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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. These intimate and historic prints, 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.

Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

Image above: Paul McCartney. Self-portrait. London, 1963. © 1963-1964 Paul McCartney under exclusive license to MPL Archives LLP.

Art of Noise

This exhibition celebrates ‘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

Images above: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Photo: Matt Flynn.
Poster, 11th Summer Jazz Festival, 1979; Takenobu Igarashi (1944-2025) for Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc.

Coming soon

Global Design Forum Istanbul

Global Design Forum İstanbul is launching a new programme of talks, installations and citywide experiences. Organised in collaboration with People & Places & Ideas (PPI), this is a design platform where global perspectives and İstanbul's living cultural landscape meet in one of the world's most layered cities. The forum features two days of keynotes, panels and in-conversations shaped around the theme Worlds in Contact. Across 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.
Topkapı Palace, Cankurtaran, Babı Hümayun Cad No: 1, 34122 Fatih, Istanbul, Türkiye

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.
For more than 50 years Bob Linney 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.

Now 26 conference

A conference (in English) that includes talks, discussions, and typography love, with Astrid Stavro, Tobias Frere-Jones, Flavia Zimbardi (see above) and a publishing panel that includes Eye editor John L. Walters, Julia Kahl (Slanted), Alexandre Dimos (B42) and Elliot Jay Stocks.
See schedule for details.
Venue: Novotel Paris Vaugirard Montparnasse, 257 rue de Vaugirard, 75015, Paris France

Final weeks

FAKE!

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; free for visitors under 18.

Open daily from 9am to 5pm.

Rijksmuseum, Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam, Holland

Images above: French man carries head on a wheelbarrow, anonymous, ca. 1900-10.

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