{"title": "Khalif Tahir Thompson: Send in the Clowns", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Victoria Miro Gallery", "address": "Wharf Road 16, N1 7RW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/khalif-tahir-thompson-london-2026/#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new paintings by Khalif Tahir Thompson, presented at Victoria Miro's London gallery and the gallery's first solo presentation of his work since announcing his representation. Thompson, who was born and is based in Brooklyn, paints vibrant domestic scenes full of texture and pattern that portray the everyday lives of his subjects, both individually and collectively. The show takes its title from the 1973 Stephen Sondheim ballad famously sung by Sarah Vaughan, and reflects, in the artist's words, the ways we use humour to mask vulnerability and respond to tragedy. He describes the exhibition as a love letter to his younger self, his journey as an artist and Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/khalif-tahir-thompson-send-in-the-clowns-40107/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf7af2288c136f106537822d4180a7b34725428da2aa653b5deda418fc5d05d9-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Victoria Miro Gallery", "address": "Wharf Road 16, N1 7RW London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Autumn Knight: I Can't Complain", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "I Can't Complain is a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Autumn Knight, her first major presentation in the UK, combining a new commission with recent work. Knight's practice draws on theatre, psychology, improvisation and social exchange, and the exhibition centres on the act of complaining: its pleasures, frustrations and political potential. The Lower Galleries hold an audio and spatial installation with a canopy of balloons and a sound installation built from recorded conversations about everyday irritations, alongside recent video works. New performance work, including solos by Knight and collaborations with Samra Mayanja and with Michelangelo Miccolis and nick von kleist, punctuates the exhibition's run.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-knight-i-cant-complain-74128/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/autumn-knight", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d3936d1b8f28ea08402a80f861e9e245c83e06ecfde97d7600296a7b23ca7e7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Clare Granger Parallels", "start": "2026-10-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cricket Fine Art", "address": "Park Walk 2", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "'Parallels' is a solo exhibition of paintings by Clare Granger at the London gallery Cricket Fine Art, showing works in oil on canvas such as 'Three Palm Trees' and 'Punting'. It is her fifth show with the gallery, and the paintings come together from parallel thoughts and observations of lives lived in different parts of the world. Granger takes inspiration from observing people and places far from her rural English life, finding parallels across East and West while exploring colour and the effects of light.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clare-granger-parallels-35487/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72911c94c4e6679df579b12e6660e1e9dba4d52a82379c1edbb786d61cf71c46-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Johnny Depp 148 New Bond Street", "start": "2026-10-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Halcyon Gallery", "address": "New Bond Street 29, W1S 2RL London", "price": "Price On Application", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Halcyon Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of original artworks by Johnny Depp. The show offers a personal journey through the imagination of a lifelong storyteller, moving from tangled blooms to psychological portraits, via the shadowy depths of nostalgia and fantastical figures, unfolding through light and darkness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/johnny-depp-148-new-bond-street-41470/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e118216743f0db911fc3055276e64b6e8df4fec3f7dc427a089174b769c053a-2000.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": "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": "Hernan Bas: TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen)", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Victoria Miro Gallery", "address": "Wharf Road 16, N1 7RW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/hernan-bas-london-2026/#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new paintings by Hernan Bas, presented by the Victoria Miro Gallery in London. Titled TIME TO SHINE! (the salesmen), the works are set in places of retail – shops, stands, markets and malls – where minor characters take on leading dramatic roles. 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": "The Studio", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Massimo De Carlo", "address": "South Audley Street 55, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "The Studio is a solo exhibition of paintings by the American painter Jonathan Gardner at a London gallery. He takes the artist's studio as his subject: rooms within rooms and paintings within paintings, built from memory, imagination and art history. 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. Beneath the art-historical poise, the exhibition holds something like hope shadowed by unease at a deliberate, painterly distance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-studio-41680/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3e028b4fa2074ea7ca08e23bd838fd3d70465d1e7057b4ba7f18128d37392ecd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "CLIVE HEAD: SIMULTANEOUSLY REAL", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Alon Zakaim Fine Art", "address": "Cork Street 27, W1S 3NG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new and recent paintings and drawings by a contemporary British artist, shown across two floors of a Cork Street gallery. Its heart is a series of eight large-scale paintings, alongside drawings, works from his Visionary Series and complementary works from the gallery. Together they offer an insight into Clive Head's evolving approach to painting, revealing the processes, themes and visual connections underpinning his work. The show is presented by Alon Zakaim Fine Art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clive-head-simultaneously-real-69494/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf08f0c958d7c379952836e031163cd17ea73e06f92bd33cd3201a5f56b4946-600.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": "Clipped Wings – Sandra Chevrier", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Stolen Space", "address": "Osborn Street 17, E1 6TD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Clipped Wings is an art exhibition of paintings by Sandra Chevrier at StolenSpace Gallery. Her works explore the tension between freedom and restraint, vulnerability and survival, desire and the forces that keep us grounded. Fragmented bodies, intimate embraces, wounded faces and birds caught between flight and captivity inhabit a space where tenderness and violence coexist. Comic-book figures are woven into fragile human moments, questioning the roles they were originally given.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clipped-wings-sandra-chevrier-70514/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cfc635c368a481ac3b9d9ebe9fe4cd25667cb10e6bacf599d8ad40e6ae73db9-1200.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'. 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"}, {"title": "What Home Gives", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Deptford Lounge", "address": "Giffin Street 9, SE8 4RJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait", "society/housing/homelessness"], "description": "\"What Home Gives\" is an exhibition of paintings and portraits exploring what home provides — safety, belonging, connection, dignity and visibility — and what is lost without it. It shows selected work from Marie Ayodele's collection on home and homelessness, presented during World Homeless Week. Intimate paintings of domestic moments sit alongside raw portraits of people experiencing homelessness, asking where we belong. After seven years working in homelessness services, the artist makes work about visibility and dignity, seeing people in their fullness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-home-gives-73933/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d63dff2454c64bb6185d3f13e529d1772deda1223e9c4ad26ac68e0d0e8a0222-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Therapeutic Productions: Breathing Life Into Real World Art", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Museum of Croydon", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/multidisciplinary", "society/mental-health"], "description": "An exhibition at the Museum of Croydon presenting the work of Therapeutic Productions, an initiative launched in 2021 that uses creativity to empower people across society. It is led by creatives, artists and social entrepreneurs who use film, music and art skills to highlight social issues. The show focuses on three of the initiative's largest projects to date: Dark Thoughts, on philosophers and intellectuals working in a western context and the 18th century abolitionist Ottobah Cugano; Prodigal Monster, raising awareness for positive mental health, rehabilitation and recovery for those incarcerated; and The Burning Breath Chapters, a book journeying through life's stages and overcoming trauma through therapy and meditation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/therapeutic-productions-breathing-life-into-real-world-art-37212/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/419246c0358645c19bc4594f8ff1523817ad0251dfc8487f2412688193d6fb83-2000.webp"}]}