{"title": "Beauty Fall", "start": "2026-04-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "SPACE Ilford", "address": "", "price": "Free and all welcome", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "wellness/beauty"], "description": "Beauty Fall is a free solo exhibition by deaf British Mauritian artist Sabrina Tirvengadum, turning the gallery into a satirical beauty salon. It features AI-generated beauty ads, a face-morphing mirror and installations exposing colonial influences on algorithmic beauty standards. Drawing on her childhood wish to be pretty and archival family photographs, including 3D-printed masks of her grandparents, it explores how Western and social media beauty ideals distort identity and self-esteem. Visitors are invited to question how beauty is measured, confront their own reflections and reclaim traits that beauty culture seeks to erase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beauty-fall-65185/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a18e35bb07754daabc38505658154c6805b33fa65f79c4fb89e0380a745507c-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-04-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "SPACE Ilford", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Miguel Chevalier Beyond Retina", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mayor Gallery", "address": "Cork Street 21, W1S 3LZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art"], "description": "An exhibition of new works by Miguel Chevalier titled Beyond Retina, shown at The Mayor Gallery. For more than four decades the artist has investigated the relationship between nature and artifice, as well as the invisible flows that shape contemporary societies. The exhibition explores the transformation of vision in the age of artificial intelligence, when seeing extends through intelligent cameras, algorithms and neural networks. It brings together robotic drawings, laser-engraved digigraphs on aluminium, 3D-printed sculptures, video works and an interactive installation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/miguel-chevalier-beyond-retina-65736/", "official_url": "https://www.mayorgallery.com/exhibitions/637-miguel-chevalier-beyond-retina/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/604b03e73724537b1c810bd9341ad6cf1a589dee97328987b6de64c79beaed5c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life", "start": "2026-10-30T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths, University of London Campus", "address": "SE14 6NW London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An art exhibition filling an entire contemporary art building with painting, ink works, handscrolls, garments, silk paintings, installation, video and text. It is the first UK institutional exhibition by Evelyn Taocheng Wang, a Netherlands-based artist, presented by the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. Through her 'make-up box' approach and her unreliable narrator 'The Cultural Whore', the works move between fiction, autobiography and cultural projection to assemble an idiosyncratic portrait of Britain shaped by translation, misunderstanding, desire and performance. New commissions explore the Chinese diasporic experience and Britain's cultural image in China, drawing on motifs from Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, the film Titanic and Count Duckula, with paintings indebted to Agnes Martin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/evelyn-taocheng-wang-being-poetic-ruins-life-36261/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e27d2f903af4f6b46d48a95361c04a29a009319bbc0137b1c2f1d1d870e5d02b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Message Is in the Pattern", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/digital-art"], "description": "The Message Is in the Pattern is the third edition of iniva's Post-National Digital Pavilion, a digital programme presented in collaboration with the British Council at the 61st Venice Biennale. Curated by Beatriz Lobo with programme support by Vasita (Pleng) Jirathiyut, it responds to Lubaina Himid's British Pavilion commission and explores how collective care, tradition-making and belonging are built through everyday practices such as cooking, braiding and gathering. Three artists, Anya Paintsil, Rajyashri Goody and Rose Afefé, are supported to make new commissions in their local contexts, while four writers from an international open call will respond to the works in a digital publication. The programme runs online from 1 May to 30 November 2026, continuing iniva's transnational, research-led public programmes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-message-is-in-the-pattern-60787/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a0979f0cd962a9acaffabcb74cfecb03fa4c4c6e1270c8b02b22bb88ad6ac3f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration", "address": "Myddelton Passage 1, EC1R 1AG London", "price": "Adults £15, concessions available. Tickets include entry to all exhibitions. Members go free.", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://qbcentre.org.uk/ticket-hub", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "Faerdom: Now, As Ever is a new exhibition blending UK folklore, viral memes and 3D printed sculpture. It is created by London-based duo Vince Ibay and Jessica Miller, who work together as Fromm Studio. Visitors travel through two co-existing