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Kind Of A Drag – Self-Portraits And Body Politics – Hayward Gallery

DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics is the first institutional exhibition to expand on the traditional representations of drag,

Cindy Sherman: Major UK Retrospective Announced By NPG

Cindy Sherman’s groundbreaking series, Untitled Film Stills, 1977-80, is to go on public display for the first time in the UK, in a major new retrospective of the artist’s work at the National Portrait Gallery

100 Pioneering Women Depicted In First Women UK Exhibition At RCA

Portraits of 100 pioneering women of the 21st century are highlighted in a remarkable new exhibition which has taken ten years to compile. The Royal College of Art will host the show this summer (20 July – 22 August).

Elmgreen & Dragset First UK Survey Exhibition Announced By Whitechapel

A major new overview of artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset has been announced for September 2018 with six new sculptures and 29 works created over 20 years of the artists’ collaboration. It will be their first comprehensive show in a public UK gallery.

Kahlil Gibran: A Universal Philosophy Timelessly Impacted – Anna Seaman

In Ghada Khunji’s monochromatic artwork, she has depicted the character of Almitra, the female protagonist in Kahlil Gibran’s seminal text The Prophet who appears alongside the male prophet Almustafa.

Unseen John Virtue Paintings To Be Unveiled At Fortnum’s X Frank 2018

Fortnum & Mason will be continuing their annual artistic collaboration Fortnum’s X Frank 2018 (FXF18), 10th September – 20th October

Sculpture in the City 2018 Splashes Out On Impressive Free Exhibition

This year’s annual Sculpture in the City’ exhibition (launching on 27 June) will include works from international artists including Sarah Lucas, Sean Scully and Marina Abramovic.

Patrick Heron Retrospective Moves To Turner Contemporary

The British artist Patrick Heron (1920-99) will be celebrated in this retrospective exhibition, the first major show of his work for twenty years

200 Women Known And Unknown Figures – Pen And Brush NY

200 WOMEN who will change the way you see the world is fittingly showcased at Pen and Brush, New York

Manifesta 12 The Nomadic Biennial What You Need To Know

Manifesta 12, now in its twelfth edition is Europe’s nomadic biennial, taking place in Palermo from 16 June until 4 November 2018.

The London Group Announces Three Exhibitions For Waterloo Festival

St John’s Waterloo is an Anglican church with a big heart and an open door. This year, The London Group will mount three new group exhibition.

Lee Bul Explores Questions Of Intimacy, Gender, And Technology – Hayward Gallery

Lee Bul (b. 1964, Seoul, South Korea) explores questions of intimacy, gender, technology and class

Three Female Artists Show Their True Colours At Newport Street Gallery

Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is presenting ‘True Colours’ an exhibition of paintings by three female artists

Paul Renner and Paul Sakoilsky Transformation Corruption and Conservation – Gallery 46

Gallery 46 is presenting the first joint exhibition in London and first full collaboration by Paul Renner and Paul Sakoilsky.

Paper: Not Just Another Flat Surface – International Print Center New York – Isa Freeling

IPCNY is offering a comprehensive look at the art of paper. A medium exemplified in a multitude of imagery manifested into an excellent display of pulp’s many boundless possibilities.

Prison Charity Koestler Trust Curates Exhibition Touring London churches

The Koestler Trust, the UK’s best-known prison arts charity, has curated an exhibition which has been touring central London churches.

Colin Smith: Imagery Rooted In The Everyday World

It’s been several decades since the British Artist Colin Smith exhibited in the UK. He has worked almost exclusively overseas during this time, in the USA, Sweden, a long period in a mountain village in Spain, and now is based mainly in Ghent, Belgium.

Photo London 2018: The Capital’s Most Visited Photography Event – Preview

More than 100 of the world’s leading galleries will descend on the capital for London’s most popular photography fair.

Mai 68: Posters from the Revolution Marking 50 Years – Lazinc

On the fiftieth anniversary of the student protests that kicked off the Mai 68 Paris riots, London gallery Lazinc will present over fifty posters created and employed during the protests.

1968 Political Protest Posters To Be Displayed At Tate Britain

1968 was a turning point for protest history and a flashpoint in modern society.

The ground-breaking work of Sister Corita Kent – Ditchling Museum

In the sometimes fraught and fractious relationship between the Church and visual art, the story of Sister Corita Kent is one of the most inspiring, surprising and unusual. In 1936 the eighteen-year-old Frances Kent entered the religious order Immaculate Heart of Mary order of Catholic nuns in Hollywood. She became Sister Mary Corita, IHM, and […]

Dame Joan Collins To Be Sculpted Live by Royal Artist Frances Segelman

The iconic actor Dame Joan Collins will be sculpted live by royal sculptor Frances Segelman (Lady Petchey) at the London Film Museum, in support of Penny Brohn UK.

Shape Of Light: Photography’s Relationship With Abstract Art – Tate Modern

London 30 April: Tate Modern reveals the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art in a new exhibition.

Helaine Blumenfeld – In Pursuit Of Hard Beauty – Lisa Azarmi

The sculptor, Helaine Blumenfeld OBE, has spent a life time unashamedly in pursuit of beauty. In an art world obsessed by the conceptual, Blumenfeld has carved her own reality.

Emily Young: First Contemporary Works Exhibited In New College Cloisters – Paul Black

Considering that British sculptor Emily Young strives to marry the ancient and contemporary

Sean Scully: First UK Sculpture And Painting Exhibition Announced For YSP

Sean Scully is to create an ambitious new exhibition of both his paintings and his less known three-dimensional works, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YPS) in September.

Lee Miller: Private Photographs Of Picasso On Display At Lightbox

A new photography exhibition of work by Lee Miller at The Lightbox gallery and museum in Woking will display a rarely-seen, carefree side to the iconic artist, Pablo Picasso.

Hot Rocks: Artists Explore The Obsessiveness Of Mineral Collectors And Geologists

Superstition is a four-walled mineral cabinet consisting of artists that all depict geological rocks such as crystals, gemstones, or Geodes.

Damien Hirst Headlines Houghton Hall 2018 Exhibition

Damien Hirst will be the next artist to take over Houghton Hall for their summer exhibition.

Carsten Holler Takes On Palazzo Strozzi For The Florence Experiment

Palazzo Strozzi will host The Florence Experiment, a new site-specific project devised by celebrated German artist Carsten Höller and plant neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso, curated by Arturo Galansino, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Director-General, this spring-summer.

Alexander Calder Hauser & Wirth Somerset

A major new solo exhibition of works by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976), the majority of which have never before been exhibited in the UK is to take place at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

Collecting Stanley Spencer: New Cookham Exhibition Explores His Patron’s Influence

A new exhibition at the popular Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham titled Patron Saints: Collecting Stanley Spencer, opens later this month.