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06 Apr '19-16 Feb '20
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Mary Quant
Victoria and Albert Museum
From miniskirts and hot pants to vibrant tights and makeup, discover how Mary Quant launched a fashion revolution on the British high
27 Jun '19-30 Apr '20
Sculpture in the City 2019
various venues around City of London
Wander the City s public spaces and discover world-class public art across an iconic urban landscape Each year Sculpture in the City returns to the
11 Sep '19-02 Feb '20
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William Blake
Tate Britain
With over 300 original works, including his watercolours, paintings and prints, this is the largest show of Blake’s work for almost 20
21 Sep '19-08 Mar '20
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22 Sep '19-02 May '20
Iluá Hauck da Silva: Pathos Ocularis – The Beautiful and the Curious
The College of Optometrists
Iluá Hauck da Silva, an artist and glassmaker specialising in works of anatomical and pathological symbolism, is the third ever
02 Oct '19-05 Apr '20
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Kara Walker Hyundai Commission
Tate Modern
Kara Walker will transform the Turbine Hall with an ambitious new artwork for
02 Oct '19-02 Feb '20
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Albert Oehlen
Serpentine Gallery
A major exhibition by German artist Albert Oehlen one of the most innovative and significant artists working
04 Oct '19-02 Feb '20
Rembrandt’s Light
Dulwich Picture Gallery
This landmark exhibition celebrates 350 years since Rembrandt’s death with 35 of his iconic paintings, etchings and
17 Oct '19-09 Feb '20
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Nam June Paik
Tate Modern
Tate Modern brings together over 200 works from throughout Nam June Paik’s five-decade career – from robots made from old TV screens to his
30 Oct '19-01 Feb '20
Jimmy DeSana and the Sex Appeal of the Inorganic
Amanda Wilkinson Gallery
The bodies in Jimmy DeSana’s photographs are posed with
02 Nov '19-03 May '20
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TUTANKHAMUN: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
Saatchi Gallery
The exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb and is the final chance to see these glittering world
08 Nov '19-09 Feb '20
Patrick Staff: On Venus
Serpentine Sackler Gallery
For their newly commissioned exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, Patrick Staff presents their most ambitious work to date: On Venus is a
08 Nov '19-01 Mar '20
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Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
Jewish Museum London
This major exhibition features over 200 small gouaches on paper which German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon created as part of a larger body of
12 Nov '19-03 May '20
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Steve McQueen: Year 3
Tate Britain
Turner Prize-winning artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen unveils his epic portrait of London’s Year 3
15 Nov '19-19 Apr '20
The Clash: London Calling
Museum of London
Go behind the scenes on the making of The Clash’s groundbreaking London Calling – an album that rocked the music scene, serving as an anthem
20 Nov '19-15 Mar '20
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Dora Maar
Tate Modern
During the 1930s, Dora Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons
20 Nov '19-29 Feb '20
Tony Cragg: Stacks
Lisson Gallery (27 Bell St)
Tony Cragg presents a selection of complex polymorphic sculptures, rendered in bronze, wood and steel, including a new series of works
20 Nov '19-29 Feb '20
Richard Deacon: Deep State
Lisson Gallery (67 Lisson Street)
Richard Deacon presents his eleventh exhibition with Lisson Gallery, showing works incorporating steel, ceramics, clay, bent wood and ink on paper
21 Nov '19-08 Mar '20
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Troy: myth and reality
British Museum
The legend of Troy has endured for more than 3,000 years. Explore the breath-taking art that brings the captivation characters to life, from
21 Nov '19-15 Feb '20
Dan Flavin: For Prudence
Bastian Gallery
BASTIAN presents a solo exhibition from the late pioneering American minimalist Dan Flavin (1933 –
23 Nov '19-19 Apr '20
Cars: Accelerating The Modern World
Victoria and Albert Museum
An exhibition looking at the car as the driving force that accelerated the pace of the 20th
27 Nov '19-01 Mar '20
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Young Bomberg And The Old Masters
National Gallery
For the first time, revolutionary early paintings by the British modernist artist David Bomberg (1890–1957) will be displayed alongside National
06 Dec '19-23 Feb '20
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019
South London Gallery
Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the South London Gallery with an exhibition of works by 45 emerging
12 Dec '19-15 Feb '20
Francesco Clemente: Pastels
Levy Gorvy
Francesco Clemente: Pastels illuminates Clemente’s extraordinary creative synthesis of diverse aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual
09 Jan '20-02 Feb '20
Ridiculous!
