Art & Design Now 

25 January - 6 April 2014,The Royal Academy, London

Seven architectural practices from six countries and four continents.

23,000 square feet. 72 days.

An interactive new exhibition, Sensing Spaces will be held in the Main Galleries of the Royal Academy and is set to explore how space and architecture affects us.
The Royal Academy of Arts has called on seven leading architects and urban designers and set them a challenge - to create site-specific installations; the shared brief is to evoke the experience and power of architecture...

15 November 2013 – 9 March 2014 Design Museum, London

The Design Museum invites you into the world of fashion designer Paul Smith, a world of creation, inspiration, collaboration, wit and beauty.

Looking to the future as well as celebrating his career to date, the exhibition references Paul Smith's influences and fashion designs, charting the rise of one of the world's leading fashion brands...

Until 9 February 2014 Barbican Art Gallery, London

Pop Art exploded onto the scene in the late 50’s and was a major cultural influence into the 1970’s and beyond. From the very beginning Pop Art found colourful expression in art and design, celebrating the optimistic post-war consumer culture of TV, advertising and technology...

5 April - 27 July 2014 Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Gucci, Pucci, Fiorucci! Italian fashion is

synonymous with glamour and style. This major exhibition presents the designers and outfits that have shaped Italy’s journey from post war ruins to become the world’s leading fashion nation.

16 October 2013 – 9 March 2014, Tate Modern, London

Paul Klee (1897-1940) is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century; his work is colourful and accessible, radical and challenging. A prolific artist, he created more than 10,000 drawings, prints and paintings in his life time, as well as teaching at the progressive Bauhaus art school in Germany, and writing extensively on art & colour theory.

The Tate exhibition covers his 3 decades long career, from his emergence in Munich in the 1910’s, through his prolific years teaching and painting in the 1920’s, to works done at the outbreak of World War Two...

10 July 2013 – 16 February 2014, V&A, London

Club to Catwalk celebrates the fusion and global impact of the original and exciting London clubbing and fashion scenes, during the 1980’s; tracing the infiltration of club-wear to catwalk shows through the decade.

The London style emerged from clubs such as The Camden Palace, Taboo and Blitz with its strict “only weird and wonderful“ door policy.

Magazines such as The Face, brought the latest trends and energy of the 80’s London tribes: Fetish, Goth, Rave, High Camp and New Romantics to the mainstream and changed the way a generation expressed itself through fashion and music...

Until 2 March 2014 Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bing has transformed the V&A’s John Madejski Garden with a new installation inspired by the classic Chinese fable Tao Hua Yuan (The Peach Blossom Spring), where a lost fisherman discovers a wonderland hidden behind a mountain where inhabitants live in harmony with nature. Inspired by the story, Xu Bing has transformed the garden into an idealised landscape...

Tate Britain Millbank, London.

Tate Britain has re-opened after a major 2-year renovation with the BP Walk through British Art, a show of 500 works of art from the past 500 years. The exhibition is arranged chronologically, taking you year-by-year, room-by-room from 1545 to the present day. You’ll get to see work by everyone from John Constable and Joshua Reynolds, to Gillian Ayres and Sarah Lucas. As well as the big names, you’ll also see work by less well-known artists. The rehang sees the return of plenty of art to the galleries, after the years when there was more blank wall on display than artwork.