What's on in London on Tuesday 18th March 2025

Top events happening London

The Conversation: Nicholas Hytner and Helen Castor

The Conversation is a series of weekly events talking about conflict and empathy, inequality and power, climate crisis and wonder through storytelling and action. The first half of the evening is an interview, which is followed by the host and …

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Starts at 6:30pm
£18.95
Trafalgar Square

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Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire

Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s photographs are a spirited exploration of culture, intimacy, desire and pain. From 1983 until his death in 1989, the artist lived and worked in Brixton, where his studio transcended into a sanctuary visualising black queer self-expression. A prominent …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 22nd Mar
Free
Shoreditch

Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos

Spirit of Lagos unearths the story of Abi Morocco Photos, one of the most vibrant photographic studios operating in Lagos. The studio’s remarkable black-and-white portraits celebrate the rich style and joyous spirit of a generation of Lagosians during a transformative …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 22nd Mar
Free
Shoreditch

The Windsor Tapestry

A very Royal new exhibition looking back at the life of King Charles III, as told through the sharp pen of Steve Bell. For the past forty years, legendary British political cartoonist Steve Bell has been caricaturing Charles and the …

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Exhibition ends on Saturday 22nd Mar
£9.50
Cartoon Museum, New Oxford Street

Derrick Adams - Situation Comedy

Derrick Adams - Situation ComedyComposed with brightly hued, faceted planes of acrylic paint and fabric collage, Adams’s paintings present visions of Black Americana through figures engaged in everyday leisure and enlivened by individual daydreams and fantasies.

Exhibition ends on Saturday 22nd Mar
Free

Helios

HeliosLooking for some winter sun? Be the first to see Luke Jerram’s newest and most ambitious design, Helios, at the London premiere at the Old Royal Naval College.

Exhibition ends on Tuesday 25th Mar
£16.50
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

City of London, a city of science

A small two-case display celebrating the City’s history of scientific innovation and invention. The City was a place where scientific methods and specialist instruments were developed, and as a publishing centre offered a place where these ideas could be disseminated …

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Exhibition ends on Thursday 27th Mar
Free
Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheater, City of London

In the Grip of Change: the Caribbean and its British Diaspora

Britain’s Caribbean colonies had been exploited for centuries, but increasing demands for self-determination emerging from riots and strikes during the 1930s forced Britain to introduce political reform. Progress towards self-government unfolded in stages between the 1960s and 1980s. Today Britain …

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Exhibition ends on Friday 28th Mar
Free
Euston

What It Felt Like

What It Felt LikeThis exhibition is devoted to the work of artist Charlotte Johnson-Wahl (1942-2021), and specifically the art that she produced whilst a patient at the Maudsley Hospital in 1974.

Exhibition ends on Saturday 29th Mar
Free
Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham

Endurance & Joy in the East End

An exhibition of photos of east London in the 1970s. David Hoffman’s bold, humane photography records a lost decade, speaking vividly to our own times. Living in Whitechapel through the Seventies, David documented homelessness, racism and the rise of protest …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Mar
Free
The Museum of the Home, Bethnal Green

Picasso printmaker

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was one of the most inventive and influential talents ever to explore the medium of print. In addition to his many paintings, sculptures and drawings, the Málaga-born artist made over 2,400 prints during his career. From his …

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Exhibition ends on Sunday 30th Mar
£9
British Museum, Russell Square

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