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Displayed in date order by how soon they close.

This exhibition showcases a number of Bikky’s sculptures, wooden masks, paintings and drawings, made during his mature period, 1975 – 1986, when he was living in Otoineppu village, Hokkaido. (Ending Soon Thu, 10th Aug)

Daiwa Foundation Japan House
NW1 4QP
2023-08-10
Tentacle by Bikky Sunazawa
He is, arguably, the Bloomsbury group’s least well-known member, and now the first major exhibition of his work is aiming to return Tomlin to the artistic spotlight where he belongs.  (Ending Soon Fri, 11th Aug)

Philip Mould & Company
SW1Y 5LU
2023-08-10
The Bloomsbury Stud: The Art of Stephen Tomlin
Paintings and Poetry by British-Swiss artist Nicholas Ferguson, in a Solo Exhibition at The Coningsby Gallery (Ending Soon Sat, 12th Aug)

The Coningsby Gallery
W1T 4RJ
2023-08-10
Nicholas Ferguson / Perspective
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual competition featuring the world’s greatest space photography.  (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Aug)

National Maritime Museum
SE10 9NF
2023-08-10
Astronomy Photographer of the Year
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece moves beyond ancient Greek spin to delve into a more complex story of luxury and power in ancient Iran, Athens, and the world of Alexander. (Ending Soon Sun, 13th Aug)

British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2023-08-10
Luxury and power Persia to Greece
An exhibition of works from Damien Hirst’s latest paintings series shown in public for the first time. (Ending Soon Fri, 18th Aug)

Phillips auction house
W1J 6EX
2023-08-10
Where the Land Meets the Sea
The first major UK exhibition by one of today's most compelling artists and filmmakers. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Aug)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2023-08-10
Isaac Julien - What Freedom is to Me
In this immersive genre-defying exhibition you will embark on a once in a lifetime adventure through the cosmos to explore visions of the future through the science of today. (Ending Soon Sun, 20th Aug)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2023-08-10
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination
This outdoor display presents the stories of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage who lived and worked in the city between 1560 and 1860. (Ending Soon Thu, 24th Aug)

St Paul's Cathedral
EC4M 8AD
2023-08-10
Unforgotten Lives Outdoor Exhibition
Explore new perspectives on what family is and can be, through this exhibition that showcases the ongoing power of art to challenge and question the world around us. (Ending Soon Sun, 27th Aug)

Foundling Museum
WC1N 1AZ
2023-08-10
Finding Family
The first UK exhibition for this renowned Basque artist, whose varied work often explores the relationship between nature and culture, and draws on personal, political and cultural histories.  (Ending Soon Sun, 27th Aug)

Raven Row
E1 7LS
2023-08-10
Ibon Aranberri – Unequal Diameters
See how documenting the animal world has resulted in some of humankind’s most awe-inspiring art, science and sound recordings. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th Aug)

British Library
NW1 2DB
2023-08-10
Animals: Art, Science and Sound
This exhibition follows the challenging journeys of rehabilitation and recovery taken by soldiers who have suffered a life-changing physical or mental injury. (Ending Soon Mon, 28th Aug)

National Army Museum
SW3 4HT
2023-08-10
Road to Recovery
An exhibition of impressive large scale photographs, ‘Eternal Bloom’ by Harald Altmaier, a celebration of natural creation and creative talent. (Ending Soon Thu, 31st Aug)

Upstairs Gallery at Connolly
W1S 2LG
2023-08-10
Eternal Bloom by Harald Altmaier
An exhibition of the 75 shortlisted entries into a photography competition to mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS. (Ending Soon Thu, 31st Aug)

FUJIFILM House of Photography
WC2E 9LH
2023-08-10
Our NHS at 75
This exhibition takes a visual journey from workhouses to slum clearances, tower blocks and homeless shelters, to explore how photographs have represented these conditions for over a century. (Ending Soon Sat, 2nd Sep)

Four Corners Gallery
E2 0QN
2023-08-10
This exhibition celebrates five London houses all of which (like the Soane Museum) have been designed by the architects who lived and, in some cases, still live in them. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

Sir John Soane's Museum
WC2A 3BP
2023-08-10
Architects' Houses
Explore the work and career of Carrie Mae Weems in this first major UK exhibition dedicated to one of the most influential American artists working today. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2023-08-10
Carrie Mae Weems - Reflections for Now
The exhibition highlights the ways in which artists are helping to reframe and deepen our psychological and spiritual responses to the climate crisis. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

