The best things to do on Mother’s Day in London

Tate Modern’s brilliant new exhibition on Margate’s finest export is a solid choice of Mother’s Day activity if the matriarch in your life is more into searing feminist art than flowers and choccies.

Positioned as a 40-year retrospective through the pioneering artist’s vast and varied repertoire, the show lays bare Emin’s life through her distinct and often unsettling art, from career highs – such as the iconic, Turner Prize-nominated ‘My Bed’, which is every bit as shocking and moving today as it was in 1998 – to stark personal lows in work depicting her experiences with sexual violence, abortion, and recent life-threatening illness.

As you can imagine, with such subject matter, it is not always comfortable viewing, and you (and your ma) are liable to feel a bit wrung out by the time you leave. But you certainly won’t regret seeing it.

There's a dizzying array of ABBA-themed experiences in London right now, including holographic gig ABBA Voyage and pricy dinner experience Mamma Mia! The Party. But sometimes, the oldies really are the goodies. Stage musical Mamma Mia! has been running for decades, and it's a heartwarming slice of storytelling that’ll warm your cockles, and send you and your Mum out singing into the night.  

It’s Henry VIII’s six wives – and they’ve back, bitch, to re-tell ‘her-story’ as a slick, sassy girl band. Think Euro-pop remixes of ‘Greensleeves’, Anne Boleyn spouting tweenage text-speak, and K-Howard warbling #MeToo tales of gropey employers.