Events
DON’T MISS
4 and 6-7 December 2025
Jan Tschichold: Shaping Typography 1925-2025
Shaping Typography is a small exhibition chronicling the modernist period of the typographer Jan Tschichold (1902-1974). Through key works such as Elementare Typographie (1925), Die Neue Typographie (1928) and Typographische Gestaltung (1935), the exhibition presents Tschichold as one of the central proponents, chroniclers, teachers and theorists of the Modern Movement in typography. It also explores his influence across Europe, and in particular Britain, both before and after the war, leading up to the publication of a translation of Typographische Gestaltung as Asymmetric Typography in 1967.
The exhibition features Tschichold's typefaces from this period – Transito (1931), Zeus (1931), Saskia (1932) and Ramses (1935) – as well as experimental alphabets such as Noch eine neue Schrift (1930). These have been carefully reconstructed to provide insights into Tschichold's methodology as both a letter and a type designer.
A concise catalogue will be available that documents the items from the show, with an introductory text by Chris Burke and several key texts by Jan Tschichold from this period.
Curated by Paul Barnes and Fraser Muggeridge.
See ‘The advocacy of Tschichold’ in Eye 99.
Opening: Thursday 4 December, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Exhibition open: Saturday 6 December – Sunday 7 December, 11am-6pm
Table Temple, 7 Temple Yard, London E26QD
to 4 December 2025
Paula Scher has been a pioneering force in graphic design for over five decades. She began her career as an art director in the 1970s and early 1980s, when her eclectic approach to typography became highly influential. In 1991 she became a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, the distinguished international design consultancy, where she leads a team that develops brand identities, signage, packaging and publications for clients all over the world.
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich, Germany
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00 daily; 10:00-20:00 Thursdays; closed Mondays
CURRENTLY ON
to 11 December 2025
An exhibition celebrating the centennial of the birth of Pentagram co-founder Theo Crosby.
Alongside this, Pentagram will host an informal panel discussion inspired by Theo’s work in architecture, art, design, planning, publishing and teaching.
Panel discussion: Monday 10 November 6:30pm-9pm (RSVP here).
Moderated by Michael Bierut (see Eye 24), the discussion will feature historian Kenneth Frampton, architect Jon Greenfield and urbanist Lucy Musgrave.
Exhibition hours: Open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11-4pm
Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London N1 8LN
to 4 January 2026
Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hulten
Grand Palais, 17 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris
to 11 January 2026
This Is What You Get: Stanley Donwood | Radiohead | Thom Yorke
‘This Is What You Get’ reveals how Donwood and Yorke experimented with early technology, and explores the evolution of the images for Radiohead’s legendary albums and Yorke’s later projects. To date the band, which was formed in Oxfordshire in the mid-1980s, has sold 30 million records worldwide. Developed and curated with Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, the show offers a unique opportunity to look at the creative forces behind some of the most important and influential music of the past few decades.
Open every day, 10–5pm. Tickets £8.10-16.20.
Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH
Above. Yorke, Donwood and associate with work. Photo: Julian Broad, courtesy Tin Man Art.
to 11 January 2026
Paul Poiret, Fashion is a Celebration
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents its first major monograph dedicated to Paul Poiret (1879-1944), a key figure in Parisian haute couture at the beginning of the 20th century. Considered the liberator of the female body for having decorsetted it, Paul Poiret reinvented fashion.
This exhibition, designed by Anette Lenz (see Eye 101) offers an immersion into the designer's rich world, from the Belle Époque to the Roaring Twenties. It explores his creations in the fields of fashion, decorative arts, perfume, celebration, and gastronomy. Through 550 works (clothing, accessories, fine arts, and decorative arts), the exhibition highlights Paul Poiret's lasting influence and reveals the breadth of his creative genius. A fascinating journey to meet a man whose legacy continues to inspire contemporary fashion designers, from Christian Dior in 1948 to Alphonse Maitrepierre in 2024.
Admission: €10-€15. Under 25s are free.
Museum of Decorative Arts, 107, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
to 17 January 2026
New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging
Marking the 40th anniversary of New Photography, this exhibition brings together 13 artists and collectives who explore sites of belonging and forms of interconnectedness. Some of the artists weave personal stories within broader political histories to explore intergenerational memory. Others reimagine the idea of the archive to disrupt narratives of the past and imagine future communities.
