Regent’s Park

Featuring over 150 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries in the world, the Frieze Art Fair is the UK’s biggest art event. The Frieze Art Fair includes specially commissioned artists’ projects, a prestigious talks programme, an artist-led education schedule and much more to do!

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The Wallace Collection

This collection by Damien Hirst is being shown for the first time in the UK. Consisting of 25 new paintings, it is sure to create a sensation. Hung in the traditional galleries of The Wallace Collection, visitors will be able to enjoy the visual dialogue between Hirst’s works and the Old Master paintings.

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Tate Britain

This exhibition is a rare opportunity to view exceptional works by Britains leading artists today, and explore Tate Britain’s contemporary collection. This exhibition encompasses paintings, sculpture and installations by artists including Damien Hirst and Gillian Carnegie.

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Tate Britain
Price: Free

This free exhibition showcases Turner’s exploration of methods and techiniques, of colour and line. It follows Turner’s travels through Europe and his responses to different places, lighting and materials available. This ongoing exhibition will change exhibits every 6 months.

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The Hayward’s summer exhibition Walking in my Mind transforms the gallery’s space into a huge ‘brain’. Large-scale installations by different artists exploring the workings of the mind are on show, giving visitors an insight into the artists’ unconsciousness. International artists whose work is featured includes Keith Tyson, Yayoi Kusama, Pipilotti Rist, Thomas Hirschhorn and Mark Manders. Yayoi Kusama sees the world in dots, while Thomas Hirschhorn’s mind is full to the brim with images, text and everyday objects…

Madness & Modernity: Mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900

European Modernism reached its purest and most concentrated expression in Vienna at the turn of the century. This was a tumultuous period of transition in which the arts, literature, architecture and philosophy blossomed; a time when Sigmund Freud, among others, pioneered new ideas about the self and psychiatry. This multidisciplinary exhibition explores the influence of psychiatry on early Modernism and how these formative attitudes still influence the way we think about mental illness 100 years on.

http://london.londinium.com/75579 – Madness and Modernity

Byzantium 330-1453
25 Oct 2008—22 Mar 2009

In the Main Galleries

Supported by The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

This ground-breaking exhibition, a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Arts and the Benaki Museum in Athens, provides a grand-scale survey of 1,000 years of history. Highlighting the splendours of the Byzantine Empire, ‘Byzantium 330–1453′ incorporates over 300 objects. Some of the works have never been displayed in public before.

Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy
31 Jan—13 Apr 2009

In the Main Galleries

The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first exhibition devoted to Andrea Palladio (1508 – 1580) to be held in London for over 30 years. Palladio was not only one of the greatest Italian architects; he was also a practitioner whose work has continued to resonate down five centuries.

The Permanent Collection on display in the John Madejski Fine Rooms
20 Dec 2008—29 Nov 2009

High Art: Reynolds and History Painting 1780-1815
High Life: Celebrating the Loan of WP Frith’s Private View at the Royal Academy 1881

New Prints from the Royal College of Art Selected by Chris Orr RA
12 Dec 2008—17 Mar 2009

In the Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends of the Royal Academy

Free entry
Opening hours
Open to the public daily 4-6pm
Fridays until 10pm

Since the 1950s the Royal College of Art has published original prints by its students, staff and invited artists. The Printmaking Department is one of the oldest areas of study at the College and today it is a flourishing and dynamic part of the School of Fine Art. This year 2008, has seen a change of leadership from Professor Chris Orr RA to Professor Jo Stockham.

Kuniyoshi
21 Mar—7 Jun 2009
In the Sackler Wing of Galleries
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861) is considered one of the greatest Japanese artists who, alongside Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige, dominated nineteenth century printmaking in Japan. Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition will present Kuniyoshi as a master of imaginative design and reveal his most inventive representations including his ingenuous use of the triptych.

Peter Freeth RA: My Affair with Resin
5 Nov 2008—22 Feb 2009 Free

This exhibition of prints by Royal Academician Peter Freeth explores the unique process behind his work as well as the themes to which he has returned throughout his career.

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Georg Baselitz: Mrs Lenin and the Nightingale

13 Feb—21 Mar 2009
Mason’s Yard

Marcus Harvey: White Riot

27 Feb—28 Mar 2009
Hoxton Square

Rachel Kneebone: The Descent

27 Feb—28 Mar 2009
Inside the White Cube

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Explore the Great Fire, the most famous disaster in London’s history, and find out how it shaped the city we know today through our new microsite and exhibition.

