Events
DON’T MISS
6-21 November 2025
7 November 2025
International Assembly Conference
An all-day design and creative conference. Speakers include: Pentagram, M/M (Paris), OK-RM, Annie Atkins, Studio Yukiko, TEMPLO, Talia Cotton, YONK, Jingqi Fan and Form Play x Procreate. Hosted by Martin Boath and Jack Renwick.
Glasgow, Scotland
to 8 November 2025
Don McCullin: A Desecrated Serenity
This is the first New York City exhibition devoted to the work of Don McCullin CBE (see ‘Scenes from an imperfect world’, Eye photo critique), lauded internationally as one of the most influential photojournalists of our time. McCullin’s most comprehensive US presentation to date will bring together nearly fifty works from his multi-layered oeuvre and coincides with the artist’s 90th birthday.
Complemented by seldom seen archival materials and historical ephemera, the exhibition offers visitors a deep look at the astonishingly diverse events, people and landscapes he has captured over the past seven decades.
Hauser & Wirth, 18th Street, New York
Above: Catholic youths escaping from CS gas, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1971. © Don McCullin.
to 9 November 2025
Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs
Pictograms are simple and easy-to-understand symbols – they help us all find our way around without the need for written signs. Japan has played an important role in the development of pictograms. Japanese designers created the first fully comprehensive set of pictograms for sports and services for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games so that people from all around the world who spoke different languages could understand what to see and where to go. Later, Japan also helped shape the way we communicate online with the first set of emoji created by Kurita Shigetaka, now used by people all over the world.
Japan House London, 101-111 Kensington High Street, London, W8 5SA
to 9 November 2025
Barbara Kruger – Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The first survey exhibition in Spain of work by Barbara Kruger, which showcases Kruger’s ability to transform architectural spaces into immersive, text-driven experiences. Visitors will step into powerful installations where language takes centre stage, enveloping entire environments with vinyl, soundscapes, and multichannel video works. Many of these pieces revisit and reimagine Kruger’s early works, brought to life anew through digitisation, large-scale LEDs and the integration of sound. Organised in close collaboration with the artist, this exhibition invites visitors to engage with Kruger’s provocative explorations of language, media and meaning in the digital age. Curator: Lekha Hileman Waitoller
Galleries: 201, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 209, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 7pm.
Read Reputations: Barbara Kruger by Karrie Jacobs in Eye 5.
11 November – 12 December 2025
An exhibition celebrating the centennial of the birth of Pentagram co-founder Theo Crosby.
Alongside this, Pentagram will host an informal panel discussion inspired by Theo’s work in architecture, art, design, planning, publishing and teaching.
Panel discussion: Monday 10 November 6:30pm-9pm (RSVP here).
Moderated by Michael Bierut (see Eye 24), the discussion will feature historian Kenneth Frampton, architect Jon Greenfield and urbanist Lucy Musgrave.
Exhibition hours: Open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11-4pm
Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London N1 8LN
CURRENTLY ON
to 14 November 2025
Radical Characters presents the launch of Tone in Tongue, a multi-venue international exhibition running from 18 July to 14 November, 2025, hosted across Otis College of Art and Design, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and the Shanghai Research Institute of Printing Technology. Tone in Tongue, the exhibition title and a play on words, draws from the Hanzi character 同 tóng (together or in common) and is composed of the radicals 凡 fán (all) and 口 kǒu (mouth or gateway), symbolizing a shared language. In the Unicode system, such characters belong to the CJK Unified Ideographs—not merely a technical standard, but a reflection of the collective imprint of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese writing traditions. As a shared character that transforms across time and traverses geographic and cultural boundaries, Tone in Tongue offers a point of entry open to multiple interpretations: What does it mean to share a “common language” in contemporary design?
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) (Baltimore, MD) Bronze Gallery.
to 15 November
Pirouette: Turning Points in Design
This exhibition features objects – from Post-Its to Spanx – that embodied experiments with new materials, technologies, and concepts; offered unconventional solutions to conventional problems; and had a deep impact both on design and the world at large.
Drawn mostly from MoMA’s collection, some of the objects in this exhibition are readily recognisable – like the I ♥️ NY logo (see ‘Milton Glaser: Design eminence’ from Eye 100) or the new Accessible Icon symbol – while others are known only to smaller audiences of fans and experts. Some, like Telfar’s Shopping Bag, dubbed the ‘Bushwick Birkin’, redraw the rules of exclusivity and luxury. Others, like the Walkman Portable Audio Cassette Player or the Macintosh 128K Home Computer, have changed and expanded our private space, allowing us to invite the world into our homes or to carry it with us. Seen together, the objects in Pirouette demonstrate the power of design to translate human experience into tangible forms and envision a better future.
