{"title": "Exhibition: Does my head look BIG in this? The art of portrait caricature", "start": "2026-05-23T10:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "place": "The Cartoon Museum", "address": "Wells Street 63, W1A 3AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition at The Cartoon Museum celebrates the art of portrait caricature. It traces the form from its origins in Renaissance Italy to its outrageous Golden Age in 18th-century England and its popularity today. The museum presents the caricaturist as a provocative, insightful and rude figure who hilariously reflects the society we live in, who we vote for, and the personalities we celebrate. The exhibition is made possible by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and National Lottery players.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exhibition-does-my-head-look-big-in-this-the-art-of-portrait-39035/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9043cff2ca9ea72e1f35700a3f018788f8fbc83647705f0825c166fa3f1f6998-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-05-23T10:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00Z", "place": "The Cartoon Museum", "address": "Wells Street 63, W1A 3AE London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Fernando Botero, in Praise of an Amplified World", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "Opera Gallery London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modern-art"], "description": "A major exhibition of works by Fernando Botero, the Colombian artist known for his instantly recognisable visual language called 'Boterismo'. Opera Gallery London brings together works from the 1960s to the artist's final years, spanning portraiture, still life, landscape, sculpture and works on paper. The show highlights how Botero, who passed away in 2023, used expansive forms and harmonious proportions to amplify the presence of everyday subjects, giving them monumentality, sensuality and dignity. Rooted in the memory of Colombia while drawing on European painting traditions, his oeuvre occupies a singular place in the history of Modern art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fernando-botero-in-praise-of-an-amplified-world-41789/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/08ef9574dca54b4ce918e28a852f627aad7f125d113604eeb5fcc6db155428d8-2000.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. 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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": "Mindful Art Observations", "start": "2026-11-02T10:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T10:45:00Z", "place": "Barts North Wing", "address": "St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE", "price": "Free, no booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bartsnorthwing.org.uk/events/mindful-art-observations-666/?occurrence=2026-11-02&", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Mindful Art Observations is a short drop-in session exploring the William Hogarth paintings through 'slow looking', a technique that invites you to slow down and dive deeper into the paintings through mindful observations. The sessions are led by the Barts Heritage Engagement Team. They run across several dates, with upcoming dates listed on the what's on page. The event is free and no booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mindful-art-observations-60008/", "official_url": "https://bartsnorthwing.org.uk/events/mindful-art-observations-666/?occurrence=2026-11-02&", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68f357d810a4c041b896b9713748ddfb3eab6738b7f88a238cf1c2fa14fb1e27-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "£20 / Free for Members; £19 Concessions; £5 for Tate Collective", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=380538", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography is an exhibition at Tate Modern exploring pictorialism as a global movement. It is the first major exhibition on this subject, showing how artists became pioneers of the darkroom and transformed image making. The show brings together over 200 rare prints by more than 80 artists from Seoul to Sydney, New York to Cape Town and Brazil to Singapore. It features never-before seen works from around the world alongside pieces from Tate's Collection, presented in the Eyal Ofer Galleries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/light-and-magic-the-birth-of-art-photography-38883/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a61422445d0f98945ac03c22f024594e000b6e7b71442edced57b33333e5d30-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fresh takes: Art in 10 minutes", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A short 10-minute lunchtime talk at the National Gallery, part of the monthly Fresh takes series. The speaker is Tia Grant, an alumnus of the Gallery's Articulation initiative, which helps young people aged 16–19 build research and presentation skills and invites them to give 10-minute talks on works of art. She revisits her talk on Pietro Longhi's painting A Fortune Teller at Venice, offering fresh perspectives on the Venetian scene and the stories and mysteries at its heart. The free session is open to everyone in Room 33.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-78901/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-06-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15a4b3b848068842b10d27a72b1c00c686328c296192a483295f5a0837b53e58-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Exhibition: Painted Faces", "start": "2026-10-25T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "place": "Woolwich Works", "address": "No 1 Street 11, SE18 6HD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait"], "description": "Exhibition: Painted Faces is the debut solo exhibition of theatrical portraits by Clare Williams, shown in the Visitors' Book Café Bar at Woolwich Works. Drawing on 40 years of working in theatre, the portraits explore a world of artifice where costume and a painted face allow a new story to be told. Williams paints quickly and instinctively onto wooden panels without preliminary sketches, 'becoming' each character before reducing, rebuilding and reconstructing the work over a long process. The paintings are available for sale at the café/bar counter, with prices ranging from £95 to £995.