What's on in London on Friday 9th February 2024

Top events happening London

Military Music and Society in the Napoleonic Wars

Dr Eamonn O’Keeffe highlights the role and importance of military music within British society during the Napoleonic Wars. The Napoleonic Wars (1803-15) are often remembered for their larger-than-life military leaders, historic battles and the clashing of troops draped in red …

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

Smoke and Ashes | Opium's Hidden Histories

The role of this tiny plant in horticultural histories, mythologies of capitalism and social and cultural repercussions of colonialism. Moving deftly between horticultural histories, the mythologies of capitalism, and the social and cultural repercussions of colonialism, writer Amitav Ghosh reveals …

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6:00pm to 8:30pm
Free
Picadilly

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Genetic Automata

‘Genetic Automata’ 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. The series investigates where deeply ingrained ideas about race come from …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Wellcome Collection, Camden

Burma to Myanmar

From influential superpower to repressive regime, Myanmar – also known as Burma – has seen dramatic fluctuations in fortune over the past 1,500 years. Experiencing decades of civil war and now ruled again by a military dictatorship, Myanmar is an …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£12
British Museum, Russell Square

Julianknxx Chorus in Rememory of Flight

Poet, artist and filmmaker Julianknxx explores themes of inheritance, loss and belonging as he crosses the boundaries between written word, music and visual art. Sierra Leonian artist Julianknxx uses his personal history as a prism to deconstruct dominant perspectives on …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion

This exhibition will be one of the most wide-ranging surveys of contemporary fashion culture ever staged in the UK. The swan dress controversially worn by Björk at the 2001 Oscars, Harry Styles’ Steven Stokey Daley outfit from his video for …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£20
Design Museum, Kensington

La Serenissima: Drawing in 18th century Venice 

This display will present an outstanding group of around twenty Venetian drawings from The Courtauld’s collection. They evoke the energy and creativity of Venice at a time when the city flourished as one of the great cultural capitals of Europe. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 11th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£11
Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand

Zach Blas: CULTUS

arebyte presents CULTUS, a new solo project by artist Zach Blas. Co-commissioned by arebyte, London, and Secession, Vienna, this immersive multimedia exhibition explores religious belief, artificial intelligence, and the California tech industry. Featuring AI-generated imagery, text, and sound alongside computer …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 17th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Poplar

Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition

"Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition" is a journey through more than 200 of the most beautiful, idiosyncratic, and interesting places on Earth – all seemingly plucked from the whimsical world of Wes Anderson. Seven themed rooms provide you a personal …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 17th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£12.99
South Kensington

Foyer Archives: A Great Sense of Space

Explore the design and history of the Royal Festival Hall foyers, and discover the people behind them, in this free Archive Studio exhibition. From its design and construction under architect Leslie Martin in 1951 to the present day, the foyer …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 17th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

The John Ruskin Prize exhibition

The John Ruskin Prize is a multidisciplinary art prize founded on the ideas of the radical 19th-century polymath John Ruskin, with a reputation for supporting and promoting artists, designers, and makers whose work defies easy categorisation. This year marks the …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 17th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Poplar

Artists making books - poetry to politics

Whether subverting, inverting, celebrating or exploding – this intriguing new show explores the history of artists taking on the medium of books. In the hands of artists and poets, books have been taking a radically different form since the advent …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 18th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

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