{"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'. The artworks on display are available for sale through the RA, with sales supporting the artist and the next generation of artists in the RA Schools.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/emmanuel-awuni-38256/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/77d037af9a610cbc86cd14fc7d5b3a5e4b2eae127b97dd872dc63dfcbc052d50-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "White Cube x RA", "start": "2026-10-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "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": ["art/prints"], "description": "A free selling display of limited edition prints by Royal Academicians, shown in the Academicians' Room and the Belle Shenkman Bar in the Keeper's House, with artworks available for sale. The Royal Academy of Arts has partnered with White Cube, a contemporary art gallery founded in 1993 by Jay Jopling, curating the display together. It features seven- and ten-colour lithographs by Michael Armitage inspired by Ousmane Sembène's films and Kenyan cave paintings, a portfolio of four polymer-gravure etchings by Tracey Emin revisiting her Margate childhood, and meditative lithographs by Antony Gormley on the body in space. 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The headless couple are dressed in West African textiles, questioning ideas about power, identity and wealth and linking the portrait to the colonial exploitation running through 1700s Britain. The exhibition marks the 300th anniversary of Gainsborough's birth and runs in the H J Hyams Room until 7 February 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/yinka-shonibare-and-thomas-gainsborough-a-conversation-70007/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e89ec8bd33cee1f2e2f0cb096b2e7b9986d634c850a8f9accd3cf1640cc226da-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility", "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/contemporary", "society/mental-health"], "description": "An art exhibition at Wellcome Collection in London. The artist Rudy Loewe presents sculptures, paintings, text-based works and sound that imagine a mental healthcare system that is equitable and supportive. 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Behind it are the gallery's residency with musician Cos Chapman, whose live improvisation guided the sessions, and visual artist and performer Jo Roberts, presiding in her role as The Librarian. The drawings move from dark masses surrounding human figures and despairing hands toward coloured, hopeful forms, and the works reflect the suffering of the Palestinian people and a wish for a peaceful, equalitarian solution. Each selected drawing is sold at the same price of £200, with half of the proceeds donated to Medical Aid for Palestine, a scheme that has so far raised £8,500.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/darkness-never-lasts-collective-drawings-36564/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10fc6918b15c0f711f3d6bd048c28baef1ffc29dd6683f255292becf580241fa-2000.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 RCA at Imprint 2026", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal College of Art, Kensington", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "The RCA at Imprint 2026 is the Royal College of Art's presence at Imprint, a contemporary art fair dedicated to print and editions that brings together leading international galleries, publishers and institutions. Three MA Print graduates take part: Tamsin Loxley joins a forum talk on how a place, its history and collections inspire new work, drawing on her residency at Ushaw Historic House; Rudolph Taylor, recipient of the inaugural Imprint Artist Award, presents a solo exhibition and speaks in a forum on what to look for in a print; and Laura Townsend, recipient of the Imprint x RCA Graduate Award, exhibits and joins a conversation with Professor Jo Stockham on where print is heading next.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-rca-at-imprint-2026-70353/", "official_url": "https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/the-rca-at-imprint-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cb7e361cfcb434762e92cb10f0806776c44b69d582211c88355a47e5ddfd0228-1200.webp"}, {"title": "if you like rice, you’ll understand – Collective Noise", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00Z", "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/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition project titled 'if you like rice, you'll understand – Collective Noise', bringing together painting, photography, moving image, text and sound. It is a new project by artist and educator Andrew Pierre Hart, part of a joint programme between iniva and Chelsea Space at Chelsea College of Arts. Drawing on Stuart Hall's cultural studies legacy, it explores sound as a form of learning and cultural exchange, examining the relationship between sound and diasporic experiences. The project includes a cross-site exhibition, an events programme and a publication, supported by The Ampersand Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/if-you-like-rice-youll-understand-collective-noise-60786/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aabf80b0df67e5692d00f33769a693ca39fc9b1eab2066da1de9d0767fe6eb43-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Thiang Uk: Forever and a day", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Sunday Painter", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A solo exhibition of paintings by Thiang Uk at The Sunday Painter, marking his first solo show in the UK. His luminous, tumultuous paintings are built from layered color fields, radiating bursts and structures that hold multiple realities in tension. Shapeshifting is both subject and method, picturing the adaptations demanded by new languages, cultures and environments, and draws on animist stories from his grandmother and Christian narratives of his childhood in Hakha, Myanmar. Formal experimentation and lived history remain inseparable across his work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thiang-uk-forever-and-a-day-39750/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c50ff3cf71f01d0a8a6c4ffd0402ff878dffc257e1985d4af0fbdb1d3620069f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Tunnel present The Road of Excess", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "This is an exhibition running at a gallery in East London. It is presented by The Tunnel, a group of artists and performers who hold regular exhibitions in London. The title refers to the William Blake quote 'The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom', taken from his poem The Marriage of Heaven And Hell (1790–93).