Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world.
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Ten London Art Exhibitions Winter/Spring 2024 – Recommended By Artlyst
In February, most major galleries are launching their new season’s exhibitions. From solo shows featuring contemporary artists Barbara Kruger and Yoko Ono to group shows on the subjects of colonialism, contemporary artists from the African diaspora and the use of textiles in art, it promises to be another enthralling year.
2 January 2024
RE/SISTERS: A Gender Revolutionary Vision – Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican Art Gallery is presenting RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, an extraordinary exhibition
5 October 2023
Re/Sisters: A Lens on Gender and Ecology
Featuring around 50 international women and gender non-conforming artists
Sat-Wed 10am - 6pm (last entry 5pm) Thu-Fri 10am - 8pm (last entry 7pm) Fri 13 Oct 11am - 8pm (last entry 7pm)
Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for Now
Explore the work and career of Carrie Mae Weems in this first major UK exhibition dedicated to one of the most influential American artists working today.
Sat-Wed 10am-6pm (last entry 5pm) Thu-Fri 10am-8pm (last entry 7pm) Friday 5-8pm pay what you can
Alice Neel Collector Of Souls Barbican Art Gallery – Sara Faith
The exhibition at the Barbican is the study of American figurative painter Alice Neel (1900-1984), who Barbican Artistic Director Will Gompertz describes as ‘a radical, creative artist undervalued for much of her six-decade career’.
16 February 2023
Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle
The largest exhibition to date in the UK of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984), whose vivid portraits capture the shifting social and political context of the American twentieth century.
Sat-Wed 10am-6pm (last entry 5pm) Thu-Fri 10am-8pm (last entry 7pm)
Carolee Schneemann Breaking Artistic Boundaries At The Barbican – Sue Hubbard
Until the 1960s, America and Britain, both recovering from the effects of war, were largely conservative, hidebound and patriarchal societies. This makes the work of the American artist Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019), now on show at the Barbican in the first major survey and the first show since her death, all the more remarkable. For before Feminism was even a thing, she was breaking artistic and social boundaries.
14 September 2022
Carolee Schneemann: Feminism Performance Body Politics And Painting – Barbican
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics is the first survey in the UK of the work of American artist Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) and the first major exhibition since she died in 2019.
7 September 2022
Ten London Art Exhibitions Autumn 2022
London comes into its own in Autumn with the opening of a whole array of exciting exhibitions, fairs and auctions. Artlyst has put together a list of ten art exhibitions presented in our world-class galleries and museums.
31 August 2022
Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics
Bringing together paintings, sculptural assemblages, performance photographs, films and large-scale multimedia installations, as well as rarely seen archival material including scores, sketches, scrapbooks, programmes and costumes, this exhibition positions Schneemann as one of the most relevant, provocative and inspiring artists of the last century.
Sun-Wed 10am-6pm (last entry 5pm) Thu-Sat 10am-8pm (last entry 7pm)
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965
A revelatory new take on art in Britain after the Second World War, a period when artists had to make sense of an entirely altered world.
Sun-Wed 10am-6pm (last entry 5pm) Thu-Sat 10am-8pm (last entry 7pm)
Noguchi
An exhibition celebrating Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), one of the most experimental and pioneering artists of the 20th century.
10am-6pm (last entry 5pm)
Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty
An exhibition celebrating French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), one of the most singular and provocative voices in postwar modern art.
Mon-Fri 11am-7pm Sat-Sun 10am-7pm Bank Holidays 12-7pm
Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer
The first major exhibition of dancer and choreographer Michael Clark.
Mon-Fri 11am-7pm Sat-Sun 10am-7pm
Masculinities: An Extremely Interesting, Timely Event – Edward Lucie-Smith
After a plethora of exhibitions featuring women, women’s art, women’s attitudes of the world, it comes as a relief to find a big London show that is all about men.
20 February 2020
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
Reopening
Examining depictions of masculinity from behind the lens, the Barbican brings together the work of over 50 international artists, photographers and filmmakers including Laurie Anderson, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Catherine Opie.
Sun-Wed 10am-6pm Thu-Sat 10am-9pm Good Friday 10am-9pm Easter Monday 10am-6pm
Into the Night Cabarets & Clubs in Modern Art
An exhilarating journey into the world’s most iconic cabarets, cafés and clubs in modern art through the lens of pioneering artists.
Fri 4 Oct 10am–6pm Sun–Tue 10am–6pm Wed–Sat 10am–8pm
Lee Krasner: Living Colour
This exhibition celebrates the work and life of Lee Krasner (1908–1984), a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism.
Sat-Wed 10am-6pm Thur-Fri 10am-9pm bank holidays 12-6pm
Modern Couples Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde
Explore modern art and modern love; Modern Couples reveals how relationships can become a playground for creativity.
Explore modern art and modern love; Modern Couples reveals how relationships can become a playground for creativity.
Dorothea Lange / Vanessa Winship
The first UK retrospective of American documentary photographer Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) and first major UK solo exhibition in a public gallery of British contemporary photographer Vanessa Winship.
Sat–Wed 10am–6pm Thu & Fri 10am–9pm
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins
Touching on themes of gender and sexuality, drugs and addiction, youth culture and minorities of all kinds, the show features the work of 20 photographers from the 1950s to the present day.
Sat–Wed: 10am–6pm Thu–Fri: 10am–10pm (last entry at 9pm)
Major Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibition Announced For London’s Barbican
The first large-scale exhibition in the UK of work by the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960—1988) has been announced for the Barbican.
4 October 2016
Marcel Duchamp: Relevance, Indifference And The Next Generation of Proteges
For Marcel Duchamp, the cracks that appeared in his work The Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors,… Read More
14 February 2013