{"title": "Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art", "start": "2026-03-20T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "IWM London", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.iwm.org.uk/products/wartime-london-in-paintings?_pos=1&_sid=b7a279610&_ss=r", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/wwii"], "description": "Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art is a free exhibition at IWM London on Level 3. It tells the story of London during the Second World War as seen by artists, many commissioned by the government's War Artists' Advisory Committee, set up in 1939. Over 45 paintings and drawings are shown alongside photographs, film, objects and oral histories, with works by artists such as Edward Ardizzone, Evelyn Dunbar and Henry Carr. The exhibition shows Londoners facing loss, displacement, overcrowding and shortages, and is suitable for both adults and children, with a stamper trail and activity sheet for families.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beauty-and-destruction-wartime-london-in-art-36628/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8e851068fff0ca5592f7974efa2d0e68eb8ea7ec7edd36beec9dd222c61df07-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-03-20T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "IWM London", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Childhood in War", "start": "2026-07-31T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "IWM London", "address": "", "price": "Free event", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["history/world-war"], "description": "Childhood in War: Family highlights is a set of family activities within the free, immersive exhibition Childhood in War at IWM London, which reveals how children have experienced conflict from 1914 to the present day. Imperial War Museums designed it for families with children aged 8+, with younger visitors welcome too, combining hands-on activities, real stories and interactive displays. Highlights include climbing aboard a recreated evacuee train carriage, playing a giant magnetic board game of wartime children's games, watching Duck and Cover in a Cold-War living room, crawling through a secret fireplace passage, and trying a rotary telephone. Visitors can also watch animated children's letters, explore real books on shelves, and guess smells at a wartime kitchen scent table.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/childhood-in-war-36627/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/118d09eafee230f0469e80bdbba767623650a5840551f74ada0bb5c99787172c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Drawn on the Western Front: Audio-Described Tour", "start": "2026-10-31T11:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Army Museum", "address": "SW3 4HT London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.nam.ac.uk/event/413:1040/413:19539/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/drawing", "history/ww1"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition 'Drawn on the Western Front', designed for blind and visually impaired visitors and their companions. Art curator and exhibition lead Anna Lavelle of the National Army Museum presents the wartime drawings of Paul Sarrut, a French soldier who trained as an artist and sketched officers and other ranks of the Indian Army while stationed with the 3rd (Lahore) Division. The tour shows how his work gives a glimpse of the realities of war and the daily lives of Indian soldiers on the Western Front. Items from the Museum's handling collection let visitors get a feel for the equipment used by First World War soldiers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/drawn-on-the-western-front-audio-described-tour-37238/", "official_url": "https://www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/drawn-western-front-audio-described-tour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1fc029b798ba73d11995ee93407a11142bc5218b1d1953fb76cf6f001a69258-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Second World War family walk", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "", "address": "", "price": "From £9.00", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://museumtickets.londonmuseum.org.uk/ticketbooth/shows/1173649284/events/428902721", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "A 60-minute guided walk through the City of London's landmarks exploring how the Second World War impacted ordinary Londoners. It is run by the London Museum and designed for primary school age children and their families. Along the way it uncovers lesser-known war stories, such as how the conflict affected children, women and food. The walk takes place outside and shows the marks the war has left on the City of London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/second-world-war-family-walk-37072/", "official_url": "https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/second-world-war-family-walk/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b000c1d9087afca0afd8eca66f55563d9751cb390d55c03f499a335301877707-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Together on this Island: Émigré Art Networks in Britain", "start": "2026-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art", "history"], "description": "Together on this Island: Émigré Art Networks in Britain is a display telling the stories of émigrés, most of them Jewish, who came to Britain in the 1930s and 40s seeking refuge from the Nazis. It is presented with material from Tate Library and Archive as part of the Émigré Art Archives Project, funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. The display shows how artists, art dealers, writers and teachers who fled Nazi Europe contributed to artistic culture in Britain. Highlights include rarely seen works by Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Jankel Adler, Josef Herman, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Franciszka Themerson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/together-on-this-island-emigre-art-networks-in-britain-40982/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d9662628da0faeda8bfa42d871d13ccb32aa335ce4bebe99477fcc3cdb18dc39-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Drawn on the Western Front: Paul Sarrut and the Indian Army", "start": "2026-07-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Army Museum", "address": "SW3 4HT London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing", "history/ww1"], "description": "A free exhibition at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London, showing over 50 original drawings and works on paper by the French artist Paul Sarrut. During the First World War, Sarrut served as a liaison officer and interpreter with British, French and Indian units on the Western Front, living among the soldiers he drew. His sketches capture everyday life in camps, billets and medical stations, with Indian soldiers forming the subject of his most detailed studies. Alongside the drawings are uniforms, photographs, archives and medals, including Victoria Crosses awarded to Lieutenant Frank de Pass and Sepoy Khudadad Khan.