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The best exhibitions in London and the UK to book for June 2025
Below is a round-up of the best art our critics have seen in recent months across the UK. From Renaissance chalk sketches to rotting apples, miniatures and Picasso prints, it's a varied list. Which exhibitions have you enjoyed recently? Let us know in the comments. Resistance — Steve McQueen leads us on a voyage of discovery Turner Contemporary, Margate From the militant suffrage movement in 1903 to the anti-Iraq war protests in 2003, when it matters, we march. This Turner Contemporary exhibition, Resistance: How Protest Shaped Britain and Photography Shaped Protest, curated by the artist and film director Steve McQueen, is a fascinating, deeply researched, if low-key look at a century of protest in Britain through photography. To Jun 1, ND Read our review Edvard Munch Portraits — the Scream painter shows his social side National Portrait Gallery, London Edvard Munch's forensic powers are on full display in the first British exhibition to focus solely on his portraits. Known for his 'subject' paintings, which cast friends and family as the dramatis personae in tableaux that communicate a universal emotion (The Scream being the most famous), he was also a prolific portraitist. To Jun 15, ND Anselm Kiefer: Early Works — an artist under the shadow of the Nazis Ashmolean, Oxford It's one hell of a moment for an exhibition of the early works of Anselm Kiefer. It was probably conceived as celebratory — the German artist's 80th birthday lands on March 8; this show at the Ashmolean opens just before an unprecedented presentation across two Amsterdam museums, the Van Gogh and the Stedelijk. But with the rise of the AfD in Germany, and a shift to the right across Europe, a return to these works, created between 1969 and 1982, has suddenly become urgent. To Jun 15, ND COURTESY NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350 — an unmissable National Gallery hit National Gallery The show focuses on four painters — Duccio, Simone Martini and the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti — to reveal them as pioneers, and uses textiles and finely wrought items such as carved ivories and richly decorated reliquaries to show how these four artists were nurtured by this European centre for trade. It is a stunner. London, to Jun 22, ND Andy Warhol: Portrait of America — depicting a dark side to the USA MK Gallery, Milton Keynes This exhibition at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, put together from the Artist Rooms collection, goes back to basics in an elegant primer showing how Andy Warhol — uniquely and incisively — held up a mirror to postwar consumerist America. It takes a chronological, rather than thematic, approach. Each room represents a decade, from his days as a commercial artist in the 1950s to the 1980s (he died in 1987). To Jun 29, ND Victor Hugo's The Cheerful Castle, 1847, on show at the Royal Academy PARIS MUSÉES/MAISONS DE VICTOR HUGO PARIS-GUERNESEY Astonishing Things: Drawings of Victor Hugo — strange and marvellous Royal Academy, London Though many of us won't actually have read either of the 19th-century writer Victor Hugo's most famous novels (Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), there's a chance that we've all seen at least one of them, either on film or on stage. Very few will be familiar with the body of work now on display — his strange and marvellous drawings. To Jun 29, ND Read our review Bob Dylan — the musician is a good painter Halcyon Gallery, London There will be people who pooh-pooh yet another exhibition of paintings by Bob Dylan as just another rock star's dabblings. But over the past 20 years (he started exhibiting in 2007 at the Chemnitz art museum in Germany) he has developed into a rather good, interesting painter. To Jul 6, ND Leigh Bowery! at Tate Modern is a fascinating homage to an Eighties icon Tate Modern, London Through artworks by his friends and peers (including portraits by Lucian Freud), garments (or 'Looks') from his archive, films, postcards, sketches, letters, magazines and what feels like hundreds of photographs, we follow the journey of a suburban Melbourne lad. It's a story that runs from his arrival in London in 1980, fresh out of fashion college, through his entry to the scene, his impact on clubland, his work with the choreographer Michael Clark and his shift into performance. To Aug 31, ND Hiroshige — an entrancing trip to 19th-century Japan British Museum, London Utagawa Hiroshige is among the very most popular — not to mention prolific — artists in Japan. Yet to many of us he may be familiar only through the work of his most famous fan in the West. Vincent van Gogh was a passionate admirer, which is why some of the images that now go on display at the British Museum may start ringing bells. To Sep 7, Rachel Campbell-Johnston Giuseppe Penone — breathe in the scent of nature Serpentine Gallery, London The idea of breath as sculpture has always interested Penone, and though he's never quite managed to make that work, he symbolises it here with a set of lungs formed from golden branches. Not every work here speaks clearly, but something about the show as a whole evokes an inexplicable wish to linger, basking in the restfulness that permeates the galleries. And then you realise that, just beyond the doors, there's a whole 275 acres of nature. Time to get into it. To Sep 