{"title": "Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: The Lives of Artists", "start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "£15 / £13 for Members, £13 Concessions / £5 Universal Credit and Pension Credit recipients, £5 for T", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/modern-art", "history"], "description": "This is a talk at Tate Britain called 'The Lives of Artists', part of the event series 'Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant'. Thomas Kennedy, curator of Modern British Art at Tate Britain, is joined by Dr Darren Clarke of Charleston, and art historians Dr Sophie Pickford and Dr Jon King. They reflect on the five-decade creative partnership between Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, members of the Bloomsbury Group and among the most influential British artists of the 20th century, considering their radical approach to domesticity in their modernist home and the significance of their collaboration and individual practices, which reshaped art, literature and societal thought in Britain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vanessa-bell-duncan-grant-the-lives-of-artists-87920/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/vanessa-bell-and-duncan-grant/the-lives-of-artists-vanessa-bell--duncan-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d27d9e7d8babd29290c7381ec5d1a4f5b9aaadcabf627d405a872501c910bc2a-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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", "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": "The Bloomsbury Group, 1910-1920 \"Character Changed\" | An exhibition of works by the Bloomsbury painters Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry", "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", "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-an-exhibiti-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": "Uncovering the Queer Roots of British Arts and Crafts", "start": "2026-11-12T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "Pay what you can by donation (suggested £10)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "An 'In Conversation' talk at the William Morris Gallery, part of the Earthly Paradise programme of talks. Neal Shasore, an architectural historian and founder of the School of Building, joins Michael Hall, author of A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the The National Trust. They explore the importance of queer community in history and how homes served as a private haven against public norms, discussing how mainstream culture has co-opted these expressions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts-40319/", "official_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/uncovering-the-queer-roots-of-british-arts-and-crafts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68d1bbda69f063beaa1dd67e1210f4a1f5b10ef0fcf0d8515f640958b06fbb1c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' is an exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery celebrating tapestry as a vibrant and evolving art form of the 21st century. Created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios, it brings together more than 20 artists, with works made through collaborations between Dovecot's master weavers and leading artists including David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare, Tania Kovats, Alberta Whittle, Rachel Maclean, Hurvin Anderson and Farshid Moussavi, alongside major new commissions. Presented to coincide with the Bayeux Tapestry's landmark return to the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years, it invites visitors to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-exhibition-37555/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bd1f5acd97f097608e6c31cae9c62a91b0a88ccbe3f16bc28298c43ee73a56a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "FREE admission. Suggested donation of £5.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "history/social-history"], "description": "Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK is a major touring exhibition about the people and places that have shaped art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years. Presented by William Morris Gallery, it was developed in partnership with Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, Blackwell – The Arts & Crafts house in Bowness-on-Windermere, and Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, who work together as Four Lanterns as part of Art Fund's Going Places programme. Through objects, painting, drawing, photography, sound and archival material, it highlights individuals and communities who defied conventions and the homes they created to realise new visions of society, including William Morris's Red House, Charleston, Benton End, Prospect Cottage and Dial House. Curated by Hadrian Garrard, Linsey Young and Tayyabah Tahir, it also considers the role that money and class have played in access to these spaces and in imagining new ways of living.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/earthly-paradise-radical-living-in-the-uk-42812/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4606a47388641a9b47a51a7aac5b10ca924738564d500267f04b92c99fd67335-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fresh takes: Art in 10 minutes", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A short 10-minute lunchtime talk at the National Gallery, part of the monthly Fresh takes series. The speaker is Tia Grant, an alumnus of the Gallery's Articulation initiative, which helps young people aged 16–19 build research and presentation skills and invites them to give 10-minute talks on works of art. She revisits her talk on Pietro Longhi's painting A Fortune Teller at Venice, offering fresh perspectives on the Venetian scene and the stories and mysteries at its heart. The free session is open to everyone in Room 33.