Lines of Belonging highlights artists working in four cities that have existed as centers of life, creativity, and communion for longer than the nation states in which they are presently situated. From Kathmandu to New Orleans, Johannesburg to Mexico City, these creative practitioners offer slowness, persistence, and care as an antidote to the viral, profit-driven speed of contemporary image consumption, metadata technologies, and artificial intelligence.
Admission: $17-30
Hours: Monday - Sunday 10:30am-5:30pm, open until 8:30pm on Fridays
MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, 10019, Floor 3
to 18 January 2026
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: The Delusion
THE DELUSION, combines satire and absurd humour with cooperative gaming and participatory theatre to explore the real-world impacts of societal division. Artist and game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley invites visitors into a post-apocalyptic world shaped by a single catastrophic event – the Day of Division. Commissioned and produced by Serpentine Arts Technologies, this is Brathwaite-Shirley’s most ambitious work to date – featuring a new series of video games and works developed collaboratively over the course of the past year with a team of artists, researchers, technologists and members of Danielle’s Black Trans and Queer community.
Admission is free.
Serpentine North Gallery, W Carriage Dr., London W2 2AR
to 22 January 2026
Pressing Issues: Printing Futures, Publishing Resistance
This is a series of online lectures, tutorials, and roundtable conversations discussing the politics of translating, archiving, and publishing.
The Pressing Issues online series explores a variety of approaches to publishing, translation, and archiving as political practices. Open to practitioners within the field as well as researchers and students eager to engage with publishing, the program offers a critical look behind the scenes—examining how it shapes discourse and unpacking the challenges, politics, and hopes embedded in its inherently community-based endeavours.
From October 2025 to January 2026, six online lectures, one tutorial, and one roundtable conversation take a deep dive into the topic—from researching Iranian feminist periodicals and building Pan-African liberation through archiving, to surviving capitalism as a queer publishing house, and fostering community through reading, publishing, and printing. The series explores the materiality of underground print, discusses the politics of translation beyond words, poses access questions in publishing, and examines the intersection of language and activism from within communities.
All events start at 6 pm CE(S)T and the first event is free.
Admission: Solidarity – CHF 290, Standard – CHF 150, Student – CHF 70, Reduced Student –CHF 35
to 25 January 2026
Suzanne Treister: Prophetic Dreaming
Modern Art Oxford presents Prophetic Dreaming, the first major UK institutional retrospective by pioneering digital and para-disciplinary artist Suzanne Treister (See review in Eye 108). Spanning more than 40 years of her radical, visionary practice, the show traces Treister’s enduring engagement with the relationships between new technologies, networks of power, alternative belief systems and potential futures of humanity.
Prophetic Dreaming opens with a display of early paintings from the 1980s, including Venus on TV on the Moon (1986), intimating the techno-mystical nature of her later projects. The exhibition charts Treister’s early explorations with digital technology from her series Fictional Videogame Stills (1991-92), created on an Amiga computer, to SOFTWARE (1993-94), a series of painted boxes and floppy discs which imagine hypothetical software applications, foreshadowing the apps through which we now mediate our daily lives.
See site for additional information.
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP
to 1 February 2026
Museum of the Future – 17 Digital Experiments
This exhibition investigates the potential of digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence and how they can enhance the experience of objects in museums in the future. Seventeen experiments transform the exhibition space into a lab for the future, and give visitors a chance to explore, among others, the largest digital image ever created. Digital technologies offer ways to make otherwise inaccessible objects accessible to the public.
Day admission: Regular CHF 15, Reduced CHF 10
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10am–5pm, Thursday 10am–8pm, Closed on Monday
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse 608005 Zurich
to 1 February 2026
American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) was known for his radical experiments that pushed the limits of photography, painting, sculpture, and film. In the winter of 1921, he pioneered the rayograph, a new twist on a technique used to make photographs without a camera. The rayographs’ transformative, magical qualities led Tristan Tzara to describe them as capturing the moments ‘when objects dream.’
The exhibition will be the first to ‘situate’ this signature accomplishment in relation to Man Ray’s larger body of work of the 1910s and 20s. Drawing from the collections of The Met and more than 50 U.S. and international lenders, the exhibition will feature approximately 60 rayographs and 100 paintings, objects, prints, drawings, films and photographs to highlight the central role of the rayograph in Ray’s boundary-breaking practice.
Free with Museum admission.
[See also ‘Lee Miller’ at Tate Britain from 2 October 2025 – 15 February 2026.]
