{"title": "Painting the French Riviera", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£24–£26 (£26.50–£28.60 with donation)", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "26.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/events/ex-painting-the-french-riviera", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modernism"], "description": "\"Painting the French Riviera\" is an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Main Galleries at Burlington House, running from 2 October 2026 to 31 January 2027. It is organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition tells the story of how the Côte d'Azur dazzled modern art's great innovators, showing how its radiance roused painters such as Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Renoir and Klein, as well as giants of literature, cinema and fashion. It brings this to life through more than 160 works, including paintings, sculpture, travel posters and film, from the 1870s to the 1960s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/painting-the-french-riviera-38251/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c0b576fb358580072257c9aa9dc3f50bca487966f691271b1834a7e363828fc1-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy", "address": "Burlington Gardens 6, W1S 3ET London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/books/bookshop/exhibition-catalogues/painting-the-french-riviera-exhibition-catalogue", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modern-art"], "description": "The exhibition \"Painting the French Riviera\" shows how the French Riviera inspired and supported the rise of modern art, with more than 160 works including paintings, sculpture, books, travel posters and film, from the 1870s to the 1960s. It is held by the Royal Academy, which selected 15 original vintage travel posters from AntikBar for the show, displayed in Gallery 9. The paintings include works by Cezanne, Monet, Picasso, Bonnard, Signac, Matisse and Klein among others, plus a video of Le Train Bleu produced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The exhibition is on in the Main Galleries at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, from 2 October 2026 to 31 January 2027, open Tue-Thu and Sun 10am-6pm, Fri and Sat 10am-9pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/painting-the-french-riviera-at-the-royal-academy-40956/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d58d3e524301624dc10977659e6e91e6936d452da4e4d6cf04267ad6146ae315-2000.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": "Selected Works: 19th and 20th Century", "start": "2026-06-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Helly Nahmad Gallery", "address": "Cork Street 2-4, W1S 3LB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modern-art"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings and works from the 19th and 20th century held at the Helly Nahmad Gallery on Cork Street. The gallery presents selected pieces by artists including Salvador Dalí, Edgar Degas, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/selected-works-19th-and-20th-century-78732/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "WINTER EXHIBITION", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Connaught Brown", "address": "Albemarle Street 2, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "WINTER EXHIBITION is an art exhibition at the Connaught Brown gallery in London. The gallery presents outstanding works by artists including Chagall, Matisse, Renoir, Morisot, Sisley, Hepworth and others. 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The exhibition explores Pierre-Auguste Renoir's unique ability to capture love, friendship and human connection through celebrated Impressionist paintings, focusing on his most innovative years from the 1860s to the 1880s, with works brought together from international collections including 'Bal au Moulin de la Galette' (1876) shown in the UK for the first time. The session is led in British Sign Language with interpretation in spoken English, with priority given to British Sign Language users.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/british-sign-language-bsl-talk-renoir-and-love-49218/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/british-sign-language-bsl-talk-renoir-and-love-30-10-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68b523531a8bd8a577d695ccfcfa790a21a6e8dceea8d1dc81c57b4c8ec1a5a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "À propos de Nice", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£20/£12", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/53167/53168", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/20th-century"], "description": "This is a film screening of À propos de Nice, followed by a talk about 20th-century life in the French Riviera. The film was directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman, and is a 1930 documentary offering a provocative portrait of Nice, capturing both the luxury of the carnival on the promenade and the poverty of the working-class neighbourhoods. After the screening, historian Richard Vinen, who has taught at King's College London since 1991 and specialises in modern France and Europe, will discuss the Riviera's two competing realities: the sun-soaked playground of artists and aristocrats and the poverty of everyday life in the shadow of war and the Great Depression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-propos-de-nice-38267/", "official_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/a-propos-de-nice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a3006449cabd31b550b19bf14afa16b30e5a9eef05e4564eacbbca5927618af3-600.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": "Lydia Corbett | Sylvette David - My Dance With Picasso: A Retrospective", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Redfern Gallery", "address": "Cork Street 20, W1S 3HL London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition at the Redfern Gallery, running through November, presenting paintings, drawings and sculpture by Lydia Corbett, also known as Sylvette David. Corbett met Pablo Picasso in Vallauris in 1954, when he made more than sixty works of her in three months, the celebrated Sylvette series. The retrospective celebrates that encounter and her own artistic career of seven decades, marked by memory, nature and the landscapes of southern France and Devon. The show is her first at the gallery, and on 4 November there is an artist talk from 4 to 6pm, for which visitors can RSVP.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lydia-corbett-sylvette-david-my-dance-with-picasso-a-retrosp-38130/", "official_url": "https://www.redfern-gallery.com/exhibitions/121-lydia-corbett-sylvette-david-my-dance-a-retrospective/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c97197b385f656355f02fe0a74f898c1a708c0b7fa68b6dcaab3ebea9f4aaad6-1200.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"}, {"title": "Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art", "start": "2026-03-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Mayfair Gallery", "address": "39, London", "price": "£28/£30", "price_from": "28.