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27 Jun '18-30 Apr '19
Sculpture in the City 2018
various venues in the City of London
Every summer, the City of London, in partnership with local businesses, unveils a brand-new selection of artworks by internationally-acclaimed
30 Jul '18-14 Jul '19
Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-33
Tate Modern
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
04 Sep '18-03 Feb '19
The Secret to a Good Life
Royal Academy of Arts
This special project by Bob and Roberta Smith RA explores the story of women artists and the Royal Academy – through the lens of his own family
04 Sep '18-24 Mar '19
Staging Jackson Pollock
Whitechapel Gallery
In an archive exhibition, the Whitechapel Gallery revisits how the 1958 Jackson Pollock exhibition was organised and the reasons for its profound
06 Sep '18-20 Jan '19
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I object: Ian Hislop’s search for dissent
British Museum
The museum has invited Private Eye Editor Ian Hislop to have a rummage around in the stores and hand-pick a range of intriguing objects that
08 Sep '18-24 Feb '19
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Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt
Victoria and Albert Museum
This exhibition provides a unique insight into the design process behind a selection of groundbreaking contemporary videogames. Design work,
12 Sep '18-15 Dec '18
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Urs Fischer: Dasha
Gagosian (Davies Street)
Dasha (2018) is a larger-than-life-size wax candle depicting Dasha Zhukova, a personal friend of the Urs
14 Sep '18-20 Jan '19
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Christian Marclay: The Clock
Tate Modern
Christian Marclay’s acclaimed installation The Clock 2010 has captivated audiences across the world from New York to Moscow.
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15 Sep '18-20 Jan '19
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Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings
Royal Academy of Arts
From The Shard in London to the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the buildings of Renzo Piano have enriched cities across the globe. The RA reveals the
17 Sep '18-20 Jan '19
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Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cézanne
National Gallery
This exhibition of over forty works is centred around the loan of 26 masterpieces from the Courtauld Gallery featuring work by Daumier, Manet,
18 Sep '18-17 Mar '19
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Cornelia Parker: Transitional Object (PsychoBarn),
Royal Academy of Arts
Cornelia Parker RA brings her PsychoBarn installation to London and the Neoclassical surrounds of the Annenberg Courtyard at the Royal Academy of
20 Sep '18-16 Dec '18
Rachel Maclean
Zabludowicz Collection
Rachel Maclean has rapidly established herself as one of the most distinctive creative voices in the UK, creating baroque, hyper-real worlds using
21 Sep '18-20 Jan '19
Ladies of Quality and Distinction
The Foundling Museum
A landmark exhibition highlighting the hidden stories of women in the Foundling Hospital’s
26 Sep '18-06 Jan '19
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26 Sep '18-06 Jan '19
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Space Shifters
Hayward Gallery
Space Shifters brings together artwork by over 20 international artists on the theme of space disruption and
26 Sep '18-27 Jan '19
Ribera: Art of Violence
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Ribera: Art of Violence will be the first UK show of work by the Spanish Baroque artist and printmaker, Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), bringing
26 Sep '18-13 Jan '19
Martin Eder: Parasites
Newport Street Gallery
‘Parasites’ is a solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Martin Eder featuring major new paintings alongside work spanning over a decade of the
26 Sep '18-23 Dec '18
A New Figurative Art 1920-1945: Works from the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection
Estorick Collection
Since the early 1990s, Milanese lawyer Giuseppe Iannaccone has put together one of the most outstanding private collections of Italian art from the