Admission: $17-30
Hours: Monday - Sunday 10:30am-5:30pm, open until 8:30pm on Fridays
MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, 10019, Floor 3
to 16 November 2025
How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design
How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design is a comprehensive exhibition on graphic and industrial design during Salvador Allende’s government in Chile (1970-1973). An exceptional case in the history of design, where the unprecedented act of choosing a revolution through the ballot box led to the first instance of a country to collectively designing through socialism and democracy.
The exhibition, which was on display in Santiago de Chile as part of the programme commemorating the 50th anniversary of the civilian-military coup, featured original pieces and design reproductions aimed at the democratisation of reading and music, the reduction of technological dependence and addressing child malnutrition, among other goals.
One of the most notable pieces in the exhibition is the first complete and functional reconstruction of the Cybersyn operations room, a project for networked communication between the country’s industries to enable participatory management of production, a landmark in cybernetic history.
Visiting hours of the Cybersyn operations room:
Thursdays and Fridays: 11am-2pm / 5pm-8pm, Saturdays and Sundays: 11am-3 pm / 5pm-8 pm. Maximum capacity: 10 people
Admission: from €4 to €8
Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38, 08018 Barcelona
to 24 November 2025
Diagrams
A project by AMO/OMA
This exhibition project, conceived by AMO/OMA (the studio founded by Rem Koolhaas) for the Venetian venue of Ca’ Corner della Regina, analyses the visual communication of data as a powerful device for constructing meanings and as a pervasive tool for analysing, understanding and transforming the world. The aim is to promote dialogue and speculative reflection on the relationship between human intelligence, scientific and cultural phenomena and the creation and dissemination of knowledge.
The project is based on in-depth research conducted by Fondazione Prada in collaboration with Koolhaas and Giulio Margheri, associate architect at OMA, and with the consultancy of Sietske Fransen, Max Planck Research Group Leader, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History.
Opening hours: Mon - Sun 10am - 6pm, Closed on Tuesdays
Admission is €9 - €12, Under 18s are free.
Fondazione Prada Venezia, Ca' Corner della Regina, Santa Croce
to 4 December 2025
Paula Scher has been a pioneering force in graphic design for over five decades. She began her career as an art director in the 1970s and early 1980s, when her eclectic approach to typography became highly influential. In 1991 she became a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, the distinguished international design consultancy, where she leads a team that develops brand identities, signage, packaging and publications for clients all over the world.
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich, Germany
Opening hours: 10:00-18:00 daily; 10:00-20:00 Thursdays; closed Mondays
to 4 January 2026
Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hulten
Grand Palais, 17 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris
to 11 January 2026
This Is What You Get: Stanley Donwood | Radiohead | Thom Yorke
‘This Is What You Get’ reveals how Donwood and Yorke experimented with early technology, and explores the evolution of the images for Radiohead’s legendary albums and Yorke’s later projects. To date the band, which was formed in Oxfordshire in the mid-1980s, has sold 30 million records worldwide. Developed and curated with Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, the show offers a unique opportunity to look at the creative forces behind some of the most important and influential music of the past few decades.
Open every day, 10–5pm. Tickets £8.10-16.20.
Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH
Above. Yorke, Donwood and associate with work. Photo: Julian Broad, courtesy Tin Man Art.
to 11 January 2026
Paul Poiret, Fashion is a Celebration
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents its first major monograph dedicated to Paul Poiret (1879-1944), a key figure in Parisian haute couture at the beginning of the 20th century. Considered the liberator of the female body for having decorsetted it, Paul Poiret reinvented fashion.
This exhibition, designed by Anette Lenz (see Eye 101) offers an immersion into the designer's rich world, from the Belle Époque to the Roaring Twenties. It explores his creations in the fields of fashion, decorative arts, perfume, celebration, and gastronomy. Through 550 works (clothing, accessories, fine arts, and decorative arts), the exhibition highlights Paul Poiret's lasting influence and reveals the breadth of his creative genius. A fascinating journey to meet a man whose legacy continues to inspire contemporary fashion designers, from Christian Dior in 1948 to Alphonse Maitrepierre in 2024.
