What's on in London on Friday 26th January 2024

Top events happening London

Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar

Join Rosie Serdiville as she explores the fate of 5,000 Scottish prisoners following the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. In November 2013, during the construction of a new café for Durham University’s Palace Green Library, archaeologists discovered the remains of …

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12:00pm to 1:00pm
Free
National Army Museum, Chelsea

Tate Modern Lates

World-renowned art collective Guerrilla Girls will take over the Late at Tate Modern for a special evening of music, workshops, film and artist talks. Bringing together art and activism, the Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of women artists formed …

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6:00pm to 10:00pm
Free
Tate Modern, Southwark

A Public Housing Manifesto

At the start of what looks to be an election year, an expert panel sets out the key issues that Britain’s next government will need to address if it is to bring about needed change to public housing. Panelist include …

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Starts at 7:00pm
£19
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

Discourse: How the brain shapes reality

Join leading philosopher and cognitive scientist, Andy Clark, as he unveils a groundbreaking theory that challenges our conventional understanding of the mind’s interaction with the world. This innovative concept suggests that the brain operates as a dynamic prediction engine, continually …

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7:20pm to 8:45pm
£21.44
Mayfair

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Slavery & the Bank

This exhibition explores the history of transatlantic slavery through its connections with the Bank of England and the wider City of London. For over 300 years, the slave trade tore more than 12 million African people from their homes and …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 26th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Bank of England Museum, City of London

R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles

The first major retrospective of R.B. Kitaj in the UK for a decade features over 40 paintings, pastels and drawings, covering all major periods of his work, from student days at the Royal College of Art, to his final contemplative …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 26th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Notting Hill

Winter Lights at Canary Wharf

For their eighth edition, the illuminated trail will take you on a journey through 12 spectacular installations, as well as their ever-popular permanent light artworks. Showcasing some of the most innovative light artists across the globe, our lineup shines a …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 27th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Poplar

Heralding Spring with snowdrop trails

Visit the Chelsea Physic Garden during a celebration of the earliest spring blooms, the coming of warmer weather and lighter days. Pick up a map and follow the trail around the Garden and discover some of our many species of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
£10.50
Chelsea Physic Garden, Chelsea

The genius of nature botanical drawings by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues

Revel in the beauty of nature at this display of works by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues – one of the most gifted botanical artists of his age. French by birth but British by adoption, Le Moyne (about 1553-88) created …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

Capturing The Moment

This exhibition explores the dynamic relationship between contemporary painting and photography. This group exhibition unfolds as an open-ended conversation between some of the greatest painters and photographers of recent generations, looking at how the brush and the lens have been …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
£20
Tate Modern, Southwark

Ed Ruscha roads and insects

This display of prints by American artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) focuses on his prevailing interest in the physical world around him. At its centre is Insects, a portfolio of six colour screenprints depicting life-sized flies, ants and cockroaches, complete …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 28th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

Martin Church - Tube Picture

A comprehensive show of over one hundred new works, including original collages, paintings, reproductions and digital composites. Images are made in public by sketching on the Metropolitan Line tube trains. Since the materials employed are ephemeral, the better images are …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 29th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

Icon Exhibition by Hanna Ward

Hanna Ward is a prize winning Diploma Iconographer and Illuminated Manuscript painter, Design Consultant with BA(Hons) in Interior Architecture and MA in Traditional Sacred Arts at Prince’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts London, University of Wales. Hanna paints commission icons …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 30th Jan 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark Cathedral, Southwark

Life

A spectacular sound and light experience at St Martin’s Following on from the incredible success of ‘Space’, last year, we invite you to immerse yourself in a new unique experience that celebrates the natural world around us. The spectacular sound …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 3rd Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£12
Trafalgar Square

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