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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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James McNeill Whistler
Tate Britain’s major retrospective is a lavish celebration of American painting
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Delcy Morelos: origo
Delcy Morelos spent a month filling the Barbican’s Sculpture Court with earth and clay. Working by hand, the Colombian artist and her team layered more...
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Tickets for the British Museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition go on sale to the general public next week – here’s how to book tickets cheaper than £33
On certain days, the public will be able to see the medieval masterpiece at a fraction of the standard price
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A massive interactive yellow sculpture has arrived at the Serpentine
The walk-through installation, which is an artwork by Jesús Rafael Soto, will be open all summer
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First look: inside the world’s first Museum of Youth Culture in London
Core memories will be unlocked at this brilliant Camden museum dedicated to teenage life
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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...