Admission: €10-€15. Under 25s are free.
Museum of Decorative Arts, 107, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
to 17 January 2026
New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging
Marking the 40th anniversary of New Photography, this exhibition brings together 13 artists and collectives who explore sites of belonging and forms of interconnectedness. Some of the artists weave personal stories within broader political histories to explore intergenerational memory. Others reimagine the idea of the archive to disrupt narratives of the past and imagine future communities.
Lines of Belonging highlights artists working in four cities that have existed as centers of life, creativity, and communion for longer than the nation states in which they are presently situated. From Kathmandu to New Orleans, Johannesburg to Mexico City, these creative practitioners offer slowness, persistence, and care as an antidote to the viral, profit-driven speed of contemporary image consumption, metadata technologies, and artificial intelligence.
Admission: $17-30
Hours: Monday - Sunday 10:30am-5:30pm, open until 8:30pm on Fridays
MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, 10019, Floor 3
to 18 January 2026
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley: The Delusion
THE DELUSION, combines satire and absurd humour with cooperative gaming and participatory theatre to explore the real-world impacts of societal division. Artist and game designer Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley invites visitors into a post-apocalyptic world shaped by a single catastrophic event – the Day of Division. Commissioned and produced by Serpentine Arts Technologies, this is Brathwaite-Shirley’s most ambitious work to date – featuring a new series of video games and works developed collaboratively over the course of the past year with a team of artists, researchers, technologists and members of Danielle’s Black Trans and Queer community.
Admission is free.
Serpentine North Gallery, W Carriage Dr., London W2 2AR
to 22 January 2026
Pressing Issues: Printing Futures, Publishing Resistance
This is a series of online lectures, tutorials, and roundtable conversations discussing the politics of translating, archiving, and publishing.
The Pressing Issues online series explores a variety of approaches to publishing, translation, and archiving as political practices. Open to practitioners within the field as well as researchers and students eager to engage with publishing, the program offers a critical look behind the scenes—examining how it shapes discourse and unpacking the challenges, politics, and hopes embedded in its inherently community-based endeavours.
From October 2025 to January 2026, six online lectures, one tutorial, and one roundtable conversation take a deep dive into the topic—from researching Iranian feminist periodicals and building Pan-African liberation through archiving, to surviving capitalism as a queer publishing house, and fostering community through reading, publishing, and printing. The series explores the materiality of underground print, discusses the politics of translation beyond words, poses access questions in publishing, and examines the intersection of language and activism from within communities.
All events start at 6 pm CE(S)T and the first event is free.
Admission: Solidarity – CHF 290, Standard – CHF 150, Student – CHF 70, Reduced Student –CHF 35
to 25 January 2026
Suzanne Treister: Prophetic Dreaming
Modern Art Oxford presents Prophetic Dreaming, the first major UK institutional retrospective by pioneering digital and para-disciplinary artist Suzanne Treister (See review in Eye 108). Spanning more than 40 years of her radical, visionary practice, the show traces Treister’s enduring engagement with the relationships between new technologies, networks of power, alternative belief systems and potential futures of humanity.
Prophetic Dreaming opens with a display of early paintings from the 1980s, including Venus on TV on the Moon (1986), intimating the techno-mystical nature of her later projects. The exhibition charts Treister’s early explorations with digital technology from her series Fictional Videogame Stills (1991-92), created on an Amiga computer, to SOFTWARE (1993-94), a series of painted boxes and floppy discs which imagine hypothetical software applications, foreshadowing the apps through which we now mediate our daily lives.
See site for additional information.
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP
to 1 February 2026
Museum of the Future – 17 Digital Experiments
This exhibition investigates the potential of digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence and how they can enhance the experience of objects in museums in the future. Seventeen experiments transform the exhibition space into a lab for the future, and give visitors a chance to explore, among others, the largest digital image ever created. Digital technologies offer ways to make otherwise inaccessible objects accessible to the public.
Day admission: Regular CHF 15, Reduced CHF 10
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10am–5pm, Thursday 10am–8pm, Closed on Monday
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse 608005 Zurich
to 1 February 2026
American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) was known for his radical experiments that pushed the limits of photography, painting, sculpture, and film. In the winter of 1921, he pioneered the rayograph, a new twist on a technique used to make photographs without a camera. The rayographs’ transformative, magical qualities led Tristan Tzara to describe them as capturing the moments ‘when objects dream.’
