What's on in London on Thursday 27th June 2024

Top events happening London

Game of Queens: the women who made 16th-century Europe

The ‘Queens in Context: Women in 16th-century Europe’ lecture series (of five lectures) takes as its inspiration our current exhibition Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens, which chronicles the representation of Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, …

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1:00pm to 2:00pm
£10
National Portrait Gallery, Soho

Brutalist London

Photographer SIMON PHIPPS and author THADDEUS ZAPANCIC show how Brutalist architecture, the controversial style that emerged in the mid-20th century, left an indelible mark on the urban landscape of London. Its raw concrete and imposing geometric forms spawned some of …

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Starts at 7:00pm
£11.55
Horse Hospital, Clerkenwell

Atlas of Imagined Cities by Matt Brown, Rhys B. Davies and Mike Hall

By the authors of Atlas of Imagined Places – WINNER of the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Illustrated Travel Book of the Year. We are thrilled to welcome back this brilliant team, Matt Brown, Rhys B. Davies and illustrator …

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7:00pm to 8:30pm
£7
Soho

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

The Zoo by Underground | A Vintage Poster Exhibition

From 18 to 28 June, Lyon & Turnbull, in partnership with Vintage Poster specialists Tomkinson Churcher, will exhibit a collection of eight London Zoo posters, created at the peak of London Underground’s most creative and progressive period.  The London Underground …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 28th Jun 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Paddington

Celebrating 150 years of Impressionism

Stern Pissarro Gallery will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition. Directed by David Stern and Lélia Pissarro, the great-granddaughter of Camille Pissarro, the gallery will present a museum-quality exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works. Stern Pissarro’s …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 29th Jun 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Whitehall

Dream-Bridge-Omniglyph

London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE showcases a series of contemporary art commissions, responding and bringing fresh perspectives to the site’s archaeological history. Our latest commission is DREAM-BRIDGE-OMNIGLYPH by Leo Robinson. Inspired by the Roman Temple of Mithras discovered on the Bloomberg …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 29th Jun 2024 Closing Soon
Free
London Mithraeum, City of London

Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition

Ever seen a dreamy place in real life and thought, ‘That totally belongs in a Wes Anderson film’? An Instagram sensation, Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition is an IRL exploration of real-life locations through the lens of Wes Anderson’s iconic …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Jun 2024 Closing Soon
£11.99
South Kensington

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

A forest rodeo, a hidden stargazer and a mason bee at work are just a few of the awe-inspiring images featured in the 59th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Explore the planet’s habitats, from sprawling urban metropolises to the …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Jun 2024 Closing Soon
£17.50
Natural History Museum, South Kensington

Soufiane Ababri

Moroccan artist Soufiane Ababri’s new commission, Their mouths were full of bumblebees but it was me who was pollinated, explores questions of desire, queerness, and diaspora. In his first exhibition at a major UK institution, Ababri transforms The Curve in …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Jun 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

From the Caribbean to Coventry - Plotting the Rise of Two Tone

An exhibition for the fans by the fans going some way to explain not just what 2Tone is but why and how we got there. The exhibition will feature a range of band memorabilia, items of clothing, literature, art, photographs, …

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Exhibition ends on Monday 1st Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Barbican Arts Centre, Barbican

Rare chance to see a Titan painting prior to sale

Coming to the market for the first time in more than 145 years, Titian’s early masterpiece "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" will be on display at Christie’s auction house prior to being sold. Making it a rare chance to …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 2nd Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Christie's, St James

The Reign

This exhibition is a collaboration between The Society of Antiquaries of London and contemporary artists, Dan Llywelyn Hall and Adam Dant. The exhibition will feature ten new works by each artist that draw inspiration from 20 items from the Society’s …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 5th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Picadilly

Never Such Innocence 10th Anniversary art exhibition

This 4-day exhibition will showcase 32 pieces of artwork and poems by people aged 9-18, capturing how international war and violence impact their fears and personal hopes for the future. The exhibition draws attention to different themes of historic and …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 5th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Trafalgar Square

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