What's on in London on Tuesday 30th April 2024

Top events happening London

Lindley Late - Art, Flowers and Emotion: Collections in Conversation

Can a flower make you feel hope? Can a plant allude to death? Can an artwork represent lust? Inspired by Bloom: Art, Flowers and Emotion, join the RHS Lindley Library as we discuss the capacity for botanical artwork to move …

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6:30pm to 8:00pm
£10
Pimlico

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

When Forms Come Alive

Spanning over 60 years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth. Inspired by sources ranging from a dancer’s gesture to the breaking of a wave, from a …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th May 2024 Closing Soon
£21
Hayward Gallery, Southwark

Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s-70s

A rich diversity of artistic approaches existed in Brazil in the decades around the mid-twentieth century, after the first modernist wave had settled. This exhibition finds conversations between various forms of abstraction, symbolism and figuration that were circulating and interacting …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 5th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Whitechapel

Sony World Photography Awards 2024 Exhibition

The Sony World Photography Awards exhibition returns to Somerset House this April, bringing extraordinary images – from luscious landscapes to impressive architecture, striking street shots to moving documentary projects – to an iconic location. The various presentations will showcase photographs …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 6th May 2024 Closing Soon
£15
Strand

BURTYNSKY: Extraction / Abstraction

This exhibition marks the largest exhibition ever mounted in the 40+ year career of world-renowned photographic artist, Edward Burtynsky, who has dedicated his practice to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet. Curated by Marc Mayer, …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 6th May 2024 Closing Soon
£18
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Fowl Play

Young Margate-based painter Jack Hirons uses an unusual medium. All the pigment in his debut London solo show comes from the charred and crushed bones of fried chicken, bought on a matchday on Tottenham High Road from the legendary Chick-King …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 11th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Tottenham

Albert Oehlen - New Paintings

Gagosian presents an exhibition of new paintings by Albert Oehlen. For his first show at the gallery in London since 2016, Oehlen continues to explore the rich possibilities and the future of painting. He riffs on fragments, forms, and entire …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 11th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Mayfair

Terry Frost

The late Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003) became a pioneering figure within the St Ives group of British modernists, with a career spanning over six decades. This survey presents an extensive collection of Frost’s most compelling paintings from 1966-2003. Frost’s unique …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 11th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Mayfair

Alison Lapper: Lost in Parys

Bethlem Museum of the Mind showcases Alison Lapper’s (b.1965) work that explores her journey of grief since the untimely death of her son Parys. Alison Lapper: Lost in Parys will present a range of new work that delves into a …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 11th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham

Marriner 100

15th April 2024 will mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Neville Marriner (1924-2016), the world-famous classical musician who enjoyed a long and illustrious career with his own orchestra – the Academy of St Martin in the Fields – …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th May 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Trafalgar Square

The Art of the Brick - LEGO Art

The Art of the Brick is the best-known LEGO art exhibition in the world. After touring several cities and entering CNN’s list of "Must-See" exhibitions, it is back in London. Critically acclaimed, the collection features works by artist Nathan Sawaya …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 12th May 2024 Closing Soon
£17.90
Whitechapel

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