The exhibition will be the first to ‘situate’ this signature accomplishment in relation to Man Ray’s larger body of work of the 1910s and 20s. Drawing from the collections of The Met and more than 50 U.S. and international lenders, the exhibition will feature approximately 60 rayographs and 100 paintings, objects, prints, drawings, films and photographs to highlight the central role of the rayograph in Ray’s boundary-breaking practice.
Free with Museum admission.
[See also ‘Lee Miller’ at Tate Britain from 2 October 2025 – 15 February 2026.]
The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199, 1000 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10028
to 8 February 2026
This exhibition of the American artist David Lynch (see ‘Caught snapping’ on the Eye blog), will for the first time present the artistic work of this icon of world cinema in the Czech Republic, focusing on drawings, photography, lithographs, watercolours, and short experimental and animated films. The exhibition will introduce visitors to works from all of the artist’s creative periods, meaning from the late 1960s to the present.
The exhibition is not designed chronologically, but will follow specific formal or thematic connections that, among other things, characterise David Lynch’s work. A major part of the exhibition consists of works on loan directly from the David Lynch Estate in Los Angeles, but the project will also include many works (lithographs and photographs) created at Item éditions in Paris. ‘Up in Flames’ will also offer a wide range of accompanying programmes focusing in particular on film, contemporary experimental music and literature.
Admission from CZK 120 - CZK 330.
Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11:00am-7:00pm, closed on Mondays.
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Poupětova 1, Praha 7, Czech Republic
to 15 February 2026
With the most extensive retrospective of her photography yet staged in the UK, Tate Britain celebrates Lee Miller (See ‘An eye for a story’ in Eye 107) as one of the twentieth 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 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, including her images of the Egyptian landscape in the 1930s.
Admission: £20, Free for members
Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Photo: Lee Miller, Model with lightbulb, Vogue Studio, London ca. 1943. © Lee Miller Archives.
to 15 February 2026
Both a celebration and a call to action, Design and Disability showcases the radical contributions of Disabled, Deaf, and neurodivergent people and communities to design history and contemporary culture, from the 1940s to now.
Admission: £16.00, Free tickets are available for Disabled people and a companion
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
Above: Rebirth Garments. Photo by Colectivo Multipolar.
to 22 February 2026
In a fascist movement inspired by art, how does a fascist government influence the artists living in its grasp? This exhibition explores this sadly enduring topic, in this case examining how the government of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini created a broad-reaching ‘culture’ that grew with and into the Futurist movement in the period from 1922 until the overthrow and death of ‘Il Duce’ in 1943.
Curator: B.A. Van Sise. Exhibition Design: Ola Baldych
Main Gallery, Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 22 February 2026
Systém Rathouský Metro • Typo • Info Design
Jiří Rathouský is one of the most important graphic designers and typographers of the Czech post-war generation; a hundred years have passed since his birth on 20 April 2024. With his designs, he shaped the public visual environment, and his book and magazine designs entered the intimate space of Czech homes. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication that emphasises his design in the areas of poster design, book graphics and typography, type design, visual style, information design, orientation systems and graphic navigation. It will also contain interesting professional excursions focused on specific topics in Rathouský's life and work.
Admission: 50-190 Kč
Pražákův palác, Moravská galerie v Brně, Husova 18, 662 26 Brno
to 22 February 2026
Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters
The 17 travel posters Dorothy Waugh created for the National Park Service between 1934 and 1936 are significant cultural records of the Great Depression and mark a turning point in American graphic design. Although Waugh began her work for the NPS in 1933 as a landscape architect, she was also a highly trained artist. She advocated for the bureau to produce its own poster campaign, separate from those of the railroads and with its own style and messaging.
The resulting poster series was the first time the government had assigned such an ambitious project to a single designer, let alone a female modernist. Until now, however, there has been little research on them or on their originator. This exhibition and its accompanying book, based on private and government documents, is the first dedicated to the entire campaign, which heralded an outpouring of government posters for the rest of the 20th century.
