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Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam
The Royal Academy’s excellent survey rescues an often-overlooked Victorian artist from the shadow of a notorious institution
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Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography
Pioneering American photographers capture the USA‘s looming cityscapes
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Ana Mendieta
‘Where is Ana Mendieta?’ was the question ringing around the halls of the Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building just over 10 years ago. It was...
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The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026
The Royal Academy’s first Summer Exhibition opened in 1769. That was the same year that Captain James Cook began his first voyage to the Pacific. In...
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Anish Kapoor
It’s clear from his major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery that Anish Kapoor shares Time Out’s fondness for the colour palette red and black....
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Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait
Portraits are tricky things: can you ever really sift the individual from the image? And it gets even harder when the subject is one of the most recognisable...
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The ‘most powerful’ art gallery in the world is in London
200-year-old Trafalgar Square institution The National Gallery is the planet’s mightiest art institution – and it’s currently undergoing its biggest ever revamp
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One of London’s most famous commercial art galleries is closing
The Gagosian Gallery is leaving Burlington Arcade for good, leaving two outposts in the capital at Grosvenor Hill and Davies Street
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London is home to the world’s only women’s sculpture park – it could be forced to close
The Artist’s Garden in Embankment has been told it must leave the site by October
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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...