access: 27 February - 22 March 2026
Public Access: 24 March 2026
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada
Photo: Paul McCartney. Self-portrait. London, 1963. © 1963-1964 Paul McCartney under exclusive license to MPL Archives LLP.
to 7 June 2026
CLICK! Photographers Make Picture Books
CLICK! celebrates more than 90 photographic works and a selection of more than twenty rare children’s photobooks dating from the 1890s onward. The exhibition highlights three ways that photos enrich the visual language of picture books: Real Worlds, images that document aspects of the world around us; Concept Books: The Alphabet and Other Good Ideas, photos that illustrate first lessons such as the alphabet and numbers; and Photo Theater, staged depictions of imaginary worlds that surprise and delight readers. Featured artists include George Ancona, Peter Buckley, Nina Crews, Tana Hoban, Charles R. Smith Jr., William Wegman, Walter Wick, Mo Willems, and Ylla, among others.
Guest curated by Leonard Marcus
Wednesday – Friday, 10.00–16:00*; Saturdays, 10:00-17:00; Sundays, 12:00-17:00
*Open until 8pm on the first Thursday of each month, November to June.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 West Bay Road, Amherst, MA 01002
Above: Walter Wick, Illustration for A Ray of Light: A Book of Science and Wonder (Scholastic). Courtesy of the artist. © 2019 Walter Wick.
to 28 June 2026
Noel Carrington: Nothing Need Be Ugly
Curated by writer and publisher Joe Pearson (Design for Today), this exhibition tells the story of publishing’s unsung hero Noel Carrington (1895–1989).
Schooled in Bedford, Noel Carrington (see Eye 85) became one of the most influential figures in design of the twentieth century. Through Puffin Picture Books and Country Life he commissioned, edited and published some of Britain’s best loved children’s picture books. He saw the genius in artists such as Kathleen Hale, whose series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat he published, and he championed emerging artists such as Hilary Stebbing. With Eric Ravilious he published High Street; with Edward Bawden he wrote and published Life in an English Village; and with Mervyn Peake he commissioned the tale of the wild pirate Captain Slaughterboard.
The exhibition features publishing classics such as the Kynoch Press Notebooks and Country Life Gardener’s Diaries as well as 120 Puffin Picture Books. The work of his sister Dora Carrington will also be included as it was Noel Carrington who brought her back into the public eye. Through much loved children’s books, forgotten gems and original artwork, this exhibition will take Noel Carrington out of the footnotes and into the spotlight.
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: 11am-5pm, Sunday: 2pm-5pm, Closed on Mondays
The Higgins Bedford, Wixamtree and Connections Gallery, Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40 3XD
to 28 June 2026
RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942 – 2021) whose oeuvre is built around the sculptural possibilities of language and highlights the radical position of Weiner, taking as its starting point Weiner’s artistic practice of the 1960s and 1970s. This was a time when the prevailing notions of art, the role of the artist and the collector were critically interrogated, as were traditional structures like museums, galleries and art fairs. As an artist and thinker, Weiner represents a key figure both within this period and within the collection of Annick and Anton Herbert.
RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS shows how Weiner’s work can be installed on a wall; can be translated to books, posters or videos; or can be recorded as audio. By bringing about a dialogue between the different presentation forms, visitors are introduced to his multifaceted oeuvre.
See Eye 29.
Hours: 3pm-7pm
Admission is free.
Herbert Foundation, Coupure Links 627A, Ghent
Above. Lawrence Weiner, LA MER ET LE CIEL, Eric Linard, Strasbourg, 1986)
to 19 July 2026
This December, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present Art of Noise, an exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking designs that have shaped how people experience music over the past century. Organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and adapted to the history of the New York music scene for its East Coast presentation.
From concert posters to record albums, phonographs to digital music players, handheld radios to sound systems, this exhibition takes visitors on an exploration of how design has transformed people’s relationship to music over the past 100 years. On view across the museum’s entire third-floor gallery, the exhibition will feature more than 300 artworks drawn largely from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and SFMOMA, as well as unique sound environments designed by Stockholm-based studio Teenage Engineering and multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull.
More info on tickets and hours here.