Admission: $10-$15
Hours: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday – 10am-6pm, Friday – 10am-9pm (*Free admission every Friday and third Sunday of the month)
Programs Gallery, Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10011
to 28 February 2026
Por Fin, Algo Bueno
(Finally, Something Good)
Stefan Sagmeister presents a series of installations, sculptures, and paintings, many of which are historical pieces that he infuses with visual and formal codes, transforming them into communication devices. These works are constructed from his analysis of data from various verifiable sources and show that, with responsible management of information through design, it is possible to reflect on our perception of the current state of the world.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday – 10am-6pm, Thursday 10am-10pm, closed Monday
See ‘The perils of interdisciplinarity’ from Eye 107 and ‘Giant monkeys in Sagmeister’s soul’ from Eye 83.
MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Prol. 20 De Noviembre 166, centro historico, 45100 Zapopan, Jal., Mexico
to 1 March 2026
Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey
This will be the first major survey show of Joy Gregory (b.1959), winner of the eighth annual Freelands Award and one of the UK’s most innovative artists working with photography today. Spanning four decades, this landmark exhibition brings together over 250 works. Since the early 1980s, Gregory has employed a diverse range of media and methods, encompassing Victorian photographic techniques such as cyanotypes and kallitypes, as well as digital media and performance.
Admission: £9.50 – £16.50
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX
Image: Joy Gregory, Autoportrait , 1989 – 1990, Silver Gelatin Lith Print © Joy Gregory. Courtesy the artist & DACS.
to 8 March 2026
The most expansive North American exhibition of Keïta’s work to date, this features 280 works, brought to life with unique insights from his family. Keïta recorded Mali’s evolution through their choices of backdrops, accessories and apparel, from traditional finery to European suits. These bold yet sensitive photographs began to circulate in West Africa nearly 80 years ago. In the early 1990s, they reached Western viewers, rocking the art world and cementing Keïta as the premier studio photographer of twentieth-century Africa – a peer of August Sander, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am – 6pm
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052, US
Above: Seydou Keïta. Untitled, 1954. Vintage gelatin silver print. © SKPEAC / Seydou Keïta, courtesy The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art and Danziger Gallery, NY
to 15 March 2026
Triennale × Milano Cortina 2026
Running until 15 March 2026, the original works will be on display and presented alongside the Olympic and Paralympic torches of Milano Cortina 2026, which were unveiled at Triennale in April. Created by ten Italian artists under the age of 40, the posters offer a creative interpretation of the Games. The result is a collection of artworks that reflects the vibrancy of Italy’s contemporary art scene and the dynamic, energetic spirit of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
The five Olympic Art Posters were designed by Beatrice Alici, Martina Cassatella, Giorgia Garzilli, Maddalena Tesser, and Flaminia Veronesi. The five Paralympic Art Posters were created by Roberto de Pinto, Andrea Fontanari, Aronne Pleuteri, Clara Woods, and Giulia Mangoni.
Admission is free.
Triennale Milano, in the newly renovated Piano Parco galleries, viale Emilio Alemagna 6, 20121 Milan
to 22 March 2026
A complex fashion icon, Marie Antoinette's timeless appeal is defined by her style, youth and notoriety. Explore the lasting influence of the most fashionable (and ill-fated) queen in history – with over 250 years of design, fashion, film and art.
Admission: Weekday £23.00 / Weekend £25.00, Concessions apply
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
to 29 March 2026
Blitz: the club that shaped the 80s
A major exhibition on the legendary Blitz club night that transformed 1980s London style, and generated a creative scene that had an enormous impact on popular culture in the decade that followed — from fashion and music, to film, art and design. Behind a door in a Covent Garden side street, the Blitz club was the place where 1980s style began. Inspired by everything from David Bowie, the punk and soul scenes, to continental cinema and cabaret culture, the brightest young talents of their generation came together to revolutionise fashion, music and design, turning a niche club night into a launchpad for global superstardom. Developed in close collaboration with some of the leading ‘Blitz Kids’ including ‘sonic architect’ Rusty Egan, the exhibition will feature more than 250 items, ranging from clothing and accessories, design sketches, musical instruments (including the SDSV electronic drums designed by Richard James Burgess, flyers, magazines (including The Face and Blitz), furniture, artworks, photography, vinyl records and rare film footage.
The museum is open daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
Admission: £7-£14
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
See also ‘Dress to express!’ on the Eye blog.
Top. Marilyn at Club for Heroes, 1982. Photo Robert Rosen.
to 6 April 2026
Young Graphic Design Switzerland!
Switzerland has a rich tradition in graphic design. What new impulses does the young scene bring? The exhibition highlights the latest work by graphic designers up to their mid-30s and shows how the new generation contributes to the graphic design landscape.