Hayward Gallery
SE1 8XX
2023-08-10
Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis
Explore the powerful work of two groundbreaking modern artists. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2023-08-10
Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian Forms of Life
A selection of lesser-known works from The Courtauld’s collection of Post-Impressionist art is on display this summer. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

Courtauld Institute of Art
WC2R 0RN
2023-08-10
Post-Impressionist collection display
SHAPESHIFTERS features the artwork of London-based tattoo artists with a mix of prints, originals, and photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

The Last Tuesday Society / Viktor Wynd's Museum of Curiosities
E8 4RP
2023-08-10
SHAPESHIFTERS: A group exhibition featuring the work of London tattoo artists
Discover the story of definitive stamps, from the very first design to today.  (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

The Postal Museum
WC1X 0DA
2023-08-10
The King's Stamp
This exhibition explores complex relationships between land, its materiality and memory in modern and contemporary artistic practice. (Ending Soon Sun, 3rd Sep)

Courtauld Institute of Art
WC2R 0RN
2023-08-10
Unearthing: Memory, Land, Materiality
Step into Freddie Mercury’s personal world at Sotheby’s London for a once in a lifetime exhibition showcasing the personal collection of a global icon. (Ending Soon Tue, 5th Sep)

Sotheby's
W1A 2AA
2023-08-10
Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own
Spanning a period of just over 100 years —from the 1880s to the 1990, this exhibition showcases a selection of posters, signs, handbills, audio recordings, magic lantern slides, display material and adverts from the archive at Swedenborg House. (Ending Soon Fri, 8th Sep)

Swedenborg House
WC1A 2TH
2023-08-10
An exhibition exploring the beautiful and fascinating textile designs by the influential pop artist and icon Andy Warhol. (Ending Soon Sat, 9th Sep)

Fashion and Textile Museum
SE1 3XF
2023-08-10
Andy Warhol: The Textiles
Klara Kristalova presents her new body of work in the artist’s first solo exhibition in London. (Ending Soon Sat, 9th Sep)

Cromwell Place
SW7 2JE
2023-08-10
The Cold Wind and the Warm
This new exhibition develops a fertile dialogue between Caro’s sculpture and the unique character of Soane’s building. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
W5 5EQ
2023-08-10
Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture
This exhibition brings together around 30 of Morisot’s masterpieces from international collections to reveal the artist as a trailblazer of the movement. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

Dulwich Picture Gallery
SE21 7AD
2023-08-10
Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism
The first exhibition focusing on the magnificent garden paintings of Jean Esme Oregon Cooke RA (1927-2008). (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

Garden Museum
SE1 7LB
2023-08-10
Jean Cooke: Ungardening
Free  
This exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

Wellcome Collection
NW1 2BE
2023-08-10
Milk
Discover more than 100 works of art from the 16th century to the present from Europe, North America and Australasia. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2023-08-10
New acquisitions Paul Bril to Wendy Red Star
An acclaimed artist working with ceramics, Bouke de Vries’ latest work will respond to William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress, and be displayed in the Museum’s Foyle Space. (Ending Soon Sun, 10th Sep)

Sir John Soane's Museum
WC2A 3BP
2023-08-10
Visions in Porcelain: A Rake’s Progress
This rail-themed booth display is complete with a working Japanese station vending machine. (Ending Soon Thu, 14th Sep)

Japan House London
W8 5SA
2023-08-10
Connecting Japan – East Japan Railway Company
A family exhibition exploring the science of our gardens and the natural world. (Ending Soon Thu, 14th Sep)

Garden Museum
SE1 7LB
2023-08-10
Growing Curiosities: The Science of Gardens
This exhibition looks at the remarkable moment that Ziggy Stardust was launched in Tolworth and the wider music and pop culture scene in the borough.  (Ending Soon Sat, 16th Sep)

Kingston Museum
KT1 2PS
2023-08-10
Bowie and Beyond
This exhibition seeks to explain the development of travel and what an increasingly wider public has required for education and leisure. (Ending Soon Sat, 16th Sep)

Fan Museum
SE10 8ER
2023-08-10
How To Get There: Travel and Holidays.
An exhibition offering an unprecedented look at 150 contemporary photographers tracking the visual threads of humankind’s ever-changing, extraordinarily complex life across the globe. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Sep)