Cooper Hewitt, 2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128, US
Poster, 11th Summer Jazz Festival, 1979; Takenobu Igarashi (1944-2025) for Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc. Lithograph on paper; 72.8 × 51.5 cm (28 11/16 × 20 1/4 in.).
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Photo: Matt Flynn.
to 26 July 2026
The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson’s personal archives, which the filmmaker has built up over three decades. This is the first time most of these objects will be displayed in Britain. This landmark exhibition will chart the evolution of Wes Anderson’s films from early experiments in the 1990s to recent productions as well as collaborations with key long-standing creative partners. Explore the design stories behind award-winning and iconic films such as ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’, ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ and ‘Isle of Dogs’.
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.
Admission: £9.84-19.69
The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
Photo: Model of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL © Thierry Stefanopoulos – La Cinémathèque française
to 23 August 2026
Serpentine’s First David Hockney Exhibition in 2026
Serpentine is honoured to announce an exhibition of recent works by David Hockney (see Eye 42). Presented at Serpentine North, the exhibition will showcase seminal works, shown in the UK for the first time.
The exhibition will include Hockney’s recent works: the celebrated Moon Room which reflects his lifelong interest in the cycle of light and time passing. It will also feature digital paintings from his Sunrise body of work.
A Year in Normandy, a ninety-metre-long frieze, inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, showing the change of seasons at the artist’s former studio in Normandy, will also feature in the show.
Admission free.
Serpentine North Gallery, W. Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR
to 15 November 2026
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends
Go behind the scenes of stop-motion animation and explore how Aardman’s iconic characters and worlds are brought to life. In Aardman’s 50th anniversary year, peek behind the scenes of your favourite stop-motion animations and find out how Aardman brings clay to life. Visit Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph as many times as you like with your exhibition pass.
Admission: £11
Hours: Open daily 10am-5:45pm
Young V&A, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
to 30 May 2027
100 Years – 100 Objects
on the 100th anniversary of Die Neue Sammlung
To mark its 100th anniversary, Die Neue Sammlung is presenting an exhibition of 100 objects. These 100 objects reflect the richness and diversity of Die Neue Sammlung. In addition to numerous iconic works, this selection features many unknown treasures that have never before been seen at the Pinakothek der Moderne.
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 – 18:00, Thursday 10:00-20:00, Closed Monday
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich
to April 2027
Art deco: the golden age of poster design
This exhibition explores the way Art Deco made its mark on London Transport’s art and design heritage.
Marking the centenary of the 1925 Paris Exhibition, this is an opportunity to learn about the artistic moment, see unique artworks that have never been on public display, and explore the art deco and modernist architecture of Charles Holden in changing the face of London with his remarkable Tube station designs.
More than 100 original posters from London Transport Museum’s collection, alongside loans from significant collections are on display. This includes posters from designers including Edward McKnight Kauffer, Dora Batty, Jean Dupas and Munetsugu Satomi.
Entry to the Global Poster Gallery is free with your Museum admission.
See the ‘The purpose of posters’ on the Eye blog.
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 7BB
MARCH 2026
23 March 2026
with Dan Vaughn
A look the history of Japanese film subtitle lettering, and how technology, the times, and Hideo Sato shaped what would become the contemporary 'cinema moji' style.
This is a free online event.
Timing: 6:30-8:30pm (EST)
RSVP here.
Cooper Type, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
23 March – 7 May 2026
Paper Engineering
with Kelli Anderson
What we can learn from paper engineering comes from non-overlapping disciplines of origami, book arts, compliant mechanisms, pop-ups, industrial design, volvelles, Victorian papercraft, and 16th c. astronomy books. These mechanisms and techniques originate from sources as disparate as Troublewit performance props, pre-television paper-based entertainment (like Meggendorfer’s linkage-based cards), and NASA’s deployable spacecraft design.
Students will be provided an overview of various cross-cultural paper engineering techniques and resources, as well as prototyping strategies and support for their independent final project. We will develop manual-folding and cutting skills—as well as discuss the challenges of documenting/presenting interactive paper pieces online. We will fold together, troubleshoot together and there will be lectures, artist presentations, software demos, and virtual field trips.