The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199, 1000 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10028
to 8 February 2026
This exhibition of the American artist David Lynch (see ‘Caught snapping’ on the Eye blog), will for the first time present the artistic work of this icon of world cinema in the Czech Republic, focusing on drawings, photography, lithographs, watercolours, and short experimental and animated films. The exhibition will introduce visitors to works from all of the artist’s creative periods, meaning from the late 1960s to the present.
The exhibition is not designed chronologically, but will follow specific formal or thematic connections that, among other things, characterise David Lynch’s work. A major part of the exhibition consists of works on loan directly from the David Lynch Estate in Los Angeles, but the project will also include many works (lithographs and photographs) created at Item éditions in Paris. ‘Up in Flames’ will also offer a wide range of accompanying programmes focusing in particular on film, contemporary experimental music and literature.
Admission from CZK 120 - CZK 330.
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11:00am-7:00pm, closed on Mondays.
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Poupětova 1, Praha 7, Czech Republic
to 13 February 2026
The Graphic Play: Poster Design at the National Theatre
This exhibition of National Theatre posters and programmes from the Lettering, Printing and Graphic Design Collections at the University of Reading focuses on the contrasting design styles of Ken Briggs and Richard Bird – from structurally precise modernist typography to dramatically expressive illustration.
Curated by Rick Poynor.
Open from Monday to Wednesday, 10am-4pm / Admission is free.
Group visits can be made by appointment. Email:[email protected]
Department of Typography & Graphic CommunicationUniversity of Reading, TOB2, Whitenights Road, Early Gate, Reading RG6 6ER
Above: Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet. Design and illustration: Richard Bird, 1983
to 15 February 2026
With the most extensive retrospective of her photography yet staged in the UK, Tate Britain celebrates Lee Miller (See ‘An eye for a story’ in Eye 107) as one of the twentieth century’s most urgent artistic voices.
First exposed to a camera by working in front of it, Miller was one of the most sought-after models of the late 1920s. She quickly stepped behind the lens, becoming a leading figure in the avant-garde scenes in New York, Paris, London and Cairo. The exhibition will showcase Miller’s career, from her participation in French Surrealism to her fashion and war photography. Exploring her artistic collaborations, the exhibition will also shed light on lesser-known sides of her practice, including her images of the Egyptian landscape in the 1930s.
Admission: £20, Free for members
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Photo: Lee Miller, Model with lightbulb, Vogue Studio, London ca. 1943. © Lee Miller Archives.
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.
Admission: £16.00, Free tickets are available for Disabled people and a companion
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
Above: Rebirth Garments. Photo by Colectivo Multipolar.
to 22 February 2026
In a fascist movement inspired by art, how does a fascist government influence the artists living in its grasp? This exhibition explores this sadly enduring topic, in this case examining how the government of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini created a broad-reaching ‘culture’ that grew with and into the Futurist movement in the period from 1922 until the overthrow and death of ‘Il Duce’ in 1943.
Curator: B.A. Van Sise. Exhibition Design: Ola Baldych
Main Gallery, Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 22 February 2026
Systém Rathouský Metro • Typo • Info Design
Jiří Rathouský is one of the most important graphic designers and typographers of the Czech postwar generation; a hundred years have passed since his birth on 20 April 2024. With his designs, he shaped the public visual environment, and his book and magazine designs entered the intimate space of Czech homes. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication that emphasises his design in the areas of poster design, book graphics and typography, type design, visual style, information design, orientation systems and graphic navigation. It will also contain interesting professional excursions focused on specific topics in Rathouský's life and work.
Admission: 50-190 Kč
Pražákův palác, Moravská galerie v Brně, Husova 18, 662 26 Brno
to 22 February 2026
Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters
The 17 travel posters Dorothy Waugh created for the National Park Service between 1934 and 1936 are significant cultural records of the Great Depression and mark a turning point in American graphic design. Although Waugh began her work for the NPS in 1933 as a landscape architect, she was also a highly trained artist. She advocated for the bureau to produce its own poster campaign, separate from those of the railroads and with its own style and messaging.
The resulting poster series was the first time the government had assigned such an ambitious project to a single designer, let alone a female modernist. Until now, however, there has been little research on them or on their originator. This exhibition and its accompanying book, based on private and government documents, is the first dedicated to the entire campaign, which heralded an outpouring of government posters for the rest of the 20th century.
Admission: $10-$15
Hours: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday – 10am-6pm, Friday – 10am-9pm (*Free admission every Friday and third Sunday of the month)
Programs Gallery, Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 22 February 2026
Strike a Pose! 100 Years of the Photobooth
2025 marks 100 years since the invention of the photobooth in New York. A game-changer for the world of photography, photobooths became an everyday sight in cities around the world.
