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Lina Lapelytė: ‘In The Dark, We Play’ at The Cosmic House
Since 2021, the Cosmic House – the fascinating former home of revered postmodernist landscape architect Charles Jencks – has operated as...
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Royal Academy’s 2025 Summer Exhibition
The RA Summer Exhibition has been held every year since 1769, and in 2025, it’s been coordinated by renowned British-Iranian...
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Fake Barn Country
This is an exhibition about exhibitions and about exhibition-making as an act of passion, generosity and curiosity shared between artists. Every image, sound...
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Alexandra Metcalf at The Perimeter
Walking through the high-ceilinged halls of The Perimeter in Bloomsbury, where natural light spills across bare walls and polished floors, you might not...
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Gold rats, inflatable balls and community photography: inside the Royal Academy’s 2025 Summer Exhibition
This year marks the 257th iteration of the annual arty extravaganza
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First look: inside the mind-blowing new V&A East Storehouse in Stratford
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Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre, a vast concrete estate of 2,000 flats and a leading arts complex, is a prime example of brutalist architecture, softened a little by time...
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National Gallery
Founded in 1824 to display a collection of just 36 paintings, today the National Gallery is home to more than 2,000 works. There are masterpieces from...
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National Portrait Gallery
Portraits don't have to be stuffy. The National Portrait Gallery has everything from oil paintings of stiff-backed royals to photos of soccer stars and...
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Tate Britain
Tate Modern gets all the attention, but the original Tate Gallery, founded by sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, has a broader and more inclusive brief. Housed in a...
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Tate Modern
The permanent collection draws from the Tate’s collections of modern art (international works from 1900) and features heavy hitters such as Matisse,...
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Whitechapel Gallery
This East End stalwart reopened in 2009 following a major redesign and expansion that saw the Grade II listed building transformed into a vibrant, holistic...