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Peter Doig: ‘House of Music’
House of Music, the latest solo exhibition by Peter Doig, marks new territory for the artist who is increasingly known for being Europe’s most...
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Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion
The Barbican digs up a fantastic collection of stained, frayed and decayed garms that any CSM student would die for
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Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World
Hot on the heels of September’s merry-go-round of Fashion Weeks, the National Portrait Gallery’s latest opening is another moment to reflect on...
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Millet: Life on the Land
To reach Life on the Land, the National Gallery’s exhibition on the nineteenth century French artist Jean-Francois Millet, you have to walk through...
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Ithell Colquhoun: ‘Between Worlds’
Strange, occult and experimental, this survey reveals the British surrealist’s sharp eye for composition
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Edward Burra at Tate Britain
This major retrospective underlines the defiantly radical vision of the 20th-century painter
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The Serpentine Galleries have announced their exhibition programme for 2026 – featuring a huge David Hockney show
Cecily Brown and Amar Kanwar are also getting an outing in the Hyde Park galleries next year
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One of London’s ‘ugliest’ buildings will soon have three new public art galleries
1 Poultry in the City of London is set to host a year of cultural events, featuring 24 fresh exhibitions across three art venues
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Charing Cross tube station is getting rebranded as a tribute to Keith Haring this week
The central London tube stop will turn into ‘Haring Cross’ for two days – and there are arty freebies to be had
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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...