London’s National Gallery Bicentennial Breaks Visitor And Digital Records
In 2024, over four million people experienced the National Gallery in person, a 15% increase from 2023. 4,713,519 visits were recorded for the Gallery
17 March 2025
London
Ultraviolet: A Groundbreaking Exhibition Unveiled By KKWEER Arts London
London, June 2024 – KKWEER Arts is set to unveil ‘Ultraviolet,’ a compelling group exhibition that delves into
3 July 2024
Anselm Kiefer Finnegans Wake New Exhibition White Cube Bermondsey London
In ‘Anselm Kiefer – Finnegans Wake’, the artist’s new paintings, sculptures and installations respond to (that is, struggle with and transform) James Joyce’s novel of 1939.
8 June 2023
Art In Spain And The Hispanic World A New RA Survey Exhibition – Lee Sharrock
Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic society museum & library is a major new survey exhibition featuring 150 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
26 January 2023
Great Art Cities Explained – An Art And Travel Video Series
Following the wildly successful YouTube art history series, Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded in 2020 by art writer and curator James Payne
7 November 2022
Ha Jin Lee: The Sensuous Heart Traveller Curated By Rok Hee Hwang At J/M Gallery
The J/M Gallery is presenting a second exhibition curated by Rokhee Hwang of South Korea’s renowned ‘Mews Gallery’, featuring the colourful paintings of Ha Jin Lee.
13 August 2022
Marcus Lyon Creates Fields of Vision At St Martin-in-the-Fields London
Fields of Vision is an immersive exterior projection created by Marcus Lyon in collaboration with St Martin-in-the-Fields.
16 February 2022
My Art Diary And Other Thoughts February 2022 – Revd Jonathan Evens
9/11, made Rachel Feinstein want to use religious iconography in her work again. The result is Mirror, her current art exhibition at Gagosian.
9 February 2022
Winslow Homer To Feature In New National Gallery Exhibition
The New England artist Winslow Homer (1836–1910), will have his first major UK show at London’s National Gallery. Homer is… Read More
12 January 2022
Albrecht Dürer Travels Of A Renaissance Artist – National Gallery London – Revd Jonathan Evens
Albrecht Dürer, himself, lived in Nuremberg throughout his life but made several significant European journeys.
11 December 2021
Ermina Avramidou: Deception A Solo Exhibition – Varvara Roza Galleries and The Blender Gallery London
Varvara Roza Galleries and The Blender Gallery are mounting a solo exhibition of paintings by Ermina Avramidou one of the most interesting contemporary female artists to emerge from Greece.
6 December 2021
Magnus Plessen: Artist Interview of the Month December 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
The German painter Magnus Plessen tends to paint in thematic groups: in 2016, he showed his ‘1914-1918’ series in London
23 November 2021
Great Art Cities Explained New Art And Travel Video Series Launched
Following the wildly successful YouTube art history series Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes, founded last year by art writer and curator James Payne, a new art and travel series has launched. Great Art Cities Explained, a collaboration from PayneShurvell gallery owners, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell, will run concurrently on the same channel.
19 November 2021
Kehinde Wiley Explores Climate Change And Migration At London’s National Gallery
The National Gallery London will feature an exhibition of the American Artist Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977, Los Angeles).
10 November 2021
Philip Tsiaras: Superdot Paintings Exhibited At Gallery 8 London
Varvara Galleries and The Blender Gallery announce a solo exhibition of ‘Dot Pop Portraits’ by the Greek artist Philip Tsiaris at Gallery 8 in Mayfair
26 October 2021
Pace Inaugurates New London Gallery With Mark Rothko Exhibition
Pace inaugurates their new London gallery with Mark Rothko 1968: Clearing Away, an exhibition of rarely seen works on paper
4 October 2021
UK Museums And Galleries May Reopen From 4 July
Museums and galleries will be allowed to reopen in England from 4 July. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced measures easing the coronavirus restrictions in place since March.