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-78901/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-06-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15a4b3b848068842b10d27a72b1c00c686328c296192a483295f5a0837b53e58-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art of conversation: 10-minute Talk", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A ten-minute gallery talk at the National Gallery called 'Art of conversation', part of a series of talks and conversations. Speaker Erin-Jane Golding, a multidisciplinary creative, artist and cultural programmer who develops events at the National Gallery, leads it, inspired by the exhibition 'Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation'. The talk asks how we should converse with art, challenging the worry that visitors need art-historical knowledge or the 'right' interpretation to engage with a painting. Drawing on her own reflections, Erin invites everyone to explore looking, questioning and interpretation, celebrating that there is no single way to make meaning from art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-of-conversation-10-minute-talk-78909/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/art-of-conversation-10-minute-talk-autumn-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bac510622656a1288bab8efe51b6b567a1ebb981f12ed44d3ff19f17ed58923-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Voices in the Room", "start": "2026-06-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Foundling Museum", "address": "Brunswick Square 40, WC1N 1AZ London", "price": "Adult £14.50 (£13.50 online), Student (22+) £13 (£12 online), Reduced price £13 (£12 online), 21 & u", "price_from": "14.50", "price_to": "14.50", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Voices in the Room is a display of three contemporary artworks recently acquired by the Foundling Museum. The works are by Rachel Kneebone, Tamsin van Essen and Grayson Perry, and are shown for the first time as part of the permanent Collection. They offer fresh perspectives on the Foundling story, exploring care for children, memory, identity and belonging. Among them is Rachel Kneebone's ceramic sculpture Through a Glass III, 2023 and Tamsin van Essen's Entangled Roots, 2023.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/voices-in-the-room-36164/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e5828ed1dd8369ed5e60eeb98b48f39445d5b19874f03a955099fc4cc24132ae-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Modern British and Irish Art: With a Special Focus on the World of Gary Bunt", "start": "2026-11-16T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-25T11:30:00Z", "place": "Bonhams’ Knightsbridge", "address": "Montpelier Street, SW7 1HH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modern-art"], "description": "An online-only auction of Modern British and Irish Art, titled 'Modern British and Irish Art' with a special focus on the world of Gary Bunt. It is run by Bonhams, based at Knightsbridge in London. Among the three lots offered are a still life by Patrick Heron, 'A Farmer's Life' by Gary Bunt together with hand-painted ceramics, and 'Red Breasted Geese in Flight' by Sir Peter Scott, with estimates ranging from £3,000 to £25,000.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/modern-british-and-irish-art-with-a-special-focus-on-the-wor-41049/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5f16f6d5212b352a1238b5912468f176748cff6b91611cd6a4c718d19175d0e9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tom Phillips featured in Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Flowers Gallery", "address": "Kingsland Road 84, E2 8DP London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "Tom Phillips is featured in 'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now', an external exhibition at Guildhall, London, running from 23 October 2026 to 21 March 2027. Created in collaboration with Guildhall Art Gallery, it celebrates the Bayeux Tapestry's arrival in the UK and brings together more than 20 artists redefining tapestry today. The show includes 'After Benches', 1973, by Tom Phillips CBE RA (1937-2022), alongside collaborations with Dovecot's master weavers and artists such as David Hockney and Yinka Shonibare, plus new commissions with Hurvin Anderson and Farshid Moussavi. It invites visitors to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance in the 21st century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tom-phillips-featured-in-beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-69808/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1582e801cb01893193fe78daadd58d6617c169cb5d58a01400473425b167a141-1200.webp"}, {"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, "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"}, {"title": "CACHE a group show", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-25T00:00:00Z", "place": "Elements Gallery London", "address": "Lower Clapton Road 26, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "CACHE is a group exhibition presenting ten contemporary painters. The artists each have a distinct working method but share an interest in memory, both as part of their process and as a subject. The private view runs 6-9pm, and the exhibition continues until 25 November, Friday to Sunday from 12 to 6pm. The participating artists are Sharon Beavan, Alison Boult, Helen Burgess, Richard Burton, Gethin Evans, Maud Hewlings, Atsuhide Ito, Leon Pozniakow, Ben Risk and Jenny Smith.