This autumn sees a flurry of big names landing in London. From William Blake at Tate Britain to Lucian Freud at the Royal Academy, these are the shows to put in your diary for the winter season.
A new permanent gallery space entitled Being Human is opening at Wellcome Collection this September. The gallery aims to explore four areas of what of it means to be alive in these uncertain times. Exhibiting artists are to include Yinka Shonibare, known for his design for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square and Heather Sewey-Hagborg, who has created portraits using DNA found on cigarette butts. This promises to be an intriguing exhibition.
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This exhibition will tell the story of 12 women who were instrumental in the success of the Pre-Raphaelites. Hitherto unseen paintings, manuscripts and photographs from collections across the world will bring to light the overlooked role these women played in the development of one of Britain's most famous artistic movements.
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Born in Korea, Nam June Paik (1932 –2006) became one of the leading international lights of electronic art in the 20th century. This autumn, Tate Modern is celebrating his life with a blockbuster exhibition that hopes to do justice the forward-thinking creativity of his pioneering work.
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Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey launches his ambitious exhibition at Tate Britain this autumn in what promises to be a theatrical treat. Leckey's work roots his own personal memories in social history with a mix of nostalgia and gritty realism, taking a bridge he remembers from childhood as inspiration.
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Buddhism is the world's fourth largest religion, with an estimated following of 500 million people. This autumn, the British Library will stage a major exhibition exploring the art of Buddhism with rare artefacts spanning the last 2,000 years.
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Everyone has heard of Tutankhamun, the boy king, whose tomb was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. This exhibition will explore the Carter’s quest to find King Tut, and the meanings behind the objects that were buried with the young pharaoh.
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The Barbican Centre is set to explore the golden era of cafes cabarets and clubs, with an exhibition that casts a global look at these artists’ haunts. Expect a rich selection of prints, props and paraphernalia and immersive life-size reconstructions of some of the famous interiors.
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Mary Sibande’s exhibition I Came Apart at the Seams opens this autumn in conjunction with the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair and it promises to be filled with drama. Sibande is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists – she represented her country at the Venice Biennale in 2011 – but this will be her first solo UK exhibition.
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Most of us know the story of Troy, whether we have diligently read the Iliad or seen the film in which Brad Pitt plays Achilles, the ultimate Greek warrior who meets his end with an arrow through his heel. In November around 300 objects will go on display at the British Museum in an exhibition exploring our fascination with this tragic tale with art from antiquity to the present day.
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The art history of the 'west', of Europe and North America, is too often regarded as independent from the rest of the world. An exhibition coming to the British Museum this autumn hopes to change that. Compiled in collaboration with the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Inspired by the East will examine how western art, particularly in the 19th and 20th century was influenced by the Islamic world.
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Dora Maar (1907–1997) was a French-born photographer and painter with an eye for the unusual. In November a touring exhibition of her work is coming to Tate Modern, with over 200 works spanning a sixty-year career, hoping to lift this extraordinary artist out of Picasso's shadow.
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Rembrandt (1606–69) used light like no other artist. He was an alchemist, able to transform paint into glowing flesh. It is 350 years since Rembrandt’s death, but his paintings remain relevant and innovative. No one before or since has quite captured tenderness and drama in the way that he did and with such stubborn individuality. This exhibition promises to be a treat.
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As one of Britain's most famous cultural figures, William Blake is known as a prolific poet, a radical political thinker and a technically innovative visual artist. Yet in his lifetime, the father of the Romantic movement went widely unrecognised. In the largest exhibition of Blake's work since 2001, Tate Britain sheds some light on man behind the art.
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An exhibition of works by sculptor Anthony Gormley will open in September, spanning all 13 rooms of the Royal Academy’s Main Galleries. Gormley, who is best known for the Angel of the North, experiments with the industrial, the organic and with cutting edge technology, taking the human form as his starting point.
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Lucian Freud was a ruthless artist: his unflinching gaze, his analytic scrutiny of anatomy and psychology, and his 'purely autobiographical' approach to portraiture have earned him a callous reputation and worldwide recognition. In a world first, the Royal Academy of Arts brings together more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which the modern master turns his voyeuristic eye onto himself.
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Britain's most revered queen of optical experiences returns to London in October with her first major large-scale museum retrospective held in the UK in 16 years. Organised by the National Galleries of Scotland in partnership with the Hayward Gallery, this comprehensive exhibition charts the pivotal moments in Riley's prolific career, from her early monochrome paintings of the 1960s to recent large-scale wall paintings.
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This autumn visitors to the National Gallery will have the opportunity to see Gauguin’s works in an entirely new light. The first ever exhibition focusing solely on Gauguin’s portraits aims to highlight the latter part of the artist's career, from the mid-1880s to his death, highlighting his transition from Impressionism to Symbolism with approximately 50 works from collections all over the world.
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