What to Do in London This December: an ‘80s Photography Exhibition, an Oscar Wilde Play and a French-ish Wine Bar

What to See “As We Rise: Photography From the Black Atlantic” Jamel Shabazz’s “Two Women in Blue on Subway.” The Saatchi Gallery is exhibiting the works of Black artists from Canada, the U.S., the U.K., the Caribbean and the African continent in “As We Rise: Photography From the Black Atlantic.” The exhibition includes the works of established and new talent, from Horace Ové, James Barnor, Gordon Parks to Texas Isaiah and Arielle Bobb-Willis. A majority of the works in the showcase are from the Wedge Collection, Canada’s largest privately owned collection of art from Black artists. “The 80s: Photographing Britain” Anna Fox’s 1988 “Workstations, Café, the City. Salesperson (9).” Tate Britain is revisiting the ‘80s in Britain and is tracing the country’s social, political and economic shift through 350 images and archive materials. The exhibition includes the works of Martin Parr, Syd Shelton, Anna Fox, Paul Graham and more to depict the Black arts movement, queer experience and South Asian diaspora. Merlin James at Maureen Paley The Scotland-based artist and curator Merlin James is getting two solo shows at once, at Maureen Paley’s gallery in East London and at Studio M, the space owned by the veteran gallerist.  The showcase includes paintings from James’ studio inventory in Glasgow, with the earliest

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