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/drawn-on-the-western-front-paul-sarrut-and-the-indian-army-37242/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c842d56767fcecf3a6f0d460189b581dee0d42b1da9c4f4a0ad7eb280188e496-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Autumn exhibition & \"Back from the hill\"", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-26T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rountree Tryon Galleries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition called Autumn exhibition & \"Back from the hill\", running at the gallery Rountree Tryon Galleries in London. The gallery is behind it, presenting paintings and works by artists such as Edward Seago, Archibald Thorburn and Rodger McPhail. The works on show range from maritime and battle scenes to sporting, wildlife and landscape subjects.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-exhibition-back-from-the-hill-76791/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/971950bc6a1b171e5c14ac58a35086d9c6eaf6c3f0521bc8ce3645fb9310c65f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Forgotten India at 80: The Stories You Don’t Know", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Army Museum", "address": "SW3 4HT London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/wwii", "society/migration"], "description": "A special display at the National Army Museum marking 80 years since the end of the Second World War. It highlights the unheard stories of South Asian communities during the war and its immediate aftermath. As men from India were deployed overseas, women took up roles to support the war effort, and after the 1947 Partition people from South Asia were recruited to help rebuild Britain. It was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/forgotten-india-at-80-the-stories-you-dont-know-37243/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8204f03f08e661a8219f20d86dded3b5e5d2b1c18c2b4f5b08a26e6d16fc2251-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Women artists in conflict zones: imagination as an act of resistance", "start": "2026-10-26T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-04T17:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/women"], "description": "An exhibition of works by eight women artists from countries including Myanmar, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela, shown in the Atrium Gallery of the London School of Economics and Political Science. It is hosted by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security and Artists Project Earth, a UK charity that turns artists' creative contributions into support for relief projects, and is curated by May East, a Trustee of the charity. The collection, commissioned since 2022, explores imagination as an act of resistance, turning from the battlefield to the intimate realities of civilian life, from domestic survival to memories of displacement and conflict's marks on bodies and relationships. Among the artists shown are Rala Tarabishi, Khin Thethtar Latt, Sarah Ndele and Dania Bucko, who together give form to experiences rarely captured in peace agreements and reconstruction plans.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/women-artists-in-conflict-zones-imagination-as-an-act-of-res-37076/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/arts-and-music/exhibitions/exhibitions/women-artists-in-conflict-zones", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc5dd39f3fc7133392ff786f9042c38d405599885f700825d4a0abb4e22dcbca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cornwallis Cloth: Championing untold stories of WW2 in the Caribbean", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "Free (Booking Required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ornc.digitickets.co.uk/category/61042", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "An evening at the Visitor Centre with a viewing of the Cornwallis Cloth exhibition and film installation, followed by a panel discussion. Sweet Patootee Arts and the Old Royal Naval College Interpretation Team explore how oral testimony and creative research can break through archival silence to restore long silenced histories of British Caribbean lives during the Second World War. From 6pm to 7.30pm visitors can view the exhibition, with the talk and Q&A running from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. Admission is free, though booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cornwallis-cloth-championing-untold-stories-of-ww2-in-the-ca-37528/", "official_url": "https://ornc.org/whats-on/cornwallis-cloth-talk/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f154f1d4ee985023b247b25a756c70c8a52e88d0955166951326d2f69cafbd67-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Abbey Art Centre as Postwar Refuge: 1946–56", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ben Uri", "address": "Boundary Road 108, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://benuri.org/exhibitions/the-abbey-art-centre-as-postwar-refuge/overview/#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/exhibition", "history/postwar"], "description": "An exhibition telling the story of the Abbey Art Centre, a cosmopolitan art colony at New Barnet that offered a postwar haven to stateless Jewish refugees and artists from Australia, Britain and continental Europe. It was established in 1946–47 by artist, gallerist and collector William Ohly, who had fled Nazi Germany for England. The show traces the colony's affordable lodgings, studios and cross-cultural community, its role in many artists' careers, and Ohly's work and world art collection. It is curated by Simon Pierse, Jane Eckett, Sheridan Palmer and Sarah MacDougall, and runs at Ben Uri in St John's Wood.