What's on in London on Thursday 15th February 2024

Top events happening London

How local can you go? An Ottoman view of archaeology and heritage

Join author and professor of Ottoman history, Edhem Eldem, for a different look at Western archaeological collections and to ask: what about the Ottoman side of the story? From the Parthenon Frieze to the Pergamon Altar, from the Venus de …

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6:00pm to 7:00pm
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

The Twentieth Century Boutique

The third lecture by Bronwen Edwards in the series Twentieth Century Shops: From Arndale to Zara, marking the publication of 100 20th Century Shops. Boutiques offer an eclectic celebration of the century’s fashionable architectures, clothes and commodities. During the twentieth …

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Starts at 6:30pm
£15
Clerkenwell

Fashion City late: From Petticoat Lane to Savile Row

From Whitechapel to Oxford Street, the contribution of Jewish designers in making London an iconic fashion city cannot be underestimated. Join them to celebrate quintessential London style in an electrifying night inspired by our Fashion City exhibition. Enjoy special after-hours …

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7:00pm to 10:00pm
£20
London Museum Docklands, Poplar

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

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

Reworking Manet

An exhibition showcasing the creativity and imagination of young people responding to Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882). Reworking Manet will feature a selection of works, created by students aged 14-18 from across the UK, demonstrating the breadth of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 18th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£10
Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand

Hortus Maximus

Hortus Maximus celebrates the astounding variety of natural forms, texture, and contour of vegetables and spices available today in UK. Originally designed as a monumental site-specific installation for Cinnamon Kitchen in Bishopsgate, the following year the series was invited to …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 23rd Feb 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Kennington

Philip Guston

One of the 20th century’s most captivating painters responds to a world in turmoil For over 50 years, artist Philip Guston restlessly made paintings and drawings that captured the anxious and turbulent world he was witnessing. Born in Canada to …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 25th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£20
Tate Modern, Southwark

Fantasy: Realms of Imagination

Set out on a legendary quest through the impossible worlds of fantasy. Let this exhibition cast its spell as you explore the beautiful, uncanny and sometimes monstrous makings of fantasy. From epic visions to intricately envisaged details, we celebrate some …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 25th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£16
British Library, Camden

Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical

This exhibition will present the landscape and nature paintings and sculptures of Francis Archibald Wentworth Walter (1926-2009), known as Frank Walter. One of the most significant Caribbean visual artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Artist, Gardener, Radical will delve …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 25th Feb 2024 Closing Soon
£14
The Garden Museum, Southwark

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