What's on in London on Saturday 13th April 2024

Top events happening London

London Games Festival's Trafalgar Square Takeover

London Games Festival’s annual Trafalgar Square Takeover will once again showcase an alternative side of video games to the public. Ensemble is the centrepiece to the Square, with our exhibition showcasing talented UK games creatives from Black, Asian and underrepresented …

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10:00am to 7:00pm
Free
Trafalgar Square, Trafalgar Square

Solving the secret of gravity

Claudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mornings before beginning her daily scientific research. As …

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7:00pm to 8:03pm
£17.27
Mayfair

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Holbein at the Tudor Court

This exhibition brings together over 100 works from Henry VIII’s court, including drawings, paintings and miniatures by Hans Holbein the Younger drawn from the Royal Collection, one of the most important surviving groups of the artist’s work. Together, they will …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 13th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
£19
The King's Gallery, Whitehall

El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon

El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments. Crumpling, crushing, and stitching them into different compositions, large panels are pieced together to form massive abstract fields of colour, …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Tate Modern, Southwark

30 Years of The Wrong Trousers

Released in 1993, The Wrong Trousers introduced icons Wallace & Gromit to the dangerous foe Feathers McGraw, a villainous penguin with ambitions to put Wallace’s ingenious inventions to criminal use. The film won an Academy Award; becoming part of a …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
£9.50
Cartoon Museum, New Oxford Street

Cute

A major new exhibition exploring the irresistible force of cuteness in contemporary culture. From emojis to internet memes, video games to plushie toys, food to loveable robotic design, cuteness has taken over our world. But how has something so charming …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
£18.50
Somerset House, Strand

Derwent Art Prize 2024

The Derwent Art Prize invites artists around the world to enter the very best artworks created in pencil. Selected from thousands of entries by a jury of esteemed artists and curators, the exhibition showcases the best in pencil art today. …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Southwark

Spies, Lies and Deception

Discover over 100 years of intrigue, deceit and real-life secret agents. Spies, Lies and Deception is a free exhibition at IWM London about deception and espionage from the First World War to the present day. Explore how audacious plots of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Imperial War Museum, Southwark

Songs of Lamentation

A site-specific art installation by Bea Denton at The Summer House, Charlton House & Gardens. Artist Bea Denton explores ritual and remembrance, death and loss in this first-of-a-kind art exhibition in the Summer House at Charlton House, Royal Borough of …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Charlton

Delight

A multimedia exhibition that combines visuals, sound, and augmented reality to animate the cultural heritage and spirit of South Korea’s Seoul. First staged in Seoul, the exhibition will be shown in the historic tunnels of Borough Yards, inviting visitors on …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Closing Soon
£27.40
Southwark

The Subversive Stitcher Tea Towel Series

An exhibition of tea towels that have been overlaid with a statement to create a different perspective in a gently humorous and sometimes wicked way. Holly Searle aka The Subversive Stitcher is an award winning textile artist who was born …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 21st Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Hammersmith

The Glass Heart

This bold new exploration of glass in the UK brings together for the very first time rarely seen works from key UK collections, celebrating this remarkable material – unforgiving, fragile, strong, sustainable. The Glass Heart will make you think again …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 21st Apr 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Two Temple Place, Strand

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