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-abbey-art-centre-as-postwar-refuge-194656-60060/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cd297aedb140a26873329a59a9ecf474045fccc082bdc801d485977c9dd1ec93-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art on Your Doorstep", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Art on Your Doorstep is a free outdoor exhibition bringing life-size reproductions of National Gallery masterpieces to Brentford, displayed across the town in fine detail and complete with their frames. It is part of The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep, a national touring project taking works from the nation's collection beyond Trafalgar Square to twelve towns across the UK. Brentford is one of those twelve towns, with up to 30 masterpieces exhibited, shaped by this year's Creative Mile theme of 'Love' and by the people, landmarks and history of Brentford. Visitors to Boston Manor House can see three masterpiece reproductions: one by the café terrace and two photo stand-ins inside the House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-on-your-doorstep-35024/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc999c3f25e613b04ee7dac017aa6cdd1309692f498f2aea24ec5c49e803c497-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "FREE FOR MEMBERS", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=375285", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history"], "description": "A major art exhibition at Tate Britain celebrating the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, two of the most celebrated British artists of the twentieth century. Organised by Tate Britain in collaboration with Charleston, it explores the pair's creative partnership of more than 50 years and their legacy as core members of the Bloomsbury Group. Over 300 works are on show, including portraits, still lives, landscape paintings, ceramics and textiles, plus a restaging of the artists' studio relocated from their Sussex home, Charleston. The exhibition also traces the group's commitment to lives of freedom and radical experimentation, which shaped art, literature and societal thought in Britain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vanessa-bell-duncan-grant-inside-bloomsbury-38884/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/vanessa-bell-and-duncan-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0504dcb22ff839476bff9223ce57dbf2322c8a487006a725be8687562f7301a7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "By Appointment Only: Romani art, culture & heritage", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Museum Docklands", "address": "Hertsmere Road, E14 4AL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://museumtickets.londonmuseum.org.uk/ticketbooth/products/donation", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/roma-sinti"], "description": "A free display by the London Museum showcasing the work of British Romani artists who share their identity and experiences through visual activism. It centres on three key works by artists Corrina Eastwood, Delaine Le Bas and Dan Turner, with Eastwood as co-curator. Inspired by the trade and industry of London's Docklands, the artworks honour the livelihoods, creativity and craft of Romani communities. A timeline by John-Henry Phillips illustrates their history from 500 CE to 2022, challenging stereotypes and inviting better understanding and connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/by-appointment-only-romani-art-culture-heritage-70020/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/145ae4dd21979af50ece806d83519cb34737490716bbcd3f1eb43046d15c1846-1200.webp"}, {"title": "William Crozier Dance of the Living 1961–1974", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Flowers Gallery", "address": "Kingsland Road 84, E2 8DP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "Flowers Gallery presents 'William Crozier: Dance of the Living 1961-1974', an exhibition of paintings and drawings from a pivotal period in the artist's career. Profoundly affected by post-war existentialist philosophy, Crozier left behind the dark pastoral images that made his reputation and set out to create a contemporary image of the human condition through figure and landscape. His works of the 1960s and early 1970s drew on memories of horrific World War II newsreels and depictions of 'danses macabres', showing figures in heightened emotional states whose feelings streak into a traumatised, imagined landscape. The exhibition includes three of the earliest, visceral skeletal bust portraits and two previously unexhibited large-scale drawings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/william-crozier-dance-of-the-living-19611974-69806/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24871fbab55b1b7b74bf56ca66785ac16b477153a341fbe072da62df01444e71-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Berkeley Square Fair LAPADA London W1 Stand A13", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "MacConnal-Mason", "address": "Duke Street St James's 17, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.macconnal-mason.com/artwork-detail/875538/0/dorothea-sharp-rba-roi-pswa-dartford", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "MacConnal-Mason presents a stand at the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, held in Berkeley Square, London W1. The gallery brings selected artworks, including paintings by Gustave Loiseau, Eugène-Louis Boudin, Laurence Stephen Lowry, Sir Alfred Munnings and Sir Kyffin Williams, alongside sculpture and other works.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/berkeley-square-fair-lapada-london-w1-stand-a13-76662/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8eb7bb218b5a9687919fc8c84da974d500b50a2c55f8ff1ef00564bc5125301d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Audrey Amiss: The Surviving Exhibitions", "start": "2026-07-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Wellcome Collection", "address": "Euston Road 183, NW1 2BE London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing", "society/mental-health"], "description": "A free museum exhibition dedicated to the artist Audrey Amiss (1933–2013), running at Wellcome Collection on Euston Road. It brings together her drawings, paintings and exhibition materials, exploring her work as both artist and campaigner who spoke out against harmful treatment within the mental health system. The show focuses on works that records suggest Amiss exhibited or intended to make public, and attempts to restage three of her solo exhibitions. Her extensive archive was donated to Wellcome Collection in 2014.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/audrey-amiss-the-surviving-exhibitions-40244/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/024b88b34ffe66cd45e31c4e8f128b2606f91b6fe009f2a38860b636445d6b93-2000.webp"}]}