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Get the Barbican Blues – with a music exhibition

The rise of blues music in the UK, and the "British Blues Explosion" from the 1960s onwards are the topic of an exhibition at the Barbican's music library at the moment.

Maps of historic Lambeth go on display at Lambeth Palace Library

Lambeth Palace's newish library building currently has an exhibition of old maps showing how this part of London developed over the centuries.

Exhibition – turning a Japanese island into an art centre

A small Japanese island with a shrinking population that has found a new unexpected life as an island of art is the topic of an exhibition at Japan House in Kensington at the moment.

There’s a “rugby ball” in the Museum of London’s Harry Kane football exhibition 

There's a sizeable exhibition of football memorabilia belonging to the London footballer, Harry Kane in the Museum of London at the moment - and it includes what looks like a rugby ball in the display.

New exhibition reveals Charles Dickens’s hunt for a haunted house

A new exhibition opening in time for Halloween looks at Charles Dickens’s interest in the supernatural and his desire to spend a night in a haunted house so scary he wouldn't be able to sleep.

Reframed: The Woman in the Window at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

After a couple of years where we spent much of our time indoors staring through windows at the world outside, there's an exhibition all based on an iconic motif of the art world - the woman looking out of a window.

Lucian Freud exhibition of his paintings

In what would have been his centenary year, an exhibition of the paintings by Lucian Freud has opened at the Freud Museum in North London.

Three month trial offer on the National Art Pass

The National Art Pass, a card that gets you cheap or free entry to museums and exhibitions has a 3-month trial offer on at the moment.

Hiroshima drawings on show in London

Blackened sketches of contorted bodies fill a grand Georgian mansion house in central London, as the Hiroshima drawings make a short visit to this country.

Pain Relief in the Wellington Arch

The monumental arch at Hyde Park Corner isn't just something to walk past, you can go inside, and there's an art exhibition filling the upper floors at the moment.

London exhibitions to visit in August 2022

A selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in August while you're avoiding the heatwaves and hosepipe bans.

Buckingham Palace opens its doors with a show of showy jewels

Each year, the summer opening of Buckingham Palace puts on a new exhibition, and in the Jubilee year, they've filled a room with the Queen's jewels and photographs of her wearing them.

An open-air exhibition of London’s parks and open spaces

An open-air exhibition of photographs and prints showing off the evolution of London's parks since the sixteenth century, including festivals, gardening and promenading; from playgrounds to allotments, bruising Sunday football to grazing flocks of sheep.

Giant paper boats and planes fill a North Greenwich gallery

An art gallery has been filled with the equivalent of giant paper boats, planes and swans sailing in a yellow ocean

The architecture of the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition

Although the Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition is famous for the art on the walls, it's also a space to show off rather larger works - of architecture.

Feminine power the divine to the demonic at the British Museum

A museum that is, to be not unkind, rather full of pale white men carved out of marble, is currently exploding with colour, and women.

Hallyu! The Korean Wave comes to the V&A Museum this autumn

Korean culture will fill one of the V&A Museum's exhibition spaces later this year as the museum looks at the popular culture of South Korea, following its early origins to its place on the global stage today.

Two Turner paintings returning to London for the first time in a century

Two Turner paintings owned by a US gallery will return to the UK for the first time in over 100 years, to go on display in a free National Gallery exhibition.

A wet labyrinth fills a central London courtyard

In a stone courtyard, a forbidding granite wall surrounds a maze of organic pillars as water slowly drips down the metal foliage.

Cornelia Parker fills the Tate Britain with an eclectic mix of art

Cornelia Parker is one of those British artists who manages to create art to suit almost all tastes in almost every size possible, and now Tate Britain has filled much of their gallery with a retrospective look at her varied career.

The V&A opens its landmark Africa Fashion exhibition

A new exhibition at the V&A takes a look at post-colonial fashions across the African continent, showing off not just their diversity, but also how they've influenced Western tastes.

Wallace Collection putting on a Richard III exhibition

A decade after the remains of King Richard III were found under a car park in Leicester, there's an exhibition about the discovery opening in London later this year.

Freddie Mercury’s stamp album going on display

When he was young, as many of us do, Freddie Mercury collected postage stamps, and now his 54-page stamp album is going on public display at the Postal Museum.

British Museum celebrates 200 years of reading Egyptian hieroglyphs

This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of mankind's great achievements, the decyphering of Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the British Museum is planning an exhibition that explores this pivotal moment.