What's on in London on Friday 25th March 2022

Top events happening London

The Clown in Popular Culture

An event exploring the prominent and controversial figure of the clown between tradition and innovations. Talks by academics and professionals followed by a tribute to Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), the London based Anglo-Italian clown, known as ‘the king of clowns’ PROGRAMME …

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9:45am to 4:00pm
£10
Euston

Truces and Feeling for the Enemy: The Sunday Ceasefires of Mafeking

Join Professor Holly Furneaux as she explores the truces that took place during the Siege of Mafeking and considers their impact on British-Boer relations. The Christmas truces on the Western Front in 1914 are a popular chapter in Britain’s shared …

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Starts at 12:00pm
Free
National Army Museum, Chelsea

Lates at the Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is back with the first in-person Lates since 2020, for a special evening of gaming, inspired by science and the natural world, Lates: Playful by Nature. In this free evening event on Friday 25 March, visitors …

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6:00pm to 9:30pm
Free
Natural History Museum, South Kensington

Up Late | Fashioning the Rose

Explore the romantic and glamorous world of roses in fashion at this Up Late evening inspired by our new exhibition Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose. Riot Soup: The Aerial Catwalk Design fun and colourful outfits using mixed media including …

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6:00pm to 9:00pm
£14
The Garden Museum, Southwark

Tate Overnight

Tate Modern opens its doors overnight for an exclusive event exploring the dreamlike world of Surrealism Staying after-hours in our world-famous gallery, enjoy a host of activities designed to take you from late to the early hours of the morning. …

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Starts at 10:00pm
£10
Tate Modern, Southwark

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Wladimir Ivanow & Modern Ismaili Studies

This exhibition follows the pioneering Russian scholar of Ismaili studies, Wladimir Ivanow (1886 – 1970) across the Muslim world. His life and work traced the contours of a transformative and decisive period in modern history – engulfing revolution and the …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 31st Mar 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Kings Cross

Japan's Best Friend: Dog Culture in the Land of the Rising Sun

This pop-up will be a release event for curator Manami Okazaki’s new book, Japan’s Best Friend: Dog Culture in the Land of the Rising Sun by Prestel, one of the world’s leading publishers of art and design books. The book …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 31st Mar 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Clerkenwell

For the Love of Dog/Pour l'amour du Chien

This exhibition combines photographs taken by Shirley Baker in the UK and her home in France, including pictures of dogs in everyday settings, as well as at dog shows, providing an insight to her affection and admiration for man’s best …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 1st Apr 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Picadilly

Caribbean-British Art 1950s - Now

A landmark group exhibition spanning a whole ocean and half a century This exhibition will explore work by artists from the Caribbean who made their home in Britain, alongside other British artists who have also made work addressing Caribbean themes …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 3rd Apr 2022 Closing Soon
£16
Tate Britain, Pimlico

Virtual Veronese - A virtual reality experience

Many of the paintings you see on our walls would have originally hung in spaces that are very different to the gallery setting you see today. Paolo Veronese’s ‘The Consecration of Saint Nicholas’ was commissioned in 1561 as an altarpiece …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 3rd Apr 2022 Closing Soon
Free
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square

America in Crisis

America in Crisis brings together 40 leading American photographers and over 120 works exploring social change in the U.S from the 1960s till today. America in Crisis was a ground-breaking group initiative originally conceived in 1969 to assess the state …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 3rd Apr 2022 Closing Soon
£8
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Time Being

Time Being is an exhibition of a meditative 14-minute film made by Ruairí Corr, a creative maker who works through co-production, and artist Deborah Robinson. It is the first in-person activity in Peltz Gallery since before the pandemic. Time Being …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 8th Apr 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Euston

Wallace Chan - TITANS: A dialogue between materials, space, and time

Exhibition in the public lobby of One Canada Square, the central skyscraper at Canary Wharf. — TITANS, curated by James Putnam, explores Wallace Chan’s contemplation on the relationship between materials, space, and time through titanium: a futuristic, space-age material that …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 8th Apr 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Poplar

Feeding Black: Community, Power & Place

Food is central to what it means to be part of a diasporic community – one that demonstrates the connections Londoner’s have with the rest of the world. For many years, entrepreneurial food businesses have thrived across South East London …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 9th Apr 2022 Closing Soon
Free
London Museum Docklands, Poplar

Exhibition by Typewriter Artist James Cook

Typewriter Artist James Cook has created new, never-before-seen, London-based artwork exclusively for the exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf, which he describes as some of his very best work to date. The exhibition will feature more than 50 type-written drawings and …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 10th Apr 2022 Closing Soon
Free
Poplar

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