{"title": "What Are Collections Good For? Adventures and Experiments in the 21st Century Lecture by Iwona Blazwick", "start": "2026-10-27T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Brown Collection", "address": "Bentinck Mews 1, W1U 2AF London", "price": "Standard Ticket: £12, Concession Ticket: £10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/museum"], "description": "A lecture titled \"What Are Collections Good For? Adventures and Experiments in the 21st Century\", followed by a Q&A and light refreshments. Curator and writer Iwona Blazwick, formerly Director of Whitechapel Gallery and Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Modern, looks at how collections have been shown over the past two decades. Drawing on four roles a collection display can play — theatre, mirror, travel agent, and work of art — she asks what the choices say about the institutions behind them and what happens when works are freed from chronology. 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The show includes pieces such as Kurant's Unthoughtforms, grown copper crystals, and Post-Fordite, made of fossilized automotive paint, together with Broodthaers' works from 1969 to 1974.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/marcel-broodthaers-and-agnieszka-kurant-34855/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/65d84f5749e02c0fb876cfffee545f046e945a96ca159b2d528e688ead85f747-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collection in Focus: Paintings", "start": "2026-11-07T11:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://wallacecollection.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Collection in Focus: Paintings is a guided tour that delves deeper into the Wallace Collection's paintings. It is led by speaker Rosa Somerville. 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It looks at Rachel Kneebone's white porcelain sculptures, After the Dance I and III, and how they invite comparisons with the paintings and sculptures around them. Set against dark red walls and gilded frames, the works draw attention to movement, stillness and transformation across the Collection. Places are limited and allocated first-come, first-served on the day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/metamorphoses-the-great-gallery-70689/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/metamorphoses-the-great-gallery/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a42bc3c7b721a086fe7492888ee4a42041f6e831d182822e3da65091344aece4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "post-", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00Z", "place": "Heights", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A studio exhibition titled 'post-' at Heights. Curated by AxisAxis, it presents new works by Libby Hoffenberg and Louis Caseley. Responding to AxisAxis' site in a rapidly redeveloping Elephant & Castle, it explores how sites of artistic and administrative labour are continuously transformed, repurposed and reappropriated in both public and private spaces. It inhabits the gap between the expectations of a visionary future and the realities of a present that has failed to deliver.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/post-39387/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/295dd877a837fb8698840de0d4bf2b5ee6e63d8b635486313a8ee58e928dc4af-600.webp"}, {"title": "RCP Museum Late: exploring patient voices", "start": "2026-11-05T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal College of Physicians", "address": "St Andrew's Place 11, London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/exhibition", "history/medical-history"], "description": "RCP Museum Late: exploring patient voices is an after-hours evening at the Royal College of Physicians Museum to explore the new exhibition 'Patient voices: power, truth, understanding'. Visitors can join free expert tours of the exhibition with senior curator Liz Douglas at 6pm and 7pm. The exhibition shares the lived experiences of healthcare through diaries, letters, images, oral histories, objects and artworks, bringing together patient voices past and present in partnership with a patient advocacy steering group. The museum stays open until 8pm, with free hot drinks in the Regent's Perk café and access to the Treasures Room, fine art, apothecary jars, anatomical tables, the Censors Room and the Dorchester Library.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rcp-museum-late-exploring-patient-voices-38304/", "official_url": "https://history.rcp.ac.uk/event/rcp-museum-late-exploring-patient-voices", "image": "https://noky.io/images/48812d633c39469e193b1cbd8a4ea90a971984c88dcf3748b878341f7416a948-600.webp"}, {"title": "sounding towards - -", "start": "2026-07-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art"], "description": "Mosaic Rooms presents sounding towards – –, a five-month project turning the gallery into a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality. It features an installation From–To by Gaza's Dahaleez Collective, Common Frequencies by El Warcha Collaborative Design Studio, and a rolling programme of artist takeovers by Bint Mbareh, 1000 Pounds to Survive Us, felix taylor and Aditi Jaganathan. Instruments, recording devices, books and listening stations remain available for use, misuse and re-use, and Sunday Jams run throughout the project, free, open and bookable in advance. Initiated and developed by Angelina Radaković in conversation with the artists, the project is an experiment in institutional openness, asking what kinds of collectivities can emerge through shared acts of listening and convening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sounding-towards-39449/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8b33793d4201d98c4d7b9cabed1e3652dd1766b5195edea21c65e4b0f099e98e-2000.webp"}]}