27 Sep '18-13 Jan '19
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Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue
Whitechapel Gallery
This exhibition juxtaposes a survey of Elmgreen & Dragset’s emotional figurative sculptures with an extraordinary new large-scale
27 Sep '18-15 Dec '18
Michelangelo Pistoletto: Origins and Consequences
Mazzoleni
Collating artworks from various private collections, the exhibition will focus on a selection of works spanning from 1958 to
27 Sep '18-06 Jan '19
Francis Upritchard: Wetwang Slack
Curve Gallery at Barbican Centre
Francis Upritchard’s site-specific installation draws from ceramics, tapestry, glassblowing and
27 Sep '18-21 Dec '18
Hannah Wilke
Alison Jacques Gallery
An exhibition spanning three decades of the American painter, sculptor, photographer, video and performance artist Hannah Wilke (1940 –
28 Sep '18-06 Jan '19
Amy Sillman: Landline
Camden Arts Centre
Working in New York, Amy Sillman’s wayward form of abstraction has pushed defiantly at the process-oriented approaches typically associated with
28 Sep '18-13 Jan '19
Black Mirror: Art As Social Satire
Saatchi Gallery
Black Mirror will explore art’s role in social satire, and how political uncertainty has influenced the art of recent years and features the work
28 Sep '18-12 Jan '19
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Lord Duveen, My Pictures Never Look So Marvellous As When You Are Here
Levy Gorvy
Lévy Gorvy celebrates the spirit of the esteemed tastemaker Sir Joseph Duveen (1869–1939), whose former premises at 22 Old Bond Street is now
29 Sep '18-26 Jan '19
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Chris Burden: Measured
Gagosian (Britannia Street)
From his action-based works of the 1970s to the jaw-dropping technical feats of his later sculptures, Chris Burden (1946–2015) consistently
01 Oct '18-27 Jan '19
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Mantegna and Bellini
National Gallery
A tale of two artists and brothers-in-law, ‘Mantegna and Bellini’ tells a story of art, family, rivalry, and
02 Oct '18-24 Feb '19
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Hyundai Commission: Tania Bruguera
Tate Modern
Bruguera’s unique concept for her political approach to art – Arte Util (useful art) – will continue to be developed in this major new
03 Oct '18-21 Dec '18
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Yayoi Kusama
Victoria Miro (Wharf Road)
A major exhibition of new works by Yayoi Kusama will take place across the Wharf Road galleries and waterside
03 Oct '18-10 Feb '19
Pierre Huyghe
Serpentine Gallery
Pierre Huyghe (b. 1962, Paris), one of the world’s leading conceptual artists known for creating complex immersive ecosystems, presents a major
03 Oct '18-06 Jan '19
Atelier E.B: Passer-by
Serpentine Sackler Gallery
Passer-by is a new exhibition by Atelier E.B, the collaborative fashion label by designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy
03 Oct '18-15 Dec '18
Joe Bradley: Day World
Gagosian Gallery (Grosvenor Hill)
In his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and mixed-media works, Joe Bradley has produced a visual language that oscillates freely between personal
04 Oct '18-06 Jan '19
Athi-Patra Ruga: Of Gods, Rainbows and Omissions
Somerset House
New and rarely seen works from the internationally renowned South African artist Athi-Patra
10 Oct '18-27 Jan '19
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Modern Couples Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde
Barbican Art Gallery
Explore modern art and modern love; Modern Couples reveals how relationships can become a playground for
11 Oct '18-27 Jan '19
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Anni Albers
Tate Modern
A long overdue recognition of Anni Albers’s pivotal contribution to modern art and design, this is the first major exhibition of her work in the
24 Oct '18-24 Feb '19
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Edward Burne-Jones
Tate Britain
This exhibition – his first solo show at Tate since 1933 – charts Burne-Jones’s rise from an outsider with little formal art training to
25 Oct '18-03 Mar '19
Good Grief, Charlie Brown!