spaces, 'Dystopia' and 'Utopia', meeting animated figures of ancient legend and myth, from Cornish piskies to a Pied Piper of Hamelin with TikTok-style dancing rats. The exhibition explores how the digital landscape is shaping our modern lives and asks whether humanity's oldest stories still resonate and can offer perspective and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/faerdom-now-as-ever-38102/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf92ecfadc45a060caf679a9b762cc13905c9fdabbd2e925b9b9e09923bd708-2000.webp"}, {"title": "November 2026: exhibitions and events in hARTslane", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "hARTslane", "address": "Hart's Lane 17, SE14 5UP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "society"], "description": "Soft Sell opens at hARTslane with an opening evening, a multidisciplinary exhibition by Kaitlin O'Connor. It explores how advertising, consumer culture and entertainment shape our identities, aspirations and ideas of empowerment. Three interconnected projects — No Body's Dead Yet, Perpetual Kittenhood and Neon Bodega Cats — combine illustration, moving image, installation and interactive objects to examine the blurring boundaries between personal identity and commercial culture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/november-2026-exhibitions-and-events-in-hartslane-69869/", "official_url": "https://www.hartslane.org/november-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b746e25c69200a2479adc33bf1931b3a3f032a4e4aec15b56c1d1617efc1609-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Somerset House", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1LA London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.somersethouse.org.uk/events?K=Enclosure&StartDate=2026-09-24", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "film"], "description": "An exhibition pairing a newly commissioned film with a large-scale immersive installation in the Lancaster Rooms of the New Wing. It is the work of Jenkin van Zyl, an artist in residence at Somerset House Studios, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Somerset House Studios and HOME, Manchester. Set in a decaying facility once built for replication, where visitors could temporarily live the lives of others, it follows Mercy, a starlet whose likeness was lent to the programme, as she arrives to terminate her contract and the boundary between original and copy turns porous. The work explores a culture where technological advancement has outpaced our ability to make sense of it, asking what happens when systems built on desire and self-preservation outlast the conditions that created them. The exhibition contains references to and images of blood, death, and psychological distress and is not suitable for visitors aged 12 and under.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jenkin-van-zyl-enclosure-38680/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb0db8af13099015f49f783e6b33cfc73d7fdf7b2013833c5907ac0dd735deb1-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Sparkle, The Blossom and The Milky Land", "start": "2026-08-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Southwark Park Galleries", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/feminism", "art"], "description": "This is an art exhibition titled 'The Sparkle, The Blossom and The Milky Land', showing moving image, textile and sculpture work. It is the first UK solo exhibition by Taiwanese artist DanFong Wang, who presents her 2024 animation of the same title alongside new embroidery and soft sculpture. Drawing on feminist theory and cultural rituals, the work explores female labor, the body and spiritual transformation, referencing Catholic and Buddhist funerary practices to examine gender and motherhood. Wang was selected by curator A—Z (Anne Duffau) as winner of the gallery's 41st Annual Open in 2025.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-sparkle-the-blossom-and-the-milky-land-38734/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ab5822757fe9a2ae0b9e736aec7dfc277199c7e57c81da2bf3ea5537bdf478f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Displays of Power: Colonial Legacies and their Manifestations", "start": "2026-10-29T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://wallacecollection.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/art-history", "history/colonialism", "society/racism"], "description": "A talk exploring the relationship between colonialism and visual culture, tracing how structures of power have been represented within the Wallace Collection and beyond, and how some contemporary artists respond to these legacies. It is held at the museum's Theatre and broadcast live online, with live captions by Stagetext. The speaker is Alisha O'Brien-Coker, curatorial assistant for Modern British Art at Tate Britain and an MA History of Art student at UCL, who previously worked at the Wallace Collection and trained as a curatorial fellow at New Curators. The talk forms part of Black History Month.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/displays-of-power-colonial-legacies-and-their-manifestations-39894/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/displays-of-power-colonial-legacies-and-their-manifestations/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15a41c8c82009545f6bd88b3b6df4cae709a99685857ec002ab66dd57f239e15-1200.webp"}]}