On 30 September 1869, Bruges city theatre opened its doors with ‘Les Mousquetaires de la Reine’ (The Queen’s Musketeers), a comic opera. Over the last 150 years, a lot has changed in and around the building. This exhibition tells a story of urban design, architecture and theatre programming.

Montrealer Sir William Cornelius Van Horne was passionate about Japanese ceramics. His impressive collection is here presented and studied thought 320 objects now housed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Royal Ontario Museum and private collections, altogether with a range of archival materials and his documentation of individual pieces in watercolours.

Marking just over a century since David Bomberg’s (1890–1957) first solo show at the onset of war in 1914, in another first, this exhibition displays some of his earliest paintings alongside the works that inspired him.

Cecilia Brunson Projects (CBP) is delighted to start 2020 with a Latin American group exhibition, Contagio, in our Bermondsey gallery. Artist Jaime Gili curates this exhibition that brings together nine Latin American artists who live in the United Kingdom. Contagio consists of newly commissioned or recent artworks.

Global Conversations: Art in Dialogue features dozens of contemporary works of art, many from the Museum’s permanent collection and many newly acquired, that encompass a broad range of media and geographic regions. These works will offer visitors the chance to discover the many powerful ways that artists are engaging with issues of urgency facing the world today.