After the hectic insanity of October, art’s busiest month, November offers gallery goers a chance to slow down and take things at a more sensible...
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It’s your last chance to see these five excellent London art exhibitions
Most of London’s big museums and galleries have just opened their big autumn shows, so there is a genuine glut of great art to see. But you’ve got...
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Free art in London
Looking at great art in London usually won't cost you penny. Pretty much every major museum is free, as is literally every single commercial gallery. That's a...
The hidden beauty of London’s roadworks
Forget the beauty of nature or paintings, Time Out’s art editor Eddy Frankel is interested in something else: accidental aesthetics. This new series...
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‘Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael’
‘Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael’
According to a bloke called Giorgio Vasari, sixteenth century art lovers queued for days just to catch a glimpse of the Leonardo da Vinci drawing that the...
‘Picasso: Printmaker’
‘Picasso: Printmaker’
Picasso never stopped. He was relentless, prolific, voracious. He apparently produced 50,000 artworks in his lifetime, including thousands of paintings,...
Sarah Slappey: ‘Bloodline’
Sarah Slappey: ‘Bloodline’
Where there’s pleasure, there’s shame; at least there is in American artist Sarah Slappey's work. She paints female bodies naked and writhing,...
Letizia Battaglia: ‘Life, Love and Death in Sicily’
Letizia Battaglia: ‘Life, Love and Death in Sicily’
Letizia Battaglia was a witness, she was there. She saw the mafia tearing Italy apart in the 1970s, murdering its sons, raping its daughters, and she...
‘Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf’
‘Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf’
TJ Boulting doesn’t smell great. Actually, it stinks. A gross, acrid odour greets you as you walk downstairs into the gallery; the stench of...
Hew Locke: ‘What Have We Here’
Hew Locke: ‘What Have We Here’
No object is just an object: everything is a symbol. And in Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s excellent exhibition of items from the British...
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Barbican Centre
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...
National Gallery
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...
National Portrait Gallery
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...
Tate Britain
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...
Tate Modern
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,...
Whitechapel Gallery
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...