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Donald Locke: Resistant Forms
Donald Locke shows don’t come around often. But like proverbial buses, you wait for ages, and then three arrive at once, in the form of this touring...
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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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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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Catherine Opie: To Be Seen
The National Portrait Gallery is as much a monument to national identity as it is an art gallery. Walk through its hallowed halls, and you’ll witness...
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A new Banksy artwork has appeared in central London – here’s what you need to know about the statue in Westminster
A mysterious statue of a person blinded by a flag and walking off a plinth has appeared in St James. It’s been confirmed as a Banksy by the artist on Instagram
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Two mighty London institutions are in the final of UK Museum of the Year 2026
The National Gallery and V&A Storehouse are the best museums in London in 2026 , according to the Art Fund
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This free London art festival is massively expanding this summer – it’ll take over a whole borough
Immersive installations, workshops, live music and an art treasure hunt will be free for all to attend this June
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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...