Exhibitions in London
Your regularly updated guide to the best free, new and critically acclaimed exhibitions in London
- Top 10 photography exhibitions
- Top 10 museum exhibitions
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- Museum and gallery lates
- Outsider Art: our favourite exhibits
Top 10 photography exhibitions
Discover a world beyond Instagram at the city's best current and upcoming photography shows
Top 10 museum exhibitions
The highlights from London's cultural calendar
Poster Art 150 gallery
We pick our favourite pin-ups from London Transport Museum's exhibition
Museum and gallery lates
Try one of these late openings for a cultural night out
Outsider Art: our favourite exhibits
Check out our gallery of the best bits from the Wellcome Collections' 'Outsider Art from Japan' exhibition
Best for 2013
- London Transport Museum Covent Garden Piazza, WC2E 7BB
- Sat May 18 - Sun Oct 27
- British Museum 44 Great Russell St, WC1B 3DG
- Sat May 18 - Sun Sep 29
Popular photography exhibitions
Man Ray Portraits
This first ever major museum retrospective of Man Ray's photographic portraits highlights both his pioneering experimental photographic techniques and his choice of powerful and beautiful subjects.
- National Portrait Gallery St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE
- Sat May 18 - Sun May 26
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013
- Free
This annual award exhibition presents a considerable body of work by four living photographer’s who are worthy of the £30,000 prize money.
- Photographers' Gallery 16-18 Ramillies St, W1F 7LW
- Sat May 18 - Sun Jun 30
Sebastião Salgado: Genesis
Salgado has boldly gone where not many have before for this eight-year long project: indeed he’d be a real dinner-party bore with his tales of Patagonian ice fields, Madagascan islands and Congolese volcanoes.
- Natural History Museum Cromwell Rd, SW7 5BD
- Sat May 18 - Sun Sep 8
Nobuyoshi Araki
- Free
You can certainly expect a variety of provocative images from this often-controversial Japanese photographer. His Kinbaku series that capture the art of Japanese bondage will be presented alongside Shunga prints, the original form of Japanese erotica in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
- Michael Hoppen Gallery 3 Jubilee Place, SW3 3TD
- Sat May 18 - Sat Jun 8
André Kertész: Turth and Distortion
- Free
In this show of two halves, the upstairs gallery contains nostalgic visions of the French city as Kertész captured everyday life as delicate and romanticised ‘truths’. Downstairs is his ‘Distortion’ series, in which he used a combination of contorting mirrors to warp the nude figure as he began tinkering with reality.
- Atlas Gallery 49 Dorset St, W1U 7NF
- Sat May 18 - Sat May 25
Coronation! 1953-2013
This photography exhibition marks the 60th anniversary of the 1953 Coronation with some behind-the-scenes images shot by the likes of photojournalists such as Bert Hardy and John Chillingworth for the Picture Post and other publications.
- Westminster Abbey Parliament Square, SW1P 3PA
- Sat May 18 - Fri Sep 27
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