{"title": "E M Forster’s Legacy of Connection", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, 2nd Floor, Holborn Library, 32 to 38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA", "address": "", "price": "Admission Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait", "literature"], "description": "An exhibition of unseen memorabilia, letters, photographs and memories of the novelist E M Forster, alongside paintings by Jim Buckingham. Buckingham, Bob Buckingham's nephew, was inspired by Forster to pursue painting privately, and in his 80s holds never-recorded recollections of his 'Uncle Morgan' plus never-before-seen Forster items and his own life's work of paintings, including portraits of Forster. It celebrates Forster's maxim 'only connect' and his lifelong belief in gay rights and criticism of restrictions based on race and class. 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The exhibition brings together installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from those involved, with projects led by artists including Shepherd Manyika, Sam Williams, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas, Nancy Allen, Lydia Paulett and Maymana Arefin. 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The flat, clean rooms with colour laid down in blocks nod to Matisse and Magritte, while landscapes with rivers and desert scenes open spaces of solitude. 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Some were drawn by patients at what in the 1950s was known as Bangalore Mental Hospital as part of occupational therapy, while others are by people living with mental health challenges in and around Bengaluru today. The 1950s works came to England through the friendship between M.V. Govindaswamy and German emigré psychiatrist Wilhelm Mayer-Gross, who together helped establish that hospital, later the National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences. Full of movement, colour, humour and joy, the pictures tell stories of people, places, homes and religions, sharing a message of hope that is authentically one of India.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/manasa-chitra-the-art-of-mental-health-from-bengaluru-to-bet-60061/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f29bf0639ffb6b09947469a70767512f76cb0eb78db041673a745f6acb119c3b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Emmanuel Awuni", "start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/all-artworks", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "ETERNAL SUNSHINE is a selling display of thirteen new prints by Emmanuel Awuni, a graduate of the RA Schools, shown in the Sir Hugh Casson Room at the Royal Academy of Arts. His colourful, upbeat work engages with diasporic sounds such as hip-hop, jazz, reggae and Afrobeats. The prints respond to William Blake's poem The Little Black Boy from Songs of Innocence, using material from the RA's archive and library to illustrate the interior world of Blake's figure and give the room 'music, colour, life and rhythm'. 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At its heart is a film that assembles archival footage, text, song and new 16mm material drawn from the work of poets, writers, musicians and artists. These extracts form a collage of image and sound bringing together real and imagined scenes of feminist coalition and inheritance. The work invites visitors to consider what commitments they might make when forming relationships across the intimate and the political, and how such relationships might be rehearsed, reimagined and received anew.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/there-are-no-honest-poems-about-dead-women-jemma-desai-38682/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b8e94453a18da6eeba0c809da012bbf390cb78ee8b3278374fa96a019addc15-600.webp"}, {"title": "70 years ACF - meins ist deins", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "The exhibition 'meins ist deins' marks the 70th anniversary of the Austrian Cultural Forum London and a decade of curatorial collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Curators Josie Sanne and Zaccaria Slater, graduates of MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, selected graduates from the Vienna academy to show alongside UK-based artists on the theme of sharing. Split into the categories 'meins' (mine) and 'deins' (yours), the show spans intimate memories, landscapes, tapestries on land ownership and a site-specific installation, exploring what it means to share a cultural identity. Visitors are invited to explore the ACF building itself, from the intern's office to the salon, library and basement gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/70-years-acf-meins-ist-deins-40985/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f4337d1e86eb78fb1fa80ffc1355789712f73e2a087c78b8cf46dd09a8633c6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Uncovering the Queer Roots of British Arts and Crafts", "start": "2026-11-12T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "Pay what you can by donation (suggested £10)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts-tickets-2003053359519?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "An 'In Conversation' talk at the William Morris Gallery, part of the Earthly Paradise programme of talks. Neal Shasore, an architectural historian and founder of the School of Building, joins Michael Hall, author of A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the The National Trust. 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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": "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. 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