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PM Gallery showcases Second Nature: The influence of environment on fashion
Moving off the catwalk and into the wilderness, PM Gallery presents a journey through fashion’s love affair with nature, featuring designers Donna Karan, Giles Deacon and Zandra Rhodes.
Lazarides and Robert Del Naja aka 3D present the art of Massive Attack in: Fire Sale
Shown together for the first time, a London retrospective looks at the artworks spawned by British trip-hop artists Massive Attack during the past two decades.
Curator's Choice: Ciara Phipps on colourful court shoes at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
Find out about a pair of shoes which were handmade in Paris for a dancer during the 1920s but illustrate a design style still prevalent in swish footwear almost a century on.
Maurizio Anzeri creates photo-sculptures in solo show commissioned by Chapter
Maurizio Anzeri creates imagined identities from found photographs and abstract embroidery as part of Diffusion, Cardiff's Biennial International Photography Festival.
Design Museum launches pop-up garden in The Tank over the River Thames
Containing designs by leading contemporary artists, a new pop-up garden will provide a haven for visitors at the Design Museum as part of an Anglo-Swiss partnership.
Richard Nott paintings join St Michael's Church for Artists' Open Houses in Brighton
Having originally worked for the famous Valentino fashion house in Rome, artist Richard Nott's show in one of Britain's finest churches is a survey of exotic dresses.
United Micro Kingdoms (UmK): A Design Fiction at the Design Museum in London
The new show at the Design Museum offers a selection of interrogative perspectives on a fictional United Kingdom and the imaginary infrastructure of emerging technologies.
Photographer David Sims reimagines David Bowie in Bowievirus outbreak at ICA London
First explored on the cover of magazine Arena Homme Plus last year, David Sims' first UK solo show in 15 years features a Bowie impersonator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Yiddish Theatre Kiev entertain the Ben Uri Gallery
Featuring the works of the son of the Rabbi of Kiev who became an acclaimed New York theatre design via Moscow, Paris and Berlin, the Ben Uri's new show is a dramatic one.
Galvanize Festival of Contemporary Metal shows off talent and innovation of Sheffield
Taking over some of Sheffield's most inspiring venues during May, the steel city's programme of displays, activities and workshops is a metal festival with a difference.
Kaffe Fassett Comes to Wales via Lampeter's Welsh Quilt Centre
Kaffe Fassett's array of bold rainbow patterned quilts represent the internationally-renowned textile artist's first exhibition in Wales.
Curator's Choice: Karen Snowden on a stylish maternity dress in Scarborough
The Head of Collections at Scarborough Museums Trust tells us why a "wonderful, beautiful" dress from 1790 still looks comfy today.
Designer Roland Mouret turns curator for Norman Parkinson's Mouvements de Femmes
The designer for stars including Victoria Beckham says he is "very excited" to be curating an archive of photos from the 20th century photographer at a former Georgian chapel in Bath.
Wowie Bowie: The V&A does blockbuster with David Bowie is...
The V&A's David Bowie is...spine tingling stuff says Richard Moss, as he takes a trip back to the seventies and the days of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Sudley House marks 100 years of social change and fashion in Twentieth century Chic
Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney, Christian Dior, Yves St Laurent and more star in a show of style and social change at Liverpool's Sudley House.