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cache-a-group-show-43239/", "official_url": "https://angus-hughes.org/CACHE-A-group-show", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c739bd7aae5865b86c912da986159353a6d0a5a08d916b504ef05d319b8e16b1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "On Painting: Fiona Rae Interviewed by Glenn Brown In Conversation", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Brown Collection", "address": "Bentinck Mews 1, W1U 2AF London", "price": "£12 (standard), £10 (concession)", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An in-person interview event titled 'On Painting: Fiona Rae Interviewed by Glenn Brown : In Conversation', taking place in Gallery 3 at The Brown Collection, with doors opening before the talk begins. The British painter Fiona Rae, known for energetic abstraction drawing on pop culture, film, television and digital technology, is interviewed by artist Glenn Brown, founder of The Brown Collection. Both are painters associated with the Young British Artists who emerged in London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, each answering the era's questioning of painting in a different way. The conversation explores how their early positions shaped their practices, the place of painting in a changing visual culture, and their approaches to colour, composition and the materiality of paint.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/on-painting-fiona-rae-interviewed-by-glenn-brown-in-conversa-39025/", "official_url": "https://the-brown-collection.co.uk/events/36-on-painting-fiona-rae-interviewed-by-glenn-brown-in-conversation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3d3c109a00a0de152f6ced9db50b914084b88f5fa12349798622950e880a8e39-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Show and Share: Tate's Public Records From The 90s", "start": "2026-11-06T12:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/1990s", "art"], "description": "Show and Share: Tate's Public Records From The 90s is a talk and viewing session held in Tate Britain's reading rooms, exploring key moments from Tate's exhibition and displays programme of the 1990s. It is run by Tate's Public Records team, who open with a short talk introducing the items on display. Visitors can then view documents, posters, publicity and other public records, covering the decade's New Displays and Art Now launches, the Turner Prize controversy, the opening of Tate St Ives, and Tate Liverpool's community engagement with Anthony Gormley's Field for the British Isles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/show-and-share-tates-public-records-from-the-90s-87906/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/tates-public-records-from-the-90s", "image": ""}, {"title": "Free Community Group Tours: Earthly Paradise", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-03-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "William Morris Gallery", "address": "Forest Road, E17 4PP London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/activism", "art"], "description": "Free guided tours for community groups of the exhibition Earthly Paradise: Radical Living in the UK. The William Morris Gallery offers these tours to local community groups, faith groups and charities, for groups of 10 to 20 people. The exhibition explores the people and places that have shaped art and activism across Britain over the last 200 years, highlighting individuals and communities who challenged social conventions and created new ways of living, working and imagining society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/free-community-group-tours-earthly-paradise-40318/", "official_url": "https://www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/free-community-group-tours-earthly-paradise/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/961365502e1e4d8bc486274302d0ab68a8adf9f15d0c676286343240de4c0d62-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The 90s: Art and Fashion", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "FREE FOR MEMBERS", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/1990s"], "description": "The 90s: Art and Fashion is an exhibition at Tate Britain exploring a decade of bold creativity and rebellious spirit that changed the face of British culture. It is curated by Edward Enninful OBE, whose lived experience of the decade informs the show, examining a period when a new generation of diverse creative talent fused art, design, fashion and photography into one potent cultural force. The exhibition brings together photography, fashion, art and design, including iconic images by photographers Juergen Teller, David Sims and Corinne Day, alongside artists like Steve McQueen, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Yinka Shonibare, plus collections by designers Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and John Galliano. It explores how long-held hierarchies were dismantled, with high art and pop culture feeding into one another, and reflects both the energy and the challenges of the decade.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-90s-art-and-fashion-38882/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1961b4f94e5c7bf23598894640e2cab0537b38f2e5560c04778888804779115c-2000.webp"}]}