Saatchi Gallery
SW3 4RY
2023-08-10
Civilization: The Way We Live Now
Explore a magical world of fairy tales, as seen through the eyes of two iconic illustrators. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Sep)

Heath Robinson Museum
HA5 1AE
2023-08-10
Happily Ever After? Illustrating Andersen & Perrault
A major exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. (Ending Soon Sun, 17th Sep)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2023-08-10
The Offbeat Sari
The exhibition showcases paintings by Ukrainian folk artist Maria Prymachenko, shown for the first time in the UK having been preserved by the artist's family for more than fifty years. (Ending Soon Wed, 20th Sep)

Saatchi Gallery
SW3 4RY
2023-08-10
Maria Prymachenko
This exhibition highlights the beauty of Japanese recycling, showcasing objects made of cotton, hemp, bast fibres, washi (handmade paper) and pottery. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd Sep)

Brunei Gallery, SOAS
WC1H 0XG
2023-08-10
Japanese Aesthetics of Recycling
An exhibition capturing the history of Queen through Sir Brian May's own Stereoscopic (3-D) camera lenses. (Ending Soon Sat, 23rd Sep)

Proud Galleries
WC2N 6BP
2023-08-10
Queen will rock you in 3D
See an edition of Shakespeare's First Folio on display at the National Maritime Museum, celebrating 400 years since its publication. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

National Maritime Museum
SE10 9NF
2023-08-10
 The Tempest and the Thames
An exhibition examining the historical representation and shifting legacy of Black women in visual culture. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

Somerset House
WC2R 1LA
2023-08-10
BLACK VENUS
An exhibition of works by Brian Clarke, who is widely regarded to be the most important artist working in stained glass today. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

Newport Street Gallery
SE11 6AJ
2023-08-10
Brian Clarke : A Great Light
A free display of new design research responding to the climate crisis. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2023-08-10
Design Researchers in Residence: Islands
An exhibition reflecting on the loss of people and culture through the lens of human trafficking and unsafe migration. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2023-08-10
Perilous Journeys: Reflections on Migration
This summer, the magnificent outfits worn by King Charles III and Queen Camilla during their Coronation will be on show in Buckingham Palace as part of the annual summer opening. (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

Buckingham Palace
SW1A 1AA
2023-08-10
Summer opening of Buckingham Palace
A major exhibition devoted to the radical Rossetti generation (Ending Soon Sun, 24th Sep)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2023-08-10
The Rossettis
This exhibition chronicles the evolution of music photography over the last 70 years. It showcases iconic rock and roll images and the photographers who shot them. (Ending Soon Mon, 25th Sep)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2023-08-10
In The Moment: The Art of Music Photography
This exhibition brings together highly skilled artists whose works show the respect for tradition and spirit of innovation, in a variety of materials including textiles, leather, paper and pearl. (Ending Soon Fri, 29th Sep)

Embassy of Japan in the UK
W1J 7JT
2023-08-10
Aizome - The Craft of Japanese Indigo-dyeing
This exhibition will present artworks from 40 established and emerging artists from all over the world. (Ending Soon Sat, 30th Sep)

Camden market Hawley Wharf
NW1 8JZ
2023-08-10
Colours festival
This exhibition in the Chapter House will reveal the key elements of the royal ceremony which has taken place at the Abbey for nearly a thousand years. (Ending Soon Sat, 30th Sep)

Westminster Abbey
SW1P 3PA
2023-08-10
Coronation exhibition
The exhibition explores De Morgan’s unique practice of making gold drawings, showcasing 13 artworks. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Oct)

Leighton House Museum
W14 8LZ
2023-08-10
Evelyn De Morgan: The Gold Drawings
An unprecedented exhibition, revealing – for the first time – extraordinary photographs taken by Paul McCartney. (Ending Soon Sun, 1st Oct)

National Portrait Gallery
WC2H 0HE
2023-08-10
Paul McCartney - Photographs  1963–64 Eyes of the Storm
This display showcases drawings, paintings, sculpture and decorative arts that are not what they seem.  (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)

Courtauld Institute of Art
WC2R 0RN
2023-08-10
Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection
In a global first, the resilience and innovation of 19th-century China is revealed in a major new exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)

