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Last chance art: seven London art exhibitions closing in December 2024
What have you been doing for the past few months? Living, working, breathing, partying, just barely scraping by? Well it’s time to buck your ideas up and...
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Seven London art exhibitions we can’t wait to see in November 2024
After the hectic insanity of October, art’s busiest month, November offers gallery goers a chance to slow down and take things at a more sensible...
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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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Top photography exhibitions in London
There's so much more to London art than just painting or sculpture – lose yourself in all kinds of new worlds by tracking down the best...
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‘The 80s: Photographing Britain’
Like a blast of hairspray to the eyes, the Tate is about to blind you with the ’80s. This expansive, exhaustive and exhausting exhibition features dozens...
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Mary Ramsden: 'Desire Line'
Your parents told you that if you got too close to the TV your eyes would go square, but no one warns you about what happens when you get too close to a...
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George Shaw: ‘Albion Groans’
It’s grim up north they say, but George Shaw’s paintings prove that it’s not much better anywhere else in this country. This group of six...
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Victor Pasmore | Patrick Heron: ‘VIII São Paulo Biennial Great Britain 1965 revisited’
Back in the mid-1960s, pure abstraction still just about meant something. We’d already had Malevitch and Kandinsky and all the abstract expressionists,...
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Parker Ito
Some people spend too much time on the internet. And by some people I mean you, obviously, and me. All of us. It’s just that most people don’t turn...
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‘Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos’
Everyone in 1970s Lagos was cooler than you. At least they were on the evidence of this show, which collects together the best work of Abi Morocco Photos, a...
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A statue of Harry Kane has just been unveiled in London
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Last chance art: seven London art exhibitions closing in December 2024
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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...