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, Tender Animals, 2024, Flashe and a

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!

Bandeau in emerald, ruby, sapphire, diamond and platinum, Cartier London, 1928 (c) Victori

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.

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30-year collaboration between visual artist Stanley Donwood and Radiohead's Thom Yorke via album covers, etchings and unpublished lyrics and drawings.