Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Planning a work trip to the likes of London, New York or Paris in the second half of this year? Leave space in your diary for visual culture consumption. Whatever city you’re visiting, there will be some extraordinary art galleries and museums with special exhibitions and permanent collections big enough to lose yourself in.
The Barbie exhibition at London’s Design Museum explores the evolution of the famous doll, including the 1984 Peaches ’N Cream Barbie. Let’s start our tour in London, the world’s top financial city along with New York. Cure your jet lag and get your happy face on ahead of that first board meeting with a quick visit to the Design Museum in Kensington where the upcoming exhibition Barbie will run from July 5 to February 23 to coincide with the glamorous doll’s 65th birthday.
If so much candy pink sounds too much, switch it up and swing by the British Museum for a touch of Renaissance-style muscularity. Michelangelo: the Last Decades is on until July 28, and focuses on the great painter’s last 30 years of creating masterpieces under papal commission in Rome. For a full assault on the senses, visit the British Art Fair from September 26-29, or the Frieze London and Frieze Masters art fairs from October 9-13.
Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night over the Rhône. Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN.