Another Kind of Life Barbican Art Galler

Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins

Touching on themes of gender and sexuality, drugs and addiction, youth culture and minorities of all kinds, the show features the work of 20 photographers from the 1950s to the present day.

28 February 2018 - 27 May 2018

Sat–Wed: 10am–6pm Thu–Fri: 10am–10pm (last entry at 9pm)

Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

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Lumiere London 2018

Lumiere London 2018

Bigger, brighter and bolder, the Lumiere London light festival returns for a spectacular second edition. More than 40 UK and international artists reimagine London’s iconic architecture and streets, transforming the city into a dazzling nocturnal art exhibition.

18 January 2018 - 21 January 2018

5.30pm-10.30pm

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Tacita Dean Portrait National Portrait Gallery

Tacita Dean: Portrait

This major new exhibition will focus on Tacita Dean’s portraiture primarily through the medium of 16mm film. The exhibition will be the first in the Gallery’s history to be devoted to the medium of film, and also reveals Tacita Dean’s own longstanding and personal interest in portraiture as a genre

15 March 2018 - 28 May 2018

Daily 10-6

National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

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Victorian Giants National Portrait Gallery

Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography

This major new exhibition brings together, for the first time, the works of four of the most celebrated figures in art photography, Lewis Carroll (1832–98), Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–79), Oscar Rejlander (1813–75) and Clementina Hawarden (1822-65).

01 March 2018 - 20 May 2018

Daily 10-6

National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE

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Tacita Dean Royal Academy of Arts

Tacita Dean: Landscape

In the Royal Academy’s newly opened Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, the internationally renowned visual artist and Royal Academician will explore “landscape” in its broadest sense: intimate collections of natural found objects, a mountainous blackboard drawing and a series of cloudscapes in chalk.

19 May 2018 - 12 August 2018

Daily 10-6

Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, W1J 0BD

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Picasso 1932 Photo Tate Modern

Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy

This is the first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern. It will bring you face-to-face with more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, mixed with family photographs and rare glimpses into his personal life.

08 March 2018 - 09 September 2018

Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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Joan Jonas Tate Modern

Joan Jonas

Hero to a generation of younger artists, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of performance and video who has pushed the boundaries of art for the last five decades.

14 March 2018 - 05 August 2018

Mon-Thurs,Sun 10-6 Fri-Sat 10-10

Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG

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All Too Human Tate Britain

All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life

All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in the most intimate of ways including Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Paula Rego.

28 February 2018 - 27 August 2018

Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00

Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG

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Ed Ruscha National Gallery

Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire

See Ed Ruscha’s modern take on the cyclical nature of civilisation, evocative of Thomas Cole’s series of the same name.

 

11 June 2018 - 07 October 2018

Daily 10am-6pm Friday 10am-9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Tacita Dean National Gallery

Tacita Dean: Still Life

Explore still life through the lens of Tacita Dean, one of the genre’s leading contemporary practitioners

 

15 March 2018 - 28 May 2018

Daily 10am-6pm Friday 10am-9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Murillo Self Portraits National Gallery

Murillo: The Self Portraits

One of the most celebrated painters of the Spanish Golden Age, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo is well known for his religious paintings and his extraordinary depictions of street children. He was also an ingenious portraitist, although this aspect of his oeuvre is less studied.

28 February 2018 - 21 May 2018

Daily 10am–6pm Friday 10am–9pm

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN

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Mark Dion Whitechapel Gallery

Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World

Explorer, collector, activist and conjurer of theatrical environments American artist Mark Dion (b.1961) has travelled through rainforests and rubbish dumps to reveal the wonder and fragility of life on earth.

14 February 2018 - 13 May 2018

Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 11am-6pm Thurs 11am-9pm

Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX

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Ocean Liners V&A

Ocean Liners: Speed and Style

Experience a unique journey through the design stories of the world’s greatest ocean liners, including the Titanic, Normandie, the Queen Mary and the Canberra, and discover how these impressive vessels still loom large in our cultural imagination.

