{"title": "Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare – Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History", "address": "Mare Street 11, E8 4RP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/absinthe-parlour/reservations/", "category": "", "tags": [], "description": "A book launch celebrating the new Harper Collins reissue of Philip Hoare's biography 'Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant', held with the opening reception for the exhibition 'Lascar – the art & ephemera of Stephen Tennant – The Man Who stayed in Bed'. The event takes place at the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History on 11 Mare Street, London. The book follows Stephen Tennant, a fixture of 1920s high society who became a muse to Cecil Beaton and lover of Siegfried Sassoon, later receiving visitors such as Truman Capote and Greta Garbo from his Wiltshire manor. First published in 1990 as an international bestseller, the biography recreates a life lived as a work of art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/serious-pleasures-the-life-of-stephen-tennant-by-philip-hoar-79104/", "official_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/serious-pleasures-the-life-of-stephen-tennant-by-philip-hoare-book-launch/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/639fab1c356aaedfccb6419f59325196cd9a3a61664fd53c97bf9ed0c181aa0d-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History", "address": "Mare Street 11, E8 4RP London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Lascar – The Art & Ephemera of Stephen Tennant – The Man Who Stayed in Bed", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History", "address": "Mare Street 11, E8 4RP London", "price": "", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/absinthe-parlour/reservations/", "category": "", "tags": [], "description": "An exhibition at The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History showing paintings, drawings, scrapbooks and ephemera from its extensive collections. It is devoted to Stephen James Napier Tennant, a British artist known for his decadent, eccentric lifestyle and described as the brightest of the bright young things. A catalogue with essays by Philip Hoare, Hugo Vickers and Max Egremont will be available on the opening night. There is an opening reception with RSVP.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lascar-the-art-ephemera-of-stephen-tennant-the-man-who-staye-79105/", "official_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/stephen-tennant-an-exhibition/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69b0bd2335b44ac4268a107bcee603d805fc009032a58d2c15ff51319da59492-1200.webp"}, {"title": "L.S. Lowry RA (1887-1976) An Exhibition and Book Launch", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Crane Kalman Gallery", "address": "Brompton Road 178", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.cranekalman.com/exhibitions/66/works/artworks-10256-laurence-stephen-lowry-a-corner-shop-1943/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by L.S. Lowry RA held to mark the publication of the 4th edition of 'L.S.Lowry: A Biography' by Shelley Rohde. The gallery shows works spanning the artist's career, from early portraits and scenes to landscapes and industrial views. It also recalls the gallery's long friendship with Lowry, beginning when he bought a picture at its second exhibition in 1949.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ls-lowry-ra-1887-1976-an-exhibition-and-book-launch-35462/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37eed4bbf4d5996078e07fa6b3287bd447e50e8062432dbe12d4e2df0386a0e1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Guided Tours with Vadim Kosmos – Emeritus Director of the Museum", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History", "address": "Mare Street 11, E8 4RP London", "price": "£12 including a glass of Devil's Botany Chocolate Absinthe Liqueur", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/absinthe-parlour/reservations/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/magic-occult", "art"], "description": "A guided tour of the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History, held in person in the museum's tiny, claustrophobic basement. It is led by Vadim Kosmos, Emeritus Director of the Museum, and includes a glass of Devil's Botany Chocolate Absinthe Liqueur. Visitors see dodo bones, erotica from around the world, real fairies, mermaids, occult masterpieces by Austin Osman Spare, works by Leonora Carrington, voodoo fetishes, masks, taxidermy and the Cabinet of Monsters, among much more. 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Ticket includes a glass of Devil's Botany Chocolate Absinthe Liqueur. Visitors see mermaids, fairies, dodo bones, shrunken heads, extinct bird feathers and old master etchings, and hear how he collected them. Wynd rambles from object to object explaining his obscure objects of desire, and guarantees no two tours are the same.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/viktor-wynds-guided-tour-of-his-museum-devils-botany-chocola-79103/", "official_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/viktor-wynds-guided-tour-of-his-museum-with-devils-botany-absinthe-22/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f942760e3f58f7e1d65be2522b3bb62bf8b403fbda5ea038085948a93549d149-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Andrew Davies in conversation with Hadley Freeman", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Daunt Books Notting Hill", "address": "", "price": "£6.00", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://dauntbooks.co.uk/category/gifts/book-bundles/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir"], "description": "An intimate evening conversation at a bookshop with the screenwriter and novelist Andrew Davies about his new memoir, An Unsuitable Boy: A Life in Scripts. 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The event takes place in the Library of the Society of Friends at the Quaker Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/an-editions-centrehouse-press-41930/", "official_url": "https://bookshop.quaker.org.uk/november-12-an-aditions-centrehouse-press", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b22ff2eead418cc0af81b57b3f2a5e81ff274df498f1939dcdb2d4d06d087907-600.webp"}, {"title": "PINTS OF KNOWLEDGE: A GEORGIAN GUIDE TO GETTING LAID", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "£19 per person + fees", "price_from": "19.00", "price_to": "19.