If you’re looking for inspiration, or maybe just some creative escapism this Spring, submerging yourself in an exhibition could be just the antidote. We’ve cherry picked a wide spectrum of exhibitions for you to choose from ranging from emerging photographers at the MOMA to a homage to our beloved canines at The Wallace Collection in London, take your pick and get lost in whimsy this Spring.
Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney
Where: The Wallace Collection, London
When: 29 March – 15 October 2023
What better way to enter spring than visiting an exhibition entirely centred on our wholesome love for dogs. This spring, the Wallace Collection will open Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney. The exhibition explores our devotion to four-legged friends across the centuries. Through carefully selected paintings, sculptures, drawings, works of art and even taxidermy, the exhibition highlights the unique bond between humans and their canine companions.
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Bob Dylan Retrospectum
Where: MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
When: Until 30 April 2023
Did you know Bob Dylan was a visual artist as well as musician? Over the last 20 years, Dylan has published nine books featuring his drawings and paintings.
This exhibition marks Dylan’s life-long journey of creating visual art, emphasizing themes of personal journeys and geographies—both inner and exterior.
Bob Dylan is an iconic figure whose talents and work span mediums and disciplines and has maintained a devoted practice of visual art for many decades. Retrospectrum is the first European monographic exhibition to explore Dylan’s expansive visual oeuvre.
“Bob Dylan Retrospectum” closes on April 30. You can buy your tickets online.
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Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water
Where: Pallant House Art Gallery, Chichester
When: 12 November 2022 until 23 April 2023
The first major exhibition to celebrate Sussex as a place of inspiration for artists at our local gallery, Pallant House.
Sussex has a unique sense of place. Its distinctive chalk-cliff coastline and the rolling hills of the South Downs have inspired artists for centuries. From some of our greatest landscape artists like Constable and Turner to contemporary artists working in the area today, this exhibition lets you discover Sussex as a place of creativity, exploration, retreat and alternative lifestyles.
Whether it’s William Nicholson’s beautiful, sparse paintings of the Downs, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell’s colour-drenched depictions of the pond at Charleston, or Lee Miller’s photographs of the farms around her house, this wide-ranging exhibition, which encompasses print, sculpture, photography and digital works, will show you Sussex as you have never seen it before.
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“Being: New Photography 2018”
Where: Museum of Modern Art, New York When: Through August 19
Every two years, MoMA’s celebrated New Photography exhibition series presents urgent and compelling ideas in recent photography and photo-based art. This year’s edition, Being, asks how photography can capture what it means to be human.
At a time when questions about the rights, responsibilities, and dangers inherent in being represented—and in representing others—are being debated around the world, the works featured in Being call attention to assumptions about how individuals are depicted and perceived.
This highly anticipated annual photography show shines a spotlight on emerging artists, especially those pushing the boundaries of the medium. Don’t miss trending talents B. Ingrid Olson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Harold Mendez.
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Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture
Where: Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London
When: 9 March – 10 September 2023
Anthony Caro (1924–2013), widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s most influential sculptors, is the subject of Pitzhanger’s spring exhibition, opening on what would have been his 99th birthday.
Caro heralded a revolution in sculpture in the 1960s, redefining what sculpture was and what it could be. His abstract constructions in painted steel overturned conventional ideas about materials, methods, surface, scale and space. Architecture was an important source of his inspiration, which he described as “perhaps the purest abstract visual form.”
The exhibition will focus on the resurgence and development of architectural themes within Caro’s sculpture, comprising 16 key works created between 1983–2013.
Find out more and book here.