Redoubt: Matthew Barney, Hayward Gallery
The focal point of Matthey Barney’s first solo exhibition in the UK for more than a decade, currently showing at the Hayward Gallery on Southbank London, is the feature length…
Underbelly Festival 2021, Cavendish Square
The Underbelly Festival will once more come to central London from July to September, this time at Cavendish Square just around the corner from Oxford Circus station. London’s original pop-up…
Cockpit Summer Festival 2021
Cockpit Arts will hold its summer festival in Holborn and Deptford over the weekends of 25 to 27 June and 2 to 4 July, 2021. The Cockpit Summer Festival will be held both online and in person…
Kensington + Chelsea Festival 2021
The west of London will come alive with a plethora of live performances and public art for two months this summer with the first Kensington + Chelsea Festival from 21 June to 31 August…
Rubens: Reuniting the Great Landscapes
This summer will see the reunification of two of Rubens’ master landscapes A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning and The Rainbow Landscape at the Wallace Collection in…
Grand Trunk Road: No Compromise on Quality
Mark Bibby Jackson returns to a familiar Indian restaurant of his youth now transformed into the swish Grand Trunk Road, to see whether it justifies the accolade of the best…
Art in the City: Rubens, Nero and Diana
Welcome to Art in the City, the first in a new monthly culture column where Irene Caswell will be offering a quick round-up of the best exhibitions and other art-related…
David Hockney: The Bearable Lightness of Being
Mark Bibby Jackson visits The Arrival of Spring by David Hockney, and is struck by how wonderfully light the exhibition is, compared with the all-enveloping darkness that has preceded it…
London Design Biennale, Somerset House
Somerset House will host the third London Design Biennale this June. Established in 2016 by Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE, London Design Biennale promotes international collaboration and…
Copernicus Conversations with God
The National Gallery opens to the public with Copernicus, a rare sighting of richness and quality. Words by Neil Hennessy-Vass. Like the rest of us I’ve spent the last year…
Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict, RA
Mark Bibby Jackson attends the press preview of Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict at the Royal Academy of Arts, and discovers a rich and multi-layered gem. Although it might not quite…
Flora Indica: Indian Restaurants London Past and Future
Billing itself as a ‘hypnotic hybrid of Victorian steampunk and classic English comfort’, Flora Indica on the Old Brompton Road sounds an intriguing combination, Mark Bibby Jackson finds out whether…
Portraiture in Perspective at the Serpentine Galleries
Mark Bibby Jackson visits the Serpentine Galleries to view two separate exhibitions – James Barnor : Accra/London – A Retrospective, and Jennifer Packer : The Eye Is Not Satisfied with…
London Begins at 40 Launch
Today, 17 May, we officially launch London Begins at 40, a lifestyle and travel website aimed at the over 40 Londoner and visitor to London. Our editor Mark Bibby Jackson…
Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust, Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery, Southbank will present Kicking Dust, the first solo exhibition of the South African artist Igshaan Adams from May to July 2021. In it Adams will reimagine the brutalist architecture…
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
“I’ve been in love with this man since I was eighteen,” says Tracey Emin of Norwegian expressionist, Edvard Munch. In The Loneliness of the Soul at the Royal Academy of…
The Royal Ballet, 21st Century Choreographers
The Royal Ballet will return to the Royal Opera House in May after a five-month hiatus with a programme to celebrate the best international choreographers – 21st Century Choreographers. It will include works by…
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, V&A
In a landmark exhibition, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is showing Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser from May to December to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the release Lewis Carroll’s…
Bring Into Being, Chiswick House & Gardens
Chiswick House and Gardens will host a new artistic programme Bring Into Being from May to October that will include bespoke art installations by Turner-Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger, acclaimed…
David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, RA
This summer the Royal Academy of Arts will present David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020 at its Galleries 2, 3, Central Hall and Lecture Room. This new body of work was created by the Yorkshire artist…
Our Future Planet, Science Museum
Climate change is the biggest issue facing both our and future generations. Our Future Planet is an exhibition at the Science Museum that addresses the potential of carbon capture to save our planet. Running from when the Science Museum…
Absolutely Augmented Reality, Hoxton 253
Hoxton 253 Gallery will open Absolutely Augmented Reality, a new exhibition of work by New York-based artists Ajuan Song and Kuzma Vostrikov in June 2021. The exhibition, which was previously…
Cecil Beaton Celebrating Celebrity, Blenheim Palace
If you are looking for things to do around and about London, then why not go for a trip to Blenheim Palace this spring or summer. Starting when the interior of the stately home reopens to the public…
Anatomy of the Mind, Opera Gallery
Anatomy of the Mind is an exhibition of work by Swiss contemporary artist Andy Denzler to be held at the Opera Gallery, London this June. The exhibition will include 20 works the Zurich-based…
