California: Designing Freedom at the Design Museum

A new exhibition looks at the influence of some of the West Coast's most iconic creations on modern life

This year, American art has been on Britain's radar like never before. Many of the capital's most hotly anticipated exhibitions are centred around art from across the pond, the biggest being the post-Depression era America after the Fall exhibition at the Royal Academy. This major retrospective features iconic work from 20th-century giants, including Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper, as well as hosting Grant Wood's masterpiece American Gothic for the first time outside North America.

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