Pictures hung on a dark green wall, a cat on the armchair beneath them

Exhibitions

Shows worth the journey, with a note on why. Selected rather than listed — a short calendar The Collector keeps for himself, made public.

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Dates and private views are given in UK time (Europe/London).

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10 September 2026 – 11 July 2027

The Bayeux Tapestry

British Museum · London

Seventy metres of eleventh-century wool embroidery, back in England for the first time since it was made — a loan negotiated between governments rather than between curators, which is a fair measure of what it took. The seminal and founding document for those who collect or covet objects made to record power. One practical caveat: tickets to 31 December have gone, and the next release, covering January to March, opens on 21 October.

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23 September 2026 – 25 April 2027

Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture by Rachel Kneebone

The Wallace Collection · London

Nine white porcelain contemporary sculptures distributed through, and in dialogue with the Wallace's eighteenth-century interiors, two of them - Bower and Temple - made for these rooms and shown for the first time. Porcelain pressed into writhing, tangled, glazed forms rather than shepherdesses is a fair test of how elastic that decorative tradition actually is, a test that has captured The Collector's interest as well. Free, and running until April.

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2 October 2026 – 10 January 2027

Salman Toor: Someone Like You

The Courtauld Gallery · London

Nineteen paintings, none of them previously shown in Britain, by an artist whose debt to Baroque and eighteenth-century painting is stated rather than implied — 'The Bar on East 13th' reworks Manet's 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergere', one of The Collector's favourite oils residing in London, and hanging only a few rooms away. Seeing the source and the answer under one roof is a thing the Courtauld can do and almost nobody else can. This isn't the first time Toor has flirted with a major institution, helping out the Frick in his home town of New York whist it was undergoing its renovations a few years ago, though certainly this is his most expansive show of that ilkl to date. You might spot The Collector there at Friday late openings on 2 October, 6 November and 4 December.

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A carved frieze in red lacquer and gilt, figures in procession