ARTS
Gallery Highlights for 2025
Splash! A century of swimming and style
28 March - 17 Aug 2025
at the Design Museum
Hark back to an era when swimwear was actually designed for swimming in and every major town was busy building lidos. Guest-curated by Amber Butchart.
Koak at Charleston, Lewes
26 March - Sept 2025
Contemporary artist, Koak (born 1981), explores 'archetypes of self' in this inaugural institutional exhibition which aims to reclaim the female gaze.
Yes please!
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Cartier at the V&A
From 25 April 2025
Bangles fit for a queen will go on display at the V&A this Spring, alongside watches, clocks, and gemstones from private collections and international museums.
Worth a gawp.
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The Face Magazine, NPG
20 Feb to 18 May 2025
Will any magazine ever truly replicated the iconic status of The Face, which graced the shelves of corner shops from 1980 - 2004?
The National Portrait Gallery will showcase 80 photographers from the magazine's heyday, promising a Big Day Out for the geriatric millennial.
Wes Anderson
21 Nov 2025 - 4 May 2026
at the Design Museum
After the success of the Accidentally Wes Anderson exhibition in 2024, the Design Museum in South Kensington will play host to a more in-depth artist retrospective, the first of its kind.
This is What You Get,
Ashmolean
Exploring the 30-year collaboration between visual artist Stanley Donwood and Radiohead's Thom Yorke via album covers, etchings and unpublished lyrics and drawings.
Editor's Pick 📚
Books to look out for in 2025
or just pre-order now and
do brilliant writers a solid favour
Editor's Pick 📚
 HistoricalTHE EIGHTS by Joanna Miller A masterful debut about the first women to matriculate from St Hilda's College, Oxford. It's Geeks in the City (the City of Dreaming Spires). THE EIGHTS is published on 27th April 2025. |  HistoricalA FORTUNE MOST FATAL by Jessica Bull The second in the Miss Austen Investigates series, for those who like their capers contextualised and their murders most momentous. A FORTUNE MOST FATAL is released on 27th March 2025. |
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 HistoricalMADAME MATISSE by Sophie Haydock Based on a true story, Madame Matisse is a stunning novel about drama and betrayal; emotion and sex; glamour and tragedy, all set in the hotbed of the 1930s art movement in France. In art, as in life, this a time when the rules were made to be broken... |  Literary FictionTHE HOMEMADE GOD by Rachel Joyce A compelling family drama centred around Goose and her three sisters, as they come to terms with the death of their father. THE HOMEMADE GOD is released on 17th April 2025 |
 Murder MysteryA LETHAL COCKTAIL by Ciar Byrne This is the second in the Woolf and Bell series, a Sussex-based mystery in which Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa star as unlikely sleuths. A LETHAL COCKTAIL is released on 22nd May 2025. |  Historical FictionTHE LOST PASSENGER by Frances Quinn In the chaos of that terrible night, her secret went down with the Titanic. But secrets have a way of floating to the surface… THE LOST PASSENGER is released on 27th February 2025 |
