Angel of Anarchy: Eileen Agar, Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery’s exhibition of the work of Eileen Agar – Angel of Anarchy – highlights both the longevity and variety of one of the most important artists of the…
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…
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…
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…
ICA Reopens with War Inna Babylon
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) will reopen its doors after lockdown with the exhibition War Inna Babylon : The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights in July 2021…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
James Barnor / Jennifer Packer, Serpentine Gallery
The Serpentine Galleries will reopen on 19 May with two major exhibitions by James Barnor and Jennifer Packer, followed by the unveiling of the Serpentine Pavilion 2021 later in the…
Somerset House Reopens with Summer Programme
Somerset House reopens on 17 May with a varied programme of events for the summer, many of which are free. Aimed at allowing Londoners to reconnect with their friends and…
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…
Waddesdon Manor Events in May and June
A short train ride from London, Waddesdon Manor makes one of the best day trips from London. This summer there will be a series of Waddesdon Manor events to lure…
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…
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…
Phantoms of Surrealism, Whitechapel Gallery
From May the Whitechapel Gallery in London will present a new archive exhibition, Phantoms of Surrealism that collates artworks, photographic scrapbooks and correspondence from the London International Surrealist…
Within The Reach Of All: The Century Guild
A new exhibition for 2021 will explore the pioneering aesthetics and lasting legacy of the Century Guild, the English group established by artists, designers and craftspeople with the aim of democratising good design…
David Hockney Drawing from Life
Prepping for his trip around Hockney Country in the Yorkshire Wolds, Mark Bibby Jackson takes a shorter and more intimate journey around the David Hockney : Drawing from Life exhibition…