Exhibitions in London

Royal Academy of Arts

More than 120 works on Rembrandt's printmaking, a lesser-known side of his practice, organised with the Petit Palais in Paris. In the Sackler Wing.

Barbican Centre

Fashion and literature in dialogue: garments, letters and manuscripts of authors from Austen to Baldwin, plus designs by Dior, Erdem and Prada inspired by literary characters.

Hayward Gallery

The Chinese multimedia artist's largest UK solo exhibition to date, tracing her practice from the early 2000s to the present across five thematic chapters, including Whose Utopia, RMB City, Asia One and the new work The Birth.

Tate Modern

Tate's inaugural exhibition devoted to ink painting, bringing together around 80 works by artists from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, organised around the themes of life, the garden and breath.

V&A East Museum · Free

A landmark exhibition of over 200 works across art, fashion, architecture and design, showcasing the creativity, innovation and global influence emerging from South Asia today.

Imperial War Museum

A selection of Dame Vera Lynn's personal objects, including letters, correspondence and uniform items from her recently acquired Second World War archive, on display for 12 months near the entrance to the Second World War Galleries.

Design Museum

The first UK retrospective of artist-designer Es Devlin's 30-year practice in sculpture, performance, language and light, with maquettes and new commissions.

Tate Modern · Free

The 11th annual Hyundai Commission fills the Turbine Hall with a site-specific installation by artist and composer Tarek Atoui, blending music, technology, sculpture and performance into multisensory environments.

National Gallery

For the first time in history, all of Jan van Eyck's surviving painted portraits brought together in one exhibition.

Tate Britain

The 50-year creative partnership of Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, with over 300 works and a recreation of their studio at Charleston in Sussex.

Serpentine Gallery · Free

Pierre Alechinsky's first major solo presentation at a UK public institution in over six decades, timed to his centenary year, at Serpentine South.

Science Museum · Free

Marking 250 years since US independence, this exhibition reveals the science behind the nation's founding through maps, paintings and instruments from the 1760s to 1790s.

Wallace Collection · Free

Acclaimed artist Rachel Kneebone presents nine white porcelain sculptures throughout the Wallace Collection's galleries, including two newly created works, in dialogue with the museum's historic decorative arts.

London Transport Museum

Over 100 original London Transport posters mark the centenary of art deco, with work by design greats like McKnight Kauffer and Jean Dupas, plus Charles Holden's Tube architecture.

Tate Modern

An immersive retrospective of seven decades of kinetic and interactive works, with light sculptures and geometric paintings that turn viewers into participants.

Saatchi Gallery

Six decades of street culture's influence on art, photography, fashion, music and activism: over 100 creators across ten-plus rooms, from graffiti and hip-hop to 2Tone.

Victoria and Albert Museum

A major UK-first exhibition exploring 1,600 years of art and design from one of the world's greatest cities, across the Byzantine and Ottoman empires.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

The first UK museum exhibition dedicated to French painter Jacqueline Marval (1866-1932), bringing together over 40 paintings and lithographs, many never before exhibited, including one of the earliest known female nude self-portraits.

Victoria and Albert Museum · Free

A free display drawn from the V&A's US photography collection, revealing the breadth of the country's photographic traditions from early prints to contemporary work.

Courtauld Gallery

A display of drawings from the age of Bruegel with new discoveries, in the Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery.

Barbican Centre

Photographer Dayanita Singh transforms The Curve into an evolving landscape of "mobile museums" and newly commissioned prints, drawing on her four-decade relationship with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain and the impact of Indian classical music on her practice.

Courtauld Gallery

Pastels by Paula Rego exploring the animal within the human, in the Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries.

National Portrait Gallery

The first major institutional exhibition devoted to the portraiture of Sir Peter Blake, the British Pop artist.

Courtauld Gallery

Companion display in the Project Space to Paula Rego: Dog Woman, with her Pendle Witches prints.

Wellcome Collection · Free

A display exploring HIV and AIDS through stories of protest and care, from the UK's 1980s-90s epidemic to global activism today, via photography, film and archives.

National Gallery · Free

The first exhibition devoted to Catharina van Hemessen, the Renaissance artist who painted herself into history. Free to all visitors.

The Photographers' Gallery · Free

A free outdoor exhibition of Mika Ninagawa's vibrant, dream-like photographs of blooming flowers and goldfish that dissolve the boundary between real and imagined.

Dulwich Picture Gallery

A solo display responding to Van Dyck's Venetia, Lady Digby on her Deathbed: new figurative paintings by Sahara Longe exploring love, loss, grief and heartbreak.

National Portrait Gallery

The first UK retrospective of Mary Cassatt, focused on the women she painted: family, friends, patrons and models. Most works have not been seen in the UK.

Tate Modern

Tate's first exhibition devoted exclusively to Claude Monet, bringing together paintings from lenders worldwide to explore his engagement with time, from instantaneous Impressionist moments to the Water Lilies series.

British Museum

The 70-metre tapestry depicting the 1066 Norman invasion, shown in the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years.

Natural History Museum

Back for another year with 100 new images: the world's best nature photography, from polar landscapes to tropical rainforests, displayed in an immersive exhibition of award-winning shots.

National Gallery

Around 50 German Expressionist paintings from collections worldwide, revealing an alternative story of modern art, 1900–1918.

Design Museum

Major exhibition celebrating contemporary Black designers reshaping British design across furniture, architecture, fashion and installation.

Tate Britain

The artist's first major survey: four decades of installation, photography, collage, film and sculpture exploring collective memory, collaboration and authorship.

Serpentine Gallery · Free

Matt Copson's first major UK solo show at Serpentine North, bringing together laser animation, sculpture, animatronics and sound.

Victoria and Albert Museum

Explores the explosion of music, art and fashion from 1972–85, tracing how a generation of self-determined artists responded to austerity, boredom and political turbulence to spark seismic cultural change.

Science Museum

Blast off into the Solar System in this interactive family show, packed with surprising space science, hands-on experiments and characters from the Horrible Science TV series.