British Museum
WC1B 3DG
2023-08-10
China's hidden century
This exhibition explores what the Georgians wore, from the practical dress of laundry maids to the glittering gowns worn at court. (Ending Soon Sun, 8th Oct)

The Queen's Gallery
SW1A 1AA
2023-08-10
Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians
A solo exhibition of work by new media artist Jinjoon Lee as part of a yearlong celebration of the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and the UK.  (Ending Soon Fri, 13th Oct)

Korean Cultural Centre UK
WC2N 5BW
2023-08-10
Audible Garden
The narratives featured in the exhibition will prompt visitors to consider what new possibilities emerge when they are invited as readers to become a part of the story themselves. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)

British Library
NW1 2DB
2023-08-10
Digital Storytelling
Curated in close collaboration with the architects, this exhibition is a rare opportunity to see the inner workings of what The New York Times dubbed “one of the most admired architecture firms in the world.” (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)

Royal Academy of Arts
W1J 0BD
2023-08-10
Herzog & de Meuron
This exhibition explores our devotion to four-legged friends across the centuries. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)

Wallace Collection
W1U 3BN
2023-08-10
Portraits of Dogs: From Gainsborough to Hockney
Visit this re-creation of Wren’s St Paul’s working ‘office’ and experience the intensity of a significant moment in the Capital’s history, the rebuilding of London and the new St Paul’s cathedral after the 1666 fire. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)

Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater
EC2V 5AE
2023-08-10
Wren at Work - Wren300 Exhibition
An exploration of the life and career of Yevonde, the pioneering London photographer who spearheaded the use of colour photography in the 1930s. (Ending Soon Sun, 15th Oct)

National Portrait Gallery
WC2H 0HE
2023-08-10
Yevonde - Life and Colour
This exhibition peers through the London fog to explore the circumstances that created this problem and how Dickens was inspired by the phenomenon. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Oct)

Charles Dickens Museum
WC1N 2LX
2023-08-10
A Great and Dirty City: Dickens and the London Fog
Explore the vibrant diversity of Japanese graphic arts in this bold exhibition which bridges the worlds of fine art, commercial illustration and counterculture. (Ending Soon Sun, 22nd Oct)

Japan House London
W8 5SA
2023-08-10
WAVE: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts
Photographer Philip Cunningham's exhibition of people, places and community activism in 1970s East London.  (Ending Soon Fri, 27th Oct)

Oxford House
E2 6HG
2023-08-10
Philip Cunningham’s ‘Lost East End’
A 1.5 metre long model of a Polacanthus, an armoured 125-million-year-old dinosaur found in the UK, will be on show for the first time as part of the Brick Dinos exhibition. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)

Horniman Museum
SE23 3PQ
2023-08-10
Brick Dinos
Crown to Couture sees contemporary couture worn by high profile celebrities including Lizzo and Lady Gaga, displayed alongside historic costumes. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)

Kensington Palace
W8 4PX
2023-08-10
Crown to Couture
This exhibition explores the relationship of Rego’s work titled Crivelli’s Garden to the 15th-century altarpiece that inspired it.  (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)

National Gallery
WC2N 5DN
2023-08-10
Paula Rego: Crivelli's Garden
Seeing the Light represents an opportunity for the public to see some of Italy’s most well known and loved sites – Venice, Rome, Naples - through Turner’s eyes, in the unique setting of his then rural retreat in Twickenham. (Ending Soon Sun, 29th Oct)

Turners House
TW1 2LR
2023-08-10
This temporary display highlights the contribution of the Indian Army across the globe during the First World War. (Ending Soon Sun, 5th Nov)

National Army Museum
SW3 4HT
2023-08-10
British Indian Army: Soldiers of the First World War
A display exploring the underrepresented history of Indian indenture in the British Caribbean. (Ending Soon Sun, 19th Nov)

Museum of London Docklands
E14 4AL
2023-08-10
Indo + Caribbean: The creation of a culture
Gregor Sailer's photography exhibition explores the new Arctic trade routes opening due to melting ice cap. (Ending Soon Fri, 24th Nov)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2023-08-10
The Polar Silk Road
If you could, would you edit your DNA? To treat disease, or to enhance your body? Which diseases should we try to cure, and who decides? Where would you draw the line? (Ending Soon Sat, 2nd Dec)

