Celebrating the two hundreth anniversary of collector, artist and the Bowes Museum’s co-founder Joséphine Bowes, the exhibition explores the contemporary relevance of the museum collection through an eclectic mix of artistic mediums. It offers a glimpse into how Joséphine’s vision and cross-genre approach to collecting might have shaped the collection today.

This exhibition presents eight contemporary artists whose works offer vantage points on a world in crisis, featuring works by Pia Arke, Justin Caguiat, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Tomashi Jackson, Tarek Lakhrissi, Anne Tallentire and Cecilia Vicuña. Together their works attest to a broken world, while also imagining possibilities for survival.

Sound and light artist, Natural Symphony, aka London artist Joey Dean, explores the profound connection between nature and humanity in the immersive installation Nature | Connected. Acting as a conduit between the natural world and the digital realm, the tree’s beautiful leaves are intertwined with wires and sensors, and the installation is entirely controlled by living plants and affected by human interaction with nature.

Alexandra Gajewski, Deputy Editor of The Burlington Magazine, presents a series of online talks hosted by Martin Randal Travel. Starting with the shocking fire that broke out at Notre-Dame in Paris on the night of 15th April 2019, the five talks will investigate the damage caused, the resulting research project and the restoration. Taking a part-thematic, part-chronological approach, the talks will focus on the discoveries and findings that have been made in the process. The series will examine these in the context of the religious, social and political history of this exceptional building, going back to its early Christian origins, with a focus on its art and architecture, patrons and artisans.

For their first solo exhibition in Portugal, Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller will install over a dozen works in the historic Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova in Coimbra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, exploring the sculptural qualities of sound while establishing the Monastery as an important venue for contemporary art.