What's on in London on Sunday 8th January 2023

Top events happening London

Bankside Twelfth Night celebrations

To herald the celebration, the extraordinary Holly Man, the Winter guise of the Green Man (from our pub signs, pagan myths and folklore), decked in fantastic green garb and evergreen foliage, is piped over the River Thames, with the devil …

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Starts at 2:00pm
Free
Southwark

No Trousers Tube Ride

Expect lots of people to be riding on the tube wearing less than usual below the waistline in the afternoon. You can also participate if you want – meet up at 3pm, details in the link below. Otherwise, the annual …

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Starts at 3:00pm
Free

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Fred Tschida: Sphere

Fred Tschida’s spinning, glowing work is recreated at a technically ambitious scale. In this work, two six and a half-metre tall rings of brilliant gas-filled tube rotate to produce the illusion, when photographed, of a giant glowing orb.

Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Southbank Centre, Southwark

Winter Past

The museum’s Rooms Through Time, restyled to reveal how winter has changed London homes through the last 400 years. This year, the Museum’s curators are also excited to unveil two brand new stories for the festival: a family warming up …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
The Museum of the Home, Bethnal Green

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

For the first time in the UK, we present an overview of Winslow Homer (1836-1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£12
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square

Neighbours in Space and Time: Grafton Architects at the Soane Museum

Sir John Soane’s Museum is delighted to be collaborating with Grafton Architects on an exhibition that explores the relationship between two of the principal buildings on Lincoln’s Inn Fields: Grafton’s Marshall Building for the London School of Economics and Political …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Sir John Soane's Museum, Holborn

Jakob Kvist: Dichroic Sphere

A geodesic dome with a single energy-efficient light bulb at its centre casts multicoloured light in every direction. Dichroic Sphere is a light sculpture by Danish light artist and designer Jakob Kvist. It consists of an aluminium geodesic dome structure, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Southbank Centre, Southwark

Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism

One of the most original and eccentric artists of the 18th century, Henry Fuseli, is the subject of a new exhibition at The Courtauld. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Fuseli spent a formative period in Rome in the 1770s before settling …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£13
Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art

The first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways. Given the recent surge of interest in ceramics by artists around the world, as well as countless people who enjoy sculpting clay …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£15
Hayward Gallery, Southwark

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature

Celebrating the life and work of one of the best loved children’s authors of the 20th century. This family friendly exhibition will take visitors on a journey to discover Potter’s life as a scientist and conservationist, exploring the places and …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
£14
Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, South Kensington

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee at IWM London

Throughout her 70-year reign and in the decades before, Her Majesty The Queen has lived through times of conflict, maintaining an enduring relationship with the armed forces and honouring those affected by war at home and across the world. Marking …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Imperial War Museum, Southwark

Fred Tschida: Fredrick Carder Vase Forms

Fred Tschida’s seven rotating sculptures trace half of a vase design – set to rotate, they create a luminous three-dimensional vessel. Each of these seven works takes as its starting point a blown glass vase design by Frederick Carder from …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 8th Jan 2023 Closing Soon
Free
Southbank Centre, Southwark

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