A major exhibition of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller.

With the most extensive retrospective of her photography yet staged in the UK, Tate Britain celebrates Lee Miller as one of the 20th 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 extraordinary 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, such as her remarkable images of the Egyptian landscape in the 1930s.

With around 250 vintage and modern prints, including those never previously displayed, the exhibition reveals Miller’s poetic vision and fearless spirit.

Determined to forge her own path, she later commented, ‘It was a matter of getting out on a damn limb and sawing it off behind you.’

Gilbert & George,Hayward Gallery

Discover the duo’s pictures from the past 25 years, with vibrant, large-scale images that centre the human experience and reflect their motto, ‘Art for All’.

This exhibition showcases Gilbert & George’s artistic journey, highlighting new pictures created since the start of the millennium.

With bold, single-word titles, each piece delves into societal norms and taboos, spanning the mundane and the illicit, with their art challenging boundaries of taste and propriety.

21ST CENTURY PICTURES features key series like NEW HORNY PICTURES (2001), THE LONDON PICTURES (2011), THE BEARD PICTURES (2016), and THE CORPSING PICTURES (2022), exploring themes of hope, fear, sex, religion, corruption and death.

Annely Juda Fine Art announces its inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space on Hanover Square with works by David Hockney.  Opening in early November 2025, the exhibition will debut a series of new paintings alongside the first full presentation in the UK of Hockney’s “The Moon Room”.

Hockney’s fourteenth exhibition at the gallery, and following his celebrated exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris this summer, this show will debut never-seen-before paintings completed in his London studio over the last six months, underpinning Hockney’s unwavering commitment to and vigour for the act of painting and cementing him as perhaps the most iconic artist of today.

These very, very, very new paintings mark the most developed stage yet in Hockney’s dedication to ‘reverse perspective’ in paint. For decades, Hockney has observed that traditional linear perspective in art and photography doesn’t reflect how humans actually see: we have peripheral vision, we move and we constantly generate multiple viewpoints. Viewing is therefore not static, but dynamic and experiential. It’s not an inversion of perspective that interests Hockney, but an expansion of the possibilities of representation. In these recent canvases, which depict colourful interior scenes, he disrupts planar perspective and engineers multiple vanishing points in a single picture, bringing us closer to the lived experience of perception.

The show will also include “The Moon Room”, comprising 15 iPad paintings of the night sky. The moon works were created in 2020 outside Hockney’s Normandy studio in France throughout the seasons and, just as previous iPad works have, these works capture a joy in nature, this time brightly illuminated by moonlight.  Influences of Van Gogh are present, yet Hockney’s signature use of line and colour is unmistakable.  With the ability to paint easily en plein air, Hockney enjoys the speed with which he can capture light with the iPad, evident in the luminosity of these works.

Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.

Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work. The exhibition features two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums. Music selected by the artist – from his substantial archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes accumulated over decades – plays through a set of ‘high fidelity’ 1950s wooden Klangfilm Euronor speakers.

Each painting in the exhibition engages with music in a different way: some depict spaces where music is played or heard, others show musicians performing or people dancing. Many of the works were created during Doig’s years in Trinidad (2002–21), a period that deepened his relationship with music through sound-system culture and cinema. Blending personal memory, found photographs, and imagined scenes, these paintings are shaped by the wider cultural context of Trinidad. The exhibition will also feature new paintings that Doig created specifically for this show in his London studio.

Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) is now considered to be one of the greatest and most original American artists of the 20th century. Over the course of his long life, working mainly in Sacramento, California, Thiebaud developed a unique style of painting to express his vision of modern American subjects.

This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery will be the first ever museum show of his work in the UK. It will present Thiebaud’s remarkable, vibrant and lushly painted still-lifes of quintessentially post-war American subjects, from diner food and deli counters to gumball dispensers and pinball machines. These are the paintings with which Thiebaud made his name in the USA in the early 1960s.

Thiebaud considered the everyday objects of American life to be a vital subject for contemporary art, and he saw his work as continuing the radical legacy of earlier still-life paintings by Chardin, Manet, Cézanne and others. Thiebaud believed in the importance of commonplace objects that might otherwise be overlooked or considered kitsch. His work turns hot dogs, lemon meringue pies and glossy cream cakes into the stuff of profound modern painting.

The exhibition will feature rarely lent works from major museum collections in the USA, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as the Wayne Thiebaud Foundation.

The exhibition is curated by Dr Karen Serres, Senior Curator of Paintings, and Dr Barnaby Wright, Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery and Daniel Katz Curator of 20th-century Art.

Victorious Cupid, on special loan from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin and never-before-seen in public in the UK, is the centrepiece of this exhibition. It is presented with two ancient Roman sculptures that, more than four hundred years ago, belonged to the same distinguished collection.

All three works belonged to Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani (1564–1637), one of the most celebrated collectors of his day. In his grand palazzo near the Pantheon in Rome, Caravaggio’s Cupid was displayed with other works by Raphael, Titian and Giorgione, as well as an extensive gallery of classical sculpture. Life-size and painted from nature, Cupid stands with wings spread, arrows in hand and with a playful smile, surrounded by the fallen symbols of human achievement.

This free exhibition invites visitors to enter the world of 17th-century Rome, where artists, scholars and collectors debated the merits of painting and sculpture. The exhibition recreates the spirit of Giustiniani’s palace, bringing together ancient sculpture and Caravaggio’s startling vision in the way his guests would once have experienced it.