39 h. ago Yoshitomo Nara at Hayward Gallery: punk rock art for your inner child

The Japanese artist opens the door to his world where impish children dwell and (loud) music is in the air

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43 h. ago Cast revealed for 35mm: A Musical Exhibition revival in London

Cast revealed for 35mm: A Musical Exhibition revival in London  WhatsOnStage

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62 h. ago 'Anything goes': Yoshitomo Nara on his creative process as London exhibition opens

'Anything goes': Yoshitomo Nara on his creative process as London exhibition opens  Reuters

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64 h. ago Yoshitomo Nara review: cutesy terrors swear, smoke, play guitar and burn down houses

Hayward Gallery, LondonThe Japanese artist’s instantly recognisable delinquent infants fill a huge show that also includes more sombre – and still angry – work made since the Fukushima disasterThere’s a video online of 100 kids playing football against three adult pros. The kids get absolutely annihilated. But they’d do a whole lot better if they were more like the menacing, knife-wielding little terrors who populate Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara’s world. Try dribbling past a toddler when he’s just jabbed a shiv in your calf, Lionel Messi.For 40 years now Nara has been dealing in cutesy kitsch with a vicious edge. His paintings and drawings of adorably bug-eyed little nippers are singularly Nara: love it or hate it, he’s carved out his own instantly recognisable aesthetic path. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Tomas Gittins Opens “Pursuit of Joy” Exhibition in London with Salomon Collab and More

Tomas Gittins Opens “Pursuit of Joy” Exhibition in London with Salomon Collab and More  stupidDOPE

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6 d. ago Frieze Names More Than 280 Exhibitors for London and Masters Fairs in October

Frieze Names More Than 280 Exhibitors for London and Masters Fairs in October  ARTnews.com

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7 d. ago Camilla reveals wish to become joint patron of ‘favourite’ Garden Museum

Camilla visited an exhibition held by the Garden Museum in south London on Wednesday to celebrate British Flowers Week.

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1 week ago Boomer Gallery’s “IDENTITY” Exhibition in London Explores the Art of Identity and Features Work by Xianghan Wang

Boomer Gallery’s “IDENTITY” Exhibition in London Explores the Art of Identity and Features Work by Xianghan Wang  CEO Today

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2 w. ago Secrets of the hair salon, from high street to high rise: Eileen Perrier/Dianne Minnicucci review

★★ ★ ☆ ☆/ ★★★☆☆ Autograph, London In a double bill that challenges white-centric beauty standards, Perrier uses a pop-up studio to make portraits of diverse communities, while Minnicucci confronts her fears by venturing in front of the cameraThe art world is obsessed with the idea of “being seen”. In a culture of lookism, being seen is understood as tantamount to existing, even to survival. But being seen is complicated. Both the current exhibitions at Autograph grapple with this through photographs by two women of the same generation working in portraiture.Eileen Perrier’s A Thousand Small Stories occupies the ground-floor gallery. Since the 1990s, Perrier’s work has centred on setting up temporary photographic studios, in homes, hair salons, on the streets of Brixton and Peckham in London, and at a metro station in Paris. Her 2009 exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London displayed large-format Polaroid portraits taken in pop-up studios at Petticoat Lane market and in the ne...

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2 w. ago The Barber in London at The Courtauld Gallery: 'a selection box with no duds'

The Barber in Edgbaston is being refurbished, which is lucky for Londoners as some of its best works are holidaying at The Courtauld

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2 w. ago Gorillaz to mark their 25th anniversary with new London exhibition

Gorillaz to mark their 25th anniversary with new London exhibition  wallpaper.com

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3 w. ago Gorillaz Celebrate 25th Anniversary With London Concerts and House of Kong Exhibition

Gorillaz Celebrate 25th Anniversary With London Concerts and House of Kong Exhibition  Pitchfork

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3 w. ago Gorillaz Announce New 'House Of Kong' Exhibition And Four Concerts In London

Gorillaz Announce New 'House Of Kong' Exhibition And Four Concerts In London  Stereogum

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3 w. ago Gorillaz to Celebrate 25th Anniversary With London Gig Series and New Exhibition

Gorillaz to Celebrate 25th Anniversary With London Gig Series and New Exhibition  Billboard

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3 w. ago Gorillaz to Celebrate 25th Anniversary With London Concert Series and New Exhibition

Gorillaz to Celebrate 25th Anniversary With London Concert Series and New Exhibition  Billboard

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3 w. ago In The Mood For Love: A cheeky joyride around David Hockney's earliest works

An exhibition at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert has unearthed rarely seen pieces from Hockney’s student days, where he documents his friends, lovers and plenty of penises

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3 w. ago John Singer Sargent exhibition in London shines a light on the lives of the ‘dollar princesses’

John Singer Sargent exhibition in London shines a light on the lives of the ‘dollar princesses’  The Art Newspaper

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3 w. ago Dogma 25 announced at Cannes, as directors launch ‘cultural uprising’

A new collective seeks to reinvigorate cinema in the mould of Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 movement, with a 10-point manifesto opposed to the internetA group of Danish and Swedish film-makers have relaunched the notorious avant garde Dogme 95 movement with a manifesto updated for the internet age, vowing to make five films between them in a year, from handwritten scripts and without using the internet or any emails in the creative process.“In a world where film is based on algorithms and artificial visual expressions are gaining traction, it’s our mission to stand up for the flawed, distinct and human imprint,” said the five film-makers in a statement read at the Cannes film festival on Saturday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago David Hockney’s rarely seen early works united in new London exhibition

Exclusive: In The Mood For Love, curated by grandson of early Hockney champion and art dealer, John Kasmin, will feature works from 1960-63When one of David Hockney’s iconic swimming pool pictures sold for $90.3m (£70.3m) in 2013, he became the world’s most highly valued contemporary artist. Now paintings, drawings and prints that he sold for a few pounds in the 1960s are being brought together for the first time in a new exhibition.John Kasmin, an art dealer who first recognised Hockney’s potential in the early 1960s when the artist was studying at the Royal College of Art (RCA), told the Guardian that Hockney’s prices then “rarely ever went above 20 quid”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The best of Photo London 2025: Lee Miller, David Bailey and more hit Somerset House

Sophie Parker, the Director of Photo London, picks out some of the highlights from this year’s fair at Somerset House

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