What's on in London on Wednesday 2nd October 2024

Ten exhibitions that are closing soon

Absolut Warhol: The Other Half

This exhibition features the works of five diverse artists from various creative disciplines, who have been given the opportunity to showcase their work in the Saatchi Gallery. Inspired by a newly discovered Andy Warhol painting featured on the 2024 Limited …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea

Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art

Vanessa Bell (1879 -1961) was one of the leading artists associated with the Bloomsbury Group, the avant-garde community of artists, writers and philosophers who pioneered literary and artistic modernism in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century. This focused …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
£17
Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand

New life: Rembrandt and children

Discover an intimate drawing of a sleeping child, the first work by Rembrandt to be added to the British Museum collection for decades. The drawing by the renowned 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt had been in private collections for over 200 …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
British Museum, Russell Square

Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography

For centuries, portraiture has played a vital role in shaping the public’s perception of the Royal Family. Over the past 100 years, no artistic medium has had a greater impact on the royal image than photography. Royal Portraits: A Century …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 6th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
£19
The King's Gallery, Whitehall

Root & Branch - the origins of the Probation Service

Did you know the forerunner of the modern Probation Service was set up in the police courts of Victorian London with a donation of just five shillings? You can learn about this and much more about the foundation and development …

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Exhibition ends on Tuesday 8th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Museum of Methodism and John Wesley's House, Moorgate

Congregation, a choral installation, by Es Devlin

Over the past four months, Es Devlin has been making large scale chalk and charcoal portraits of 50 Londoners who have experienced forced displacement from their homelands. The drawings will be presented as a monumental projection-mapped tiered structure within the …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 9th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Strand

Michael Ormerod: Vanishing Point

The first exhibition on this unique photographer for almost 20 years. Michael Ormerod (1947-1991) was a British photographer with a distinctive and powerful voice, whose career was tragically cut short on August 7th 1991 in a road accident on his …

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Exhibition ends on Wednesday 9th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Soho

The Art of the Game

An exhibition of luxury chess sets. The blurb sayth: "The Art of the Games how cases not only these stunning chess sets but also includes a selection of paintings and drawings by participating artists, including Sophie Matisse – great-granddaughter of …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 12th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Marylebone

20 Behind The Boosh '20'

Celebrating 20 years from when The Mighty Boosh first appeared on TV with intimate unseen photographs by Dave Brown. "It’s been a while since I showed some Behind The Boosh pics to the UK fans! It’s gonna be great to …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 13th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
Free
Islington

Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520 - 1920

This ambitious group show charts women’s road to being recognised as professional artists, a 400-year journey which paved the way for future generations and established what it meant to be a woman in the British art world. The exhibition covers …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 13th Oct 2024 Closing Soon
£20
Tate Britain, Pimlico

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