Day admission: Regular CHF 15, Reduced CHF 10
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10am–5pm, Thursday 10am–8pm, Closed on Monday
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Pfingstweidstrasse 968005 Zurich
to 10 May 2026
Laure Prouvost. WE FELT A STAR DYING
A multisensory experience of images, sounds, and scents that intertwines art, philosophy, and science. OGR Turin presents WE FELT A STAR DYING, an immersive installation by artist Laure Prouvost that explores the mysteries of quantum computing and its ability to redefine our relationship with reality.
Presented together with the group exhibition ELECTRIC DREAMS. Art & Technology Before the Internet (see Eye 108), the exhibition project traces a time span from the pioneering experiments of the late twentieth century to contemporary research on quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Admission: €5-7
Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday: 9am-6pm, Friday: 9am-10 pm, Saturday and Sunday: 10am-8pm, Closed on Tuesdays.
OGR Torino, Track 1, Corso Castelfidardo, 22, 10128 Torino TO, Italy
to 28 June 2026
RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of Lawrence Weiner (New York, 1942 – 2021) whose oeuvre is built around the sculptural possibilities of language and highlights the radical position of Weiner, taking as its starting point Weiner’s artistic practice of the 1960s and 1970s. This was a time when the prevailing notions of art, the role of the artist and the collector were critically interrogated, as were traditional structures like museums, galleries and art fairs. As an artist and thinker, Weiner represents a key figure both within this period and within the collection of Annick and Anton Herbert.
RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS shows how Weiner’s work can be installed on a wall; can be translated to books, posters or videos; or can be recorded as audio. By bringing about a dialogue between the different presentation forms, visitors are introduced to his multifaceted oeuvre.
See Eye 29.
Hours: 3pm-7pm
Admission is free.
Herbert Foundation, Coupure Links 627A, Ghent
Above. Lawrence Weiner, LA MER ET LE CIEL, Eric Linard, Strasbourg, 1986)
to 30 May 2027
100 Years – 100 Objects
on the 100th anniversary of Die Neue Sammlung
To mark its 100th anniversary, Die Neue Sammlung is presenting an exhibition of 100 objects. These 100 objects reflect the richness and diversity of Die Neue Sammlung. In addition to numerous iconic works, this selection features many unknown treasures that have never before been seen at the Pinakothek der Moderne.
Opening Hours: Daily 10:00 – 18:00, Thursday 10:00-20:00, Closed Monday
Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Barer Straße 40, 80333 Munich
NOVEMBER 2025
6-21 November 2025
7 November 2025
International Assembly Conference
An all-day design and creative conference. Speakers include: Pentagram, M/M (Paris), OK-RM, Annie Atkins, Studio Yukiko, TEMPLO, Talia Cotton, YONK, Jingqi Fan and Form Play x Procreate. Hosted by Martin Boath and Jack Renwick.
Glasgow, Scotland
11 November – 12 December 2025
An exhibition celebrating the centennial of the birth of Pentagram co-founder Theo Crosby.
Alongside this, Pentagram will host an informal panel discussion inspired by Theo’s work in architecture, art, design, planning, publishing and teaching.
Panel discussion: Monday 10 November 6:30pm-9pm (RSVP here).
Moderated by Michael Bierut (see Eye 24), the discussion will feature historian Kenneth Frampton, architect Jon Greenfield and urbanist Lucy Musgrave.
Exhibition hours: Open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 11-4pm
Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London N1 8LN
13 November 2025
Back for another celebration of the culture of magazines, hosted by founder Jeremy Leslie. Speakers include: Nacho Alegre, co-founder, Apartamento; Charles Emmerson, editor, Translator; Gert Jonkers, editor-in-chief, Fantastic Man and Butt; Joerg Koch, editor-in-chief and creative director, 032c; Natalia Rachlin, editor, Mother Tongue; Chloe Scheffe, designer, Elastic, Here and others; Dagny Tepper, founder, Pilot … plus more to be confirmed.
Conference times: 12 noon to 5pm
Vitsœ, 21 Marylebone Lane London W1U 2NG
13 November 2025
Growing Up In Public with Malcolm Garrett
Malcolm Garrett talks about becoming a designer: ‘Immediately after graduating, almost every design I submitted to a client was usually quickly approved and actually printed … Consequently a fair amount of under-developed, if not downright appalling designs ill-advisedly saw the light of day. This coupled with a youthful and understandably over-zealous appreciation of my own talents, meant that there are a lot of sub-standard designs out there. This talk aims to show that any designer, especially this one, is not able to produce consistently memorable work without first learning a bit more about what it takes to do that.’