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-tunnel-present-the-road-of-excess-36570/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/864a9df9c1625888dbfac4eb7d90954890d0327654af4c2ee892492e89100275-2000.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": "Thato Toeba", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gasworks", "address": "Vauxhall Street 155, SE11 5RH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/collage"], "description": "A residency at Gasworks by the artist Thato Toeba, from Lesotho, opening on 30 September 2026. Toeba works with collage on plywood, using photographs as material in place of words to critique the archive as a supposedly neutral technology of remembering. During the residency they will experiment with puppetry and robotics to bring movement into collage, while researching the making of democracy and parliamentary systems, especially in Southern Africa. Their work asks how the othered and peripheralised enter the centre, and how collage through movement and frequency might take us there.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thato-toeba-41421/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c79fe2c9265045e158b149b607d8fdac8cb93f4e1010d5ec6c20553e88609034-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In Provence and Southern France", "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": "A free selling display of prints and paintings shown in the Belle Shenkman Room in the Keeper's House of the Royal Academy of Arts, with all works available for sale. It features works by Dame Barbara Rae DBE RA, made after visits to Ménerbes, Maubec, Vaucluse, Campagnac and Alayrax in Provence and southern France. The artist, who has travelled widely for inspiration, explored the culture and history of the landscape, from its towns and vineyards to its sunflower fields. The display runs from 29 September 2026 to 28 February 2027, and visitors who are not members can enquire at the membership desk to view it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-provence-and-southern-france-38255/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7ee24d195441fbf6f15e09319aa2c294e380865054be4fcfc8ea9ffc80e1054c-600.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": "Brent Record Album Covers Exhibition", "start": "2026-06-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Brent Museum", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.brent.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/parking/parking-permits", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["music/world/reggae", "art/photography"], "description": "An exhibition of Reggae album covers photographed in locations across Brent. It is curated by music historian Kwaku and shows the stories behind the iconic shots. It runs until 31 October 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/brent-record-album-covers-exhibition-35077/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/893ac71dba5547b320b64dc6b4b7f1f22c181a412cfa1598a44e2543e654a6b4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Colin Self: Unseen", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Frith Street Gallery", "address": "Frith Street 60, W1D 3JJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "Colin Self: Unseen is a major exhibition of works by the British artist Colin Self, his first London retrospective since 1986, presented across two floors at Frith Street Gallery. Curated by writer and curator Ian Collins, it brings together rarely seen pieces from public and private collections alongside the first showing of 365: A Journey in that direction, a multi-media installation of 365 wall-based works ongoing since the year 2000. The show spans painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, sculpture and ceramics, opening with works on war and militarism and reflecting the artist's sense of living on the edge between peace and war, city and country. Turning 85 this year, Self has had a seven-decade career described as a humane, playful response to threats of annihilation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/colin-self-unseen-36200/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89de7a9e96cb36fe839db998f40745d4fbe74e54d1e67475245223c9692a61ba-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Oscar Murillo", "start": "2026-10-19T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00Z", "place": "David Zwirner", "address": "Grafton Street 24, W1S 4EZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings titled 'Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps' by the artist Oscar Murillo. The works bring together marks, color and layers of material, reflecting on places such as Colombia, Cameroon, the Ivory Coast, the Philippines and the UK, with themes of labor, movement and collective experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/oscar-murillo-35546/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/55b0391f159c15ffb7077075fc7024359f0744a6e986e40c5ee93d619bcf3113-2000.webp"}]}