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pintsofknowledge.co.uk/london-tickets", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/georgian", "society/sexuality"], "description": "PINTS OF KNOWLEDGE: A GEORGIAN GUIDE TO GETTING LAID is a talk at Big Penny Social in London. It is given by Sofia Gallucci, a theatre director, dramaturg and PhD researcher whose work includes productions with the RSC, Shakespeare's Globe and in the West End. The talk, \"A Georgian Guide to Getting Laid: Sex, Scandal and Harris's List\", explores Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, an annual 18th-century bestseller that catalogued women working in London's sex trade. Gallucci leads a walk through the streets of Georgian London, from brothels and taverns to theatres and courtrooms, centered on the women whose private lives became public entertainment; 10% of ticket sales go towards her new production 'HUSSY'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pints-of-knowledge-a-georgian-guide-to-getting-laid-50418/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/31623b114dfb41007ba2ac800cae29a9bc9433f97f6fa500519db242aa1ac992-1200.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": "20th Century", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Fine Art Society", "address": "New Bond Street 148, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"20th Century\" is an exhibition of paintings, watercolours, pastels and drawings from around the turn of the 20th century and after. It is presented by The Fine Art Society, an art gallery, at its New Bond Street space. The show brings together works by artists such as Patrick William Adam RSA, Barbara Balmer, John Rankine Barclay, John Busby, Jeffery Camp, Edmund Dulac, Keith Grant, William Hackstoun, John Halliday and James Watterston Herald. Several of the works on view, like a lily pond pastel and a large oil called \"Veil of Tamarisk\", are shown for sale, with some already marked as sold.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/20th-century-39192/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b30fb18564074ea83e46e45b91cbb9e0cadd4152e5d35ad70e3d9fe526758e2c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "E M Forster’s Legacy of Connection", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, 2nd Floor, Holborn Library, 32 to 38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA", "address": "", "price": "Admission Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait", "literature"], "description": "An exhibition of unseen memorabilia, letters, photographs and memories of the novelist E M Forster, alongside paintings by Jim Buckingham. Buckingham, Bob Buckingham's nephew, was inspired by Forster to pursue painting privately, and in his 80s holds never-recorded recollections of his 'Uncle Morgan' plus never-before-seen Forster items and his own life's work of paintings, including portraits of Forster. It celebrates Forster's maxim 'only connect' and his lifelong belief in gay rights and criticism of restrictions based on race and class. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/e-m-forsters-legacy-of-connection-69621/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cbec2411ee6bc11b2de1fd2d1308c32f5c8747258b8398cda69c585f64a4a047-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dark Fairy Tales From Around The World, with Viktor Wynd – LIVE", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History", "address": "Mare Street 11, E8 4RP London", "price": "Early Bird £15, full price £20", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/absinthe-parlour/reservations/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "An in-person storytelling evening at the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, with tickets including a complimentary glass of Devil's Botany Absinthe. Master storyteller Viktor Wynd, proprietor of the museum, tells his favourite dark fairy tales from around the world — grim German tales, macabre stories from Borneo, giant octopuses and a buried moon from Papua New Guinea, or shapeshifting creatures from Wales. Be warned these are not the Ladybird or Disney versions and may not suit tender ears; only 30 tickets are available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dark-fairy-tales-from-around-the-world-with-viktor-wynd-live-79102/", "official_url": "https://thelasttuesdaysociety.org/exhibition/dark-fairy-tales-from-around-the-world-with-viktor-wynd-live-10/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8c804595c0a24ab94d1774578355d02bb4b6ba997db28f7f0a69ce1a76e1d05a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hogarth and the 18th Century Sex Trade", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hogarth's House", "address": "Hogarth Lane, W4 2QN London", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/hogarths-house/hogarth-and-the-18th-century-sex-trade/e-xmzraj", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/18th-century", "society/sex-work"], "description": "An immersive evening at Hogarth's House exploring the world behind William Hogarth's depictions of London's 18th-century sex trade. A storytelling tour through the galleries led by an 18th-century 'Covent Garden Lady' introduces the real people behind his famous images, followed by a talk by speaker Maria on the facts, figures and case studies of the trade, with a bar serving Mother's Ruin. Contains themes some may find triggering and is suitable for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hogarth-and-the-18th-century-sex-trade-36535/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d329cb605afe081ee6704b9e9a7c19765d4b71e217a669cdfc3651e24fc24d45-1200.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": "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": "The Glorious 19th Century", "start": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Chris Beetles Gallery", "address": "8 & 10 Ryder Street, St James's, London SW1Y 6QB", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.chrisbeetles.com/books", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/19th-century"], "description": "An art exhibition titled The Glorious 19th Century, showing works from the nineteenth century, including watercolours and paintings by artists such as J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Helen Allingham, Edward Lear and Thomas Rowlandson. It is held at Chris Beetles Gallery, an art gallery on Ryder Street in St James's, London, which presents the works with their artists and prices, some pieces already sold. The exhibition runs from 20 October to 7 November 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-glorious-19th-century-76452/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1583e292feba72fb461e11b45113a4aa6d898434399396e1bd0d1a48830a912-600.webp"}, {"title": "Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "National Portrait Gallery", "address": "WC2H 0HE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery exploring queer identity, community, and love through the lens of one of Britain's foremost photographers. It presents new portraits by Tim Walker, who spent five years photographing dozens of activists, performers, artists, and writers in his whimsical, fairytale-inspired style. Curated by Susanna Brown, the show combines exuberant portraits and fantastical landscapes in a celebration where everyone has the freedom to be themselves, accompanied by a new book with contributions by Travis Alabanza, Russell T Davies, Shon Faye, Lisa Power and Joelle Taylor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tim-walkers-fairyland-love-and-legends-78924/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}