When:
6:30-9:30pm (Eastern Time)
Number of sessions: 10
Where:
Blended Format (Online & On-Campus)
Price: $1,170
RSVP here.
Cooper Type, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
25 March – 6 September 2026
Lella and Massimo Vignelli A Language of Clarity
Major exhibition about the Vignellis (see Eye 83), curated by: Francesca Picchi, Marco Sammicheli, Thomas Kronbichler and Martin Kerschbaumer (Studio Mut). Exhibition design: Jasper Morrison Office for Design with David Saik. Catalogue and graphic design: Norm. In collaboration with: Vignelli Center for Design Studies, RIT New York, and the Vignelli family.
Triennale Milano, Viale Alemagna 6, 20121, Milano
26-27 March 2026
Mouvo 2026, Prague’s awarded digital art conference, will take place in the unique spaces of the PLANETARIUM (featuring the world’s largest LED-dome projection) on Thursday 26 March and at CAMP (with its impressive 24-meter projection wall) on Friday 27 March. Experience groundbreaking visual creations, inspiring lectures and thought-provoking discussions in entirely new dimensions. A must-visit for all creatives and for anyone seeking inspiration and originality.
With speakers such as Angela Kirkwood, Private Island, Fromm (see Eye 107) and more, the theme for 2026 is Space.
Admission: Student CZK 1,900 / General CZK 3,900
Planetarium, Královská obora 233, 170 21, Holešovice, Praha 7
CAMP, Vyšehradská 51, Praha 2
27 March – 6 September 2026
Cecily Brown: Picture Making
This exhibition features new and recent works by Cecily Brown, one of the most important painters working today. The exhibition marks a homecoming for the British artist who has lived and worked in New York for the past thirty years.
Over three decades Brown has gained a reputation for her unique approach to painting, characterised by vigorous brushwork, a vivid sense of colour and dynamic all-over compositions that hold the viewer in an active space of looking.
Picture Making brings together works inspired by Serpentine’s unique location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist. Themes of nature and park life have long shaped Brown’s formal explorations and, for her exhibition at Serpentine, the artist revisits familiar subjects such as amorous couples, woodland settings and uncanny nature walks.
Hours: Monday – Closed, Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm
At Serpentine South, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
30 March 2026
Geometric letters and architecture. From Antiquity to Enric Miralles and beyond
with Manuel Sesma
Renaissance and Modernist approaches to letter design share a common reliance on geometry as a mediating structure between writing and architecture, though they deploy it with very different intentions. Revisiting Renaissance letter construction manuals and Modernist typographic and architectural models, this talk examines how geometry evolved from an idealizing analytical tool into a constructive language for shaping the modern world. These historical frameworks are distilled in the architectural lettering of Enric Miralles (1955–2000), whose drawings dissolve the distinction between writing, technical lettering, and architectural form. By examining Miralles’s plans and their later typographic interpretations, the lecture reopens the question of lettering as an integral component of architectural design.
Free online event.
Part of Type@Cooper events.
Timing: 12:30-2:30pm (Eastern Time)
Where: Online
RSVP here.
31 March 2026
During Voices In Type Assembly, international designers show how graphic design relates to power, politics, and community. Tré Seals from Vocal Type (see Eye 106), Mark Baker-Sanchez (BakerSanchez, Inc.), Michael Ellsworth, and Raya Leary (Civilization) share their perspectives on activism and representation. Saki Mafundikwa (see ‘Future projections’ in Eye 78) will delve into Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Africa, and Aneesh Bhoopathy reflects on the recent Zohran Mamdani campaign.
Additional speakers to be announced.
Pricing: Students €37.50 / Professional €47.50
Chassé Theatre, Claudius Prinsenlaan 8, 4811 DK, Breda, Netherlands
Image above: The visual identity of Mamdani's historic mayoral race in New York by Aneesh Bhoopathy, which broke with the conventions of political branding.
APRIL 2026
3 April — 26 July 2026
A major retrospective to Lee Miller (1907-77), organised in partnership with Tate Britain. The exhibition brings together more than 250 vintage and modern prints, complemented by magazines, archives and period documents.
