Yayoi Kusama: Giant Bronze Pumpkin Unveiled In Kensington Gardens
This summer, the Serpentine and The Royal Parks will unveil a monumental sculpture by the iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. From July 9 to November 3, 2024…
1 June 2024
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Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States And Decolonialised Structures – Serpentine – Sue Hubbard
Yinka Shonibare Suspended States Serpentine Galleries: When I was a small child – many millennia ago – much of the world map was pink.
21 April 2024
Yinka Shonibare: Suspended States Explores Boundaries and Histories At The Serpentine
London’s Serpentine is poised to host a transformative encounter with British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s multifaceted practice in a highly-anticipated… Read More
28 February 2024
Serpentine Unveils Architect for 23rd Pavilion: Minsuk Cho Takes the Helm
The Serpentine Galleries has announced that the esteemed Korean architect Minsuk Cho, hailing from Seoul, has been commissioned to design the 23rd Pavilion.
22 January 2024
Surveying New Exhibitions With A Spiritual Twist January 2023 Art Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Surveying current and upcoming exhibitions at the turn of the year provides evidence of the breadth and depth of the past and present engagement between art and spirituality.
4 January 2023
KAWS Launches His first Major London Solo Exhibition
The artist KAWS launches his first major solo exhibition in London, NEW FICTION, KAWS (Brian Donnelly b.1974) at the Serpentine.
18 January 2022
Christo’s Mastaba Returns To Serpentine In Augmented Reality
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s London Mastaba returns to the Serpentine this summer recreated in Augmented Reality by Acute Art in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries.
7 July 2020
Yana Peel Quits Serpentine After Negative Lobbying Campaign
Yana Peel, the Serpentine Galleries CEO has resigned from her role, after three years, following a concerted lobbying campaign against her husband’s recent investment in NSO, a surveillance technology company.
18 June 2019
Marina Abramović Serpentine Performance Presented In Augmented Reality
Marina Abramović, the iconic performance artist, presents her latest performance: The Life in Mixed Reality (a wearable augmented reality experience).
7 February 2019
Christo’s Grave Monument In The Serpentine – Edward Lucie-Smith
What is a mastaba? Some dictionaries will tell you that the word means a bench, but more usually it’s a term used to describe an early Ancient Egyptian form of grave monument. A type that was in use even before they began to build the pyramids.
21 June 2018
Serpentine Launches Inaugural Beijing Pavilion Collaboration With JIAKUN Architects
The Serpentine Galleries (London) and WF CENTRAL (Beijing) have announced a major international collaboration: a new architecture Pavilion, designed by JIAKUN Architects
1 February 2018
Christo Given Go-ahead To Create Mastaba Sculpture In Serpentine
The conceptual artist Christo has been given the go-ahead to create a massive ‘Mastaba’ sculpture situated in Hyde Park.
25 January 2018
A World View: John Latham
As a pioneer of British conceptual art, John Latham (1921-2006) has exerted a powerful and lasting influence, not only on his peers but on generations of younger artists. This spring, the Serpentine hosts a new exhibition that encompasses all strands of Latham’s extraordinary practice, including sculpture, installation, painting, film, land art, engineering, found-object assemblage, performance and the artist’s theoretical writings.
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Zaha Hadid Solo Exhibition To Be Mounted At Serpentine In December
A solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and digital works by the late British/Iraqi Architect Zaha Hadid is to be mounted… Read More
23 August 2016
Alex Katz Drive-by Art: An Exploitation of Flatness By Edward Lucie-Smith
Alex Katz (b. 1927) is a senior figure, in all senses of that term, in the American art world, but perhaps not… Read More
10 June 2016
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Wins Southbank Award For Serpentine Exhibition
The South Bank Sky Arts Awards which focus on the arts in their entirety honouring the very best of British culture and… Read More
6 June 2016
Serpentine Unveils Designs For Expanded 2016 Architecture Programme
The Serpentine has unveiled the designs for its expanded Architecture Programme for 2016: the 16th annual Pavilion designed by Bjarke Ingels Group… Read More
25 February 2016
Five Of The Best British Exhibitions 2015 Chosen By George Micallef Eynaud
A truly immersive exhibition featuring a selection of 45 artists brought together by the highly influential American artist Glenn Ligon, Encounters &… Read More
28 December 2015
Serpentine Announces Inaugural Exhibition At Zaha Hadid Designed Sackler Gallery
The inaugural exhibition at the newly opened Serpentine Sackler Gallery, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects,
28 August 2013
V&A Serpentine And Dulwich Share £56 Million Culture Fund
Eighteen museums and art heritage sites have been awarded Catalyst: Endowments funding to court money from private philanthropic sources. Thirty-four… Read More
21 June 2012
Lygia Pape Gets Due Recognition At Serpentine Retrospective
First major UK retrospective of late artist Lygia Pape opens at the Serpentine -Magnetized Space – firming up her reputation… Read More
7 December 2011