In the 1950s and 1960s, photobooths were a common feature at fairs, shopping centres and train stations. With no technical knowledge needed and no operator, anyone could step behind the curtain, alone or crammed in with friends, put their money in the slot and strike a pose. The booths were loved by everyone, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono, to John and Jacqueline Kennedy, and used by artist Andy Warhol for his famous series of self-portraits.
These popular coin-operated booths began to disappear with the rise of digital photography in the 1990s. Now, restored by dedicated experts, analogue booths are reappearing in cities across the world and enjoying a resurgence of interest and delight with modern-day fans.
This autumn we're celebrating the centenary by telling the story of the much-loved photobooth. Through a small archival display, Strike a Pose! 100 Years of the Photobooth will explore the history, imperfections and quirks of the booth. There's also a 1960s analogue booth at the Gallery for everyone to create their own selfie souvenir and a live feed to see the unique mechanics of the booth in action.
Admission: Price: £10 (£7 concession). Advance: £8.50 (£6 concession). Members go free.
The Photographers' Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW
to 28 February 2026
Por Fin, Algo Bueno
(Finally, Something Good)
Stefan Sagmeister presents a series of installations, sculptures, and paintings, many of which are historical pieces that he infuses with visual and formal codes, transforming them into communication devices. These works are constructed from his analysis of data from various verifiable sources and show that, with responsible management of information through design, it is possible to reflect on our perception of the current state of the world.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday – 10am-6pm, Thursday 10am-10pm, closed Monday
See ‘The perils of interdisciplinarity’ from Eye 107 and ‘Giant monkeys in Sagmeister’s soul’ from Eye 83.
MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Prol. 20 De Noviembre 166, centro historico, 45100 Zapopan, Jal., Mexico
to 1 March 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.
Each of these printed works, reflecting the distinctive cultural content and artistic characteristics of its era, documents Yokoo’s exploration of visual language and the transformation of his artistic expression over more than 60 years. Together, these posters encompass Japan’s postwar transformation across the evolving landscape of its culture and society.
Since the 1960s, his 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.
Today, Yokoo’s impact extends far beyond Japan and remains profoundly present in the global design field. Among younger generations of visual creators, his impact continues to resonate deeply.
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 1 March 2026
Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey
This will be the first major survey show of Joy Gregory (b.1959), winner of the eighth annual Freelands Award and one of the UK’s most innovative artists working with photography today. Spanning four decades, this landmark exhibition brings together over 250 works. Since the early 1980s, Gregory has employed a diverse range of media and methods, encompassing Victorian photographic techniques such as cyanotypes and kallitypes, as well as digital media and performance.
Admission: £9.50 – £16.50
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX
Image: Joy Gregory, Autoportrait , 1989 – 1990, Silver Gelatin Lith Print © Joy Gregory. Courtesy the artist & DACS.
to 8 March 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
to 15 March 2026
Triennale × Milano Cortina 2026
Running until 15 March 2026, the original works will be on display and presented alongside the Olympic and Paralympic torches of Milano Cortina 2026, which were unveiled at Triennale in April. Created by ten Italian artists under the age of 40, the posters offer a creative interpretation of the Games. The result is a collection of artworks that reflects the vibrancy of Italy’s contemporary art scene and the dynamic, energetic spirit of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
The five Olympic Art Posters were designed by Beatrice Alici, Martina Cassatella, Giorgia Garzilli, Maddalena Tesser, and Flaminia Veronesi. The five Paralympic Art Posters were created by Roberto de Pinto, Andrea Fontanari, Aronne Pleuteri, Clara Woods, and Giulia Mangoni.
Admission is free.
Triennale Milano, in the newly renovated Piano Parco galleries, viale Emilio Alemagna 6, 20121 Milan
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 spring 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
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
DECEMBER 2025
4 and 6-7 December 2025
Jan Tschichold: Shaping Typography 1925-2025
Shaping Typography is a small exhibition chronicling the modernist period of the typographer Jan Tschichold (1902-1974). Through key works such as Elementare Typographie (1925), Die Neue Typographie (1928) and Typographische Gestaltung (1935), the exhibition presents Tschichold as one of the central proponents, chroniclers, teachers and theorists of the Modern Movement in typography. It also explores his influence across Europe, and in particular Britain, both before and after the war, leading up to the publication of a translation of Typographische Gestaltung as Asymmetric Typography in 1967.