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 11 avenue du President Wilson, Paris, FR 75116, France
Read ‘Art of war and peace’, John L. Walters’ review of the Tate exhibition in Eye 109 and ‘An eye for a story’ in Eye 107.
Photo: Lee Miller, Model with lightbulb, Vogue Studio, London ca. 1943. © Lee Miller Archives.
2 April 2026
The Justin Howes Memorial Lecture
Old Roots, New Energy: A typeface design between two continents With Nina Stössinger
‘Twelve years ago, traveling between the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway, I started drawing a typeface that I have finally finished – in New York City. Cassis took inspiration from the visual environments I found on both sides of the Atlantic; this is its story, and a reflection on how relocating from the orderly visual environment of my native Switzerland to the joyful cacophony of New York City has changed my way of looking at, and thinking about, letterforms.’ Nina Stössinger
Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type – an independent typeface design studio in Brooklyn – and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art (See Eye 98).
In-Person Timings (BST):
Doors/Bar: 18:15pm
Talk Starts: 19:00pm
Talk Ends: 20:30pm
In-Person Tickets: £9, £12, £14
Online Time (BST): 19:00pm-20:30pm
Online Tickets: £7, £9
Book tickets here.
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Ln, EC4Y 8EQ London
6 April 2026
Typographic Signals: Phototypesetting as a new form of writing
with Katharina Walter
The radical physical alteration from lead to light had a deep impact on typography. Basically two media, photography and typesetting converged in the new hybrid technology of phototypesetting. But it revolutionised not only the production of print media and its aesthetics, but also writing as a whole. The talk will embark on a media-historical search for traces of the beginnings of writing with light. It will lead not only into the early history of photography, but also into telegraphy and its electrification of letters.
Free online event.
Part of Type@Cooper events.
Timing: 12:30-2:30pm (Eastern Time)
Where: Online
RSVP here.
11-19 April 2026
RISO CLUB 100 celebrates almost ten years and 100 issues of the not-for-profit postcard project founded by designer Gabriella Marcella of RISOTTO. This retrospective exhibition will feature the work of 400 artists and designers from cities and creative communities around the world. Since 2017 unique artist postcard editions have been mailed to subscribers across the globe, spotlighting creativity, celebrating the joy of risograph and supporting artists and designers.
Now to celebrate the 100th issue, all artworks will be displayed together for the first time in this colourful playful exhibition at The Glue Factory. Dedicated workshops and studio tours of RISOTTO HQ will be the perfect introduction to vibrant, multilayered world of risograph.
The Glue Factory Galleries, 22 Farnell Street,
Glasgow, G4 9SE, United Kingdom
17 April – 23 May 2026
Les Krims: Fictcryptokrimsographs
Graces Mews presents ‘Fictcryptokrimsographs’, a series of Polaroids created between 1974 and 1975 by American artist Les Krims.
9-10 Grace's Mews, Camberwell, London, SE5 8JF
23 April 2026
International Assembly is back online for a special edition, connecting you through an online conference and series of workshops with some of our favourite designers from 6 continents.
This is an online event.
Timings:
9:00 Los Angeles / 12:00 New York City / 17:00 London / 18:00 Berlin / 19:00 Cairo / 23:00 Bangkok
Tickets: Early Bird Pricing £25
Book tickets here.
MAY 2026
7-9 May 2026
Celebrating their 10th Anniversary edition, Digital Design Days is a live experience bringing together thousands of professionals from around the world, with insightful keynotes, top-notch content and networking opportunities.
With three stages, speakers include Stefan Sagmeister (see Eye 107 and Eye 83), Paula Scher, (see Eye 77), Dilshan Arukatti, Yates Buckley, Emily Rickard, Felix Chilvers, Valeria Moreiro and many others over the three days.
Tickets available here.
Superstudio Village, Via Michele Pericle Negrotto, 59, 20157 Milano, Italy
7-10 May 2026
Pictoplasma: 22nd International Conference on Character Creativity
The 22nd edition of the ‘world’s leading conference on contemporary character-driven creativity’ (see ‘emotion graphics’ in Eye 62) focuses upon storytelling. Across four days, Pictoplasma explores the art and impact of adventurous figurative practices across creative genres and cultures. Artists and producers gather for a transdisciplinary exchange bridging illustration, animation, art, games, storytelling, branded worlds and social media personas.
