The Courtauld Gallery presents Salman Toor: Someone Like You, opening on October 2 and running through January 10, 2027. It is the Courtauld's first solo exhibition devoted to the New York-based Pakistani painter, and it assembles 19 paintings made since 2019 exploring queer South Asian intimacy, friendship and belonging. The show arrives as a highlight of London's October art calendar, coinciding with Frieze Week and PAD London. Toor's figurative paintings depict the lives of young, brown, queer men in domestic and social spaces that feel at once familiar and dreamlike. Drawing on the visual language of the baroque, he fuses contemporary experience with the weight of art history. The Courtauld has staged the works as an explicit dialogue with its permanent collection, offering visitors the chance to encounter Toor's paintings alongside canonical holdings, including Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, in a conversation between past and present. The exhibition draws loans from major institutions and collections, including the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Pinault Collection. Running parallel to the main hang is a display of Toor's drawings, featuring Fag Puddle in Vitrine (2021), a work already in the Courtauld's own collection, which traces the graphic foundations of his painterly practice. Toor's reputation has grown rapidly in recent years, with his work held by museums across the United States and Europe. By placing a living painter's vision of desire, isolation and tenderness inside one of London's great historic collections, the Courtauld continues its programme of setting contemporary practice against its Impressionist and Old Master strengths, asking what friendship and intimacy mean now in the visual language of the past.