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Turner Prize 2025 (Cartwight Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, 27 September 2025-22 February 2026)

I’ve got to the Turner Prize exhibition, in London every year for a decade and to the off-metropolitan ones sometimes — Gateshead, Coventry, Margate, Liverpool, Eastbourne, although not Hull as it had closed for the ceremony to be set up. Bradford looked doable and could be combined with sidetrips to Wakesfield and Leeds, indeed Leeds was the place to stay.

(Vague memories of a trip to the Science and Media Museum, Bradford, as a child and another trip in the 1990s, and one of those involved Muppets, and I’d done three hours in February to see some Hockney. This was an hour too much for a grey and beige city marshalled by roadworks.)

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Best Art Expotitions of 2023

Because “best” is such a subjective term, I’ve tried to spread my picks of gallery going across the calendar year. I’ve left out returns to museums in Amsterdam and Oslo (the Munchmuseet’s postwar American exhibition was great), and the long walks through MoMA, the Met, the Frink and the Whitney (although curiously one of two bijoux exhibitions at the Morgan Library was unexpectedly useful). A few themed shows – the surrealism at the Design Museum, the RAA’s southern America – might have made it in, but didn’t.

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