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What we thought of the National Gallery’s £85 million revamp
The new-look Sainsbury Wing has been two years in the making
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Top photography exhibitions
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Dennis Morris: ‘Music + Life’
A celebration of the British-Jamaican photographer whose trailblazing work helped define London
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akâmi: Duane Linklater
The Canadian First Nations artist playfully pokes the ideas that underpin the western art world
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Ithell Colquhoun: ‘Between Worlds’
Strange, occult and experimental, this survey reveals the British surrealist’s sharp eye for composition
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Edward Burra at Tate Britain
This major retrospective underlines the defiantly radical vision of the 20th-century painter
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Yoshitomo Nara
In this major exhibition celebrating the Japanese artist, cutesy canvas characters speak to our darkest inner fears
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Alexandra Metcalf at The Perimeter
Leaning into the theatrical and uncanny, this spectacular show explores the long, gendered history of psychiatric containment
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Artist Jeremy Deller is hosting a massive free street party in Trafalgar Square
Banners, brass bands and a massive puppet will celebrate the National Gallery’s 200th birthday on July 26
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Ed Sheeran’s art is now on display in London
The singer’s paint splatter works are being shown at a free exhibition in Soho
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The world’s largest exhibition of Henry Moore sculptures is coming to London
More than 100 artworks – including 30 monumental sculptures – will go on display at Kew Gardens next year
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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...