7, ND Read our review Do Ho Suh — an exquisite meditation on the perfect home Tate Modern, London At Tate Modern, the great Korean artist Do Ho Suh has fashioned hundreds from colour-coded fabric according to the places he's inhabited, and installed them on four transparent panels modelled on his present London abode. The effect is at once playful and haunting, a ghostly meeting of places and time zones that poses questions about the meaning of home. To Oct 19, Chloe Ashby Read our review Ancient India: Living Traditions — gods and rituals come to life British Museum, London Considering the sheer size of the country, you might expect an exhibition entitled Ancient India: Living Traditions to be a sprawling mess. However, it's surprisingly compact, perhaps because if they were to go big, we'd have to go home well before we got to the end. May 22 to Oct 19, Nancy Durrant Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur — a mischievous romp Wallace Collection, London Grayson Perry does not love the Wallace Collection. The decadence, the grandeur, the conspicuous expense trigger his snobbery. It was a sticking point when he was invited to create an exhibition of new work responding to the collection. So Perry conjured someone to love the Wallace for him: Shirley Smith, a fictional artist, inspired by Madge Gill, a real 'outsider artist'' who exhibited at the Wallace during the Second World War — a woman who suffered traumatic events but found solace (and acclaim) through art. To Oct 26, ND Read our review Liliane Lijn — first major show for the 85-year-old Tate St Ives Now 85, and having lived in London since 1966, it seems bizarre that Liliane Lijn's Arise Alive exhibition at Tate St Ives is the New York-born artist's first major solo survey show in a UK museum. It's not as if she's an unknown. In the late 1950s she knocked about with ageing surrealists Max Ernst and André Breton in Paris, a rare, prominent and much younger woman in that rather bitchy scene (some of her intricate, dreamy Sky Scrolls drawings from this period indicate a fascination with that surrealist staple, the unconscious). Right now, one of her kinetic pieces has its own room in the Electric Dreams exhibition at Tate Modern. This, though, is all her. To Nov 2, ND Seeing Each Other — Freud, Bacon, Emin and Kahlo all join the party Pallant House, Chichester Looking is what artists do. But at what? At each other, endlessly, on the evidence of this new exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, which looks back over 125 years at the ways that artists working in Britain have portrayed each other. To Nov 2, Nancy Durrant Read our review JMW Turner's Upnor Castle, Kent,1831-2 THE WHITWORTH, THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Turner: In Light and Shade — a gorgeous display of astonishing scenes Whitworth, Manchester John Ruskin was a funny old stick, but when it came to his hero JMW Turner, whose 250th birthday falls this year, he really knew what he was talking about. 'He paints in colour, but he thinks in light and shade,' he wrote in 1843, and in this exhibition at the Whitworth in Manchester, which focuses on Turner's prints — in particular the Liber Studiorum series, which, despite the gallery's significant Turner holdings, hasn't been shown here in full since 1922 — this is borne out gloriously. To Nov 2, ND Read our review Making Egypt — much more than mummies Young V&A, London For its older or younger visitors, the V&A's remit is not simply the history of the past but also its interaction with the design of the present. So in Making Egypt, alongside old fabrics are new dresses; alongside ancient stone carvings are modern ones made with the same techniques. As much space is given for the practice sketches of an ancient scribe — working out how to depict owls and cats and hieroglyphs — as for the finished result. To Nov 2, Tom Whipple Read our review Cartier — dazzled by diamonds in a five-star show V&A, London Curators have kept it simple for this dazzling show, just a lot of exquisite objects of outstanding beauty, quality and ingenuity alongside occasional drawings from the Cartier archives to illustrate their development, all mostly spotlit against black. To Nov 12, ND Pirates — the bloody truth behind Captain Pugwash
Forbes
2 days ago
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Hollywood Cool For Summer—Steve McQueen's Iconic Persol 714 Is Back
The actor Steve McQueen — the King of Cool - in a pair of Italian brand Persol's iconic 714 sunglasses. Persol- Mptvimages In 1968, Hollywood actor Steve McQueen stepped onto the set of The Thomas Crown Affair and, with a single accessory, changed the course of eyewear history — a pair of Persol 714 sunglasses. With their foldable design, Light Havana acetate frames, and blue crystal lenses, the glasses weren't just stylish — they became instantly iconic. Founded in 1917 by Giuseppe Ratti in Turin, Italy, Persol — short for per il sole, meaning 'for the sun' — quickly became a respected name across Europe, particularly among aviators, race car drivers, and adventurers. The brand's iconic 649 model , originally introduced in 1957 for Turin tram operators, gained cult status when Marcello Mastroianni wore it in the 1961 film Divorce Italian Style. Building on the 649's success, Persol debuted the 714 in 1960 — the world's first folding sunglasses. Retaining the signature Meflecto temples (engineered for a flexible, comfortable