As the art world recovers from Frieze London and Art Basel, Paris last month—and gears up for Art Basel, Miami at the start of next—these are the exhibitions opening around the world in November that caught our eye.
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
19 November-26 May 2025
In the 73 years since her death, the artist and printmaker Tirzah Garwood has mostly been “Mrs Eric Ravilious”. Now, a decade after Dulwich Picture Gallery’s acclaimed Ravilious survey, Garwood takes the spotlight in an exhibition that reveals for the first time the full extent of her talent and output. More
Garwood’s Portrait of Peggy Angus (1949); Dulwich Picture Gallery will show more than 80 works
Courtesy Fleece Press
Drawing the Italian Renaissance, King’s Gallery, London
1 November-9 March 2025
Featuring 160 works from the Royal Collection by names big—Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo—and, if not small, slightly less big—Annibale Carracci, Fra Angelico, Domenico Ghirlandaio, this show explores how drawing influenced the Italian Renaissance. More
The King’s Gallery show features 160 works on paper from the Italian Renaissance, including Fra Angelico’s bust of a cleric (around 1447–50)
© Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024; Royal Collection Trust
Painting and Poetry in the 17th Century: Giovan Battista Marino and the Wonderful Passion, Galleria Borghese, Rome
19 November-9 February 2025
By considering the rapport between the verse of the Renaissance poet and the art of the time, this show aims to establish Marino’s art historical centrality, which is still under-recognised four centuries after his death. More
Frans Pourbus the Younger’s Portrait of the Italian Poet, Giambattista Marino (around 1621) © 2007 Detroit Institute of Arts
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-30, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
8 November-9 March 2025
Orphism, coined by Apollinaire, was largely compressed into a handful of years—and is often forgotten. Drawing on 82 works by 26 artists, this show tells the story of the short-lived abstract style and its main protagonists. More
František Kupka’s vibrant Disks of Newton (1912). The Czech-born artist was a major figure of Orphism, and many of his works were inspired by colour theory and music
© The artist
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-50, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Until 26 January 2025
Reuniting the surviving sections of Duccio’s altarpiece marvel Maestà is just the start of this important, beautifully staged show at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is the largest and best collection of painting and sculpture from the fiery cauldron of 14th-century Siena that will be exhibited in our lifetimes. More
The exhibition space delicately spotlights works, including Pietro Lorenzetti's Tarlati Altarpiece, against "monastic" black walls
Photo: Eileen Travell
The 80s: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London
21 November-5 May 2025
From tumultuous political events to countercultural visibility, this show examines the 1980s through the work of Martin Parr, Chris Killip and many others, taking on the challenge of exploring the many strands of emergent photographic practices in that formative decade. More
Love among the turbulence: David Hoffman’s photograph Nidge & Laurence Kissing (1990), taken during the poll tax riots in London
© David Hoffman