{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "Opera Gallery London", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Lorena Torres: Un Suspiro Lleno el Mundo", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Beetles + Huxley", "address": "Swallow Street 3-5, W1B 4DE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of sixteen new paintings by Colombian artist Lorena Torres, her second solo show with the gallery. 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He wanted to make viewers feel active, bringing each artwork to life through their acts of looking and experiencing, and to make more democratic art that everyone can easily enjoy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/julio-le-parc-light-colour-action-38879/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4503b7a5baedd939fd978bbf4d1b65c1be3bb13dad1b9d3482fb5cf4f8cb6066-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Pulse, Pause, Repeat", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.lissongallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculpture by the artist Carmen Herrera, spanning the final decade of her life. 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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"}, {"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": "Ana Mendieta", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "£18 / Free for Members, £17 Concessions, £5 for Tate Collective", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=375282", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "A major exhibition at Tate Modern dedicated to the artist Ana Mendieta, presenting many of her iconic works alongside newly remastered films, early paintings, and late sculptural pieces, many never before seen in the UK. The Cuban-born American artist, active in the 1970s and early 80s, is best known for her Silueta Series, exploring the presence and absence of the human body using natural materials including fire, water and flowers, recorded as photographs and films. Her work posed profound questions around displacement and identity that remain highly relevant today. The show, the first in-depth UK exhibition of her work in over ten years, also continues outside the gallery walls, embracing her deep relationship with the natural world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ana-mendieta-38881/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e2321a27214d04910aa2b550868992faab5e53ef2736b12abac19386b805b3a9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Louis Fratino", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "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"], "description": "An exhibition of new paintings by Louis Fratino titled 'Prose', on view at the David Zwirner gallery in London. The New York-based artist presents works that look at the glorious and the everyday in public and private life, from café scenes and saunas to still lifes of flowers and fruit. It is his first solo exhibition in London and his first with the gallery since it announced his representation earlier this year. The show opens with a reception on the evening of the first day and runs until October 31, 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/louis-fratino-35541/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d205b62eca78eb5fbc4feb65c84d9c63136319c4850beddf0d97a96ffc9530ee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Allen Jones: In Town Tonight", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gazelli Art House", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/pop-art"], "description": "\"Allen Jones: In Town Tonight\" is a solo exhibition of new and earlier work by the artist Allen Jones, presented at the London gallery Gazelli Art House during Frieze Week. Jones, a British artist born in Southampton in 1937 and a defining figure of British Pop Art, has worked for more than six decades in painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. The exhibition pairs substantial new work made between 2024 and 2026 with significant pieces from across his career, centring on his investigation of the human figure, performance and the relationship between image and object. At its heart is a new series of shaped canvas paintings whose intense green, yellow and red evoke a theatre, where spotlights pick out performers' bodies observed from opera boxes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/allen-jones-in-town-tonight-41426/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/052305c89a511ba53538c97eb7960d9a52e17c4a9b34c81495894611c5736a5d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! 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Several paintings grew out of the artist's childhood memories and touch on nostalgia, humour and loss, including the demise of mall culture and the one-on-one performance of the salesman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hernan-bas-time-to-shine-the-salesmen-40106/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5d2cf0257683b782da5ead3f124aee32c8414dc6f2960b40a4c7ca46d094aaf-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. 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": "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": "Paloma Contreras Lomas: Disco Inferno", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gasworks", "address": "Vauxhall Street 155, SE11 5RH London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "film"], "description": "Disco Inferno is an exhibition of new paintings, murals, sculpture and a film by Paloma Contreras Lomas, her first European solo show, at the London art space Gasworks. The artist, who studied in Mexico City and is represented by Pequod Co gallery, explores how historic and contemporary violence in her home country has been shaped by popular culture and media narratives, especially the years since 2006 and the Mexican war on drugs. Her immersive, folkloric visual language, which she calls \"Mexican Baroque\", unfolds through room-scale murals of hellish scenes, a soft plush sculpture of a decapitated figure, and a 15-minute video in which she retells three stories from her friend Fabiola. The exhibition presents hell as a crowded theatre of disappearance, where pre-Hispanic goddesses, witches, rat monks and devils confront and choreograph Mexico's violent past, present and future.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/paloma-contreras-lomas-disco-inferno-36216/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb17812ebcef749a9773cb96e7bec92b1d0ccbbd86ff614e86d6377d2e2b0d48-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Thursday Late: Still Life, Then and Now", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free with general admission; pay what you can for local residents; drawing workshop £14 / £10 for Ea", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/book-tickets/?eventid=1001ADGKSHLJDTDBJQTBMGLLJRLBJCMNN", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/painting/still-life"], "description": "An evening late-opening at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery built around the theme of Still Life, from past to present, during the final days of the exhibition Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons. Pitzhanger's Director Rebecca Lyons leads a guided tour tracing Still Life from seventeenth-century Dutch painters to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern painters through the lens of Woods's works. Annabel Johnson leads a relaxed drawing session inspired by the flowers and objects in Clare Woods's paintings, with materials provided and all levels welcome. Some parts of the evening require separate tickets, including the drawing workshop, which has limited capacity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thursday-late-still-life-then-and-now-38066/", "official_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/whatson/thursday-late-still-life/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4203136752e4d80497d917d315825ba28d003b8569000d74c57b361b7f42b496-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fail We May, Sail We Must : Exhibition", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-08-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "The Brown Collection", "address": "Bentinck Mews 1, W1U 2AF London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "Fail We May, Sail We Must is an exhibition at The Brown Collection spanning six centuries of works that reveal themselves on a second look. It is curated by British artist Glenn Brown and his husband and museum co-founder Edgar Laguinia. The show presents ninety historic and contemporary paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and ceramics, including spliced collages, double images and deceptive figures. Unfolding thematically across the museum's four floors, it features artists such as Salvador Dalí, George Condo, John Stezaker, Fiona Rae and Rebecca Warren.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fail-we-may-sail-we-must-exhibition-39023/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a555ab6b56a81eafb9f4b6dd903a4f88b6d357e4eea3bb435381e4676c470cf-2000.webp"}]}