fit) and the distinctive Supreme Arrow hinge (inspired by ancient swords), the 714 could collapse into the size of a single lens, and making it a favorite among style-conscious travelers. The latest iteration of Persol's 714: A leather foldable case, a leather cord with matching pouch and a vintage-style envelope filled with rare archival materials. Persol And then came McQueen. In The Thomas Crown Affair, he played a billionaire playboy orchestrating a daring heist — but it was his Persol 714 sunglasses that stole every scene. Whether racing dune buggies along the Massachusetts coast, piloting a yellow sailplane, or sharing a silent chess match with Faye Dunaway, his shades were always front and center. McQueen wore the 714s in Bullitt (1968), famous for its iconic car chase, Le Mans (1971), a tribute to the 24-hour motor race, and The Getaway (1972), a high-stakes crime thriller. Actor James Franco at the Cannes Film Festival in Steve McQueen's 714 model of Persols. Persol This spring, Persol released its latest edition of the 714 Steve McQueen model — unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival at Casa Persol, the brand's private terrace at La Terrasse by Albane at the JW Marriott. Staying true to its heritage, this special edition features a folding premium acetate pilot frame, Barberini mineral glass lenses, and four bold colorways. A discreet plaque inside the temple bears the year '1968,' honoring McQueen's role in The Thomas Crown Affair. The latest edition preserves Persol's signature elements: a folding pilot frame crafted in premium acetate, Barberini mineral glass lenses, four colorways, and on the inner temple of the limited editions, a discreet plaque bearing the year '1968.' Persol The new minamalist collector's box contains a foldable leather case and a matching leather cord with its own pouch—embossed with the Steve McQueen logo, alongside a vintage-style envelope filled with rare archival treasures honoring the actor's legacy. Over the decades, Persol has graced the faces of cinema royalty including Greta Garbo, Daniel Craig (Casino Royale), George Clooney (Ocean's Thirteen), and Tom Cruise. These days, new-generation icons like James Franco and Australian actor Jacob Elordi — a self-declared McQueen fan — show Persol's staying power. Some accessories fade. Some stay in fashion.
Tatler Asia
3 days ago
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Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco: Tag Heuer unveils two new Monaco timepieces
The controversial two-stop rule aside, the race was the perfect setting for Tag Heuer to unveil the new Monaco watches Tag Heuer is almost synonymous with the Monaco Grand Prix, serving as the official watch of the race since 2011 before it finally culminated as the title partner this year. The Formula 1 Tag Heuer Grand Prix de Monaco was thus the best setting to launch not one but two new Monaco timepieces, the iconic square sport watch that propelled Swiss manufacture to the forefront of motorsports. Read more: CEO Antoine Pin on Tag Heuer's return as the Official Timekeeper of Formula 1 The Tag Heuer Monaco Chronograph x Gulf features the instantly recognisable Gulf livery, its striking light blue and orange stripes paired with a case of grade-2 titanium, sandblasted for a tactile appearance. The white textile strap is made from fire-resistant Nomex, commonly used for professional racing suits. The fabric is soiurced from the same American manufacturer who made the suits worn by Steve McQueen in the movie, Le Mans . Limited to 971, it also draws from history for the movement—the legendary Calibre 11 with the winding crown on the left side of the watch.
Stuff.tv
6 days ago
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- Stuff.tv
TAG Heuer launches a trio of Monaco watches for the Monaco GP, and I'm having trouble choosing a favourite
In celebration of its historic new role as title sponsor of the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco, TAG Heuer has unleashed not one, not two, but three new Monaco chronographs. Each one is loaded with motorsport heritage, technical brilliance and enough flair to leave any racing fan or watch geek in a cold sweat. And frankly, I'm stuck, because picking a favourite is like choosing your favourite child – if your kids were Swiss, square, and crafted in titanium. Let's start with the TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph Stopwatch, arguably the most nostalgic of the bunch. Inspired by Heuer's handheld stopwatches from the '60s and '70s, this limited run of 970 pieces is a masterclass in retro-cool. There's a black circular display set into a silver dial, surrounded by a red minute track that looks ripped straight off a vintage stopwatch. The subdials, all crisp whites and blacks, are all gloriously retro, while the red chronograph hand delivers a satisfying visual pop. It even uses the vintage Heuer logo, which I love. The case is DLC-coated titanium – light, tough, and very modern – but the left-hand crown keeps things faithful to the Monaco lineage. Under the hood, it's packing the Calibre 11, the same movement that powered the original 1969 Monaco. Add a black perforated racing-style leather strap and bespoke packaging, and you've got a watch that feels like a time capsule. It's available now for $9850 in the US and £8600 in the UK, from TAG Heuer's website. So, that's the heritage pick. But if you like your icons with stripes