Contributing artists include: Christoph Niemann (DE, see Eye 72); cartoonist Gemma Correll (UK / US); Karlotta Freier (US); Zohar Dvir (IL/DE); Jun Ioneda (BR/ES); Berlin-based illustrator Jack Sachs (UK) and the duo Form Play (UK).
There is a visitors’ day on 10 May 2026, open to the broader public.
13-16 May 2026
Global Design Forum İstanbul is launching a new programme of talks, installations and citywide experiences taking place 13–16 May 2026 in İstanbul, Türkiye.
Organised in collaboration with People & Places & Ideas (PPI), this is a new design platform where global perspectives and İstanbul's living cultural landscape meet. The Forum brings global voices into conversation with local contexts, traditions and futures - creating an innovative space for design, culture and ideas in one of the world's most layered cities.
At its core, Global Design Forum İstanbul is a thought leadership programme, featuring two days of curated keynotes, panels and in-conversations shaped around the theme Worlds in Contact.
Across the four days, the programme extends beyond the Forum through citywide programming including İstanbullar: Design Route, public installations, and a design competition, creating encounters that move between ideas, places and people across the city.
More info available here.
Istanbul, Türkiye
27 May – 18 July 2026
Finding Bob Linney: an exhibition of a graphic life
The first comprehensive look at the the work of the graphic artist Bob Linney 1947-2023.
Over 50 years Bob drew, painted, printed and designed an extraordinary range of distinctive posters and other material for music, film, theatre, festivals, activism, and founded the charity Health Images using visual aids for health and development far and wide.
Read ‘Selecting Bob Linney’ by Nigel Ball.
The Cut Arts Centre, 8 New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8BY
Opening event, 12pm, Sat 30 May; closing lecture, 2pm, Sat 18 July.
JUNE 2026
to 7 June 2026
We Others: Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini
Spanning over five decades, Donna Gottschalk‘s photographs offer intimate portraits of queer life, capturing the daily lives of her chosen family — friends, lovers, siblings and fellow activists. Shaped by her early life in 1950s New York, marked by violence and homophobia, her work presents a raw and immediate vision of the world.
Her works meet Hélène Giannecchini‘s illuminating texts, creating a powerful dialogue about visibility, memory and the enduring courage to be seen. Despite their forty-year age difference, an immediate bond formed as archives were unearthed and stories shared. Deeply moved by Donna‘s life and photographs, Hélène set out to give Donna and her subjects a voice.
The Photographers‘ Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
11-13 June 2026
European Design Festival and Awards
As part of the European Design Festival, the European Design Awards honour creativity, craftsmanship and excellence across European design.
More info coming soon here.
National Palace of Culture (NKD), Sofia, Bulgaria
ONLINE + ONGOING
Ongoing
Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia
A digital exhibition presenting an extended series of photographs taken by Philip Sayer between 2005 and 2023 within a thirty-mile radius of his Norfolk home.
Through Sayer’s lens, the viewer is transported into a richly atmospheric vision of the region as an impressive sequence of images that sweep across its varied terrain. In his distinctive style – developed over the course of a professional photography career that spans six decades – deep darks meet fluctuating patches of vibrant light and between them a dynamic interplay of bold contrasts emerges.
Online
Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters
Reverting to Type 2020 is an exhibition of letterpress artwork with something to say, an international exhibition showcasing progressive letterpress artwork by 100 artists from seventeen countries, alongside the work of specially invited collaborators, including John Anstiss, Shelley Bird, Sarah Boris, Dennis Gould, Peter Kennard and Stewart Lee. (See Word play in Eye 101).
The full exhibition contents can be seen at: revertingtotype.com
Ongoing
The Letterform Archive have made their Online Archive public access. You can now enjoy virtual access to nearly 1500 objects and 9000 hi-fi images from their collection.
See ‘Access all areas’ by Claire Mason on the Eye blog and ‘Letterform Archive: Objects of inspiration’ in Eye 100.