Elephant West
For Ridiculous!, writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent presents an exhibition and performance programme of some eighteen artists who are not afraid to
09 Jan '20-08 Feb '20
Ian Davenport : Chromatic
Cristea Roberts Gallery
The Cristea Roberts Gallery will unveil a major new body of etchings and monoprints by Ian Davenport (b.1966) which explore complex arrangements
09 Jan '20-08 Feb '20
Naum Gabo: Spatial Impressions
Cristea Roberts Gallery
Rare woodblock prints by Russian artist Naum Gabo (1890 – 1970), one of the most important and influential sculptors of the twentieth century,
10 Jan '20-01 Feb '20
Glen Baxter: Unflinchingly Gamboge
Flowers (Cork Street)
British artist Glen Baxter is renowned for a unique style of social surrealism in which familiar subjects from popular culture are combined with an
10 Jan '20-22 Feb '20
Ruth Asawa: A Line Can Go Anywhere
David Zwirner
An exhibition of work by American artist Ruth Asawa
10 Jan '20-22 Feb '20
Benode Behari Mukherje: After Sight
David Zwirner
An exhibition of work by Indian artist Benode Behari Mukherjee
10 Jan '20-15 Feb '20
Maternality
Richard Saltoun
The second exhibition exploring themes of maternal experience, ‘Maternality,’ reflects on the etymological root of the word mother and its
11 Jan '20-15 Feb '20
Katy Moran: Recent Paintings
Modern Art Vyner Street
A solo exhibition of new paintings by Katy Moran. This is Moran’s fifth solo show with Modern Art and opens during Condo weekend in
15 Jan '20-22 Feb '20
Alex Katz
Timothy Taylor
Timothy Taylor presents Alex Katz, an exhibition of recent paintings by the eponymous artist (b.
16 Jan '20-14 Mar '20
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Alex Israel: Always On My Mind
Gagosian Gallery (Grosvenor Hill)
Gagosian presents Always On My Mind, an exhibition of new Self-Portraits by Alex Israel. This is his first solo exhibition in the United
16 Jan '20-23 Feb '20
No horizon, no edge to liquid
Zabludowicz Collection
No horizon, no edge to liquid explores the concept of cultural hybridity as a space in which cultures meet: where bridges
17 Jan '20-07 Mar '20
Live in Your Head: Richard Artschwager’s Cabinet of Curiosities
Gagosian (Davies Street)
Gagosian presents Live in Your Head: Richard Artschwager’s Cabinet of Curiosities, an exhibition spanning the five decades of Artschwager’s
17 Jan '20-15 Mar '20
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Elizabeth Eade: “I know you are but what am I”
Hix Art
HIX ART presents I know you are but what am I, a presentation of new work by Elizabeth Eade, winner of the 2018 HIX
17 Jan '20-05 Apr '20
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Vivian Suter: Tintin’s Sofa
Camden Arts Centre
For this exhibition, Argentine-Swiss artist Vivian Suter fills the galleries with her delicate but powerful paintings, hanging them in an immersive
17 Jan '20-05 Apr '20
Athanasios Argianas: Hollowed Water
Camden Arts Centre
Hollowed Water is an exhibition of new work in music, sculpture and video by Athanasios Argianas (b. 1976,
23 Jan '20-14 Mar '20
American Pastoral
Gagosian (Britannia Street)
In this exhibition, modern and contemporary works are juxtaposed with historical American landscapes that reference Philip Roth’s 1997
24 Jan '20-26 Apr '20
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Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media
The Foundling Museum
Portraying Pregnancy is a major exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits, over 500
25 Jan '20-13 Apr '20
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Picasso and Paper
Royal Academy of Arts
Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for ‘Guernica’ to a 4.8-metre-wide
25 Jan '20-03 May '20
Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room Reimagined
Victoria and Albert Museum
This immersive installation by contemporary artist Darren Waterston presents a detailed and decadent interpretation of James Abbott McNeill
28 Jan '20-04 Feb '20
ImPerfectum
The Cello Factory
Exhibition ImPerfectum is a thought-provoking collection of works exploring the idea and notion of unfinishedness, created in a variety of media,
04 Feb '20-19 Apr '20
British Baroque Power and Illusion
Tate Britain
This is the first time that Tate has staged a show devoted to the later 17th century and the first to explore baroque art in
05 Feb '20-14 Mar '20
Colin Smith: Material Culture
JGM Gallery
Recent paintings by Colin Smith depicting garments hung in closets and how they can reflect the traits of their previous
06 Feb '20-10 May '20
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium
Whitechapel Gallery
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium brings together a new generation of artists who represent the body in radical ways to tell stories
07 Feb '20-01 Mar '20
David Lock, Gavin Maughfling, J A Nicholls: Between Parts Undone
Studio 1.1
With ‘between parts undone’ studio1.1 London welcomes three painters who collage and collate a definably queer identity. One pictured as
13 Feb '20-11 May '20
Steve McQueen
Tate Modern
Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition of Steve McQueen’s artwork in the UK for 20
20 Feb '20-17 May '20
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
Barbican Art Gallery
Examining depictions of masculinity from behind the lens, the Barbican brings together the work of over 50 international artists, photographers and
23 Feb '20-25 May '20
Léon Spilliaert
Royal Academy of Arts
From his celebrated self-portraits to dreamlike scenes of the North Sea coast, this exhibition will introduce UK audiences to the visionary work of
26 Feb '20-17 May '20
British Surrealism
Dulwich Picture Gallery
This major exhibition marks 100 years since the birth of Surrealism, championing the British artists that contributed to an iconic
27 Feb '20-28 Jun '20
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
National Portrait Gallery
The first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years, David Hockney: Drawing from Life, explores Hockney
04 Mar '20-25 May '20
Aubrey Beardsley
Tate Britain
Aubrey Beardsley shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white drawings. He explored the erotic and the elegant, the