The Francis Crick Institute
NW1 1AT
2023-08-10
This exhibition celebrates the Tercentenary of the Constitutions of the Freemasons. (Ending Soon Thu, 21st Dec)

Museum of Freemasonry
WC2B 5AZ
2023-08-10
Inventing the Future
This exhibition brings together a group of new and existing sculptures to explore Black women’s labour across histories and geographies. (Ending Soon Mon, 1st Jan)

Tate Britain
SW1P 4RG
2023-08-10
Art Now: Rhea Dillon: An Alterable Terrain
This exhibition explores the worldwide effort to develop vaccines at pandemic speed. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2023-08-10
Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine
This exhibition will invite visitors to further their understanding of the Troubles through the multiple perspectives of individuals affected by the conflict. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

Imperial War Museum
SE1 6HZ
2023-08-10
The Art of Banksy is the world’s largest collection of original and authenticated Banksy artworks showcasing more than 110 pieces including prints, canvases, unique works and ephemera, many of which are on display for the very first time. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

The Art of Banksy exhibition
W1B 5HB
2023-08-10
The Art of Banksy
Four times heavier than Dippy the Diplodocus, 12 metres longer than Hope the blue whale and making its European debut, prepare to meet titanosaur and learn all about life as the biggest dinosaur. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

Natural History Museum
SW7 5BD
2023-08-10
Titanosaur at the Natural History Museum
This exhibition investigates the unexpected journey which fulfilled a lifelong fantasy of Sigmund Freud, but which left him perplexed. (Ending Soon Sun, 7th Jan)

Freud Museum
NW3 5SX
2023-08-10
Tracing Freud on the Acropolis
Bringing together 36 artists from different generations and geographies, this exhibition explores how photography and video have allowed artists to examine legacies of the past while imagining more hopeful futures. (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Jan)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2023-08-10
 A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography
From across the sea, an art revolution is coming. Discover the art of the Van de Veldes at the Queen's House (Ending Soon Sun, 14th Jan)

Queen's House
SE10 9NE
2023-08-10
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea
An exhibition that takes a questioning, surprising and playful look at the ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already shaping so many areas of our lives (Ending Soon Sat, 20th Jan)

Science Gallery London
SE1 9GU
2023-08-10
AI: Who's Looking After Me?
This exhibition explores the history of transatlantic slavery through its connections with the Bank of England and the wider City of London. (Ending Soon Fri, 26th Jan)

Bank of England Museum
EC2R 8AH
2023-08-10
Slavery & the Bank
This exhibition explores the dynamic relationship between contemporary painting and photography. (Ending Soon Sun, 28th Jan)

Tate Modern
SE1 9TG
2023-08-10
Capturing The Moment
This is an ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and DNA ancestry. (Ending Soon Sun, 11th Feb)

Wellcome Collection
NW1 2BE
2023-08-10
Genetic Automata
A special exhibition about a little-known local scientific invention with a huge global impact: the development of artificial silk. (Ending Soon Thu, 29th Feb)

Museum of Richmond
TW9 1TP
2023-08-10
Artificial Silk: From Kew to the World
How can we design our homes to respond to the climate emergency? Discover how architects are reimagining wood, stone and straw to design homes fit for the future. (Ending Soon Thu, 29th Feb)

The Design Museum
W8 6AG
2023-08-10
How to Build a Low-Carbon Home
This exhibition presents the stories of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage who lived and worked in the city between 1560 and 1860 and are recorded in London’s archives. (Ending Soon Wed, 27th Mar)

London Metropolitan Archives
EC1R 0HB
2023-08-10
Unforgotten Lives
This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers. (Ends on Fri, 5th Apr)

Barbican Centre
EC2Y 8DS
2023-08-10
Concrete and Clay - Archiving the Barbican
£20  
Expect an explosion of over the top fashions at the V&A Museum this summer, as it brings together a collection of outfits worn by celebrities under the title of "divas". (Ends on Sun, 7th Apr)

Victoria and Albert Museum
SW7 2RL
2023-08-10
DIVA
How do you develop a vaccine quickly and effectively to combat a global pandemic?  (Ends on Sun, 12th May)

Science Museum
SW7 2DD
2023-08-10
Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine
This exhibition follows the lives of British soldiers in Germany over the past 75 years. (Ends on Wed, 21st Aug)

National Army Museum
SW3 4HT
2023-08-10
 Foe to Friend: The British Army in Germany since 1945