Free

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Visit the Museum and journey across more than a thousand years of history, from Anglo-Saxon settlement in the 5th century, through Viking raids and the Norman Conquest of 1066, to the splendour and bustle of England’s 16th-century capital, and the dramatic results of Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Free

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It was the Romans who first built a city where London stands today, bridged the river Thames and constructed a road network to connect Londinium with the rest of the country.

Free

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Our London Before London exhibition explores the story of the Thames Valley and the people who lived here from 450,000BC to the founding of Londinium in AD50.

Beginning with a time when London was nothing but tundra, and the local population would fit on a double decker bus, London before London explores the relationship between human communities and their surroundings.

Free

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Step inside and find historic objects that tell the story of the capital’s turbulent past. Discover prehistoric London, see how the city changed under Roman rule, and wonder at the grandeur of medieval London.

Our lower galleries are currently closed for redevelopment. Visitors can still enjoy the story of London up to 1666 in the upper galleries and  foyer displays.

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This exhibition explores a fascinating but relatively unknown type of portraiture that flourished in Georgian and Regency Britain between the 1730s and 1830s.
It features intimate portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, John Downman, Richard Cosway, David Wilkie and many others, all drawn from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Museum, many never exhibited before.

Free

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A display of a recently acquired artwork by Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh, which offers a contemporary perspective on Iranian history, religion and culture.

Free

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Tate Modern will present a unique survey exhibition of works by Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 1938). Spanning the past four decades, this show will explore the exceptional diversity of his work by focusing on key moments in his career.

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Futurism represents a significant revision of the accepted understanding of this major Italian movement and returns it to the central position that it occupied in the avant-garde of the years immediately preceding the First World War. Artists include, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Giacomo Balla, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Sonia Delaunay, Robert Delaunay, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Natalya Goncharova, Lyubov Popova, David Bomberg, Wyndham Lewis, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson and Jacob Epstein.

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Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism will explore the work of Alexander Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova between 1917 and 1929. Arguably two of the Russian avant-garde’s most influential and important artists.

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Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The Collection comprises the national collection of British art from the year 1500 to the present day, and of international modern art.

Created in the year 2000 from a disused power station in the heart of London, Tate Modern displays the national collection of international modern art. This is defined as art since 1900. International painting pre-1900 is found at the National Gallery, and sculpture at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Tate Modern includes modern British art where it contributes to the story of modern art, so major modern British artists may be found at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain.

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Turner and the Masters will juxtapose Turner’s greatest paintings alongside works by old masters and contemporaries that he hoped to imitate, rival and surpass. Featuring around 100 works the exhibition will include paintings by Claude, Canaletto, Ruisdael, Van de Velde, Poussin, Rubens, Rembrandt, Constable, Bonington and many others known by Turner at first hand. This will be a unique exhibition exploring how Turner’s responses to other artists were both acts of homage and a sophisticated form of art criticism. Not to be missed.

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Tate Britain

This exhibition is Richard Long’s first in London for 18 years. His work explores relationships between time, distance, geography, measurement and movement. Heaven and Earth features over 80 works in sculptures, large-scale mud wall works, and new photographic and text.

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This visually sumptuous exhibition brings together some of the finest and most magnificent paintings that Van Dyck produced during his years in Britain. It also reveals his continuing visual legacy through portraits by artists from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Singer Sargent.

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Altermodern is a  selection of new contemporary art presenting some of the best that current British art has to offer, alongside international artists who are working with similar themes. This year’s Triennial has been curated by Nicolas Bourriaud who co-founded the influential contemporary gallery Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2002.

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In Feburary Art Now will present a series of works by Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson’s paintings engage with the traditions of landscape painting and the history of abstraction.

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Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection.
Tate Britain is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art and works actively to promote interest in British art internationally. The displays at Tate Britain call on the greatest collection of British art in the world to present an unrivalled picture of the development of art in Britain from the time of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, to the present day.

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Tate Modern presents an exhibition by one of the world’s most famous and best-loved artists, Mark Rothko. This is the first significant exhibition of his work to be held in the UK for over 20 years. Tate Modern’s iconic ‘Rothko Room’ works are reunited for the first time with works from Japan. The Seagram Murals were originally commissioned for The Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building New York.

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