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London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery is feeding more than passions

The gallery in leafy south London suburb will begin hosting a farmer’s market this weekend

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Grayson Perry flips the bird at art world snobbery with Masked Singer appearance

The Turner prize winning potter stunned viewers and hosts of the popular TV show after revealing himself as the voice behind the kingfisher costume

Edward Gillman appointed director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery

Gillman, who was previously the director of Auto Italia in London, will replace Zoé Whitley, who stepped down in 2024

25 years on: how Somerset House became a centre for contemporary art

The London institution had a false start as a museum, but is now thriving with its winning combination of hosting temporary exhibitions and art fairs, and renting studio spaces to creatives

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Mickalene Thomas is bringing the glam to motorsport

The artist’s wrap design for a McLaren racing car is set to turn heads on the track

Two UK exhibitions show there is no more keeping mum about art and motherhood

Shows in London and Dundee focus on work of women artists and their experience of becoming a parent

By focusing on Edvard Munch’s portraiture, a new London exhibition reveals a different side of the Norwegian Expressionist

The show at the National Portrait Gallery will explore how this master of loneliness was in fact surrounded by people—and how he could see “behind everyone’s mask”

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Frame is the name of the art game at Moco Museum star-studded soirée

Guests at UK artist Daniel Lismore's recent 40th birthday party were invited to come dressed as their favourite art movement

‘I like being able to walk between my spaces’: Sadie Coles on her gallery's new Savile Row location

The 6,000 sq ft space occupies a townhouse that was once home to a storied gentleman's club frequented by John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Comment | Leigh Bowery’s radical art is being rightly celebrated—but let’s not forget those who helped him on his way

The artist’s close network of creative mavericks were integral to the indelible mark he left on London's cultural life

Roman basilica discovered beneath London office block

The 2,000-year-old ruins were found close to Bank tube station and London Bridge

South by Southwest London aims to deliver ‘sensible optimism’ at a time of global uncertainty

The Shoreditch-based festival's chief executive looks forward to presenting the cross-disciplinary work of “good, clever people with open minds”, including the actor Idris Elba and the artist and film-maker Jenn Nkiru

All the new art to see on London's Underground in 2025

As part of the Art on the Underground 2025 programme, Ahmet Öğüt, Rudy Loewe and Rory Pilgrim will all unveil works around the city's transport hubs

Environmental row escalates as historic Marks & Spencer store in London is set for demolition

Campaigners argue rebuilding Orchard House will release harmful embedded carbon and are calling on government to promote refurbishment over destruction

Scientific wonders from Versailles, which once delighted kings, to go on show in London

The Science Museum exhibition will explore the French monarchy’s fascination with scientific observation and experimentation under Louis XIV and XV

The dangerous art of Hamad Butt makes a comeback at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Pioneering works by the British-Pakistani artist who died young are being restaged in Dublin before travelling to London

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London art world haunt Groucho Club closed as police investigate ‘serious crime’ on premises

The private members club was bought by Hauser & Wirth's founders in 2022

Leonardo Cartoon was ‘presentation drawing’ in Florence commission bid

Leonardo’s largest known drawing was hung with the Mona Lisa in his studio, says Per Rumberg, the curator of the Royal Academy’s Florentine Old Masters exhibition opening this month

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Comment | Paris vs London debate is a 'non-troversy', says Christie's Guillaume Cerutti

Auction house chief executive argues that of greater concern is the decline of Europe's art market as America and Asia charge ahead

London's National Gallery to ban liquids after attacks on paintings

The gallery will introduce new security measures, stating it has been "forced to act to protect our visitors, staff and collection"

New London gallery plans to champion artists from beyond the capital

Manchester-born William Hine, former director at Grimm Gallery, will highlight many contemporary artists who have shown at institutions before, but not had commercial exposure

Security guards at London's Science Museum and Natural History Museum to strike over pay

The workers, who will start the action at the end of this month, say they are treated as “second-class employees”

Can London establish itself as digital art capital of the world?

In the game-changing era of NFTs and AI, the city’s diversified art ecosystem has helped it play catch-up as the medium’s global hub

Turning 21 with a bang: Frieze's revamped tent brings emerging galleries to the fore

The fair’s location in Regent’s Park is both a boon and a bind: but this year designers have reconfigured Frieze London’s layout to improve the experience for visitors and galleries alike

East London’s latest gallery aims to show art that is ‘a bit less polite’

The founders of Panrucker in Walthamstow are also employing a versatile “pop-up” business model to help keep the initiative sustainable

'This is the antithesis of Brexit discourse': artist Es Devlin unveils 50 refugee portraits in a London church

'Why are we opening our hearts and doors and schools to Ukrainians, but not to Afghanis and Somalians and Syrians?', asks the designer known for her stage sets

Performance of Rasheed Araeen's ballet on water cancelled after high levels of sewage found in London river

A public performance of the participatory art installation, organised by outdoor sculpture trail The Line, was due to take place today on the Waterworks River at Olympic Park

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Rediscovered at Tate Liverpool after more than 50 years, Barry Flanagan's 'the works' will soon go on show in London

The long-lost film, which was found during renovation works, will be turned into a performance in a Georgian house during Frieze week