Stop, Look, Listen: Three things to do this week.

The V&A’s exhibition, British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age, celebrates the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games’ to the summer of 2012. Over 300 British design objects highlight significant moments in the history of British design.

Image: V&A

The first substantial survey of Hirst’s work in a British institution, the exhibition brings together key works from over twenty years, including iconic sculpture The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991, in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde.

Image: Tate

Part of The Last Tuesday Society’s lecture series involves a drawing club led by Mia Gubbay, working from life models interacting with the weird, wonderful and macabre exhibits of their shop-cum-gallery.