2024 in Art and Books

Everything you need to see and read in the upcoming year.

Dec 14, 2023

Dear Readers! As 2023 comes to a close, and a new year is on the horizon, I wanted to bundle together books and art to look forward to in 2024.

Here are 10 exhibitions in London (from Yoko Ono to Francesca Woodman); 7 outside the capital (Everlyn Nicodemus, Louise Giovanelli); 8 worldwide (Georgia O’Keeffe, Zanele Muholi); and, to kick things off – 13 books!

Enjoy, Katy Xoxo.

Books to look forward to

Olivia Laing: The Garden Against Time, 2 May 2024

Maggie Nelson: Like Love: Essays and Conversations, 2 March 2024

Salman Rushdie: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, 16 March 2024

Lucy Sante: I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, 13 February 2024

Judith Butler: Who’s Afraid of Gender?, 19 March 2024

Madeline Gray: Green Dot, 1 February 2024

Lottie Hazell: Piglet, 5 March 2024

Lavinia Greenlaw: The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further, 4 January 2024

Elba Iris Pérez: Things We Didn’t Know, 6 February 2024

Hazel V. Carby: Cultures in Babylon: Feminism from Black Britain to African America, Anniversary Addition, 5 March 2024

Rachel Cockerell, Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land, 28 February 2024

Sinéad Gleeson, Hagstone, 11 March 2024

Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today, 11 June 2024

Shows to see: London

Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: Art, Colonialism and Change, Royal Academy, from 2 February

The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, National Portrait Gallery, from 22 February

Yoko Uno Museum of the Mind, Tate Modern, from 15 February

Barbara Kruger: Thinking of ~~You.~~ I Mean ~~Me.~~ I Mean You., Serpentine Galleries, from 1 February

Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, from 4 February

Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In, National Portrait Gallery, from 21 March

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican, from 13 February

Women Artists in Britain: 1520-1920, Tate Britain, from 16 May

When Forms Come Alive, Hayward Gallery, from 7 February

Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art, Courtauld Gallery, from 25 May

Shows to see: outside London

Outi Pieski, Tate St Ives, 10 February to 6 May 2024

Forbidden Territories: A Hundred Years of Surrealist Landscapes, The Hepworth Wakefield, 21 November 2024 to 22 April 2025

Acts of Creation: on Art and Motherhood at the Arnolfini, 9 March to 2 June 2024

Everlyn Nicodemus at National Galleries Scotland, 19 October 204 to 25 May 2025

Frieda Torzano Jaeger at Modern Art Oxford, 16 March to 2 June 2024

Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane: Grey Unpleasant Land, Spike Island, 28 September 2024 to 19 January 2025

Louise Giovanelli at The Hepworth Wakefield, 21 November 204 to 22 April 2025

Shows to see: outside the UK

Marina Apollonio: Beyond the Circle, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 12 October 2024 to 3 March 2025

Georgia O’Keeffe: ‘My New Yorks’, Chicago Institute of Art, Chicago, June 2 to 22 September 2024

Against All Odds: Historical Women and New Algorithms, Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark, 31 August to 8 December 2024

Suchitra Mattai: Labour and Love, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C, 20 September 2024 to 12 January 2025

Joshitomo Nara: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, 28 May to 3 November 2024

Özlem Altin, Berlinische Galerie Museum of Modern Art, Berlin,8 June 2024 to 14 September 2025

Vera Molnár: Parler à l'œil, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 28 February and 26 August 2024

Zanele Muholi: Eye Me, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 18 January to 11 August 2024

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