The art world really loves to take the summer off. If you're expecting to see exciting new exhibitions in August, prepare for disappointment. But July still...
London Art Galleries
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Seven London art exhibitions closing in July 2024
Summer’s in full swing, but you’ve only got four weeks to catch some of the season’s best exhibitions. Over the past few months,...
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10 things we loved at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2024
It looks like London has succumbed to its annual bout of art measles, because the Royal Academy is covered in red dots. It’s not really an infectious...
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Top 10 art exhibitions in London
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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...
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Goshka Macuga: ‘Born From Stone’
Goshka Macuga: ‘Born From Stone’
There’s a primal urge in us to return to the cave. The cave is where we, as early-humans, once dwelt, and Goshka Macuga is ushering us back...
Lonnie Holley: ‘All Rendered Truth’
Lonnie Holley: ‘All Rendered Truth’
It’s all material to Lonnie Holley, everything. Past traumas, trash found on a creek bed, shared histories, scrap metal, the news, old padlocks. All of...
Penny Slinger: ‘Exorcism: Inside Out’
Penny Slinger: ‘Exorcism: Inside Out’
Sex, gore and sacrilege; Penny Slinger knows how to tell a surreal story. The LA-based, London-born artist has been at the forefront of feminist art since the...
Ernest Cole: ‘House of Bondage’
Ernest Cole: ‘House of Bondage’
‘It is an extraordinary experience to live as though life were punishment for being Black,’ says South African photographer Ernest Cole...
Francis Alÿs: ‘Ricochets’
Francis Alÿs: ‘Ricochets’
It’s a hard heart that can leave Francis Alys’s Barbican exhibition without being a little broken by it. At the Barbican, the Belgian/Mexican...
Anthony McCall: ‘Solid Light’
Anthony McCall: ‘Solid Light’
Artists spent centuries making art about light – the divine rays of the Renaissance, the shimmering seascapes of Turner, the foggy hazes of the...
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‘In a River a Thousand Streams’ is a collaborative piece between London School of Mosaic and London-based artist Adam Nathaniel Furman
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Waterloo station now has a cool new ‘audio artwork’
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The best London galleries
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...