Exhibitions in London
October 2026
October at a glance: 35 exhibitions opening, 26 closing, and 35 more on view across the city.
Opening in October
Yuko Mohri: In Concert1 OctBarbican Centre · Free
Japanese artist Yuko Mohri transforms The Curve with a site-responsive commission exploring states of flux and acts of repair via light, sound and kinetic sculpture featuring Barbican objects.
Winsor & Newton Art Mail1 OctSaatchi Gallery · Free · Past
Thousands of watercolour-painted postcards created by artists from over 40 countries, celebrating the simple act of making and sharing art.
Korea1 OctBritish Museum
Two thousand years of Korean creativity in sculpture, painting and decorative arts, from around 300 BC to today, the most comprehensive survey seen in Europe in 40 years.
- Salman Toor: Drawings2 Oct
Courtauld Gallery
A focused display of works on paper — ink, charcoal, gouache — showing how drawing is central to Toor's practice: border checkpoints, still-life compositions, and reinterpretations of historical paintings. Shown in the Drawings Gallery alongside the main solo show.
Salman Toor: Someone Like You2 OctCourtauld Gallery
The New York painter's first European solo museum show, around 20 paintings exploring queer and immigrant life, with a companion drawings display.
Painting the French Riviera2 OctRoyal Academy of Arts
Monet, Matisse, Dufy and others capture the light and colour of the Cote d'Azur in this survey of the French Riviera's pull on modern painters.
Es Devlin2 OctDesign Museum
The first UK retrospective of artist-designer Es Devlin's 30-year practice in sculpture, performance, language and light, with maquettes and new commissions.
ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere3 OctSaatchi Gallery · Free · Past
London Art Collective's large-scale international group exhibition, presenting Open Call works that reveal how differently the same world can be seen, understood and represented.
Renoir and Love3 OctNational Gallery
The most significant UK exhibition of Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 20 years, tracing love and affection in his art, including 'Dance at the Moulin de la Galette'.
- This Must Be the Place: Artists for Whitechapel Gallery7 Oct
Whitechapel Gallery
A special exhibition and sale marking the gallery's 125th anniversary, featuring 24 international artists working primarily in painting, with proceeds supporting the gallery and artists.
- Cecilia Vicuña: Foraging Quipu7 Oct
Whitechapel Gallery · Free
A free participatory installation in Gallery 4, running alongside Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads. Visitors contribute to a collective quipu — the Andean knotted-cord form central to Vicuña's practice.
Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads7 OctWhitechapel Gallery
The first major UK survey of the Chilean artist, poet and activist, spanning six decades of work that dissolves boundaries between art, poetry, performance and ritual. Includes a companion participatory installation, Foraging Quipu.
Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists – Part 27 OctWhitechapel Gallery · Free
Film programme for the gallery's 125th anniversary with works by Ayo Akingbade, Holly Graham, Maz Murray and Gaby Sahhar, shown in Gallery 5.
The 90s: Art and Fashion8 OctTate Britain
Curated by Edward Enninful, a major show on how 1990s British art, fashion and photography fused into one cultural force, with Hirst, Lucas, McQueen, Westwood and Teller.
Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing8 OctSerpentine Gallery · Free
Justin Caguiat's first major UK exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, printmaking, sound and film in a site-responsive installation, including thermochromic paintings that shift with heat and light and bronze bells that ring in continually changing sequences.
Multiplied wonders: Italian Renaissance woodcuts8 OctBritish Museum · Free
The first display devoted to Italian Renaissance woodcuts, from early devotional prints to chiaroscuro designs by Titian and Parmigianino, in Rooms 90 and 90a.
Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends9 OctNational Portrait Gallery
Photographer Tim Walker celebrates the UK's LGBTQ+ trailblazers in a fantastical exploration of queer identity, community and love.
Robert Ryman: The Real Thing9 OctBarbican Centre
Major retrospective of over 60 works by American painter Robert Ryman, whose largely white, square canvases invite a closer look at materials and surface.
Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui13 OctTate Modern · Free
The 11th annual Hyundai Commission fills the Turbine Hall with a site-specific installation by artist and composer Tarek Atoui, blending music, technology, sculpture and performance into multisensory environments.
Michael Landy: Future Ruins14 OctSir John Soane's Museum · Free
Michael Landy's meticulous watercolour and pen drawings imagining iconic buildings, including Soane's own museum, as overgrown future ruins.
Winifred Gill: A Bloomsbury Pioneer14 OctCourtauld Gallery
The overlooked contributions of Winifred Gill (1891–1981), central figure at Roger Fry's Omega Workshops — toy designs, still life painting, and prints tracing her work as an arts and crafts educator.
Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers14 OctThe Photographers' Gallery
Through photographs and archives, celebrates the creativity and curiosity of children as photographers.
Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography14 OctTate Modern
Around 200 prints by more than 80 artists trace pictorialism, the first international art photography movement, across the globe.
William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticed14 OctThe Photographers' Gallery
Major exhibition celebrating 50 years since William Eggleston's Guide (1976), the book that helped establish colour photography as fine art.
Sanlé Sory: Colour Years14 OctThe Photographers' Gallery
Sanlé Sory's rarely seen colour photographs shown together for the first time, capturing youth culture and fashion in Burkina Faso.
Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation15 OctNational Gallery · Free
Yinka Shonibare's contemporary response shown alongside Thomas Gainsborough's 'Mr and Mrs Andrews'. Free to all visitors.
FOCUS Asian Contemporary Art: Cultural Dialogue15 OctSaatchi Gallery · Past
A global platform presenting diverse artistic voices from across Asia and the Asian diaspora, connecting artists, galleries, collectors and institutions.
- LAIKA presents Wildwood: The Exhibition15 Oct
Design Museum
Behind the scenes of LAIKA's stop-motion film Wildwood, with original props, sketches, puppets and miniature sets, in the Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery.
Not Dead Vol 2: DIY, The Power of Gigs, A Diary by Jeanie Jean16 OctMuseum of Youth Culture · Free
Jeanie Jean's diary of DIY gigs and the scenes around them, the second Not Dead show, in the Upstairs Gallery.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year16 OctNatural History Museum
Back for another year with 100 new images: the world's best nature photography, from polar landscapes to tropical rainforests, displayed in an immersive exhibition of award-winning shots.
Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the Iuchi Collection20 OctDulwich Picture Gallery
Hokusai's complete Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji, shown in the UK for the first time courtesy of the Iuchi Collection, including the iconic Great Wave.
Up Yours! God Save The Queens23 OctMuseum of Youth Culture · Free
The Up Yours! Collective's show on 50 years of women in punk, dedicated to Poly Styrene, with unseen archive material, photography, fashion and new artworks.
Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation23 OctScience Museum · Free
Marking 250 years since US independence, this exhibition reveals the science behind the nation's founding through maps, paintings and instruments from the 1760s to 1790s.
Halloween at the Tower of London24 OctTower of London · Free
October half-term event: step into a world of chilling tales and dare to face the spirits that roam the Tower. Included in palace admission.
Freddie Mercury | Splendid Things24 OctVictoria and Albert Museum · Free
A free trail of eight Freddie Mercury stage looks across the V&A's galleries, from the Bohemian Rhapsody catsuit to his Knebworth crown and cloak.
Closing in October
NIGO: From Japan with Love4 OctDesign Museum · Past
The first UK retrospective of Japanese creative director NIGO, with over 700 objects spanning fashion, ceramics and vintage Americana from his 30-year career.
John Constable: views of nature4 OctBritish Museum · Free · Past
Marking the 250th anniversary of Constable's birth, this display in Room 90a presents drawings, sketches and mezzotints from his late career, drawn largely from an 1888 donation by his daughter Isabel — showing his lifelong engagement with the landscapes of rural England.
Hepworth and Nicholson: The Hampstead Studio Photographs4 OctCourtauld Gallery · Past
Paul Laib's evocative early-1930s photographs of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson's shared Hampstead studio at 7 The Mall.
Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography4 OctDulwich Picture Gallery · Past
Urban America through 34 photographers, from Stieglitz and Lange to Arbus and Winogrand, charting the rise of street photography from 1907 to 2012.
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 20267 OctNational Portrait Gallery · Free · Past
Free annual exhibition celebrating the very best in contemporary portraiture painting, with works selected from this year's open competition.
Voices on Stage: Women in Yiddish Theatre @ Bradford Reform Synagogue8 OctJewish Museum London · Free · Past
A display at Bradford Reform Synagogue celebrating Yiddish Theatre in London's East End through two of its stars, Clara Meisels and Anna Tzelniker.
Through a Queer Lens @ Manchester Jewish Museum11 OctJewish Museum London · Past
Photographic portraits and personal stories celebrating LGBTQ+ Jewish life, developed by Jewish Museum London and shown at Manchester Jewish Museum.
The Echoes and Shadows of Identity – Art Installation16 OctRAF Museum · Free · Past
Veteran artist David Tovey and LGBT+ military communities create a steel prison-cell installation and soundscape confronting the Armed Forces 'gay ban'.
Anish Kapoor18 OctHayward Gallery · Past
One of the most influential artists of our time returns to the Hayward, filling the entire building with awe-inspiring sculptures, paintings and immersive installations.
HEARD, Rene Matić18 OctV&A East Museum · Free · Past
A sound-system-shaped sculpture of photographs taken across east London, Plymouth and Peterborough, tracing Black British music as connective tissue through which communities gather, remember and move together.
Towards A Civic Museum, Tania Bruguera18 OctV&A East Museum · Free · Past
A commissioned work developed through conversations between artist Tania Bruguera and east London youth, presented as a stained-glass statement of shared principles about what it means for a museum to serve its community.
Dispersal: Picturing urban change in east London18 OctV&A East Museum · Free · Past
Documents 80 businesses relocated from the Lea Valley to make way for the 2012 Olympic Games. Photographers Marion Davies and Debra Rapp systematically recorded these spaces between 2005-2007, preserving a record of East London's industrial heritage before its erasure.
- V&A x LDF: Awakenings18 Oct
Victoria and Albert Museum · Free · Past
A London Design Festival installation at the V&A South Kensington.
On the Sly, Justinien Tribillon18 OctV&A East Museum · Free · Past
A new commission for V&A East's New Work programme by Justinien Tribillon, exploring the theme Making East London.
Legacy: The Story of the Jewish Family who Founded J. Lyons and Fed Britain18 OctJewish Museum London · Free · Past
Room Two of the Two Rooms space at JW3 tells the story of the German-Jewish family behind J. Lyons, from Corner Houses and Wimpy to the pioneering LEO computer.
Musquiqui Chihying: A Life of Navigation18 OctHayward Gallery · Free · Past
A multimedia exhibition from the Taiwanese artist, blending humour and societal critique to explore urban life, AI, gaming culture and the tension between manual labour and automation.
Tree of Life: Stories from Jewish Museum London's Collection18 OctJewish Museum London · Free · Past
Room One of the museum's new Two Rooms space at JW3: a collection display tracing Jewish life in Britain from the 1656 readmission to today, framed by the Tree of Life.
Tom Hunter Selects18 OctV&A East Museum · Free · Past
A co-curated display exploring photographer Tom Hunter's 40+ year relationship with east London through selections from the V&A's collections and his personal archive, examining the area as a place of radical thinking and resilience.
Heads! Look To The Workers, Laura Wilson18 OctV&A East Museum · Free · Past
Laura Wilson's commissioned sculptures honour East London's workers and makers through a poem inscribed into three pieces, activated with the call "Heads!" and raised/lowered by a fly system echoing dock and theatre shift patterns.
New Work: Making East London18 OctV&A East Museum · Free · Past
The first edition of V&A East's twice-yearly New Work programme, inviting artists to make site-specific works responding to the making of east London.
Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam25 OctRoyal Academy of Arts
The first major survey in over 50 years of the Victorian painter, who created intricate fairy worlds, including The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, from within an asylum.
