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Musquiqui Chihying: A Life of Navigation
Got a pesky neighbour who keeps pinching your parking spot? Taiwanese artist Musquiqui Chihying’s father knew the feeling. In car-clogged Taipei, he...
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House of Dreamers
London’s latest immersive playground is an pastel-hued dreamscape filled with inspirational quotes
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Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam
The Royal Academy’s excellent survey rescues an often-overlooked Victorian artist from the shadow of a notorious institution
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Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography
Pioneering American photographers capture the USA‘s looming cityscapes
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Ana Mendieta
‘Where is Ana Mendieta?’ was the question ringing around the halls of the Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building just over 10 years ago. It was...
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Anish Kapoor
It’s clear from his major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery that Anish Kapoor shares Time Out’s fondness for the colour palette red and black....
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The Courtauld Gallery just announced its 2027 exhibition programme, and it features some huge names
Paula Rego, JMW Turner, Georgia O’Keeffe and Rubens will be on view at the Somerset House gallery next year
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A major new Katsushika Hokusai exhibition is opening in London next month
It’s the first time the complete set of 46 prints from the renowned Iuchi Collection have been brought together in the UK
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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...