As the seasons shift, London’s many galleries and museums are also undergoing a reshuffle. From a fascinating retrospective of Chanel to a beautiful overview of portraits by Holbein, there’s plenty of art to sink your teeth into this winter.
A world in common: contemporary African photography
Bringing together a group of artists from different generations, this exhibition addresses how photography, film, audio and more have been used to reimagine Africa’s diverse cultures and historical narratives, exploring the many ways in which images travel across history and regions through themes as spirituality, identity, urban planning and climate emergency.
Tate Modernuntil January 14
Capturing the moment
A unique opportunity to discover how some of the greatest modern painters and photographers of our time worked side by side using two different media. This exhibition brings together important works from the Tate Collection and the Yageo Foundation Collection from the past 100 years, and the work of 39 artists, from Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Alice Neel, to Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Wall, Louise Lawler and Candida Hofer.
Tate Modernuntil January 28
Diva
From the opera goddesses of the Victorian era to today’s global megastars, this show celebrates the power and creativity of iconic performers, exploring and redefining what it means to be a diva and how this has been undermined or embraced over time in opera, on stage, popular music and film. Featuring fashion, photography, design, costumes, music and live performances, it looks at how the artist has navigated society and driven change through his voice and art.
Q&A, until April 7
The first British exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturier Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel will chart the evolution of her iconic design style, from the opening of her first hat boutique in Paris in 1910 to the exhibition of her final collection in 1971. Featuring Featuring 180 looks, seen together for the first time, as well as jewelry, accessories, cosmetics and perfumes, the exhibition explores Chanel’s groundbreaking approach to fashion design, which paved the way for a new feminine elegance and continues to influence the way women feel today dress the day
Q&Auntil February 25
Marina Abramovic
The Serbian performance artist’s first major survey in Britain brings together more than 50 works from across her career, including performance works in the galleries. It explores how Abramović has reflected on the temporary nature of performance art by expanding its impact through its traces: photographs, videos, objects, installations and re-enactments of her works by young artists. It’s crazy, and you can’t miss it.
Royal Academyuntil January 1
Sara Lucas
One of the most enduring artists of the YBA era, Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold, brash and provocative use of materials and imagery. Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has continually challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the past forty years.
Tate Great Britainuntil January 14
In times of war, deception has always been used to gain an advantage over the enemy and to protect our secrets. But is deception acceptable in the gray area between war and peace? And should we spy on our friends as well as our enemies? This major exhibition at IWM London looks at the tricks, decoys and espionage that make up the secret world of deception.
Imperial War Museum, until April 14
Phillip Guston
Finally, the long-awaited retrospective for the celebrated American abstractionist arrives, exploring how his paintings, which shifted from the abstract to the almost cartoonish (and sometimes nightmarish) social and political upheavals of the late 1960s, bridged the personal and the political. the abstract and the figurative, the humorous and the tragic.
Tate Modernuntil February 25
RE/SISTERS
This major group exhibition, which one hopes is executed with a deft touch, explores the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet.
Barbicanuntil January 14
This comprehensive overview of the internationally renowned artist and photographer’s work spans work produced over the past five decades and includes selections from all of Sugimoto’s major photographic series, as well as lesser-known works that highlight his innovative, conceptually driven approach to making. Pictures.
Hayward Galleryuntil January 7
Women revolt!
This major survey of the work of more than 100 women artists working in Britain between 1970 and 1990 is the first of its kind and will focus on a wide range of artists and media to explore and reflect on issues and events such as the Women’s Lib movement, the struggle for legal change, maternal and domestic experiences, Rock Against Racism, Greenham Common and the peace movement, the visibility of black and South Asian women artists, Section 28 and the AID pandemic .
Tate Great Britainuntil April 7
Imperial War Museum Blavatnik Art, film and photography galleries
The new Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries will explore how artists, photographers and filmmakers together witness, document and tell the story of conflict, demonstrating how artistic interpretation can uniquely shape our understanding of war. New acquisitions will be exhibited alongside renowned works from IWM’s existing collection, including John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old and Steve McQueen’s Queen and Country.
Imperial War Museumopen now
Impressionists on paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec
In the maelstrom of modernity in late 19th century France, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists radically transformed what we think of as art – and in the process lifted the status of works on paper from something preliminary left in a studio or studio . thrown away, into works of art in themselves. This exhibition features approximately 70 works on paper by leading artists whose innovation would change art forever.
Royal Academyuntil March 10
Holbein at the Tudor court
This promises to be a stunning showcase of one of the most important surviving collections of Hans Holbein’s work, including drawings, paintings, miniatures and book illustrations, to explore the artist’s career and the lives of those who commissioned portraits from him. , from Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to Thomas More and the young Elizabeth I. Queen’s GalleryBuckingham Palace, until April 14