Welcome to the IanVisits alternative guide to London.
Lectures, talks, heritage events, organised walks and other random geeky miscellany.
This is quite an old listings page, did you want: Friday, 17th May 2024?
Displayed in date order by how soon they close.
£16
Among the Trees
This exhibition brings together artworks that explore our relationships with trees and forests. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th May)
Hayward Gallery
£16.50
British Surrealism
An ambitious and wide-spanning survey of the origins of surrealist art in Britain, and the first to trace its roots back to 1620 through supporting archive material. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th May)
Dulwich Picture Gallery
An exhibition of superb images reproduced from the British Library’s collection of Japanese pattern books. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th May)
The British Library
Through the medium of film and photography, this major exhibition considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th May)
Barbican Centre
On display will be fossil skeletons as well as full-size models and animatronics that bring the Permian back to life. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
Horniman Museum
A multidisciplinary exhibition combining the architecture of windows, photography, manga, craft and technology. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
Japan House
This immersive experience charts their music, lyrics, creative process and influence as one of the most iconic pop bands of the modern age. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
O2 Arena / Millennium Dome
£16
Aubrey Beardsley
The largest exhibition of his drawings for 50 years. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
Tate Britain
From ‘honey dew’ drinking parties to Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, discover Beatrix Potter’s response to the world of fairies and fairytales. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Free
Becket2020
See a collection of pilgrim badges that illustrate the extraordinary life of Thomas Becket. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
Museum of London
This exhibition explores the extravagant world of the glamorous and stylish ‘Bright Young Things’ of the twenties and thirties, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
National Portrait Gallery
This exhibition confirms Charles Keeping’s stature and contribution not just as a major picture-book artist but also as a revelatory illustrator of Dickens for the Folio Society. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
Heath Robinson Museum
The first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
National Portrait Gallery
For the first time in over 40 years, the British Museum is showing a major display of its collection of French prints, one of the best collections of its kind in the world. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
The British Museum
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to view the Ordupgaard Collection’s treasure trove of Impressionist works, from Monet and Degas, to pre-Impressionist artists like Corot and Courbet. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
Royal Academy of Arts
This exhibition explores the ways in which, from the eighteenth century to the present day, our perception of the hero or heroine has evolved. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
The Fan Museum
Featuring over 35 paintings and drawings from collections across the world, the exhibition spans Maes’s whole career, spent in Dordrecht and Amsterdam. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
The National Gallery
£14
Spilliaert
This is the first monographic exhibition of Spilliaert’s work in the UK and will showcase some 90 works on paper. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
Royal Academy of Arts
The UK’s first public exhibition dedicated solely to gay cultural icon Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen) on the centenary of his birth. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
House of Illustration
From bodily autonomy and the right to education, to self-expression and protest, this new exhibition explores how feminist activism in the UK today has its roots in the complex history of women’s rights. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
The British Library
Free
William Wordsworth
See original drafts of Wordsworth’s verse, his notebooks, correspondence and more. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd May)
The British Library
In her bicentenary year the Museum is celebrating the life and legacy of the lesser known aspects of Nightingale’s life with this exciting new exhibition (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
Florence Nightingale Museum
