{"title": "Sketches That Shaped History", "start": "2026-11-14T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T18:00:00Z", "place": "Saatchi Gallery", "address": "King's Road, SW3 4RY London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/illustration", "society/law"], "description": "Sketches That Shaped History is a free exhibition of courtroom drawings shown at the Saatchi Gallery. Presented by Harvey, it brings together a collection of courtroom art capturing pivotal moments in legal history by the artists who drew them. Where cameras are prohibited, these artists work under pressure to translate gestures, expressions and tension into drawings the public would otherwise never see. Works on display include sketches from the trials of Martha Stewart, John DeLorean and O. J. Simpson, plus General Motors' Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the Apple v. 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The group meets outside the main entrance on Cromwell Road before heading in together to draw the sculptures, which stay still and make effective life drawing models. Attendees of all levels are welcome, should bring their own sketchbooks and pens or pencils, and can stay for the whole two hours or just a short while.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sketchbook-va-sculpture-room-86055/", "official_url": "https://www.meetup.com/sketchbook-london/events/316510870/", "image": ""}, {"title": "What Remains of Her", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-12T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pontone Gallery", "address": "Newman Street 74а, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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/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": "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", "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": "Stolen! Theft in the archives", "start": "2026-10-12T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-18T19:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/archives", "society/crime"], "description": "\"Stolen! Theft in the archives\" is an exhibition at the LSE Library Gallery, open to all. It is hosted by LSE Library and curated by an international team, including Hannah Boroudjou, Daniel Brambilla-Payne, Chelsea Collison, and Silvia Gallotti. The exhibition explores theft in different forms: wealth taken by others, ideas obscured by the published record, and robbed legacies, showing how theft shapes what we remember and what we forget. It features stories on Harriet Taylor Mill, documents from the investigation into the murder of socialist MP Giacomo Matteotti, student research on Marxism, Hansa Mehta's possible connection to LSE, the Fabian Society, AI, and more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stolen-theft-in-the-archives-37075/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed61683bee0719d155b5dab914a666bd4712cc8f6b612d04395b93da2e902193-600.webp"}, {"title": "Best of The Drawing Year 2026 at Christie's", "start": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Drawing School", "address": "Charlotte Road 19-22, EC2A 3SG London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A selling exhibition at Christie's London presenting a selection of drawings, prints and works on paper by graduating students of The Drawing Year 2026. It is organised by the Royal Drawing School, whose Drawing Year is the UK's only full-scholarship postgraduate-level course dedicated to drawing from observation. The works on show are highlights from the larger Drawing Year 2026 End of Year Exhibition, which opens at the Royal Drawing School in Shoreditch in December. Entry is free and the works are available to buy, offering a chance to see the artists at an early stage of their careers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/best-of-the-drawing-year-2026-at-christies-92686/", "official_url": "https://royaldrawingschool.org/events/best-of-the-drawing-year-2026-at-christies-london", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33f96a34564becb5c581a5ace5086aae600a3f12389203a3179f14d14865e568-1200.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, "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": "BEYOND THE STREETS", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-05T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Saatchi Gallery", "address": "King's Road, SW3 4RY London", "price": "£0.00 – £70.50", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art"], "description": "BEYOND THE STREETS is an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. The gallery offers lower off-peak prices for it from Monday to Thursday each week. Saatchi Gallery Members, children under 6, and companions of ticketholders with accessibility needs are admitted free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-the-streets-38337/", "official_url": "https://www.saatchigallery.com/product/beyond-the-streets-off-peak", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87f9a310eef705487d18050fcef6aa00a60c615c164b47d6cb634c8cff0d542a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Soane Museum Study Group: Harry Adams", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Sir John Soane's Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 13, WC2A 3BP London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "A talk in the Soane Museum Study Group, an open forum where scholars present new research in architectural history or on the museum's collection. Dr Harry Adams, a curatorial and cataloguing trainee at Sir John Soane's Museum, reappraises John Soane's designs for the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Portugal Street, a building of 1821-25 that Dickens made famous as a 'badly lighted and worse ventilated' symbol of harsh insolvency laws. New cataloguing of the court's drawings reveals the compromises in its design and execution, and the talk asks whether it was really as bleak as its reputation. Afterwards, relevant drawings can be viewed in the Soane Museum Research Library.