Sadie Coles HQ’s second exhibition in their newly opened Savile Row space takes its cue from Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, Oscar Wilde’s darkly comic novella set in a sharply observed Victorian London.

There was more to British mop tops Herman’s Hermits than just adorable, snaggle-toothed Peter Noone (aka “Herman”). The band – then called The Heartbeats -- were already a local force on the ...