Location: St Bride Foundation and online via Zoom.
Doors / bar: 18:15. Talk starts: 19:00. Ends: 20:30 GMT.
In-person tickets: £9, £12, £14, book via Billetto.
13-16 November 2025
13-15 November 2025
2025 SEGD Conference Experience San Francisco
Designing Possible Futures
In San Francisco, the SEGD is gathering to practice radical listening, share bold ideas, and reimagine what design can become when rooted in care, equity and complexity.
With speakers including Eric Heiman (See Eye 108), Nu Goteh, Shoshana Wasserman, Forest Stearns and many more.
Ticket prices here.
San Francisco Marriott Marquis, 780 Mission Street, San Francisco, California
20-21 November 2025
Inspired by The One Club for Creativity’s acclaimed format, the AI Creative Summit brings artificial intelligence to the centre of Europe’s creative conversation.
Designed to spark open and forward-thinking dialogue, the summit explores how creativity and technology converge, covering everything from safeguarding creative integrity and redefining agency models to the rise of new roles, personalised client solutions, and future-proofing culture through upskilling and experimentation. With a mix of keynotes, live Q&As, and open discussions, the event offers a unique platform to navigate the opportunities and challenges of an AI-driven creative future.
Admission: 850,00 €
Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38, c, Sant Martí, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
21 November 2025 to spring 2027
Art Deco: The Golden Age of Poster Design
This exhibition explores the way Art Deco made its mark on London Transport’s art and design heritage. Marking the centenary of the 1925 Paris Exhibition, this is an opportunity to learn about the artistic moment, see unique artworks that have never been on public display and explore the architecture of Charles Holden. More than 100 original posters from London Transport Museum’s collection are on display, alongside loans from significant collections. This includes posters by designers including Edward McKnight Kauffer, Dora Batty, Jean Dupas and Munetsugu Satomi.
Entry to the Global Poster Gallery is free with Museum admission.
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 7BB
From 21 November 2025
Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne
This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum presents an exhibition featuring Payne’s intricately detailed photography of America’s factories. On view until spring 2026, the exhibition brings together more than 70 large-format photographs captured by Payne over a decade-long photographic journey to learn more about the craft of both industrial and artisanal making in the United States.
Photo: Sanding infused fiberglass inside a wind turbine blade shell, 2022, ©Christopher Payne / Esto
21 November 2025 – 26 July 2026
The Design Museum has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson’s personal archives, which the filmmaker has built up over three decades. This is the first time most of these objects will be displayed in Britain. This landmark exhibition will chart the evolution of Wes Anderson’s films from early experiments in the 1990s to recent productions as well as collaborations with key long-standing creative partners. Explore the design stories behind award-winning and iconic films such as ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’, ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ and ‘Isle of Dogs’.
Over 600 objects will bring together the director's meticulous craft of filmmaking through original storyboards, polaroids, sketches, paintings, handwritten notebooks, puppets, miniature models, dozens of costumes worn by much-loved characters, and more.
Admission: £9.84-19.69
The museum opens daily from 10:00 to 17:00.
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG
Photo: Model of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL © Thierry Stefanopoulos – La Cinémathèque française
25 November 2025
Type Tuesday
Eye’s regular event for everyone interested in graphic design, typography, type design, photography, illustration and visual culture. This is the final Type Tuesday of 2025.
Tickets £14, £12 members/concessions, £9 students. Save money by buying tickets in advance – all door sales will be £16 (including concessions).
Doors: 6:30pm. There will be a bar and a pop-up shop selling the forthcomng issue, Eye 109, plus bargain back issues.
Subscribe to the Eye newsletter for more details. See also the Eye blog post about the recent ‘Type Tuesday: My favourite logo’ on 23 Sept 2025.
St Bride Printing Library, St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EQ
All proceeds go to support the St Bride Foundation.
DECEMBER 2025
12 December 2025 – 19 July 2026
This December, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present Art of Noise, an exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking designs that have shaped how people experience music over the past century. Organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and adapted to the history of the New York music scene for its East Coast presentation.
