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14 June – 10 November 2019
Keith Haring Tate Liverpool Haring left behind a vibrant visual language and a legacy of activism that became more and more explicit in the works leading up to his death, aged 31, in 1990. His first major UK exhibition displays more than 85 works including large paintings, drawings and sculptures, reflecting his unique interpretation of late 1980s New York street culture. tate.org.uk/visit/tate-liverpool
24 June Francine Houben: Talk Designing for Culture V&A Museum, London Francine Houben, founder of design firm Mecanoo, will give a talk about the practice’s iconic cultural projects from around the world. Since 1984 the Dutch firm has earned a global reputation for civic projects including the New York Public Library and the epic and undulating National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiway. vam.ac.uk
8 June – 7 September 2020
Nature by Design Cooper Hewitt, New York Three new ‘stories’ arrive at Cooper Hewitt’s Nature Triennial: Natural Plastics, Under the Sea, and Botanical Lessons. These mini-exhibitions, drawn from the museum’s collection, accompany the main Nature exhibition, co-organised with Cube design museum, which features 60 recent works from the fields of design, science and beyond. cooperhewitt.org
27 June – 5 September 2019
Cindy Sherman National Portrait Gallery, London This major retrospective features works from Sherman’s groundbreaking Untitled Film Stills, 1977-80, up to the present day. In a series of black-and-white photographs of the artist disguised as generic female film characters, Sherman probes our relationships with the facades we create. npg.org.uk
11 June – 16 June 2019 Design Miami/Basel Basel, Switzerland Design Miami’s Swiss offshoot has become a commercial nexus for collectors, gallerists and designers. The six-day event promises to be more than just a marketplace for design, with boosted cultural programming, including collaborations with the worlds of architecture, art and fashion, and commissions from emerging designers. basel2019.designmiami.com
20 June – 28 June 2019 San Francisco Design Week Various venues, San Francisco The West Coast’s biggest design week promises to leverage the success of Bay Area start-ups – ‘now among the world’s most influential design-led companies’ – into a week themed CommUNITY. Its programme, devised with ad agency MUCHO, asks how design fields from graphics to architecture can speak with the same voice. www.sfdesignweek.org
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