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exhibition-painted-faces-40353/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bccd3f3bea14d58ffa58e35db604f2e0e51799f2567023b0dc67052daf149ce9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Transforming: the Complete Works 2009–26", "start": "2026-05-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rob and Nick Carter", "address": "Bathurst Street 5A, W2 2SD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "Transforming: the Complete Works 2009–26 is a current exhibition of moving paintings by Rob and Nick Carter. Since 2008 the artists have translated static masterpieces into moving paintings, a slow art of durational looking, with works held by the Mauritshuis and the Städel Museum. After an eight-year break, this new cycle uses human-guided AI as a painterly material, curated frame by frame like a digital brush. The works celebrate artists who investigated light and form through repetition, from Monet's London fog and Kandinsky's visual music to Anna Ancher's interiors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transforming-the-complete-works-200926-41944/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2db7585c435cce36277c90e9f9398ed4c5ac57a2a8c7570639a7b4c00b0c57cb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Museum Detectives: The Big Draw Family Tour", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thebigdraw.org/events/the-big-draw-4", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/drawing", "history"], "description": "Museum Detectives: The Big Draw Family Tour is an interactive family tour of the museum, part of this year's Big Draw, where families explore the galleries and learn together. With the help of the Museum Educator, families collect ideas and experiment with mark making to create their own unique portrait. Places are limited and allocated first-come, first-served on the day, and the tour is suitable for all ages.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/museum-detectives-the-big-draw-family-tour-39900/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/museum-detectives-the-big-draw-family-tour/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/da24a06baaa7ba882d4a851bab51c0c0f240312f49fb8539d0de11f0f99855fb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Coming of Age", "start": "2026-03-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "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": ["society/aging", "art"], "description": "'The Coming of Age' is a free exhibition about growing old, exploring experiences and perceptions of ageing from adolescence to later life. It asks how societies can adapt for everyone to age better, and how experiences of age are shaped by our environment, culture and society. The exhibition brings together 150 artworks and objects, from historical artefacts to contemporary works by artists including John Coplans, Serena Korda, Suzanne Lacy, Anna Maria Maiolino, Rory Pilgrim and Paula Rego. It is held at Wellcome Collection on Euston Road in London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-coming-of-age-40243/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d1cac3ba10df17a62a52399ec4cdf63b24a11e99d9f85d925a7b84eea4f59a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Flip, Spin and Flicker- Victorian Animation!", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Florence Nightingale Museum", "address": "Lambeth Palace Road 2, SE1 7EP London", "price": "Free with admission", "price_from": "9.95", "price_to": "9.95", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "Flip, Spin and Flicker- Victorian Animation! is a drop-in craft activity at the Florence Nightingale Museum exploring the very early forms of motion pictures. Before the television, even before the big screen, the Victorians had their own inventions to capture their eyes and imaginations. Visitors can make their own Victorian animation by designing a thaumatrope or adding an image to the museum's community flip book. The activity is free with admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flip-spin-and-flicker-victorian-animation-79055/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad31576c017916cd33a064c256b81c09173d3498d1b2704c7e67e00cb642c8dd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "£14 (Concs: £11 / Art Pass: £8) in person, £12 (Concs: £9.50 / Art Pass: £7) online, each including ", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://thephotographersgallery.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173692530/events", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "Snap Happy! How Children Became Photographers is an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery that explores the history of children as photographers. Curated by Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture at the University of Brighton, it traces photography's movement from elite pastime to popular hobby through photographs and archives. The show features camera clubs, magazines, photobooks, advertising, manuals, comics and toys, celebrating the creativity and distinctive perspectives of generations of young photographers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/snap-happy-how-children-became-photographers-39557/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bd55cd9863d941aafa46f3d6b3192f94d37b1adc091ba80c0f6e221a462be9c0-1200.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://tickets.qbcentre.org.uk/events/01a0a5bf-c121-79c7-9061-7747335a17d0", "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": "Sam Jackson: What Remains of Her", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pontone Gallery", "address": "Newman Street 74а, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait"], "description": "An art exhibition titled 'Sam Jackson: What Remains of Her' at Pontone Gallery. The artist Sam Jackson paints portraits of queens, princesses and other women of historical note, from Cleopatra to Boudicca to Queen Victoria. Since these women cannot be painted from life, the likenesses are conjured from secondary sources, folk tale and the artist's imagination. The works use a uniform head-and-shoulders format with loose, gestural brushwork, letters and phrases scattered across the picture plane.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sam-jackson-what-remains-of-her-41921/", "official_url": "https://pontonegallery.com/exhibitions/203-sam-jackson-what-remains-of-her/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8348fca0f52edeec6958e15f39280b8040d11c859af1f612354d2a2db88633b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Bloomsbury Group, 1910-1920 \"Character Changed\"", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Philip Mould", "address": "Pall Mall 18-19, SW1Y 5LU London", "price": "Free to all | No booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by the Bloomsbury painters Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, shown at Philip Mould & Company and titled after Virginia Woolf's declaration that 'on or about December 1910 human character changed.' It gathers works from the painters' most radical decade, when Roger Fry's 1910 Post-Impressionist exhibition first showed British audiences Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Matisse. Drawn mainly from private collections, it includes Vanessa Bell's Portrait of Duncan Grant (1915), shown publicly for the first time, Duncan Grant's Still Life in the Garden Room at Charleston (c.1918) and Roger Fry's Poinsettias in a Vase (c.1915). The exhibition is free to all with no booking required, and runs alongside Tate Britain's Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury, to which Philip Mould & Company is lending works.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-bloomsbury-group-1910-1920-character-changed-76743/", "official_url": "https://philipmould.com/exhibitions/67-the-bloomsbury-group-1910-1920-character-changed-an-exhibition-of-works-by/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd1c2646f9fb4dfec77fd5ca585ca0ef86ecc028b49efd3b794099fc5925b9f9-1200.webp"}]}