Every summer, the City of London, in partnership with local businesses, unveils a brand-new selection of artworks by internationally-acclaimed artists. Set amongst the iconic architecture of the City’s insurance district, the sculptures animate public spaces and engage visitors and passers-by alike.
Open 24 Hours
FREE – Tate Modern will explore German art from between the wars in a year-long, free exhibition, drawing upon the rich holdings of The George Economou Collection.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
A wide-ranging exhibition featuring more than 60 rare and important works from the gallery’s comprehensive collection of Matisse Prints.
Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm
Ben Uri curators Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall have curated this major survey of the artist David Bomberg (1890-1957) in recognition of the 60th anniversary of the artist’s death.
Mon - Fri: 10:00 - 17:30 Sat - Sun: 11:00 - 17:00
Vile Bodies, a group exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Tuesday through Friday 10am to 6pm
Johannes Girardoni: Sensing Singularity will feature three distinct bodies of work, including new sculptures and a monumental Metaspace, which collectively explore the relationship between material and light.
Monday–Friday 10AM–5PM
Located across White Cube’s London galleries at Bermondsey and Mason’s Yard, Memory Palace is articulated by an architectural framework that leads the viewer through six broad themes of memory: Historical, Autobiographical, Traces, Transcription, Collective and Sensory.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Photographer Peter Fraser presents his most recent body of work Mathematics. Reflecting on the idea that time, space, and everything within it, can be described mathematically, Fraser brings together a series of photographs of seemingly disparate and unrelated objects and encounters – including still lives, landscapes and portraiture.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 6.00pm Wednesdays: 10.00am – 9.00pm
This exhibition celebrates Campari’s rich heritage in creativity and design, showcasing the ground-breaking advertising and packaging designs responsible for establishing and maintaining unrivalled global recognition for the brand.
Wednesdays – Saturdays 11.00-18.00, Sundays 12.00-17.00
This landmark exhibition explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art, spanning several generations of artists across all media.
Open Daily 10-6 Fridays Until 9pm
FREE- Frieze Sculpture will return to The Regent’s Park for three months this summer, featuring works by 25 contemporary and modern artists presented by world-leading galleries.
Park opening times
Silver Lake Drive is a major new exhibition marking the first mid-career survey of American photographer and filmmaker, Alex Prager (b.1979). This comprehensive exhibition presents over 40 photographs and her complete filmic oeuvre, all of which capture the banal and the fantastic, the every day and the theatrical in Prager’s heightened reality.
Mon - Sat: 10.00 - 18.00 Thu: 10.00 - 20.00 during exhibitions Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
This summer, the Serpentine presents the work of Tomma Abts (b. 1967, Kiel, Germany) in the artist’s first solo exhibition in a UK public institution. One of the most significant artists of her generation and the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, Abts is known for her acrylic and oil paintings whose extraordinary magnetism belies their modest scale.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays.
FREE – This summer, in the heart of London, the Serpentine Galleries presents a major exhibition of the artists’ work, which draws upon their use of barrels to create artworks. Simultaneously, Christo will present The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake), a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine lake.
10am - 6pm, Tuesday - Sunday, plus bank holidays.
Featuring over 150 patterns and products, as well as collaborations with photographers, film directors and architects, Orla Kiely: A Life in Pattern emphasises the role of ornament and colour in our everyday lives.
Open Tuesdays to Saturdays, 11am–6pm Thursdays until 8pm Sundays, 11am–5pm
EXTENDED: This summer, the V&A will explore how Frida Kahlo (b. 1907), one of the most recognised and significant artists and women of the 20th century, fashioned her identity. Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up will be the first exhibition outside of Mexico to display her clothes and intimate possessions, reuniting them with key self-portraits and photographs to offer a fresh perspective on her compelling life story.
Daily: 10.00 – 17.45 Friday: 10.00 – 22.00
From smart appliances to satellites, artificial intelligence to internet culture, this exhibition will bring together more than 100 objects as a landscape of possibilities for the near future.
Daily: 10.00 – 17.45 Friday: 10.00 – 22.00
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London for April 2018. Paul currently freelances for Art Monthly, Frieze, Elephant, STATE, Photomonitor, Border Crossings and World of Interiors, and has a weekly online column at FAD Art News.
31 March 2018
Anthea Hamilton transforms the heart of Tate Britain with sculpture and performance for the Tate Britain Commission 2018 in the Duveen Galleries.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Up Now in London – Paul Carey-Kent chooses his favourite exhibitions for March 2018.
3 March 2018
Art galleries opening all over the city with art as international as innovative. Given London, more than 1.500 galleries, its… Read More
21 January 2018
An exhibition looking at how photographers responded and contributed to the invention of abstract art
Sun-Thurs 10-6 Sat-Sun 10-10
An exhibition exploring the impact of World War One on British, German and French art.
Daily 10-6
This is the first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern. It will bring you face-to-face with more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, mixed with family photographs and rare glimpses into his personal life.
Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00
See Ed Ruscha’s modern take on the cyclical nature of civilisation, evocative of Thomas Cole’s series of the same name.
Daily 10am-6pm Friday 10am-9pm
Paul Carey-Kent publishes his March Choices 2017 – Up Now in a London Gallery near you.
28 February 2017
Art critic Paul Carey-Kent gives Artlyst his recommendations for London Art Exhibitions around the Capital for July 2016. There are still a… Read More
6 July 2016
Paul Carey-Kent curates his choices of London art exhibitions for May 2016. His rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows are all… Read More
14 May 2016
Paul Carey-Kent curates his choices of London art exhibitions for April 2016. His rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows are all… Read More
2 April 2016
In his rolling reviews of the must see art exhibitions in London critic Paul Carey-Kent looks at what’s on around… Read More
1 February 2016
Paul Carey-Kent gives us the latest in his rolling choice of ten, together with previous choices which you can still see…… Read More
31 December 2015
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
