London Art Galleries
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Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait
Portraits are tricky things: can you ever really sift the individual from the image? And it gets even harder when the subject is one of the most recognisable...
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James McNeill Whistler
Tate Britain’s major retrospective is a lavish celebration of American painting
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Delcy Morelos: origo
Delcy Morelos spent a month filling the Barbican’s Sculpture Court with earth and clay. Working by hand, the Colombian artist and her team layered more...
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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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RIP David Hockney: 5 places to see the legendary artist’s work in London
David Hockney has died aged 88 – here’s where to celebrate the painter’s life and legacy in the capital
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This excellent east London museum is getting a revamp this summer
The former digs of designer, novelist and socialist activist William Morris are getting a serious makeover ahead of a new exhibition in October
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A major new contemporary arts venue is opening on London’s South Bank this month
Hypha Gallery South Bank will take over a disused office building on Southwark Bridge Road in 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...