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21 events from Friday, October 23 to Sunday, October 25, 2026. Busiest venues: V&A South Kensington, Tate Modern, IWM London.

Friday, October 23, 2026

Visual arts
until Mar 7

Gathering Ground

Tate Modern · Bankside
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Oct 30

dRMM: Building from Forests

V&A South Kensington · South Kensington
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Nov 1

Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art

IWM London · Lambeth
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Apr 30

Urushi Now: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer

V&A South Kensington · South Kensington
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 17

Tate Britain Commission 2026: Zineb Sedira: When Words Fall Silent, Cinema Speaks

Tate Britain · Millbank
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Oct 30

Lost Music Venues

V&A South Kensington · South Kensington
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Nov 8

Art Now: Mohammed Z Rahman

Tate Britain · Millbank
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Nov 29

Declaring independence (USA 250)

The British Museum · Bloomsbury
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 24

Bharti Kher at the V&A

V&A South Kensington · South Kensington
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 28

Childhood in War

IWM London · Lambeth
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Sep 17

Sacred Treasures from Kyiv

V&A South Kensington · South Kensington
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Nov 8

Day

Royal Academy of Arts · Piccadilly
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
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Visual arts
until Jan 11

Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published PhotoBook Award Shortlist

V&A South Kensington · South Kensington
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Jan 3

The Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon

V&A South Kensington · South Kensington
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 5

Nicole Eisenman

Royal Academy of Arts · Piccadilly
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Mar 21

Multiplied wonders: Italian Renaissance woodcuts

The British Museum · Bloomsbury
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 28

Artist Focus: Issy Wood

National Portrait Gallery · Trafalgar Square
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Apr 11

Hyundai Commission: Tarek Atoui

Tate Modern · Bankside
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Feb 7

Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation

The National Gallery · Trafalgar Square
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until May 30

Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnar and Generative Art

V&A South Kensington · South Kensington
- Visual arts
Free Tickets
Visual arts
until Apr 25

Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation

Science Museum · South Kensington
- Visual arts
Free Tickets

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