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: Sunday, 1st August 2021?
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
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
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
An exhibition exploring representations of the pregnant female body through portraits, over 500 years. (Ending Soon Sun, 23rd Aug)
Foundling Museum
Free
Alex Urie - Silo
An exhibition of large scale paintings by Alex Urie. (Ending Soon Sat, 5th Sep)
Peer Gallery
Free
The New Stone Age
The New Stone Age exhibition celebrates the sustainability, practicality and inherent beauty of stone. (Ending Soon Sat, 12th Sep)
The Building Centre
The first UK exhibition of works by Indian master painters commissioned by East India Company officials in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Sep)
Wallace Collection
Exhibition of shortlisted entries to recognise and support the most innovative, original and relevant photography-based practice within a given year. (Ending Soon Sat, 19th Sep)
The Photographers' Gallery
£16
Aubrey Beardsley
The largest exhibition of his drawings for 50 years (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Sep)
Tate Britain
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
£13.50
George IV: Art & Spectacle
This exhibition presents George IV's life through the art that enriched his world. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Oct)
The Queen's Gallery
£12
Among the Trees
By turns poetic, adventurous and thought-provoking, this group exhibition explores our relationship with trees and forests. (Ending Soon Sat, 31st Oct)
Hayward Gallery
This exhibition explores the power of the writer’s image. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Nov)
Charles Dickens Museum
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
Evoking the experience of being in a club, the exhibition will transport you through the people, art, design, technology and photography that have been shaping the electronic music landscape. (Ending Soon Wed, 4th Nov)
The Design Museum
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
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
