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Paint! Pattern! Print! Textiles of Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell
The chances are, at some point, you have probably come across a print by Collier Campbell, the London-based textile studio founded in the 1960s by Susan...
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Hurvin Anderson
This is a big show of big paintings. Big, energetic, happy paintings which are just as enjoyable to stand in front of as one can imagine they were to make....
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Michaelina Wautier
If you were to type Michaelina Wautier into the web, the results wouldn’t amount to much. You’d learn she was a painter living and working in...
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Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life / Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart
There’s a double bill going on at the Hayward Gallery, and the theme is fabrics: whether it’s what we wear or the fabric of life itself. One...
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Beatriz González
In a season of London exhibition openings dominated by major retrospectives of trailblazing female artists, the Barbican’s Beatriz González show...
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Conceptual Art and Christine Kozlov
Conceptual art, eh? It’s not for everyone. First emerging in the 1960s as a reaction against the commodification of art, at its core is the belief that...
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The Queen Elizabeth II memorial has officially been approved
A couple of existing Grade II-listed monuments in St James’s Park will be moved to make way for the project
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Last chance! Four excellent London exhibitions close this weekend
Exhibitions of Picasso, Turner, Constable and the UK’s finest emerging artists all finish on April 12
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First look: designs have been revealed for the National Gallery’s biggest ever revamp
The Japanese architects behind the Tokyo Olympic stadium have won the competition to design the London art museum’s new wing
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Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre, a vast concrete estate of 2,000 flats and a leading arts complex, is a prime example of brutalist architecture, softened a little by time...
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National Gallery
Founded in 1824 to display a collection of just 36 paintings, today the National Gallery is home to more than 2,000 works. There are masterpieces from...
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National Portrait Gallery
Portraits don't have to be stuffy. The National Portrait Gallery has everything from oil paintings of stiff-backed royals to photos of soccer stars and...
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Tate Britain
Tate Modern gets all the attention, but the original Tate Gallery, founded by sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, has a broader and more inclusive brief. Housed in a...
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Tate Modern
The permanent collection draws from the Tate’s collections of modern art (international works from 1900) and features heavy hitters such as Matisse,...
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Whitechapel Gallery
This East End stalwart reopened in 2009 following a major redesign and expansion that saw the Grade II listed building transformed into a vibrant, holistic...