Jesús Rafael Soto: Sound Mural
An exhibition of a unique and rarely seen early sound mural by Jesús Rafael Soto.
Tuesday-Friday: 12-6pm and Saturday 12-5pm.
Events
Dan Colen: Sweet Liberty
Dan Colen’s first major London solo show spans over fifteen years and features new works, including large-scale installations.
Tuesday – Friday & Sunday 10am – 6pm (last admission 5.45pm) Saturday 10am – 10pm (last admission 9.45pm) Closed Monday Open on bank holidays
Frieze Masters 2017
Frieze Masters 2017 bring together thousands of years of art in a unique, contemporary context, with over 130 of the world’s leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th Century, as well as photography, sculpture and wunderkammer.
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Frieze London 2017
Frieze London brings together more than 160 of the world’s leading contemporary galleries, showcasing ambitious presentations by emerging and established artists, enhanced by an exceptional programme of artist commisions, films and talks.
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Thomas Schütte
An exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Thomas Schütte at the gallery’s spaces on Golden Square and at 60 Frith Street.
tuesday to Friday 10am—6pm | Saturday 11am—5pm or by appointment
Suzan Frecon
Recent paintings and works on paper by Suzan Frecon. For almost five decades, Frecon has created abstract paintings that address issues of horizontality and verticality, asymmetrical balances, and interacting arrangements of colour.
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Werner Haypeter: Wall Crossing
Werner Haypeter has, since the 1980s, explored geometric form in discreet works made from resin, wood, PVC and paper. Engaging with the purely abstract paintings of twentieth-century Modernism, Haypeter’s work succeeds in uniting the theories of abstraction with the aesthetic of mass production.
Monday–Friday 10:00–18:00 Saturday 11:00–17:00
Sarah Oppenheimer: S-01
An exhibition by Sarah Oppenheimer. For this, her second exhibition at the gallery, Oppenheimer is showing two new works: S-011110 and S-010100.
Monday–Friday 10:00–18:00 Saturday 11:00–17:00
Emma Stibbon: Volcano
A new body of work on paper by Emma Stibbon RA (b. 1962) for her first solo exhibition at Alan Cristea Gallery.
Monday – Friday: 10am – 5.30 pm Saturday: 11am – 2pm
London Design Festival 2017
The London Design Festival is an annual event, held to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world and as the gateway to the international creative community. As the festival hub, the V&A will house a broad range of specially-commissioned installations and displays around the Museum.
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Tracey Emin, ‘My Bed’/JMW Turner
Tracey Emin’s iconic and controversial installation My Bed will be on display alongside a collection of JMW Turner’s seascapes and stormy skies, loaned from Tate’s collection and chosen by the artist.
Tuesday - Sunday and public holidays 10am - 6pm
Arp: The Poetry of Forms
This Autumn Turner Contemporary presents Arp: The Poetry of Forms, the first exhibition in a public gallery of Jean Arp’s work in the UK since 1966.
Tuesday - Sunday and public holidays 10am - 6pm
Willem de Kooning: Late Paintings
An exhibition of Willem de Kooning’s late paintings including exceptional paintings created in the 1980s, during the last decade of de Kooning’s 60 year career.
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Eleanor Antin: Romans & Kings
The first exhibition in London of the pioneering American Feminist filmmaker, performance and conceptual artist Eleanor Antin.
Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm
Crossroads Art Fair 2017
Crossroads returns to London marking a big shift with new art direction and a new centrally located venue. A niche art fair with fifty international galleries and special projects hand-picked by renowned curators.
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Paul Carey -Kent Curates His London Gallery Choices For August 2017
There’s seems to be more on than usual over August, partly due to a new trend for shows running July-September
2 August 2017
Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity
The largest exhibition devoted to the celebrated Victorian artist to be held in London since 1913, explores Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s fascination with the representation of domestic life in antiquity and how this interest related to his own domestic circumstances expressed through the two remarkable studio-houses that he created in St John’s Wood together with his wife Laura and daughters.
daily from 10am to 5pm except Tuesday
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White
Explore the tradition of painting in black and white from its beginnings in the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and into the 21st century.
