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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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It’s your last chance to see these five excellent London art exhibitions
Most of London’s big museums and galleries have just opened their big autumn shows, so there is a genuine glut of great art to see. But you’ve got...
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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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The hidden beauty of London’s roadworks
Forget the beauty of nature or paintings, Time Out’s art editor Eddy Frankel is interested in something else: accidental aesthetics. This new series...
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Sarah Slappey: ‘Bloodline’
Where there’s pleasure, there’s shame; at least there is in American artist Sarah Slappey's work. She paints female bodies naked and writhing,...
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Letizia Battaglia: ‘Life, Love and Death in Sicily’
Letizia Battaglia was a witness, she was there. She saw the mafia tearing Italy apart in the 1970s, murdering its sons, raping its daughters, and she...
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‘Un Oeuf Is Un Oeuf’
TJ Boulting doesn’t smell great. Actually, it stinks. A gross, acrid odour greets you as you walk downstairs into the gallery; the stench of...
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Hew Locke: ‘What Have We Here’
No object is just an object: everything is a symbol. And in Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s excellent exhibition of items from the British...
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Francis Bacon: ‘Human Presence’
There’s a limit to how much you can say about Francis Bacon; to how many times you can talk about viscerality, the anguish of existence, the torment of...
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Mire Lee: ‘Open Wound’
A vast engine spins, spilling noxious, viscous liquid onto the floor of the Turbine Hall. Mire Lee’s machine is draped in tentacles which ooze and flop...
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Seven London art exhibitions we can’t wait to see in November 2024
Including Picasso at the British Museum, ‘Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael’ at the Royal Academy and new shows at the White Cube and Pace
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A banana is going on view at a major London auction house tomorrow, and it could sell for millions
It’s literally a banana taped to a wall, but it’s art – Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork is in the capital for just one day
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Boy George has done portraits of his musical heroes: Bowie, Madonna, Prince... himself
Do you really want to buy one? Do you really want to make him rich? Boy George’s painting are on display in London
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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...