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Incredibly rare and never before seen, new photographs of the internationally renowned rock band The Beatles will be on show in Mayfair’s Shapero Modern this December. These lost photographs were taken on the set of the band’s first film A Hard Day’s Night by Lord Christopher Thynne (1934 – 2017). The negatives remained undeveloped for... Continue Reading →
Due to overwhelming public demand, The Art of Banksy, the world’s largest collection of original privately owned Banksy is now booking to May 2022. Seen by over one million people worldwide in cities from Melbourne and Tel Aviv to Toronto and Chicago, The Art of Banksy has now made its home in London, where over... Continue Reading →
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature will be the first exhibition to tell the complete life story of Beatrix Potter, one of the best loved authors of Children’s fiction in the 20th Century. Realised through a major partnership with the National Trust, this playful and interactive exhibition will invite visitors of all ages to rediscover this... Continue Reading →
Opening March 2022, Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear will be the first major V&A exhibition to celebrate the power, artistry and diversity of masculine attire and appearance. The show will trace how menswear has been fashioned and refashioned over the centuries, and how designers, tailors and artists – and their clients and sitters –... Continue Reading →
Today, the V&A announces The Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, a major new curatorial programme to support women in photography. The Project, funded by Ms. Ruth Monicka Parasol and the Parasol Foundation Trust, encompasses a new curatorial post alongside acquisitions, research, education and public displays, aiming to foreground and sustain women’s practice in contemporary... Continue Reading →
The Scottish Gallery will be celebrating the life and works of Samuel John Peploe (1871 – 1935) with a major exhibition of his paintings and drawings to coincide with his 150th anniversary. Noted for his diverse oeuvre, Peploe transformed himself from a daring Edwardian portraitist and Impressionist landscape painter into Scotland’s first Modernist. Marking a... Continue Reading →
A pavilion constructed from the world's lowest carbon footprint aluminium, a real-time growing couture gown worn by an artist robot, and the museum’s first in-person Friday Late for over a year have been announced as part of the V&A’s programming for London Design Festival 2021, running from 18-26 September. This year – in the lead... Continue Reading →
Orleans House Gallery’s thought-provoking exhibition and artistic research programme Remember the Future explores our relationship with nature in light of the global ecological crisis, creating a powerful interdisciplinary exhibition with a series of captivating and reflective works. Following renowned activist artists Ackroyd & Harvey’s residency, Bryony Benge-Abbott will be in residence from 20th July –... Continue Reading →
The Museum of London has acquired an ensemble from London fashion designer Tihara Smith’s ‘Windrush collection’ along with a suit owned by her grandfather. Both pieces, and oral histories recorded for the museum by Tihara, her mother and her grandfather have been made available to explore on the Museum of London website to mark Windrush Day 2021. ... Continue Reading →
This new exhibition from The Scottish Gallery seeks to show that Eardley’s cultural capital has never been higher. In the fifty-eight years since her passing, after she succumbed to cancer in August 1963, Eardley’s reputation has been enhanced and today her value is hugely augmented. There has been slow progress over the decade since Eardley’s... Continue Reading →
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