Bob Marley One Love Experience at Saatchi Gallery
London Begins at 40 Music Editor Robert Spellman reviews the new Bob Marley exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. The best experience to be had at the Bob Marley One Love…
Late Constable and Brown’s Hotel London
Roger Hermiston and Eileen Wise pay a visit to the UK capital to stay at Brown’s hotel, and pop into a Late Constable exhibition at the Royal Academy. Emperors, kings…
Light Lines: Architectural Photos of Hélène Binet
In October 2021, the Royal Academy of Arts will present Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet, an intimate unveiling of architecture through the lens of the renowned Swiss-French…
A Walk On the Streets London’s East End
Mark Bibby Jackson experiences street life in London’s East End discovering arguably the best samosas in London. The East End of London has always been one of my favourite parts…
Sky-high Cocktails at Hyatt Place London City East
On his visit to London’s East End, Mark Bibby Jackson stays at the Hyatt Place London City East, and discovers a wonderful new hotel with breath-taking views and excellent cocktails…
RA Summer Exhibition 2024
British artist and Royal Academician Ann Christopher, will oversee the 256th RA Summer Exhibition. Since its inception in 1769, the The Royal Academy‘s Summer Exhibition has been the largest open submission…
Art in the City: Dancing, Sailing and Making Waves
London Begins at 40 arts columnist Irene Caswell takes a look at the London art openings in September. The cooler temperatures and shortening days signify a move into autumn which…
August Art in the City: Blake, Beckett and Binet
In the absence of new exhibitions this month London Begins at 40’s art columnist Irene Caswell roundups the ‘last chance to see’ fabulous summer shows to ensure you don’t miss…
Paddington: The Story of a Bear, British Library
The world’s favourite bear returns to London from the depths of darkest Peru for an exhibition at the British Library to celebrate his 60th birthday. Paddington: The Story of a Bear, featuring…
Art in the City: Bellotto, Taeuber-Arp and Emin
In the second of her regular arts columns, Irene Caswell takes a look at the new July art exhibitions in London, as well as one coming to a close. Summer…
Angel of Anarchy: Eileen Agar, Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery’s exhibition of the work of Eileen Agar – Angel of Anarchy – highlights both the longevity and variety of one of the most important artists of the…
Cockpit Summer Festival 2021
Cockpit Arts will hold its summer festival in Holborn and Deptford over the weekends of 25 to 27 June and 2 to 4 July, 2021. The Cockpit Summer Festival will be held both online and in person…
Redoubt: Matthew Barney, Hayward Gallery
The focal point of Matthey Barney’s first solo exhibition in the UK for more than a decade, currently showing at the Hayward Gallery on Southbank London, is the feature length…
Rubens: Reuniting the Great Landscapes
This summer will see the reunification of two of Rubens’ master landscapes A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning and The Rainbow Landscape at the Wallace Collection in…
ICA Reopens with War Inna Babylon
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) will reopen its doors after lockdown with the exhibition War Inna Babylon : The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights in July 2021…
Art in the City: Rubens, Nero and Diana
Welcome to Art in the City, the first in a new monthly culture column where Irene Caswell will be offering a quick round-up of the best exhibitions and other art-related…
David Hockney: The Bearable Lightness of Being
Mark Bibby Jackson visits The Arrival of Spring by David Hockney, and is struck by how wonderfully light the exhibition is, compared with the all-enveloping darkness that has preceded it….
Copernicus Conversations with God
The National Gallery opens to the public with Copernicus, a rare sighting of richness and quality. Words by Neil Hennessy-Vass. Like the rest of us I’ve spent the last year…
Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict, RA
Mark Bibby Jackson attends the press preview of Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict at the Royal Academy of Arts, and discovers a rich and multi-layered gem. Although it might not quite…
Portraiture in Perspective at the Serpentine Galleries
Mark Bibby Jackson visits the Serpentine Galleries to view two separate exhibitions – James Barnor : Accra/London – A Retrospective, and Jennifer Packer : The Eye Is Not Satisfied with…
London Begins at 40 Launch
Today, 17 May, we officially launch London Begins at 40, a lifestyle and travel website aimed at the over 40 Londoner and visitor to London. Our editor Mark Bibby Jackson…
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
“I’ve been in love with this man since I was eighteen,” says Tracey Emin of Norwegian expressionist, Edvard Munch. In The Loneliness of the Soul at the Royal Academy of…
Igshaan Adams: Kicking Dust, Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery, Southbank will present Kicking Dust, the first solo exhibition of the South African artist Igshaan Adams from May to July 2021. In it Adams will reimagine the brutalist architecture…
James Barnor / Jennifer Packer, Serpentine Gallery
The Serpentine Galleries will reopen on 19 May with two major exhibitions by James Barnor and Jennifer Packer, followed by the unveiling of the Serpentine Pavilion 2021 later in the…
