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Laura Lima: The Drawing Drawing
In a small, undecorated room, I stand amongst a group of onlookers, staring at a set of keys on the floor. A human hand crawls out through a gap between the...
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Art deco: the golden age of poster design
Getting on the tube these days means being bombarded with dozens of ugly advertisements, selling you everything from whisky, to electric toothbrushes and LED...
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Candice Lin: g/hosti
At first sight, Candice Lin’s g/hosti, a new commission from the Whitechapel Gallery, evokes a childlike playfulness. At its centre is a maze of...
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The Long Now: Saatchi Gallery at 40
‘Fun’ is a quality which seems to be all too frequently forgotten by curatorial teams. But it certainly takes pride of place at the Saatchi...
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Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies
Somerset House’s mesmeric dance exhibition explores the relationship between the body and technology
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The cult female artist that is getting her biggest ever UK exhibition at Tate Modern this summer – here’s why it’s one of the most important shows happening in London in 2026
The Tate’s Ana Mendieta show will be the UK’s first ever major exhibition dedicated to the multidisciplinary artist
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This underrated, tiny west London museum is celebrating its 100th birthday with a blockbuster year of exhibitions in 2026
Leighton House in Holland Park is marking its centenary with exhibitions that dive into the building’s history and artistic origins
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The Barbican’s beautiful Sculpture Court public space is set for a huge revamp
The hidden one-acre courtyard in the brutalist icon has been unused for nearly four decades
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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...