and movie-star swagger, the TAG Heuer Monaco Chronograph x Gulf is hard to beat. Another limited edition (971 pieces, nodding to the year Le Mans hit cinemas), this one celebrates Steve McQueen's connection to TAG Heuer and Gulf's legendary racing livery. Think iconic blue and orange racing stripes running straight down the dial – a direct callback to McQueen's racing suit and his Porsche 917K in Le Mans. Again, we get the Calibre 11 and the signature left-side crown, which isn't just quirky – it's historically accurate. But it's the dial that steals the show. With a finely grained silver base, a vintage Heuer logo, and the Gulf emblem at six o'clock. Again, available now on TAG Heuer's website, priced at $9550 in the US and £8300 in the UK. And then there's the wild card: the TAG Heuer Monaco Split-Seconds Chronograph. If the Stopwatch is a tribute to the past and the Gulf edition is a celebration of pop culture, this is rooted firmly in the future. Crafted entirely in a new form of titanium called TH-Titanium – developed in-house over four years – it's not just light (86 grams total), it's got a texture that looks like it's been struck by lightning. Each case is unique, shaped by a proprietary thermal process, making it look more like a science experiment than a watch. It's powered by the Calibre TH81-00, a hand-wound movement developed with Vaucher, also crafted in titanium. It's a rattrapante movement, which means it can time two events simultaneously – perfect if you're tracking lap times or just want to flex on your Daytona and El Primero-wearing friends. The skeleton dial and sapphire crystal caseback expose everything, right down to the lime green rattrapante hand that pops against the darkened movement. The TAG Heuer Monaco Split-Seconds Chronograph is available now, with the price available on request. So, which one wins? While I love all three for very different reasons, I think the Stopwatch takes it, but no matter which watch you choose, each is a love letter to the Monaco Grand Prix and to TAG Heuer's legacy. Liked this? My favourite Zenith watch has just been upgraded with a stunning stone dial
Hypebeast
6 days ago
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TAG Heuer Unveils Three New Timepieces Ahead of Monaco Grand Prix and Indy 500
Summary TAG Heueris set to mark the upcomingMonaco Grand Prixand Indianapolis 500 racing circuits with three new watch releases: the Monaco Chronograph Stopwatch, the Monaco Chronograph x Gulf and the Monaco Split-Seconds Chronograph 2025. As the first title partner in the history of theFormula 1Grand Prix de Monaco, the Swiss luxury watchmaker introduces these limited-editionMonacomodels to commemorate significant moments in motorsport, reflecting the brand's deep roots in the racing world. Among the new releases, the limited-edition Monaco Chronograph Stopwatch draws inspiration from emblematic Heuer stopwatches of the '60s and '70s. Housed in a 39mm titanium case coated in black DLC, the timepiece is designed to reflect the precision and intensity of high-level racing, channeling the clear design codes of vintage stopwatches with high-contrast, monochromatic subdials and markers. Maintaining its mechanical connection to the original Monaco, this watch is powered by the Calibre 11. Designed with a black perforated calfskin strap, it pays homage to the racing gloves worn by generations of drivers, reinforcing its motorsport legacy. Priced at 9,600 CHF (approx $11,614 USD), this timepiece is produced in a limited run of 970 pieces — a number signifying the decade that profoundly shaped the brand and its connection to motorsport. In a new limited-edition chronograph, TAG Heuer andGulfreconnect with the golden era of motorsport and the cinematic legacy that solidified the iconic status of the Monaco watch. Limited to 971 pieces, this model references 1971, the year the filmLe Manswas released, solidifying Steve McQueen's legend. This collaborative model celebrates the instantly recognizable Gulf livery, with its light blue and bright orange combination that became a fixture in endurance racing during the late 1960s and '70s. Its white straps are also crafted by Indiana-based manufacturer Hinchman, using the same fabric as McQueen's original racing suit, making this limited edition particularly special. The Gulf-collaborated model features a retail price of 9,300 CHF (approx $11,251 USD). The Monaco Split-Seconds Chronograph 2025 edition introduces TH-Titanium, a newly developed in-house case material defined by its natural, irregular pattern that shifts dynamically with light. Measuring 41 mm in diameter, the timepiece features a sapphire bezel and dial, inviting enthusiasts to admire the seamless interplay of form and function. Beneath the transparent dial, bold black opaline chronograph counters create sharp contrast, while the rattrapante hand, finished in vibrant lime green, enhances both visibility and aesthetic appeal. This same lime hue is subtly infused into the titanium rattrapante pusher and counter hands, reinforcing its motorsport-inspired design. Flipping the watch over reveals a sapphire crystal caseback, offering an unobstructed view of the Calibre TH81-00 movement, notable for its intricate symmetry and fine hand-finishing. Priced at 145,000 CHF (approx. $175,417 USD), each timepiece is individually numbered and secured with a hand-stitched black calfskin strap, featuring a textile pattern and a titanium clasp.