Daily 10am – 6pm, 10am – 9pm Fridays
Drawn in Colour: Degas From The Burrell
A rare opportunity to see stunning paintings, pastels, and drawings by leading French Impressionist Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas on loan from the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.
Daily 10am – 6pm, 10am – 9pm Fridays
Gary Hume: Mum
Spruth Magers reopens its London gallery with an expanded exhibition space occupying three floors on Grafton Street and a debut exhibition of new works by Gary Hume.
to be announced
Haroon Mirza / HRM199: For A Partnership Society
Marking the tenth anniversary of the Zabludowicz Collection’s home at 176 Prince of Wales Road, the exhibition will be structured around the re-imagining of two major works by Haroon Mirza: The System, 2014 and Adam, Eve, others and a UFO, 2013.
Thursday – Sunday 12–6pm
Thomas Ruff
Cosmology, suburbia, nudity, utopianism, catastrophe – these are some of the subjects that Thomas Ruff (b. 1958, Germany) addresses in his photographic series, which for almost four decades have investigated the status of the image in contemporary culture.
Tues-sun 11-6 Thurs until 9pm
John Akomfrah: Purple
British artist and filmmaker, and winner of the 2017 Artes Mundi prize, John Akomfrah has been commissioned to create a new work for the Curve. His most ambitious project to date, Purple is an immersive, six-channel video installation addressing climate change and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness.
Sat–Wed 10am–8pm (last entry 6.30pm) Thu–Fri 10am–10pm (last entry 8.30pm) Bank holidays 12 noon–8pm (last entry 6.30pm)
Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged
American artist Wade Guyton uses digital technologies – iPhones, cameras, computers and consumer-grade Epson printers – as tools to create both large-scale paintings on linen and smaller compositions on paper.
Open Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch That Made You
Torbjørn Rødland (born 1970, Stavanger, Norway) is a Los Angeles-based photographer who creates portraits, still lives and landscapes, which simultaneously inhabit, defamiliarise and disrupt the realm of the everyday.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays
Hyundai Commission: Superflex
The Turbine Hall transformed by Danish collective Superflex known for their interests in unifying urban spaces and commenting on society with authenticity through art.
Daily 10-6
Impressionists in London: The Ey Exhibition
The story of the artists who fled to Britain to escape war in France. This exhibition presents captivating works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and their compatriots.
Mon-Sun 10-6pm
Rachel Whiteread
Celebrating over 25 years of Rachel Whiteread’s internationally acclaimed sculpture. The most comprehensive exhibition to date of one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Reflections: Van Eyck & The Pre-Raphaelites
For the first time, one of the most celebrated paintings in the National Gallery, Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434), will be exhibited alongside works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and its successors.
10am–6pm (last admission 5pm)
Jake & Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of Everyday Life
For their first exhibition with Blain|Southern, Jake & Dinos Chapman present their newest body of sculptural work, expanding on their career-long preoccupation with Francisco Goya.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Jean Dubuffet: Theatres of memory
Theatres of memory is the first exhibition dedicated to Dubuffet’s Théâtres de mémoire series in over three decades.
Tues-Sat 10-6 and Fri 10-4
Polish Exhibition: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain
Focusing on the contribution made by the largest migrant community to 20th/21st Century British Art, this exhibition highlights the work of Polish artists who have worked and continue to work in Britain. Featured artists include: Jankel Adler, Janina Baranowska, Marian Bohusz-Szyszko, Stanislaw Frenkiel, Feliks Topolski and Alfred Wolmark, complemented by contemporary practitioners working in London now.
Mon–Fri 10am–5.30pm, Sat–Sun 11am–5pm