What's on in London on Friday 12th July 2024

Top events happening London

Refuge Within the British Lines

Dr James Mackay explores how Black freedom seekers found refuge with the British Army during the American War of Independence. The American War of Independence (1775-83) was a period of large-scale upheaval and change. Amid this chaos, enslaved people hoped …

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

Page, stage and screen: dramatising Six Lives

Inspired by the exhibition Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens, this panel discussion will explore different perspectives on the experience of adapting the biographies of the Queens for storytelling in musicals, operas and plays, novels, film and television. …

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7:00pm to 8:00pm
£15
National Portrait Gallery, Soho

Gardening the Bloomsbury Gardens

An evening to learn about the gardens of the Bloomsbury group. To coincide with our current exhibition, Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors, join us for a special evening with current and former head gardeners Troy Scott Smith of Sissinghurst Castle, …

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7:00pm to 8:00pm
£20
The Garden Museum, Southwark

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

The Witch Burns

Works by some of the leading names in contemporary art are being displayed at Fitzrovia Chapel in an exploration of witchcraft, womanhood, feminism and satire. The Witch Burns includes artists whose works delve deep into our continuing obsession with witches, …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 12th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Fitzrovia Chapel, Tottenham Court Road

Drawn Together: Royal Drawing School Summer Show 2024

A group exhibition that reveals the breadth and flexibility of drawing and the unique way in which it connects all artistic practice. The exhibition emphasises the way in which the boundaries of perceptual drawing can be pushed; from works on …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 12th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Shoreditch

Paper Cuts - Art, Bureaucracy, and Silenced Histories in Colonial India

Who gets remembered, and who forgotten? This exhibition examines a collection of works on paper made by British colonialists in nineteenth-century India. Seen in public for the first time, the collection is placed into dialogue with contemporary artworks by Ravista …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 12th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Euston

Fran Hayes | Thick, Stretchy, Sticky Space

IMT Gallery presents the first solo exhibition by emerging interdisciplinary artist Fran Hayes. Thick, Stretchy, Sticky Space features digital paintings and video works that delve into speculative landscapes, inspired by damaged ecologies, science-fiction, and the uncanny; all viewed through a …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Bethnal Green

I Will Melt For You

An exhibition that explores the queer body, masculinity, sex, pleasure and gender, spanning sculpture, drawing, painting and photography. The art collection will be presented at Kimpton Fitzroy London’s winter terrace.

Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Russell Square

Picturing Nonconformity: LGBT Humanist Heritage

Through photographs, news media, and ephemera of all kinds, the LGBT Humanists archive tells a story of political struggles and community building since 1979. Amid campaigns on topics such as blasphemy, marriage, and conversion therapy, inclusive spaces emerged for social …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Conway Hall, Holborn

Freud and Latin America

Psychoanalysis has often been considered a Eurocentric practice, with its origins in Freud’s former home of Vienna, Austria and its earliest schools formed in European centres such as Berlin, Budapest, London and Paris. But in the 21st-century, Latin America is …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 14th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
£14
Freud Museum, Hampstead

Spray Tan

Spray Tan is a group exhibition celebrating Street Artists who have left their indelible mark on Shoreditch. Held at the East London gallery Shoreditch Modern, the exhibition presents original works on canvas by some of the biggest names in London’s …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 19th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Whitechapel

Fruit of Friendship: Portraits by Mary Beale

Mary Beale (1633-1699) was one of Britain’s first professional woman artists and is subject of this exhibition featuring 25 of her works from public and private collections, including some never seen before in public. The Gallery is an appropriate location …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 19th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Philip Mould Gallery, St James

Gérard Schneider

Cardi Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Swiss-French artist Gérard Schneider (1896 – 1986) in its London premises. A leading figure of post-war European painting, Schneider came to embody the Lyrical Abstraction movement that emerged in Paris during the …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 20th Jul 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Mayfair

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