The Wallace Collection at War25 OctWallace Collection · Free
A free display on how Hertford House became a stage for Anglo-Soviet cultural diplomacy in wartime Britain, hosting major 1942 exhibitions to aid Russia.
Jesús Rafael Soto: Pénétrable BBL Jaune25 OctSerpentine Gallery · Free
A 10-metre kinetic sculpture of 4,000 suspended yellow PVC tubes in Kensington Gardens, inviting visitors to walk through and activate the work with their movement.
Curtain Up!25 OctDulwich Picture Gallery · Free
A display exploring theatre portraits in the Gallery's Collection — costume, performance, and queerness and gender identity on and off stage — pairing historic works with contemporary artists.
Serpentine Pavilion 2026 by LANZA atelier25 OctSerpentine Gallery · Free
'a serpentine', the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion by Mexico City studio LANZA atelier, is a brick structure based on the English serpentine (crinkle-crankle) wall.
Art in the Gardens: 125th Anniversary31 OctHorniman Museum · Free
Artwork by Year 9 students from Conisborough College, made with a Goldsmiths graduate, celebrating the museum's 125th anniversary and the Gardens' biodiversity.
Also on through October
Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Artto 1 NovImperial War Museum · Free
As bombs fell on 1940s London, artists responded. Over 45 paintings and drawings, with photographs, film and oral histories, capture a city both familiar and strange.
- Things I Lied to My Parents Aboutto 1 Nov
Museum of Youth Culture · Free
Real confessions of what people lied to their parents about as teenagers, with space to add your own, in the Youth Club Gallery.
Art Now: Mohammed Z Rahmanto 8 NovTate Britain · Free
British-Bengali artist Mohammed Z Rahman presents a two-act display exploring home, love and connection through paintings inspired by personal stories and memories, shown alongside works from the Tate collection.
Dayto 8 NovRoyal Academy of Arts · Free
A free exhibition by current RA Schools students Anna Metzger, Sam Tromp and Joel Wycherley, exploring fractured narratives across bodily and architectural scales.
Rootsto 15 NovThe Photographers' Gallery · Free
Group exhibition in the Print Sales Gallery exploring trees, memory and culture through photography and mixed media across global landscapes.
Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friendsto 15 NovVictoria and Albert Museum
A behind-the-scenes look at Aardman's stop-motion animation, revisiting Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph. At Young V&A.
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Artto 15 NovVictoria and Albert Museum
The UK's first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli, tracing the surrealist designer's influence from the 1920s to today and the house's revival under Daniel Roseberry.
Winston Churchill: The Painterto 29 NovWallace Collection
A major retrospective of over 50 of Sir Winston Churchill's paintings, from wartime scenes and Mediterranean landscapes to intimate views of his home at Chartwell.
The Coming of Ageto 29 NovWellcome Collection · Free
Over 150 artworks and objects explore how experiences of ageing across all life stages are shaped by environment, culture and society, and what greater longevity means.
Declaring Independence: USA 250to 29 NovBritish Museum · Free
Marking 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, this Room 3 display uncovers the Indigenous and global histories behind the founding of the United States through treaties, diplomatic gifts and resistance.
Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the Deepto 3 Jan 2027Natural History Museum
Dive back in time to meet the fiercest marine reptiles ever to swim the oceans, from giant ichthyosaurs to plesiosaurs, in this immersive deep-sea exhibition.
Frida: The Making of an Iconto 3 Jan 2027Tate Modern
Over 30 iconic works by Frida Kahlo alongside contemporary pieces, exploring her rise into a global cultural and commercial phenomenon.
Sir Richard Owen: A Natural Legacyto 4 Jan 2027Natural History Museum · Free
A free display on the life of Sir Richard Owen, the Victorian zoologist and palaeontologist whose vision led to the creation of the Natural History Museum, featuring previously unseen artworks, personal publications, and archival photographs.
