An exhibition of early ‘joke paintings’ by American artist Richard Prince. Spanning the period 1988 – 1992, this will be the first opportunity to view a dedicated exhibition of this important body of work in the UK.
Tuesday - Friday 10.00am - 6:00pm Saturday 10:00am - 5:00pm
New work by Richard Woods (b. 1966) will be unveiled in The Ideal Home Exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery, London, from 21 June – 31 July 2018. New sculptures, paintings, and prints take as their subject notions of taste and the cult of home improvement.
Monday – Friday: 10am – 5.30 pm Saturday: 11am – 2pm
This summer, the Serpentine presents the work of Tomma Abts (b. 1967, Kiel, Germany) in the artist’s first solo exhibition in a UK public institution. One of the most significant artists of her generation and the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, Abts is known for her acrylic and oil paintings whose extraordinary magnetism belies their modest scale.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays.
FREE – This summer, in the heart of London, the Serpentine Galleries presents a major exhibition of the artists’ work, which draws upon their use of barrels to create artworks. Simultaneously, Christo will present The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake), a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine lake.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays.
The London Group is presenting three exhibitions as part of the Waterloo Festival: Altered States, Beyond Image and Nothing Endures but Change
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This summer, Grayson Perry RA coordinates the biggest, brightest and most colourful Summer Exhibition yet, in the 250th annual celebration of “art made now”.
Daily 10am – 6pm Fridays 10am – 10pm
Cindy Sherman’s thirty-five-year career in photography has established her as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art, creating photographic portraits that are predicated on themes of identity, gender and role-play.
Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm
Oscar Tuazon identifies primarily as a sculptor, though his practice occupies a position between sculptural concerns, architecture and activism. His large-scale installations consist of structures that foreground their own means of construction, most notably through his use of industrial materials.
Wednesday – Sunday 11.00 am – 6.00 pm and by appointment.
FOCUS: Yves Klein | James Turrell is a two-room presentation that brings into dialogue seminal immersive works by each artist: Klein’s installation Pigment pur bleu (1957/2018) and Turrell’s projection Orca, Blue-Red (1968). Together, these monumental projects initiate a negotiation of space and perception.
Tuesday–Saturday 10AM–6PM
Referring to the address of Cabaret Voltaire – the birthplace of Dada in Zurich, Switzerland – ‘Spiegelgasse (Mirror Alley)’ presents the works of Swiss artists from the 1930s to the present day
Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm
An exhibition of paintings by Bernard Frize that brings together paintings from Frize’s most recent series with works made in the decade from 1999 to 2008.
Monday - Saturday, 10 - 6pm
Vocalizing is the title of a double solo exhibition that focuses on the written word used, with very different outcomes, by Tomaso Binga (born Salerno, Italy, 1931) and Greta Schödl (born Hollabrunn, Austria, 1929) from the beginning of their long careers.
Tuesday - Friday 10am - 6pm Saturday 11am - 5pm
FREE – ‘True Colours’, brings together three emerging artists – Helen Beard (b.1971, Birmingham), Sadie Laska (b.1974, West Virginia) and Boo Saville (b.1980, Norwich) – that, despite using paint in very different ways, all share an interest in exploring the possibilities of colour.
Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm
Lee Bul transforms Hayward Gallery into a spectacular dream-like landscape featuring monstrous bodies, futuristic cyborgs, glittering mirrored environments and an exquisitely surreal monumental foil Zeppelin.
11am – 7pm every day except Tuesdays when the gallery is closed. Late night opening on Thursdays until 9pm.
Art Night is a free contemporary arts festival that puts art into extraordinary locations around London for one night a year.
The main festival is curated by the Hayward Gallery* and Art Night Open* will feature curated events at local institutions in the area.
6pm-6am
Faces Places and Spaces: New Painting made in the UK selected with and including new works by Hedley Roberts.
Tues- Fri 11-6, Saturday 12-5
First of Central Saint Martins summer degree shows featuring work by graduating students from BA Fine Art, MA Fine Art, MA Photography, MA Art and Science.
For the 8th consecutive year, global communications network MullenLowe Group is sponsoring the Central Saint Martins Degree Shows, supporting the next generation of creative stars.
Smartphone e-brand, Honor, is the proud technology sponsor of the 2018 Central Saint Martins Degree Shows.
Wednesday to Friday: 12-8pm Saturday to Sunday: 12-5pm.
Featuring over 150 patterns and products, as well as collaborations with photographers, film directors and architects, Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern emphasises the role of ornament and colour in our everyday lives.
Open Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11am–6pm Thursdays until 8pm Sundays, 11am–5pm
An exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s final works.
Tues-Sat 10-6
America My Hometown traces Edward Kienholz’s formative years (1954-1967), showing an artist coming to terms with both his unique vision and the social climate of the US throughout this tumultuous era.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
On view is Julian Rosefeldt’s film installation titled “The Swap” from 2015 which appears to parody a scene from a classic gangster film of covert dodgy dealings, yet Rosefeldt’s manipulation thrusts it into contemporary reality.
Wed-Sat 11am-6pm
Another successful Christies Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale has topped expectations with record prices for Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935).
16 May 2018
The exhibition features twelve recent paintings using imagery and an approach to painting that the artist has refined throughout his career.
Tue-Sat 10-6
More than 100 of the world’s leading galleries will descend on the capital for London’s most popular photography fair.
10 May 2018
A solo exhibition by internationally-renowned sculptor, David Nash, entitled ‘Wood, Metal, Pigment’. Large and small-scale sculptures in wood, charred wood, bronze and iron in addition to pigment works on paper, explore the breadth of Nash’s established practice with a focus on his three primary materials: wood, metal and pigment.
Monday–Friday 10:00–18:00 Saturday 11:00–17:00
London Craft Week returns to the capital for its fourth edition from 9-13 May 2018. Celebrating outstanding British and international creativity, this year the festival brings together over 200 established and emerging makers, designers, brands and galleries from around the world.
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Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen produces computer-generated environments exhibited as video or VR installations.
Thursday – Sunday 12–6pm
The largest exhibition ever mounted of the French artist Yves Klein has been announced for Blenheim Palace. It will coincide with what would have been the artist’s ninetieth birthday.
26 April 2018
Following her acclaimed installation This Drove My Mother Up the Wall at South London Gallery last autumn, Gagosian is showing “Prototypes of Imagination,” an exhibition of new paintings by Katharina Grosse.
Tues-Sat 10-6
EXTENDED: This summer, the V&A will explore how Frida Kahlo (b. 1907), one of the most recognised and significant artists and women of the 20th century, fashioned her identity. Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up will be the first exhibition outside of Mexico to display her clothes and intimate possessions, reuniting them with key self-portraits and photographs to offer a fresh perspective on her compelling life story.
Daily: 10.00 – 17.45 Friday: 10.00 – 22.00
From smart appliances to satellites, artificial intelligence to internet culture, this exhibition will bring together more than 100 objects as a landscape of possibilities for the near future.
Daily: 10.00 – 17.45 Friday: 10.00 – 22.00
Taking as a starting point Vittorio De Sica’s 1963 film Il boom, the exhibition explores the relationship between post-war Italian art and the economic miracle in the 1960s.
Monday to Friday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Saturday 10:30 am - 5:30 pm