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/membership", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/fashion"], "description": "\"Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art\" is the UK's first exhibition on the designer Elsa Schiaparelli, held in London. It spans the 1920s to today and celebrates the innovative designer's influence. The show traces the fashion house's groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative director Daniel Roseberry. Highlights include designs by Schiaparelli with Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dalí, works by Pablo Picasso and Man Ray, and recent haute couture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/schiaparelli-fashion-becomes-art-41682/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1867cb24c4cb02211d2713ffcef39e4d33092fcedd9ae9b126d94bfd8a28e381-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Drop in and draw", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "\"Drop in and draw\" is a free evening workshop where you can pick up a pencil and spend time drawing. It takes place on the first Friday night of the month and is inspired by the exhibition Painting the French Riviera. Professional artists lead the session and share tips and tricks for improving your drawing. The workshop is designed for members of the 25 & Under scheme, welcomes all abilities, provides basic drawing materials, and no booking is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/drop-in-and-draw-38264/", "official_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/drop-in-and-draw-20261106", "image": "https://noky.io/images/acf8d84cd6d8df0fe2fc61a3f8cf99a24ea6ec5a7cfbc54fd69d85f5a246dc54-600.webp"}, {"title": "Matisse In Print: The Evolution of Line and Colour", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hommage Art", "address": "King's Road 322, SW3 5UH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/prints"], "description": "An art exhibition of original prints by the French artist Henri Matisse, running under the title \"Matisse In Print: The Evolution of Line and Colour\" and opening on 6 November. It brings together original etchings, lithographs and aquatints from 1923 to 1954, alongside 35 lithographic reproductions of his late paper cut-outs presented by Hayward Gallery Touring, part of London's Southbank Centre, and a collection of original Matisse exhibition posters sourced by the gallery. Among the highlights are prints such as Odalisque au Magnolia, Repos sur la banquette and Nadia au regard attentif, plus all four Blue Nudes, The Snail and The Sorrow of the King. The show traces Matisse's exploration of line, colour and form through print, revealing a quieter, more intimate side of an artist best known for his extraordinary use of colour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/matisse-in-print-the-evolution-of-line-and-colour-41500/", "official_url": "https://hommage-art.com/pages/matisse-in-print", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fa07a53e43c84b8451fc427774c0f93429c5ab3689e4ad720d741d1800874eaf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Berkeley Square Fair LAPADA London W1 Stand A13", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "MacConnal-Mason", "address": "Duke Street St James's 17, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.macconnal-mason.com/artwork-detail/875538/0/dorothea-sharp-rba-roi-pswa-dartford", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "MacConnal-Mason presents a stand at the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, held in Berkeley Square, London W1. The gallery brings selected artworks, including paintings by Gustave Loiseau, Eugène-Louis Boudin, Laurence Stephen Lowry, Sir Alfred Munnings and Sir Kyffin Williams, alongside sculpture and other works.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/berkeley-square-fair-lapada-london-w1-stand-a13-76662/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8eb7bb218b5a9687919fc8c84da974d500b50a2c55f8ff1ef00564bc5125301d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "LAPADA ART & ANTIQUES FAIR", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "MacConnal-Mason", "address": "Duke Street St James's 17, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.macconnal-mason.com/artwork-detail/875538/0/dorothea-sharp-rba-roi-pswa-dartford", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["history/antiques"], "description": "LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, an art and antiques fair held at Berkeley Square in London. The gallery MacConnal-Mason takes part, showing a selection of artworks. These include paintings by artists such as Gustave Loiseau, Eugène-Louis Boudin, Laurence Stephen Lowry, Sir John Lavery and Sir Kyffin Williams, alongside sculpture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lapada-art-antiques-fair-76663/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb8c484618501476b850c09d3aa262e3d6d5ef3c0f877e860a994d2acb37c431-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nicole Eisenman", "start": "2026-09-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Sadie Coles", "address": "Davies Street, W1K 3DJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of ten new paintings, all from 2026, by the French-born U.S. artist Nicole Eisenman, presented at Sadie Coles HQ on Savile Row in London. The works, titled such pieces as Orgy, Togetherers and The Waiter, unite a great variety in form and subject with a painterly attention to surface and texture, exploring how many universes one canvas can hold. A text by Canadian writer Emily LaBarge accompanies the show, describing how Eisenman paints her life and feelings, assigning images to emotions. The exhibition coincides with the unveiling of a monumental sculpture by Eisenman in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nicole-eisenman-76807/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e06629b59a66f928b605c9369e098aec896d0b6ade20f8640e3030c21f62b0a6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collage and colour: the art of the poster", "start": "2026-11-07T10:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£75", "price_from": "75.00", "price_to": "75.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/53180/53183", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design"], "description": "A half-day practical workshop where participants create their own travel poster inspired by vintage Côte d'Azur advertising. It is led by artist Grace Holliday, who works with abstract pattern making and figurative drawing and has collaborated with clients including John Lewis and the Design Museum. Working with layers of colour and lettering, participants experiment with the graphic techniques and visual language of the iconic posters commissioned by French railway companies at the turn of the 20th century. The price includes all practical materials, light refreshments and access to the exhibition Painting the French Riviera, and participants must be 18 or over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/collage-and-colour-the-art-of-the-poster-38265/", "official_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/collaging-posters", "image": "https://noky.io/images/171f3681ab7375459218434877b7850970d1e1a50da62cbb205e52d5c50cd134-600.webp"}]}