03 February 2018 - 10 June 2018

Daily: 10.00 – 17.45 Friday: 10.00 – 22.00

V&A, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL

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Sean Lynch Ronchini Gallery

Sean Lynch: Devil In The Detail

An exhibition of works by the acclaimed Irish artist, Sean Lynch. Lynch’s artistic practice focuses on storytelling, specifically unwritten narratives and almost-forgotten histories.

24 November 2017 - 20 January 2018

Monday-Friday: 10am–6pm Saturday: 12-5pm

Ronchini Gallery, 22 Dering Street, London, W1S 1AN

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Secular icons Parafin

Secular Icons in an Age of Moral Uncertainty

Taking its title from Nathan Coley’s eponymous grids of fairground lights, the exhibition brings together forms of image-making which – while redolent of an art history spanning from Byzantine icon painting to 20th-century avant-gardes – decidedly engage with the now.

01 December 2017 - 03 February 2018

Tue–Fri 10–6 Sat 12–5 Or by appointment

Parafin, 18 Woodstock Street, London, W1C 2AL

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Combined materials Rosenfeld Porcini Jane Bustin

Combining Materials

Rosenfeld Porcini’s exhibition Combining Materials features a selection of sculptural works illustrating how the juxtaposition of unlikely materials respond to the formal experiments voiced by a diverse range of contemporary artists.

30 November 2017 - 10 February 2018

Monday – Friday 11-7pm Saturday 11–6pm

Rosenfeld Porcini, 37 Rathbone Street, London, W1T 1NZ

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Listen 140 years of recorded sound the British Library

Listen: 140 Years of Recorded Sound

Sound. Take the time to explore it.

Just how important have the sounds of the past 140 years been to our lives? Dive into the British Library sound archive in a free exhibition looking at the significance of sound since the phonograph was invented in 1877.

06 October 2017 - 13 May 2018

09:30 - 20:00

British Library, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG

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Harry Potter British Library

Harry Potter: A History of Magic

The British Library unveils rare books, manuscripts and magical objects from its collection, capturing the traditions of folklore and magic which are at the heart of the Harry Potter stories.

20 October 2017 - 28 February 2018

09:30 - 18:00

British Library, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG

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Carmen Herrera,Lisson Gallery

Carmen Herrera

Carmen Herrera’s sixth exhibition with Lisson Gallery features a large Estructura, along with a number of paintings and works on paper, the exhibition displays some of Herrera’s most ambitious work to date.

25 November 2017 - 13 January 2018

Monday - Friday: 10:00am - 6:00pm Saturday: 11:00am - 5:00pm

Lisson Gallery (27 Bell St), 27 Bell Street, London, NW1 5BY

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Roy Colmer Lisson Gallery

Roy Colmer

Influenced by the likes of Arshile Gorky, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik and Jackson Pollock, with a career spanning five decades, Roy Colmer’s work holds an important place in the narrative of contemporary art.

25 November 2017 - 13 January 2018

Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm Saturday, 11am–5pm

Lisson Gallery (67 Lisson Street), 67 Lisson Street, London, NW1 5DA

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Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival exhibition

Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival Exhibition

The Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival Exhibition is a chance to celebrate the Nomadic Gardens by exhibiting artwork that has responded to the unique space.

16 December 2017 - 02 February 2018

Sat 16 Dec: 4pm-10pm All other dates: Open for private viewing during week and weekends 10:30-4 please book ahead

Queen's Park Nomadic Gardens, Claremont Rd, London W9 3D , ,

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Jewyo Rhii Amanda Wilkinson Gallery

Jewyo Rhii

In this inaugural exhibition at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, Jewyo Rhii presents a horizontal sculpture that echoes the shape of the vertical fence in a previous installation, ‘Walls to Talk to’.

21 November 2017 - 21 January 2018

Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm

Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, 1st Floor, 47 Farringdon Road, , London, EC1M 3JB

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