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Viewing The World of Tim Burton, The Design Museum

Does anything scream Halloween more than Tim Burton? To the American artist and filmmaker growing up Frankenstein, King Kong and Dracula were always “the good guys”. The master of the misfit and the uncanny in contemporary visual culture is now the subject of a blockbuster exhibition at the Design Museum, exploring the director’s collaborations with designers over the last four decades.

The exhibition charts the evolution of the unearthly and comically grotesque aesthetics of Burton’s films and art through his personal archives from childhood to the present, in drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbook and sculptural installations as well as set and costume designs. Through this, Burton’s prediliction for the strange and uncanny becomes clearer, forging an unprecendented view of his unique vision.

The exhibition has already proved wildly popular – tickets are sold out until mid-November – London is the final destination in the exhibition’s ten-year world tour, and will be the only chance to catch it in the UK, so don’t miss it.


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Dates
25 October 2024 — 21 April 2025

Viewing Chila Kumari Singh Burman Compton Verney

Equally spectacular and surreal is this dazzling Chila Kumari Singh Burman exhibition, unveiled at Compton Verney today. As the darkness creeps in ever earlier, Burman’s brilliant exhibition brings illumination to the countryside, lighting up the historic facades of Compton Verney with the artist’s trademark neon works that she has made since lighting up the Tate Britain with her widely acclaimed installation in 2020.

Beyond the kaleidoscopic intervention that takes over the front of the house, the exhibition continues inside with array of works from new and recent sculptures, many of which have not been shown before, to earlier prints, collages and films. It’s Burman’s largest exhibition in recent years, and encompasses a 40-year period in which the artist has explored her Hindu-Punjabi cultural identity, feminism, and working class Liverpudlian upbringing, amongst other themes.

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Dates
30 October 2024 — 26 January 2025

Viewing Meriem Bennani: For My Best Family

It’s Halloween – and this week we’re all about the supernatural and otherworldly shows. First up is a weirdly wonderful project by Meriem Bennani, the Moroccan artist’s largest to date. For My Best Family creates a spooky atmosphere over two floors of Fondazione Prada in the form of a multi-sensory work examining how to be together.

A mechanical installation made up of 192 flip flops cheekily titled Sole crushing sees the shows march in eerie autonomy to a ballet-symphony-riot. It’s cathartic and chaotic, and intended to also evoke a state of delirium, something like the noise of a stadium, or the sounds of a Moroccan deqqa marrakchia.

Elsewhere, there’s a new film Bennani has made in collaboration with Orian Barki, set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, following the story of a Moroccan jackal filmmaker living in New York. The fiction within a fiction with its animated animal protagonists is both funny and touching, and contemplates how animation can be a potent vessel for meaningful messages in troubling times.

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Dates
31 October 2024 — 24 February 2025
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