If you have missed the last 70 years of Britain’s cultural and economic history, this exhibition should bring you up to date. Taking a post-world war two exhibition from the V&A as its springboard, the Hayward’s spring show examines the cultural history of the UK through the work of seven artists.…
As London prepares to welcome the usual fashion victims to Somerset House, West London is preparing its own Africa-focused fashion event. Giving space to the wealth of designers currently working across the continent, the Afro-polis event on Portobello Road places a selection of the best African-made labels next to London’s…
If you are feeling well and truly over the ultra commericalised, forced love of Valentines day, then why not celebrate via the museum to all things similarly consumerist, aka The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising in West London? By some strange twist of fate, the preclude to the ‘teddy bears…
South African born artist Marlene Dumas gets the retrospective treatment at Tate Modern this February. Having come to prominence in the 1980s, Dumas is now widely considered as one of the greatest female painters working today and a complete devotee to her medium. This exhibition may well be contemporary painting…
Is politically motivated art on the minds of many art curators today? You may be forgiven for thinking so when you examine the current exhibitions across the capital. The latest of this kind comes from the Lisson Gallery: a group exhibition from its own artists dealing with religion, global trade…
The recently opened Black Heritage Centre in Brixton now provides a much needed learning and exhibition space for the Black Cultural Archives, established in 1981. The space features a programme of talks, walks and evening music events, as well as a rolling exhibition programme. Staying Power is the first of…