Ongoing
Soho Photography Quarter is a permanent new outdoor cultural space, presenting the very best of contemporary photography, for free. A tranquil and accessible cultural space only seconds from Oxford Street, Soho, Photography Quarter will present a rotating, open-air programme of site-specific and interactive artworks, which will change twice a year.
Soho Photography Quarter, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW
Ongoing
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)
MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building.
MOCA Gaffen, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
See ‘Barbara Kruger: Reputations’ in Eye 5
Above: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, on view October 20, 2018–November 2020 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photo by Elon Schoenholz.
Ongoing
Ruben Pater of Untold Stories at Insights 2020
Focusing on the ethics of design, this lecture discusses the unspoken realities of designers working remotely across the globe, and from there dives into social and political issues such as climate change, surveillance, and affordable housing.
See Peter Buwert’s ‘Design’s ugly truths’, a review of Ruben Pater’s The Politics of Design, in Eye 93.
ongoing
The decade marks a historic turn in art history for photography. No longer was traditional landscape and documentary photography the same. Photography shared the spotlight with painting.
Online exhibition on the website of the PDNB Gallery.
Above: Bill Owens, Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back, 1971.
22 June – 3 July 2026
Now in its third year, TipoItalia will guide you on a typographic excavation and digital revival of hand-painted signs from the streets of Venice, inscriptions from the Renaissance and Tipoteca’s collection of Art Nouveau and Art Deco wood and metal typefaces. We’ll explore old alphabets, print them via letterpress, and revive them to achieve computer-ready fonts. Type historians, printers and designers Riccardo Olocco, Rory Sparks, Mitch Blessing and Dan Rhatigan will be your guides on this alphabetic excursion as you unearth and refresh the best of Italian lettering and typography.
TipoItalia encourages learners to see the alphabet in its myriad forms and trace their evolution to the type collection held by Tipoteca. This program fosters a ‘typographic archaeology’ that can then be translated into printed works and digital type, allowing the participant to bring Italian typography to life.
Taught by Rory Sparks, Dan Rhatigan, and Riccardo Olocco and Mitch Blessing. This residency hosts a maximum of 12 participants.
This session includes 12 workshop days, including studio time at Tipoteca Italiana and day trips throughout the region.
The days at Tipoteca Italiana will include a mix of organised demos, presentations and self-guided work in the studio.
Pricing + due dates:
• Registrations by March 15, 2026 - €2,299.00
• Registrations by May 1, 2026 - €2,499.00
• Registrations after May 1, 2026 - €2,699.00
The fee covers the cost of the workshop and transportation for daytrips. Participants pay airfare, lodging and ground transportation to Cornuda where Tipoteca is located.
Apply for a 2026 scholarship here.
For more information, please email [email protected].
Tipoteca, Via Canapificio, 3, 31041 Cornuda TV, Italy
11 June 2026
Confessions of a Designer: Design, Decisions and Impact
The International Council of Design (ICoD) is delighted to announce its first-ever Regional Meeting in Balkan Europe. The theme, Confessions of a Designer: Design, Decisions and Impact, invites participants to candidly discuss the realities of decision-making in design. We will delve into the tensions, uncertainties, instincts and trade-offs shaping everyday practice amidst current geopolitical, economic and technological disruptions, including artificial intelligence (AI).
Decision-making is rarely unbiased and constantly changes as our knowledge, values and accountability evolve. Today, our perceptions of the ‘right’ design choices are influenced by human sensitivity, AI, and institutions. In this meeting, we will explore how we set the criteria, who gets to decide, and what makes them decide. It will also explore how awareness or blind spots affect public life and tangible benefits.
The Regional Meeting will take place on 11 June 2026 at the National Palace of Culture (NKD) in Sofia, and will be held as part of the European Design Festival.
National Palace of Culture (NKD), Sofia, Bulgaria
16 May 2026
Grids and Layout
with Ellen Lupton
Create structured layouts and elegant details while designing a typographic poster/broadside. Use grids to organize content, build hierarchies, and generate visual elements. Explore alignment, balance, grouping, color, type choice, and tension. Hone your individual approach to typographic thinking and receive active feedback.
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm (Eastern Time)
Price: $270
Where:
41 Cooper Square at Cooper Union
Entrance on East 7th Street
New York, NY 10003