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, 26th July 2024?

 

 


Displayed in date order by how soon they close.

Immerse yourself in Picasso’s world of paper and discover how – with this everyday material we know so well – he found the means to explore the furthest reaches of his creativity. (Ending Soon Sun, 2nd Aug)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2020-07-26
Picasso and Paper
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, 23rd Aug)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2020-07-26
Masculinities - Liberation through Photography
Bringing together the work of over 40 leading artists, designers and musicians, Mushrooms looks at fungi’s colourful cultural legacy. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Aug)

Somerset House
WC2R 1LA
2020-07-26
Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi
An exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits, over 500 years. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Aug)

Foundling Museum
WC1N 1AZ
2020-07-26
Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media
A rediscovered collection of paintings and drawings by over forty young Zimbabwean artists that have not been exhibited together for almost 70 years. (Ending Soon Wed, 30th Sep)

The Theatre Courtyard Green Rooms
EC2A 3HH
2020-07-26
The stars are bright - Zimbabwean art
This exhibition presents George IV's life through the art that enriched his world. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Oct)

The Queen's Gallery
SW1A 1AA
2020-07-26
George IV: Art & Spectacle
This exhibition explores the power of the writer’s image. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)

Charles Dickens Museum
WC1N 2LX
2020-07-26
Technicolour Dickens: The Living Image of Charles Dickens
Discover the story of Derek Jarman’s garden at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, in this exhibition at the Garden Museum. (Ending Soon Wed, 4th Nov)

Garden Museum
SE1 7LB
2020-07-26
Derek Jarman: My garden’s boundaries are the horizon
Showing sculptures by Helaine Blumenfeld at Canary Wharf gives an unrivalled opportunity to view them in the context of hard interior and exterior architecture as well as carefully designed outdoor spaces amongst mature trees. (Ending Soon Wed, 4th Nov)

Canada Square Park
E14 5AB
2020-07-26
Looking Up: Helaine Blumenfeld at Canary Wharf
This exhibition reunites all six paintings in the Classical myths series for the first time in over four centuries.  (Ending Soon Wed, 4th Nov)

The National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2020-07-26
Titian: Love, Desire, Death