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The 100 best of the 100 best

‘The 100 Best Posters’ is a competition with a long history: for more than 25 years, it has showcased significant poster design from the German-speaking DACH region. The accompanying exhibitions travel around 16,000 km, visiting more than seven countries across two continents. To mark its 25th anniversary, 100 outstanding posters were selected from the past 25 years. With this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, CVA celebrates 25 years of ‘The 100 Best from Germany, Austria and Switzerland’.

Mon-Fri: 09:00-17:00 (Saturdays + Sundays + National Holidays closed)

See ‘Books received #59’, which included 100 Beste Plakate 2022.

Center for Visual Arts Berlin recently hosted a poster exhibition of more than 200 works by Tadanori Yokoo, see ‘Empire of posters’ in Eye 110.

Center for Visual Arts Berlin, Unter den Eichen 101, 12203 Berlin

Serpentine’s First David Hockney Exhibition in 2026

Serpentine presents recent works by the late David Hockney, with showcase seminal works shown in the UK for the first time.

The exhibition will include the celebrated Moon Room , which reflects his lifelong interest in the cycle of light and time passing; also digital paintings from his Sunrise body of work. A Year in Normandy, a 90m 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.

See ‘Hockney asks the scientific question: ‘How?’, our review of Secret Knowledge in Eye 42.

Admission free.

Serpentine North Gallery, W. Carriage Drive, London W2 2AR

Na Kim, Oblique Time / 김영나, 느슨한 시간

Na Kim (b. 1979), to be featured in the forthcoming Eye 111, studied Industrial Design at KAIST and Hongik University before graduating from the Art Academy in Arnhem. Now based in Berlin, she moves fluidly between design and fine art. Here in KAIST Art Museum’s rooftop space, Kim presents three works that evoke fleeting moments, experiential installations ‘premised on the movement of the viewer, encouraging an active awakening of the senses within the space’.

Weekdays, 10am to 5pm


KAIST Art Museum, Exhibition Terrace 6 & 7,E9, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea

Coming soon

India Street Lettering: Building Missing Archives

Pooja Saxena reflects on her decade of documenting letterforms around her home country of India, to coincide with the publication of her book, India Street Lettering: A Journey Through Typographic Craft & Culture. Saxena focuses upon the methodologies she developed for annotating and analysing a vast number of photographs. She will talk about her efforts to bring conversations about typography and lettering into the Indian mainstream.

Timings: 5:00-6:30pm (GMT+1)

Admission: $7-$12. You can book tickets here.

This is a virtual event.

A Century of Animation from the Collection

Since the birth of motion pictures, animation has enchanted audiences. Spanning more than 100 years of expression and aesthetics, It’s Alive! shares the work of more than 35 artists and filmmakers who advanced the medium. The exhibition highlights its roots in New York and how the city remained a hub for innovative animation.

Felix the Cat, Koko the Clown, Gertie the Dinosaur, and other enduring cartoon icons of the silent era (1890s to 1920s) prove how significant character-based animation was to establishing the medium. The hand-drawn practices of their creators – including Otto Messmer, Dave Fleischer and Winsor McCay – were fundamental to the characters’ appeal. The addition of colour in the 1930s influenced a number of independent artists in later decades. It’s Alive! is a testament to a rich period of the city’s movie-making history, and to the diversity and delights of animation.

MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan

See ‘From magic lanterns to virtual reality’ in Eye 94.

Type Archived: treasures of the UK’s National Typefounding Collection
with Richard Ardagh

Richard Ardagh talks about his book Type Archived, which documents the story and collections of London’s Type Archive. Showcasing highlights from some eight million items, these materials form a tangible history of typography and printing in the UK, including Sheffield foundry Stephenson Blake, the woodletter factory of Robert DeLittle in York and the precision hot-metal machinery and global operations of The Monotype Corporation. Ardagh studied punchcutting and matrix-making with senior staff on site until the Archive’s closure in 2023.

See ‘Archiving the archive’ from Eye 106 and ‘All honour the archive’, Paul Shaw’s review of Type Archived in Eye 110

Admission is free. Reserve your spot here.



Timings :
6:30 PM – 8:30 AM (Eastern Time)

The Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square (at East 7th Street), New York, NY 10003

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