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Viewing Shirin Neshat and Sarah Brahim: Cartographies of Presence at Albion Jeune

Shirin Neshat and Sarah Brahim present a dual exhibition at Albion Jeune – opening Saturday – a dialogue around their parallel practices and their ongoing concerns for the intersection of the personal and the political. Spanning film, photography, performance and poetry, the exhibition explores the artists’ shared focus on the body as a “language of memory, ritual and defiance”.

Award-winning Neshat is known for her iconic black and white films, often unfolding in barren landscapes and centring around female protagonists in search of something – highly charged and poetic, Iranian-born Neshat, who has lived in the US since the 1970s, has reinvented the idea of Islamic art. Brahim belongs to a different generation. Born in 1992 in Riyadh, she trained as a dancer in the US and the UK. Her performances and immersive video works are rooted in the bodily, physical experience, a perfect pairing with Neshat’s works, in which the body becomes a site of protest, solidarity and resistance.

The exhibition will include Neshat’s iconic 2001 film, Passage, and a newly commissioned film and photography work by Brahim, In Search of An Honest Map.

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Dates
06 September 2025 — 04 October 2025

Viewing Flora Yuknovich: Four Seasons at The Frick Collection

British painter Flora Yukhnovich has made her name by reviving the Rococo with a contemporary edge, and now she takes on one of its great masters. For her first US museum commission, she transforms the Frick’s Cabinet Gallery with Four Seasons, a site-specific mural responding directly to François Boucher’s eighteenth-century series of the same name.

Yukhnovich’s work is immersive, atmospheric and unapologetically lush, blurring figuration and abstraction in waves of colour and movement. Here, the blossoms of spring, the heat of summer, the pleasures of autumn, and the shimmer of winter are reimagined as a continuous, enveloping landscape that plays on Boucher’s playful amorous encounters while amplifying their fantasy and excess.

Installed in the very room that once housed the museum’s Boucher panels, Yukhnovich’s mural feels both like a return and a reinvention – proof of how the language of Rococo, at once decadent and theatrical, can speak powerfully to today’s hyper-visual world.

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Dates
03 September 2025 — 09 March 2026

Viewing Brothers: Liam and Noel Through the Lens of Kevin Cummins at Wembley Park

They’re Britain’s most notorious siblings, the pair who defined Brit Pop and an era of British culture, but this free outdoor exhibition at Wembley Park presents Liam and Noel Gallagher perhaps as you’ve never seen them before. Featuring in twenty large-format photographs by Kevin Cummins taken in 1994 – before the release of their iconic debut album, Definitely Maybe, released in August that year – the exhibition is a chance to see the beginnings of the mythological brothers.

Rather than focus on fraternal tensions, power struggles and rivalry often amped up in the press about the Gallaghers (often with unforgettable quotes, such as the infamous 2009 GQ interview in which Noel called Liam “the angriest man you’ll ever meet. He’s like a man with a fork in a world of soup”) these early, never-seen-before pictures reveal a close brotherly bond, affection, warmth and humour shared between the two, shot in unguarded, behind-the-scenes moments at a pivotal moment in their career.

Taken from Cummins’ personal archive and displayed along Olympic Way, the exhibition brings to life a selection of work from The Masterplan, Kevin Cummins’ 2025 book, and draws on a wider archive of over 150 photographs. The exhibition coincides with the sell-out Oasis reunion concerts at Wembley Stadium taking place throughout August and September.

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Storehouse, including over 100 mini
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and sides of the storage racking. Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

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