Somerset House
Good Grief, Charlie Brown! brings together Charles M. Schulz original Peanuts cartoons with work from a wide range of acclaimed
25 Oct '18-24 Feb '19
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Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
Jewish Museum London
Presented simultaneously at Jewish Museum London and The Photographers’ Gallery, Roman Vishniac Rediscovered is the first UK retrospective of
26 Oct '18-24 Feb '19
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Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
The Photographers' Gallery
Presented simultaneously at The Photographers’ Gallery and Jewish Museum London, Roman Vishniac Rediscovered is the first UK retrospective
31 Oct '18-12 Jan '19
Site Unseen
Dellasposa
Inaugural exhibition Site Unseen at Dellasposa, a curated presentation of contemporary artists and modern
01 Nov '18-15 Dec '18
Michele Abeles: World Cup
Sadie Coles (Kingly Street)
Michele Abeles presents four new series of works. Each uses photographic imagery to create a suspended, composite realm in which the artist plays
01 Nov '18-14 Dec '18
Richard Smith: Uptown/Downtown 1959-63
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert presents a long-overdue show of rare early works by Richard Smith (1931-2016), the first such survey to take place in the
02 Nov '18-21 Dec '18
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04 Nov '18-03 Feb '19
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Klimt / Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna
Royal Academy of Arts
See rare and fragile drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, offering intimate insights into their artistic relationship and differing creative
05 Nov '18-10 Feb '19
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Lorenzo Lotto Portraits
National Gallery
Uncover the symbolism and psychological depth of Lotto’s Renaissance
07 Nov '18-22 Dec '18
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Peter Howson: Acta Est Fabula
Flowers (Kingsland Road)
An exhibition of new work by Scottish artist Peter Howson, a focal member of the group of young artists to emerge from the Glasgow School of Art
07 Nov '18-21 Dec '18
Ilse D’Hollander
Victoria Miro Mayfair
In her short life, Ilse D’Hollander (1968–1997) created an intelligent, sensual and highly resonant body of work that continues to find
08 Nov '18-21 Dec '18
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50 Years, 50 Artists
Annely Juda Fine Art
An exhibition celebrating 50 years since the establishment of Annely Juda Fine Art in 1968. The exhibition will feature 50 artworks, one for each
08 Nov '18-24 Feb '19
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I am Ashurbanipal king of the world, king of Assyria
British Museum
This major exhibition tells the story of Ashurbanipal through the British Museum’s unparalleled collection of Assyrian treasures and rare
09 Nov '18-12 Jan '19
Léon Wuidar
White Cube - Mason's Yard
White Cube presents an exhibition of paintings by Belgian artist Léon Wuidar at Mason’s Yard. The artist’s second show with the gallery,
09 Nov '18-22 Dec '18
Jacky Tsai: Reincarnation
Unit London
Jacky Tsai works across a range of mediums including installation, sculpture and
13 Nov '18-08 Feb '19
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André Butzer
Galerie Max Hetzler
A solo exhibition of early paintings by André Butzer to inaugurate Galerie Max Hetzler’s London
15 Nov '18-05 Jan '19
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Richard Long: The Tide is High
Alan Cristea Gallery
The Tide is High by Richard Long is a series of new prints based on drawings made from mud taken from the river in
16 Nov '18-12 Jan '19
Fiona Tan: Elsewhere
Frith Street Gallery
In Fiona Tan’s work explorations of memory, time, history and the role of visual images are
16 Nov '18-05 Jan '19
Ceal Floyer
Lisson Gallery (67 Lisson Street)
A new exhibition by Berlin-based artist Ceal Floyer featuring a distinct body of sculptural works, in poetic situations, subtle interventions, as
16 Nov '18-05 Jan '19
Leon Polk Smith
Lisson Gallery (27 Bell St)
An exhibition celebrating one of the founders of the hard-edge style of Minimalism, Leon Polk
16 Nov '18-05 Jan '19
Katja Seib: Dear Diary
Sadie Coles (Davies Street)
Katja Seib’s new paintings (all 2018) form an interconnected group throughout which lucid figuration blurs into dreamlike symbolism. Alternately
16 Nov '18-21 Dec '18
Channing Hansen: Morphogenesis
Stephen Friedman Gallery 1
A solo exhibition of new, large-scale works by American artist Channing Hansen. Hansen’s vibrant paintings comprise abstract, hand-knitted
16 Nov '18-06 Jan '19
Felipe Baeza
Maureen Paley
The first solo exhibition in the UK by Felipe Baeza. The work presented at Maureen Paley explores ideas surrounding his interest in migration,
