{"title": "Together on this Island: Émigré Art Networks in Britain", "start": "2026-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art", "history"], "description": "Together on this Island: Émigré Art Networks in Britain is a display telling the stories of émigrés, most of them Jewish, who came to Britain in the 1930s and 40s seeking refuge from the Nazis. It is presented with material from Tate Library and Archive as part of the Émigré Art Archives Project, funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. The display shows how artists, art dealers, writers and teachers who fled Nazi Europe contributed to artistic culture in Britain. Highlights include rarely seen works by Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Jankel Adler, Josef Herman, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Franciszka Themerson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/together-on-this-island-emigre-art-networks-in-britain-40982/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d9662628da0faeda8bfa42d871d13ccb32aa335ce4bebe99477fcc3cdb18dc39-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Abbey Art Centre as Postwar Refuge: 1946–56", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ben Uri", "address": "Boundary Road 108, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://benuri.org/exhibitions/the-abbey-art-centre-as-postwar-refuge/overview/#", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/exhibition", "history/postwar"], "description": "An exhibition telling the story of the Abbey Art Centre, a cosmopolitan art colony at New Barnet that offered a postwar haven to stateless Jewish refugees and artists from Australia, Britain and continental Europe. It was established in 1946–47 by artist, gallerist and collector William Ohly, who had fled Nazi Germany for England. The show traces the colony's affordable lodgings, studios and cross-cultural community, its role in many artists' careers, and Ohly's work and world art collection. It is curated by Simon Pierse, Jane Eckett, Sheridan Palmer and Sarah MacDougall, and runs at Ben Uri in St John's Wood.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-abbey-art-centre-as-postwar-refuge-194656-60060/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cd297aedb140a26873329a59a9ecf474045fccc082bdc801d485977c9dd1ec93-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Myth Migration", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "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/surrealism"], "description": "Myth Migration is an art exhibition inspired by Carmen Herrera's change in style after her move from Cuba to Paris in the late 1940s. It centres on a group of 20th-century artists who moved to spend formative time within new communities of artists and writers, from Mexico City and São Paulo to London and New York. The show groups related works made during and in the decades after World War II, each charting a new geographic or stylistic horizon, including an early, never-before-seen figurative work by Herrera. Featuring artists such as Wifredo Lam, Leonora Carrington, Alice Rahon, Mira Schendel and Chen Kong-Fang, it weaves through movements like Surrealism, Neo-Concretism and Existentialism to trace how each adopted country shaped their artistic practices.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/myth-migration-49193/", "official_url": "https://lisson.com/exhibitions/myth-migration", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc667706dce00810697881dda2b978b89ac48f0efb0c628ed3d7d666ffd3205f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "By Appointment Only: Romani art, culture & heritage", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "London Museum Docklands", "address": "Hertsmere Road, E14 4AL London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://museumtickets.londonmuseum.org.uk/ticketbooth/products/donation", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/roma-sinti"], "description": "A free display by the London Museum showcasing the work of British Romani artists who share their identity and experiences through visual activism. It centres on three key works by artists Corrina Eastwood, Delaine Le Bas and Dan Turner, with Eastwood as co-curator. Inspired by the trade and industry of London's Docklands, the artworks honour the livelihoods, creativity and craft of Romani communities. A timeline by John-Henry Phillips illustrates their history from 500 CE to 2022, challenging stereotypes and inviting better understanding and connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/by-appointment-only-romani-art-culture-heritage-70020/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/145ae4dd21979af50ece806d83519cb34737490716bbcd3f1eb43046d15c1846-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "FREE FOR MEMBERS", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=375285", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history"], "description": "A major art exhibition at Tate Britain celebrating the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, two of the most celebrated British artists of the twentieth century. Organised by Tate Britain in collaboration with Charleston, it explores the pair's creative partnership of more than 50 years and their legacy as core members of the Bloomsbury Group. Over 300 works are on show, including portraits, still lives, landscape paintings, ceramics and textiles, plus a restaging of the artists' studio relocated from their Sussex home, Charleston. The exhibition also traces the group's commitment to lives of freedom and radical experimentation, which shaped art, literature and societal thought in Britain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vanessa-bell-duncan-grant-inside-bloomsbury-38884/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/vanessa-bell-and-duncan-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0504dcb22ff839476bff9223ce57dbf2322c8a487006a725be8687562f7301a7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art", "start": "2026-03-20T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "IWM London", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.iwm.org.uk/products/wartime-london-in-paintings?_pos=1&_sid=b7a279610&_ss=r", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/wwii"], "description": "Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art is a free exhibition at IWM London on Level 3. It tells the story of London during the Second World War as seen by artists, many commissioned by the government's War Artists' Advisory Committee, set up in 1939. Over 45 paintings and drawings are shown alongside photographs, film, objects and oral histories, with works by artists such as Edward Ardizzone, Evelyn Dunbar and Henry Carr. The exhibition shows Londoners facing loss, displacement, overcrowding and shortages, and is suitable for both adults and children, with a stamper trail and activity sheet for families.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beauty-and-destruction-wartime-london-in-art-36628/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8e851068fff0ca5592f7974efa2d0e68eb8ea7ec7edd36beec9dd222c61df07-1200.webp"}, {"title": "SURFACE TENSION BRITISH PAINTING IN THE 1990s", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ben Brown Fine Arts", "address": "Brook's Mews 12, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "SURFACE TENSION: BRITISH PAINTING IN THE 1990s is an exhibition at the Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in London. It examines how a small group of British painters survived and even flourished in '90s Britain, when the art world was dominated by the conceptual hegemony of the YBA movement with figures like Hirst, Emin, Whiteread and Lucas. Working apart, these painters arrived at strikingly common ground: a shared preoccupation with surface, gesture and the physical act of painting, shaped by the cultural pressures and siege mentality of their age.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/surface-tension-british-painting-in-the-1990s-41029/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d57c224a153fe41a4bb43fcb42e95fd9fa5ccd1310c7bd1c5ee32cb35af9e832-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free, drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund. Over three years the centre worked with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, including Sidings Community Centre and The Hive, on iterative creative processes without defined outcomes. The exhibition brings together installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from those involved, with projects led by artists including Shepherd Manyika, Sam Williams, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas, Nancy Allen, Lydia Paulett and Maymana Arefin. It offers an insight into the work of artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-60157/", "official_url": "https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.webp"}]}