From concert posters to record albums, phonographs to digital music players, handheld radios to sound systems, this exhibition takes visitors on an exploration of how design has transformed people’s relationship to music over the past 100 years. On view across the museum’s entire third-floor gallery, the exhibition will feature more than 300 artworks drawn largely from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and SFMOMA, as well as unique sound environments designed by Stockholm-based studio Teenage Engineering and multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull.
More info on tickets and hours here.
Cooper Hewitt, 2 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128, US
Poster, 11th Summer Jazz Festival, 1979; Takenobu Igarashi (1944-2025) for Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc. Lithograph on paper; 72.8 × 51.5 cm (28 11/16 × 20 1/4 in.).
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Photo: Matt Flynn.
JANUARY 2026
FEBRUARY 2026
MARCH 2026
12 March – 23 August 2026
Serpentine's First David Hockney Exhibition in 2026
Serpentine is honoured to announce an exhibition of recent works by David Hockney (see Eye 42). Presented at Serpentine North, the exhibition will showcase seminal works, shown in the UK for the first time.
The exhibition will include Hockney’s recent works: the celebrated Moon Room which reflects his lifelong interest in the cycle of light and time passing. It will also feature digital paintings from his Sunrise body of work.
A Year in Normandy, a ninety-metre-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.
David Hockney is interested in how art and technology can come together in new ways. Recommending that people slow down and notice the beauty of the world around them, he believes that simple, everyday cycles, like a sunrise, is worth celebrating.
Admission will be free.
Serpentine North Gallery, W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR
ONLINE + ONGOING
Ongoing
Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia
A digital exhibition presenting an extended series of photographs taken by Philip Sayer between 2005 and 2023 within a thirty-mile radius of his Norfolk home.
Through Sayer’s lens, the viewer is transported into a richly atmospheric vision of the region as an impressive sequence of images that sweep across its varied terrain. In his distinctive style – developed over the course of a professional photography career that spans six decades – deep darks meet fluctuating patches of vibrant light and between them a dynamic interplay of bold contrasts emerges.
Ongoing
The 39th Graphic Design Exhibition of the Turkish Graphic Designers Association
This year the annual GMK Graphic Design Exhibition, a recollection of graphic design in Turkey since its debut in 1981, is being held online. The GMK Graphic Design Exhibition Digital Archive will also be publicly accessible in the coming months, displaying this recollection and allowing closer examination of the work and shifting tendencies in Turkish design over the past 39 years.
Online
Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters
Reverting to Type 2020 is an exhibition of letterpress artwork with something to say, an international exhibition showcasing progressive letterpress artwork by 100 artists from seventeen countries, alongside the work of specially invited collaborators, including John Anstiss, Shelley Bird, Sarah Boris, Dennis Gould, Peter Kennard and Stewart Lee. (See Word play in Eye 101).
The full exhibition contents can be seen at: revertingtotype.com
Ongoing
The Letterform Archive have made their Online Archive public access. You can now enjoy virtual access to nearly 1500 objects and 9000 hi-fi images from their collection.
See ‘Access all areas’ by Claire Mason on the Eye blog and ‘Letterform Archive: Objects of inspiration’ in Eye 100.
Ongoing
Soho Photography Quarter is a permanent new outdoor cultural space, presenting the very best of contemporary photography, for free. A tranquil and accessible cultural space only seconds from Oxford Street, Soho, Photography Quarter will present a rotating, open-air programme of site-specific and interactive artworks, which will change twice a year. The presentations will feature a significant art frieze in the main square, large-scale over street banners, plus moving image projections, soundscapes and other interactive works depending on the project.
Soho Photography Quarter, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW
Ongoing
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)
MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building.
MOCA Gaffen, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
See ‘Barbara Kruger: Reputations’ in Eye 5
Above: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, on view October 20, 2018–November 2020 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photo by Elon Schoenholz.
Ongoing
Ruben Pater of Untold Stories at Insights 2020
Focusing on the ethics of design, this lecture discusses the unspoken realities of designers working remotely across the globe, and from there dives into social and political issues such as climate change, surveillance, and affordable housing.
See Peter Buwert’s ‘Design’s ugly truths’, a review of Ruben Pater’s The Politics of Design, in Eye 93.
ongoing
The decade marks a historic turn in art history for photography. No longer was traditional landscape and documentary photography the same. Photography shared the spotlight with painting.
Online exhibition on the website of the PDNB Gallery.
Above: Bill Owens, Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back, 1971.