THE BEST EXHIBITIONS IN 2025
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift, celebrates iconic fashion images and portraits from The Face, a trail-blazing youth culture and style magazine that has shaped the creative and cultural landscape in Britain and beyond.
If you have the change go to the Lunchtime conversation: behind the scenes of The Face magazine and hear behind-the-scenes stories as Nick Logan and Neville Brody speak about the early days of The Face magazine.
On view 20 feb until 18 may at National Portrait Gallery, London.
Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami; an exhibition of new paintings by Murakami at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill gallery in London. In this presentation, the artist pursues his fascination with the narrative of Japanese art by offering his own interpretations of historical paintings by “Murakamizing” these iconic images.
Don’t miss out on his joyful new collaberation with Louis Vuitton: LV x Murakami collection for Spring 2025.
On view until 8 March 2025 at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London.
Christine Sun Kim, All Day All Night; is the artist’s first major museum survey. The exhibition foregrounds how she utilizes sound, language, and the complexities of communication in her wide-ranging approach to art making. All Day All Night is featuring drawings, site-specific murals, paintings, video installations, and sculptures.
On view 8 Februari until July 2025 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style; the upcoming Costume Institute show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will take the Black dandy as its subject, examining the importance of clothing and style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora. The Met Gala on May 5 will be it’s opening gala and the artist Tyler Mitchell will be photographing the catalogue.
On view 10 may until 26 oct 2025 at The Metropolatain Museum of Art, New York.
Suzanne Valadon, like many women artists, began as a model before establishing herself as a painter. Self-taught, she forged her own path with a distinctive use of flattened color blocks and heavy outlines and is especially associated with her uneroticized portrayal of the nude. She was also heavily involved in the Paris art scene of the 1890s and early 20th century. Big, bold, and colorful, this exhibition is surely going to confirm Valadon’s importance.
On view from 15 January until 25 May 2025 at Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Rashid Johnson, A Poem for Deep Thinkers; this major solo exhibition highlights Johnson’s role as a scholar of art history, a mediator of Black popular culture, and as a creative force in contemporary art. A diverse body of work that draws upon an array of disciplines such as history, philosophy, literature, and music. Almost 90 works—from black-soap paintings and spray-painted text works to large-scale sculptures, film, and video—will fill the museum’s rotunda, including Sanguine, a monumental site-specific work on the building’s top ramp with an embedded piano for musical performances.
On view 18 April until 18 Januari 2026 at Guggenheim Museum, New York.
FIRST IMAGE KATE MOSS BY GLEN LUCHFORD, MARCH 1993 © GLEN LUCHFORD. STYLING VENETIA SCOTT.
CURATED BY AFRA RE
