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Most viewed new exhibitions

  1. Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012
  2. Henry Moore: Large Late Forms
  3. Free Range Art and Design 2012
  4. Buckingham Palace Summer Opening 2012
  5. The Horse: Ancient Arabia to the Modern World
  6. Jubilee: A View from the Crowd
  7. Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary
  8. A Right Royal Menagerie
  9. Casa Brasil
  10. Olympic and Paralympic Posters
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Recommended exhibitions

  • Alexander McQueen, S/S 2011

    Ballgowns

    Museums & Attractions Until Jan 6 2013, V&A

    The V&A's redesigned Fashion Gallery opens with an exhibition of 80 ballgowns.

  • Kensington Palace

    Victoria Revealed

    Critics' choice Museums & Attractions Until Feb 27 2013, Kensington Palace

    The first show at the refurbished Kensington Palace.

  • Damien Hirst, 'Pharmacy', 1992

    Damien Hirst

    Critics' choice Art Until Sun Sep 9, Tate Modern

    This first major museum survey in the UK for our best-known YBA.

More new exhibitions

  • Bauhaus Art and Life

    Bauhaus: Art as Life

    Critics' choice Art Until Sun Aug 12, Barbican Centre

    Survey of the pioneering and influential Bauhaus art school, led by Walter Gropius.

  • Faun uncovering a sleeping woman by Pable Picasso

    Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite

    Free Museums & Attractions Until Sun Sep 2, British Museum

    An exhibition of Picasso's 'Vollard Suite', which has been recently acquired by the museum. The suite comprises 100 etchings produced by Picasso between 1930 and 1937.

  • Studies of the coronary vessels and valves of the heart, c.1511-13, by Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist

    Recommended Art Until Sun Oct 7, The Queen's Gallery

    The largest ever exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's studies of the human body.

  • Christian Louboutin

    Museums & Attractions Until Sun Jul 8, Design Museum

    A retrospective of shoemaker Christian Louboutin, examining the evolution of the French designer's famous red-soled shoes.

  • Still from 'Robinson in Ruins', 2010, by Patrick Keiller

    Tate Britain Commission 2012: Patrick Keiller

    FreeCritics' choice Art Until Sun Oct 14, Tate Britain

    The Tate Britain Commission 2012 for the Duveen Galleries is by artist/filmmaker Patrick Keiller.

  • 'Golden Shoes' by Hans-Peter Feldmann

    Hans-Peter Feldmann

    FreeCritics' choice Art Until Tue Jun 5, Serpentine Gallery

    A survey of the German artist known for a lifelong dedication to collecting images and everyday objects, which he presents in meticulous installations.

  • Liz Mathews/Virginia Woolf, Thames to Dunkirk, London, 2009

    Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands

    Museums & Attractions Until Tue Sep 25, British Library

    An exhibition exploring how Britain's landscapes - rural and urban - have inspired some of the country's greatest literature.

  • Animal Inside Out

    Museums & Attractions Until Sun Sep 16, Natural History Museum

    An exhibition by the team behind Gunther von Hagens's 'Body Worlds', examining the biology, anatomy and physiology of animals.

  • Jaguar E-Type, 1961

    British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age

    Museums & Attractions Until Sun Aug 12, V&A

    The V&A bigs up British innovation in this major survey of postwar design by individuals born, trained or working in the UK.

  • ‘Videosphere’ orange spherical television, manufactured by JVC in Japan, c1966

    At Home with the World

    Museums & Attractions Until Sun Sep 9, Geffrye Museum

    Asking 'How English are our homes?', this exhibition highlights domestic objects that have come from overseas or been influenced by other cultures.

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