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Don’t miss these amazing new art exhibitions in April
London is never short when it comes to exhibitions, but this month is looking particularly great
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Lose yourself in all kinds of new worlds by tracking down the best photography exhibitions in London.
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Leigh Bowery!
Fashion icon, model, club promoter, musician; Leigh Bowery was a multi-hyphenate before multi-hyphenate became a thing. But above all else, he was a muse, as...
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Noah Davis
Noah Davis, the Los Angeles painter known for his figurative works depicting dreamlike visions of everyday Black life, was not one to be pigeonholed. He...
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Lina Lapelytė: ‘In The Dark, We Play’ at The Cosmic House
Since 2021, the Cosmic House – the fascinating former home of revered postmodernist landscape architect Charles Jencks – has operated as...
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Ed Atkins
Regarded as one of the UK’s most influential contemporary artists, this new exhibition at Tate Britain surveys Ed Atkins’ career to date,...
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Eileen Perrier: A Thousand Small Stories
What is a portrait, really? What is its role? And what makes it different from ‘just’ a photograph of a person? These are all questions that spring...
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Nora Turato: pool7
pool7 is the seventh iteration of Turato’s ongoing text-based work, a continuation of her pool series in which Turato creates yearly iterations of pools...
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Don’t miss these 7 fantastic new London art exhibitions arriving in May 2025
From Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern to the reopening of the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery, this is a stacked month for art openings in the capital
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The UK AIDS memorial quilt is going on display at London’s Tate Modern
The quilt made in the 1980s will be shown at the Turbine Hall later this year
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The 9 best museum cafés in London, according to the Guardian
From the V&A to the Tate Modern, here’s where you should be going for the best mix of coffee, cake and culture.
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The 40 best photos of London ever taken
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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...