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11 London art exhibitions we can’t wait to see this winter
Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the art is so delightful, and since we’ve no place to go, let’s see art, let’s see art, let’s...
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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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Jeff Wall: ‘Life In Pictures’
Going to a Jeff Wall exhibition is like watching 100 films at once. The pioneering Canadian photographer has spent decades creating highly stylised, minutely...
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Joan Snyder: ‘Body and Soul’
While the big, imposing, hefty men of mid-century American abstraction were trying to reshape the course of art, Joan Snyder was doing something quieter, but...
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‘Reverb’
Reverb isn’t just a sonic phenomenon at Stephen Friedman Gallery, it’s a visual, cultural one too. This group show – a kind of extension of...
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On Kawara: ‘Date Paintings’
On Kawara did one thing, every single day, for most of his life. Over and over again, he painted that day’s date, always in white, usually on black,...
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‘Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet’
This huge, complex, ambitious show looks at the artists who were present at the dawn of the computer age, artists filled with hope and creativity, long before...
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Sedrick Chisom: ‘The Villain of History for One Night Alone’
The world Sedrick Chisom creates in his paintings feels too shocking, awful and revolting to be real; but the work is a warning, a fictional, horrifying...
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The best new 11 London art exhibitions opening this winter
It's cold out there, but this is some hot art – featuring new exhibitions at Tate, National Gallery, Gagosian and more
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This colourful new Christmas sculpture has popped up at King’s Cross
Bored of the usual tinsel and reindeers? Granary Square has the festive display for you
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The Courtauld is doing late openings for its blockbuster Monet show in January
Visitor demand is through the roof
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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...