23 June 2020
Black Lives Matter March American Embassy London – Oliver Malin
Unless you’ve been stuck in outer space or Elon Musk has deployed you to test out the feasibility of luxury corporate space travel during the pandemic, you’ll be aware that we are currently experiencing the most significant global Black civil rights movement since 1968.
10 June 2020
London Museum And Gallery Lockdown Could Be Relaxed In June
Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement on Sunday, the next stage in easing the COVID-19 lockdown could include the reopening of Museums and Galleries. This would be possible as soon as 1st June.
13 May 2020
National Gallery Explores ‘Sin’ In New Exhibition – Interview Dr Joost Joustra Curator With Revd Jonathan Evens
The first exhibition in the UK exploring sin in art will be staged at the National Gallery this spring. ‘Sin’ will bring together paintings from the National Gallery’s collection dating from the 16th to the 18th century with loans from important private and public collections including modern and contemporary works by Andy Warhol, Tracey Emin, and Ron Mueck.
9 February 2020
American Pastoral Art Celebrated In New London Show – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new American Pastoral exhibition at Gagosian’s Britannia Street space is of museum quality, even if what’s on show doesn’t always seem to relate to the title.
29 January 2020
Richard Artschwager: A Display Of Cabinet of Curiosities – Gagosian London
Live in Your Head: Richard Artschwager’s Cabinet of Curiosities is an exhibition spanning the five decades of Artschwager’s career, and his first in London since 2003.
15 January 2020
Recommended London Art Exhibitions December 2019 – Paul Carey Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended Contemporary and Modern art exhibitions in London now (December 2019).
3 December 2019
How Wheelchair Friendly Are London Commercial Galleries? – David Lock Investigates
As a wheelchair user, I wanted to write a piece about what it’s like for a disabled person visiting commercial galleries in London.
28 October 2019
Sterling Ruby: Gagosian – Britannia Street – Edward Lucie-Smith
The main items in Sterling Ruby’s exhibition at Gagosian Britannia Street (his first solo show with the gallery here in London) are huge works from a series called ACTS (2006-2018). In this case, the word has no direct reference to Holy Scripture.
20 October 2019
Sterling Ruby To Feature At Gagosian Over London Frieze Week
Sculptures by Sterling Ruby will be the feature Britannia Street exhibition at Gagosian over Frieze Week.
13 August 2019
Charlie Smith London Is 10 – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new show at Charlie Smith London celebrates, as the handout tells you, “a full decade’s operations in Shoreditch”. Within that period, the gallery has presented 88 exhibitions and has participated in more than 30 art fairs in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the USA and here in the UK.
14 July 2019
Sculpture In The City London Unveils Edition Nine
Sculpture in the City, the annual public art programme set amongst well-known architectural landmarks, has launched, celebrating their ninth edition. Nineteen artworks make up this year’s outdoor sculpture park in the Square Mile, to include a new artwork by Jonathan Trayte to be unveiled in Autumn 2019.
1 July 2019
Kevork Mourad Explores The Babel Story At The Ismaili Centre London
The Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad unveils his latest exhibition Seeing Through Babel at The Ismaili Centre, London.
27 June 2019
Leonardo Da Vinci A Man Of Seductive Charm – Edward Lucie-Smith
This will be a great year of Leonardo celebrations because 2019 marks five centuries since the great artist died and Leonardo is now one of the great monuments of Western culture. Various countries are squabbling over who can do his memory the most honour.
25 May 2019
Chantal Joffe: Her Own Sense Of Being – Victoria Miro – Sue Hubbard
Chantal Joffe Victoria Miro London: In his seminal 1972 book Ways of Seeing, the late John Berger claimed that: ‘A woman must continually watch herself…From earliest childhood, she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself…
27 April 2019
Art Exhibitions Up Now in London March 2019 – Paul Carey- Kent
Writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives his rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London March 2019. He currently writes freelance including for Art Monthly, Frieze, Elephant, STATE, Photomonitor, Border Crossings and World of Interiors.
4 March 2019