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Alice Theobald: 'Il Y Aura (There Will Be)'
Alice Theobald: 'Il Y Aura (There Will Be)'
Alice Theobald is here to give you vivid, traumatising flashbacks to that French GCSE you never passed, and Duoloingo lessons you never did.
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965
This exhibition is a premonition, a warning. In all the heaving, dark, post-apocalyptic paint and steel created by the artists in Britain in the wake of World...
Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan
Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan
Devoting a whole show to a nineteenth-century model and muse is pretty niche, even by art history standards. But the reverse psychology of this RA exhibition...
Surrealism Beyond Borders
Surrealism Beyond Borders
There’s nothing more tedious than having to listen to someone tell you about their dreams. So it’s amazing that it’s at the heart of one of...
‘A Century of the Artist’s Studio’
‘A Century of the Artist’s Studio’
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Decriminalised Futures
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Barbican Centre
Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre, a vast concrete estate of 2,000 flats and a leading arts complex, is a prime example of brutalist architecture, softened a little by time...
National Gallery
National Gallery
Founded in 1824 to display a collection of just 36 paintings, today the National Gallery is home to more than 2,000 works. There are masterpieces from...
National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
Portraits don't have to be stuffy. The National Portrait Gallery has everything from oil paintings of stiff-backed royals to photos of soccer stars and...
Tate Britain
Tate Britain
Tate Modern gets all the attention, but the original Tate Gallery, founded by sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, has a broader and more inclusive brief. Housed in a...
Tate Modern
Tate Modern
The permanent collection draws from the Tate’s collections of modern art (international works from 1900) and features heavy hitters such as Matisse,...
Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery
This East End stalwart reopened in 2009 following a major redesign and expansion that saw the Grade II listed building transformed into a vibrant, holistic...