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/soane-museum-study-group-harry-adams-38609/", "official_url": "https://www.soane.org/whats-on/soane-museum-study-group-harry-adams", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b6ba4d5c9211dbddfdc5525b7dddb98bec00e1cd54bcfcd62699e0b5a678f6a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Disorder Of The Day", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Jealous Gallery", "address": "Curtain Road 53, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "'Disorder Of The Day' is a solo exhibition by the artist Charming Baker. Gallery Director Dario Illari and Baker have curated a selection of never-before-seen originals alongside a handful of prints from sought-after editions. The show highlights Baker's signature raw style and champions his skills as a draughtsman and painter, inviting visitors to take an in-depth look at his honed techniques through a selective display of larger works. The artist's page presents the show with a banner image and an image of the work '\"Let There Be Buddy\": and There Was Buddy. (Buddy, Dinosaur Train)'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/disorder-of-the-day-36751/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6fead983538bcfc3a43f9b9d5c8fbeb1a1c6df33c11cbe9451537dfecfe9fa6f-2000.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, "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": "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, "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": "Autumn Exhibition 2026", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-26T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Sketch Club", "address": "Dilke Street 7, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An exhibition titled \"Autumn Exhibition 2026\" at the London Sketch Club, showing artwork by Bibi Delafield. The exhibition is visible when attending a sketching session or a club event. Its private view is open to all. The studio is on the first floor and has only stepped access.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-exhibition-2026-49198/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/421243974b2111b23419494cd3eca1abfff4e559e5c760647ad9f8e196b3362e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Monday Sketching Sessions at West Ealing Library 🎨", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T21:00:00Z", "place": "West Ealing Community Library", "address": "Melbourne Avenue, W13 9BA London", "price": "£3 per person (card payments only)", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "3.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Monday Sketching Sessions at West Ealing Library 🎨 is a weekly, adult-only sketching session held at West Ealing Library on Melbourne Avenue. It is run by the library and offers a friendly, untutored and relaxed space where participants take turns drawing each other. Beginners and experienced artists are alike welcome, and attendees bring their own materials, with no oil painting materials allowed. No food or alcohol is permitted, and card payments only are accepted.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/monday-sketching-sessions-at-west-ealing-library-40266/", "official_url": "https://wecl.org.uk/activities-and-events/monday-sketching-sessions-at-west-ealing-library-%f0%9f%8e%a8/2026-10-26/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bcc2998d427d98368e8e4d91d20ba2514e3f8a005e7a5912ef1057de280d8f0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Michael Landy: Future Ruins", "start": "2026-10-14T11:24:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-17T11:24:00Z", "place": "Sir John Soane's Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 13, WC2A 3BP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "An exhibition of Michael Landy's drawings showing famous buildings in ruins, held at Sir John Soane's Museum. The artist, born in 1963, is known as one of the most talented draughtsmen of his generation and is better known for large installations and participatory works. His series was inspired by Joseph Michael Gandy's watercolour 'Architectural Ruins: A Vision', commissioned by Sir John Soane, and includes new work imagining the Museum itself in ruins alongside depictions of Mar-a-Lago, the New York Stock Exchange, Chatsworth House and places from Landy's childhood. Through the drawings he continues his decades-long exploration of capitalism, consumerism and destruction, showing architecture's shift from richness to decay and nostalgia.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/michael-landy-future-ruins-38602/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9521f9fa7188ea8a4235deb015866825f5544c69b5161651f0c9b2cb070682f-1200.webp"}]}