16 Nov '18-03 Feb '19
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21 Nov '18-20 Dec '18
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Gordon Matta-Clark: Works 1970–1978
David Zwirner
An exhibition of works dating from 1970 to 1978 by Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978). Spanning three floors of David Zwirner’s London
22 Nov '18-10 Jan '19
Brent Wadden: Sympathetic Resonance
Pace London
New works by Canadian artist Brent Wadden influenced by folk and Bauhaus textiles, the language and techniques of traditional North American
22 Nov '18-16 Dec '18
360: Mélodie Mousset
Zabludowicz Collection
Mélodie Mousset works across a number of mediums, including installation, performance, photography, sculpture, new media and virtual
28 Nov '18-19 Jan '19
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Chiharu Shiota: Me Somewhere Else
Blain Southern
Chiharu Shiota’s first exhibition at Blain Southern’s London gallery centres around a new site-specific installation, along with sculpture
28 Nov '18-20 Jan '19
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Darren Almond: Time Will Tell
White Cube - Bermondsey Street
Darren Almond’s diverse practice incorporates film, installation, sculpture and photography, to produce evocative meditations on time and duration
28 Nov '18-26 Jan '19
John Cage: Ryoanji
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
An Exhibition Uniting Musical Compositions and Drawings from John Cage’s Exquisite Ryoanji
29 Nov '18-03 Feb '19
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29 Nov '18-03 Feb '19
Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen
National Gallery
One of the world’s best-known animal paintings, Edwin Landseer’s ‘The Monarch of the Glen’, returns to the National Gallery
29 Nov '18-26 Jan '19
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Robert Rauschenberg: Spreads 1975-83
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
The first UK exhibition dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg’s iconic Spreads series
29 Nov '18-25 Jan '19
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Les Lalanne
Ben Brown Fine Arts
An elaborate and extensive exhibition celebrating the extraordinary oeuvres of Claude and the late François-Xavier
30 Nov '18-09 Feb '19
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Martin Creed: Toast
Hauser & Wirth (London)
An exhibition by Martin Creed entitled ‘Toast’ which includes new sculpture, painting, drawing, tapestry, video, live action and music. Creed
05 Dec '18-24 Feb '19
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018
South London Gallery
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018 returns to the SLG for the first time in nearly 20
05 Dec '18-14 Dec '18
The London Group Annual Exhibition 2018
The Cello Factory
The London Group presents its Annual Exhibition at Christmas this year, showcasing work by around 60 members including painting, photography and
12 Dec '18-14 Dec '18
Art For Youth London
Mall Galleries
For over 30 years, this annual charity event has consistently provided quality artwork at affordable prices and has directly raised £1.4 million
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London Art Fair 2019
Business Design Centre
London Art Fair provides a space to showcase the most exceptional modern and contemporary art of our time, to discover and to
23 Jan '19-06 May '19
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory – The CC Land Exhibition
Tate Modern
This is the first major exhibition of Pierre Bonnard’s work in the UK since the much-loved show at Tate 20 years
26 Jan '19-31 Mar '19
Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth
Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy brings together two artists Bill Viola and Michelangelo – born centuries apart – who explore the same universal themes with
05 Feb '19-06 May '19
Don McCullin
Tate Britain
Tate Britain presents a comprehensive retrospective of the legendary British photographer Don
20 Feb '19-02 Jun '19
Franz West
Tate Modern
Ironic, irreverent, yet profoundly philosophical, Franz West was a key figure of European art in the late 20th
23 Feb '19-23 Jun '19
Phyllida Barlow RA: cul-de-sac
Royal Academy of Arts
Phyllida Barlow’s vibrant, large-scale installations transform the environments they
03 Mar '19-02 Jun '19
The Renaissance Nude
Royal Academy of Arts
Trace the development of the nude through some of the great masters of the Renaissance. Bringing together works by artists such as Titian, Raphael,
27 Mar '19-11 Aug '19
Van Gogh and Britain
Tate Britain
This major exhibition brings together 45 works by Vincent van Gogh to reveal how he was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British