The Music is Black: A British Storyto 10 Jan 2027V&A East Museum
125 years of Black music-making in Britain. An immersive audio experience spanning four continents, telling a story of excellence, struggle, resilience and joy.
Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacificto 10 Jan 2027Victoria and Albert Museum
A landmark V&A collaboration with Brisbane's QAGOMA, showcasing over 40 contemporary artists and First Nations perspectives from across Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
The Music is Black: A British Storyto 10 Jan 2027Victoria and Albert Museum
An immersive sound exhibition spanning 125 years of Black music-making in Britain, with over 120 tracks tracing excellence, struggle, resilience and joy.
Tate Britain Commission 2026: Zineb Sedirato 17 Jan 2027Tate Britain · Free
British-French-Algerian artist Zineb Sedira creates a major site-specific installation for the Duveen Galleries, exploring memory, migration and displacement through photography, performance, video and installation.
Ana Mendietato 17 Jan 2027Tate Modern
Newly remastered films, early paintings and late sculptures by the Cuban-American artist, including her Silueta series, many never seen in the UK.
The RA Collectionto 29 Jan 2027Royal Academy of Arts · Free
Diploma Works and treasures from the RA Collection spanning over 300 years, shown free in the historic John Madejski Fine Rooms while the main Collections Gallery is expanded. Closed on select dates (21 Jul, 11 Aug, 4 Sep, 2 Oct, 6 Nov, 4 Dec 2026).
By Appointment Only: Romani Art, Culture & Heritageto 31 Jan 2027London Museum · Free
A rotating display in the Reflections Room featuring British Romani artists Corrina Eastwood, Delaine Le Bas and Dan Turner, celebrating the livelihoods, creativity and craft of Romani communities alongside a historical timeline from 500 CE to 2022.
Amar Kanwarto 31 Jan 2027Serpentine Gallery · Free
A major solo exhibition of new and existing films by New Delhi-based artist Amar Kanwar, transforming Serpentine North into a meditative visual and sonic environment exploring displacement, nationalism and memory.
Nicole Eisenmanto 5 Feb 2027Royal Academy of Arts · Free
A major new courtyard sculpture by New York-based artist Nicole Eisenman, installed in front of Burlington House.
Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibilityto 7 Feb 2027Wellcome Collection · Free
Multidisciplinary artworks by Rudy Loewe reimagine mental healthcare, centring the lived experience of Black people whose UK care is shaped by racist discrimination.
Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitionsto 7 Feb 2027Wellcome Collection · Free
The first museum show of Audrey Amiss (1933-2013): drawings, paintings and other works through which she spoke out against harmful treatment within the mental health system.
British Wildlife Photography Awardsto 21 Feb 2027Horniman Museum · Free
Award-winning British wildlife photography spanning animal behaviour, botanical subjects, urban wildlife and marine life, with captions giving context for each image.
Childhood in Warto 28 Feb 2027Imperial War Museum · Free
The UK's first exhibition on how war has shaped children's lives from 1914 to today, told through personal objects, immersive set pieces and much-loved children's books.
Gathering Groundto 7 Mar 2027Tate Modern · Free
A collection display bringing together works by artists including Abbas Akhavan, Abel Rodríguez and Zheng Bo, exploring the connection between environmental and social justice.
Dame Vera Lynn Collectionto 2 Apr 2027Imperial War Museum
A selection of Dame Vera Lynn's personal objects, including letters, correspondence and uniform items from her recently acquired Second World War archive, on display for 12 months near the entrance to the Second World War Galleries.
Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture by Rachel Kneeboneto 25 Apr 2027Wallace Collection · Free
Acclaimed artist Rachel Kneebone presents nine white porcelain sculptures throughout the Wallace Collection's galleries, including two newly created works, in dialogue with the museum's historic decorative arts.
Art deco: the golden age of poster designto 30 Apr 2027London Transport Museum
Over 100 original London Transport posters mark the centenary of art deco, with work by design greats like McKnight Kauffer and Jean Dupas, plus Charles Holden's Tube architecture.
Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action.to 3 May 2027Tate Modern
An immersive retrospective of seven decades of kinetic and interactive works, with light sculptures and geometric paintings that turn viewers into participants.
American Photographsto 16 May 2027Victoria and Albert Museum · Free
A free display drawn from the V&A's US photography collection, revealing the breadth of the country's photographic traditions from early prints to contemporary work.
Tenderness and Rageto 30 May 2027Wellcome Collection · Free
A display exploring HIV and AIDS through stories of protest and care, from the UK's 1980s-90s epidemic to global activism today, via photography, film and archives.
NINAGAWA Mika: Captive Bloomsto 1 Jun 2027The Photographers' Gallery · Free
A free outdoor exhibition of Mika Ninagawa's vibrant, dream-like photographs of blooming flowers and goldfish that dissolve the boundary between real and imagined.
The Bayeux Tapestryto 11 Jul 2027British Museum
The 70-metre tapestry depicting the 1066 Norman invasion, shown in the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years.
Image credits
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- Yuko Mohri: In ConcertCourtesy of Barbican Centre
- Winsor & Newton Art MailCourtesy of Saatchi Gallery
- KoreaCourtesy of British Museum
- Salman Toor: Someone Like You© Salman Toor; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Genevieve Hanson
- Painting the French RivieraCourtesy of Royal Academy of Arts
- Es DevlinCourtesy of Design Museum
- ArtEvol 2026: A View from EverywhereCourtesy of Saatchi Gallery
- Renoir and LoveCourtesy of National Gallery
- Cecilia Vicuña: Living ThreadsCourtesy of Whitechapel Gallery
- Screen Portraits: Whitechapel Gallery Artists – Part 2Gaby Sahhar, Abstraction Belongs to Us, 2026. Film still. Courtesy the artist.
- The 90s: Art and Fashion© Juergen Teller, All rights Reserved
- Justin Caguiat: Change RingingCourtesy Serpentine. Photo: George Darrell
- Multiplied wonders: Italian Renaissance woodcutsCourtesy of British Museum
- Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and LegendsCourtesy of National Portrait Gallery
- Robert Ryman: The Real ThingCourtesy of Barbican Centre
- Hyundai Commission: Tarek AtouiCourtesy of Tate Modern
- Michael Landy: Future Ruins© Michael Landy. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Prudence Cuming Fine Art Photography.
- Winifred Gill: A Bloomsbury Pioneer© Bodleian, Oxford
- Snap Happy! How Children Became PhotographersCourtesy of The Photographers' Gallery
- Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography© Estate of Lang Jingshan
- William Eggleston: All that goes unnoticedCourtesy of The Photographers' Gallery
- Sanlé Sory: Colour Years© Sanlé Sory, 2026. Courtesy of Tezeta.
- Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A ConversationCourtesy of National Gallery
- FOCUS Asian Contemporary Art: Cultural DialogueCourtesy of Saatchi Gallery
- Not Dead Vol 2: DIY, The Power of Gigs, A Diary by Jeanie JeanMuseum of Youth Culture
- Wildlife Photographer of the YearCourtesy of Natural History Museum
- Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the Iuchi CollectionCourtesy of Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Up Yours! God Save The Queens© Gaye Black / Chris Eddy @ Original45
- Becoming America: How Science Shaped a NationCourtesy of Science Museum
- Halloween at the Tower of LondonCourtesy of Tower of London
- Freddie Mercury | Splendid ThingsFreddie Mercury in the Made in Heaven music video. Photography by Simon Fowler © Mercury Songs Ltd
- NIGO: From Japan with LovePhoto Luke Hayes
- John Constable: views of natureCourtesy of British Museum
- Hepworth and Nicholson: The Hampstead Studio PhotographsBen Nicholson © All rights reserved, DACS; Paul Laib ©️The de Laszlo Foundation
- Portrait of a City: A Century of American PhotographyCourtesy of Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award 2026Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery
- Voices on Stage: Women in Yiddish Theatre @ Bradford Reform SynagogueCourtesy of Jewish Museum London