The exhibition features Tschichold's typefaces from this period – Transito (1931), Zeus (1931), Saskia (1932) and Ramses (1935) – as well as experimental alphabets such as Noch eine neue Schrift (1930). These have been carefully reconstructed to provide insights into Tschichold's methodology as both a letter and a type designer.
A concise catalogue will be available that documents the items from the show, with an introductory text by Chris Burke and several key texts by Jan Tschichold from this period.
Curated by Paul Barnes and Fraser Muggeridge.
See ‘The advocacy of Tschichold’ in Eye 99.
Opening: Thursday 4 December, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Exhibition open: Saturday 6 December – Sunday 7 December, 11am-6pm
Table Temple, 7 Temple Yard, London E26QD
6-27 December 2025
This exhibition features Alliance Graphique Internationale member David Lancashire (see Eye 46), a globally recognised graphic designer and visual artist, whose career spans more than 50 years.
Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm TFSS or by appointment
Exhibition concludes 3:00pm on 27 December 2025
Qdos Fine Arts, 35 Allenvale Road, Lorne VIC 3232
10 December 2025 – 25 January 2026
Harland Miller at the Design Museum
A new display showcasing monumental paintings by internationally acclaimed artist Harland Miller, including brand-new works specially created for the exhibition.This free display will explore how Miller harnesses the principles of graphic design, deploying bright, saturated colour palettes and a wide range of typefaces designed by the artist himself.
Presented across two locations within the museum, the display will feature large-scale paintings in the Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery (Level 2), while works on paper from the same series will be shown on the Garfield Weston Mezzanine (Atrium).
The canvases to be displayed at Huth Gallery reflect Miller's time living in Los Angeles, driving past monolithic billboards on the highway. In the Mezzanine, a selection of works on paper from the same series will offer an insight into the structural composition that informs Miller’s large-scale paintings. The Letter Paintings series demonstrates the relationship between art and design in Miller's work, which makes the Design Museum a fitting location for a series based on the language of graphic design.
The Design Museum, 224 – 238 Kensington High Street, London W8 6AG
12 December 2025 – 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.
JANUARY 2026
FEBRUARY 2026
9-14 February 2026
I've Got It Covered!
An Exhibition of Editorial Magazine Covers by Lisa Sheehan
This exhibition celebrates the creative work of internationally renowned illustrator Lisa Sheehan, showcasing a curated selection of her editorial magazine covers. Sheehan has brought her distinctive artistic voice to more than 60 magazine titles worldwide, establishing a reputation for imaginative visual storytelling and finely crafted design.
Her cover illustrations, known for their evocative detail and ability to capture the essence of contemporary editorial themes, highlight the important role of illustration in shaping the identity and cultural impact of magazines. This exhibition offers audiences a rare opportunity to experience the breadth of Sheehan’s contribution to global publishing and the artistry behind the covers that inform and inspire.
Hours: Monday – Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-4pm
Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4RJ
Opening 18 February 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.
MARCH 2026
12 March – 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.
David Hockney is interested in how art and technology can come together in new ways. Recommending that people slow down and notice the beauty of the world around them, he believes that simple, everyday cycles, like a sunrise, is worth celebrating.
Admission will be free.
Serpentine North Gallery, W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR
13 March 2026
Type Drive Commerce Conference
Type Drives Commerce is a curated series of keynotes, panel discussions, and one-on-one chats, designed to directly engage a broad range of players in the typographic ecosystem. It brings together people who rarely sit in the same room — designers who create typefaces and typographic systems, creative operations teams that manage the assets and tools, and brand leaders who fund it — for a rare 360-degree view of the current typographic landscape, fostering community and creative growth.
Type Drives Commerce looks at typography as a value driver, not just in terms of financial bottom lines, but how it elevates connection, culture and community.
Ticket pricing is here.
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 113 W 60th St, New York City
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.
Ongoing
The 39th Graphic Design Exhibition of the Turkish Graphic Designers Association
This year the annual GMK Graphic Design Exhibition, a recollection of graphic design in Turkey since its debut in 1981, is being held online. The GMK Graphic Design Exhibition Digital Archive will also be publicly accessible in the coming months, displaying this recollection and allowing closer examination of the work and shifting tendencies in Turkish design over the past 39 years.
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. The presentations will feature a significant art frieze in the main square, large-scale over street banners, plus moving image projections, soundscapes and other interactive works depending on the project.
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.