- Through a Queer Lens @ Manchester Jewish MuseumCourtesy of Jewish Museum London
- The Echoes and Shadows of Identity – Art InstallationCourtesy of RAF Museum
- Anish KapoorCourtesy of Hayward Gallery
- HEARD, Rene MatićCourtesy of V&A East Museum
- Towards A Civic Museum, Tania BrugueraCourtesy of V&A East Museum
- Dispersal: Picturing urban change in east LondonCourtesy of V&A East Museum
- On the Sly, Justinien Tribillon© David Parry for the V&A
- Legacy: The Story of the Jewish Family who Founded J. Lyons and Fed BritainCourtesy of Jewish Museum London
- Musquiqui Chihying: A Life of NavigationCourtesy of Hayward Gallery
- Tree of Life: Stories from Jewish Museum London's CollectionCourtesy of Jewish Museum London
- Tom Hunter SelectsCourtesy of Tom Hunter
- Heads! Look To The Workers, Laura Wilson© David Parry for the V&A
- New Work: Making East LondonCourtesy of V&A East Museum
- Richard Dadd: Beyond BedlamCourtesy of Royal Academy of Arts
- The Wallace Collection at WarCourtesy of Wallace Collection
- Jesús Rafael Soto: Pénétrable BBL Jaune© Jesús Rafael Soto / ADAGP, Paris 2026. Courtesy Atelier Soto, Paris and Galerie Perrotin. Photo: George Darrell. Courtesy Serpentine
- Curtain Up!Courtesy of Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Serpentine Pavilion 2026 by LANZA atelier© LANZA atelier. Photo: Iwan Baan. Courtesy Serpentine.
- Art in the Gardens: 125th AnniversaryCourtesy of Horniman Museum
- Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in ArtCourtesy of Imperial War Museum
- Art Now: Mohammed Z RahmanTate. © reserved.
- DayCourtesy of Royal Academy of Arts
- RootsCourtesy of The Photographers' Gallery
- Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and FriendsCourtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum
- Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes ArtCourtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum
- Winston Churchill: The Painter© Churchill Heritage Ltd. Photo: ©Royal Academy of Arts, London; photographer: John Hammond.
- The Coming of AgePhoto: Steven Pocock. Source: Wellcome Collection
- Declaring Independence: USA 250Courtesy of British Museum
- Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the DeepCourtesy of Natural History Museum
- Frida: The Making of an IconCourtesy of Tate Modern
- Sir Richard Owen: A Natural LegacyCourtesy of Natural History Museum
- The Music is Black: A British StoryCourtesy of V&A East Museum
- Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the PacificCourtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum
- The Music is Black: A British StoryCourtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum
- Tate Britain Commission 2026: Zineb SediraPhoto © Tate (Joe Humphrys)
- Ana Mendieta©The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, 2026 / Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery and Alison Jacques, London.
- The RA CollectionCourtesy of Royal Academy of Arts
- By Appointment Only: Romani Art, Culture & Heritage© London Museum
- Amar KanwarCourtesy of Serpentine Gallery
- Nicole EisenmanCourtesy of Royal Academy of Arts
- Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and PossibilityCourtesy of Wellcome Collection
- Audrey Amiss: The Surviving ExhibitionsCourtesy of Wellcome Collection
- British Wildlife Photography AwardsCourtesy of Horniman Museum
- Childhood in War© IWM (Art. IWM PST 8105)
- Gathering Ground© Abel Rodriguez, courtesy of the artist and Instituto de Vision
- Dame Vera Lynn CollectionCourtesy of Imperial War Museum
- Metamorphoses: Porcelain Sculpture by Rachel Kneebone© Rachel Kneebone. Photo © White Cube (Theo Christelis)
- Art deco: the golden age of poster designCourtesy of London Transport Museum
- Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action.Lent by the Atelier Le Parc 2026 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2026
- American PhotographsCourtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum
- Tenderness and RageGallery Photo: Benjamin Gilbert. © Wellcome Collection
- NINAGAWA Mika: Captive BloomsCourtesy of The Photographers' Gallery
- The Bayeux TapestryCourtesy of British Museum
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