The Long Now: Saatchi Gallery at 40
Until Apr 26
Saatchi's 40th anniversary group show, culminating with Richard Wilson's 20:50
🇬🇧London
33 museums · 20 exhibitions on now · 8 coming soon
London is one of the world's great art capitals. Few cities cover as much ground: old master paintings at the National Gallery, decorative arts and design at the V&A, world antiquities at the British Museum, and contemporary work at Tate Modern, all within a few miles of each other. As with most major public museums in London, permanent collections are free to enter.
ON NOW
Ending SoonRose Wylie: The Picture Comes First
Until Apr 19
Largest ever UK survey of bold, irreverent paintings by Rose Wylie RA
Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting
Until May 4
The UK's most comprehensive Freud works-on-paper show: 170+ drawings from the NPG
Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life
Until May 3
Shiota's signature red-thread installations fill the Hayward Gallery's top floor
Ending SoonTurner & Constable: Rivals and Originals
Until Apr 12
170+ works in the landmark Turner 250th anniversary show at Tate Britain
Ending SoonTheatre Picasso
Until Apr 12
Wu Tsang stages 45+ Picasso works marking The Three Dancers centenary
Sean Scully – The Nature of Art
Until May 9
Scully's six-decade landscape-to-abstraction journey in photos, paintings and drawings
Ending SoonRodney Graham: Who does not love a tree?
Until Apr 11
Inverted Oxfordshire oak photographs and immersive woodland video
Ending SoonSour Loop: Laurel Halo & Hanne Lippard
Until Apr 12
Sound installation on how muzak, ads and anti-loitering audio shape spaces.
Ending SoonTakesada Matsutani: Shifting Boundaries
Until Apr 18
Matsutani's first London show in a decade: 60 years of vinyl glue and graphite
Ending SoonTetsumi Kudo: Microcosms
Until Apr 18
Kudo's first London show in a decade: cages, gardens and New Ecology assemblages
Ending SoonJulia Phillips: Inside, Before They Speak
Until Apr 19
Phillips's first UK institutional solo: ceramic and metal sculptures on the body
Nigel Hall: My Choice
Until Apr 25
Hall's 13th solo at Annely Juda: five decades of geometric sculpture and drawing
New Members of the Craft Potters Association (2)
Until Apr 25
Ten newly elected CPA members showcase the breadth of contemporary British ceramics
Museum of Edible Earth
Until Apr 26
Sample edible clays and minerals from 44 countries at daily tasting sessions.
Spectral Interference
Until May 6
Anna Liber Lewis breaks from grid-based work into embodied, risky abstraction
Caroline Wong: Girls Who Devour
Until May 6
British-Malaysian-Chinese artist explores femininity, appetite and female desire
The Wink & Nudge: Andrew Moncrief and Sebastian Neeb
Until May 6
Moncrief and Neeb deconstruct meaning and materiality through irony
Sarah Morris: Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers
Until May 9
Morris celebrates 30 years with White Cube with new paintings, drawings and film
Leiko Ikemura – El Jardín Nocturno
Until May 9
Ikemura's nocturnal garden of bronzes, paintings and haikus at Lisson Street
COLLECTIONS
ENDING SOON
Ending SoonRodney Graham: Who does not love a tree?
Until Apr 11
Inverted Oxfordshire oak photographs and immersive woodland video
Ending SoonSour Loop: Laurel Halo & Hanne Lippard
Until Apr 12
Sound installation on how muzak, ads and anti-loitering audio shape spaces.
Ending SoonTheatre Picasso
Until Apr 12
Wu Tsang stages 45+ Picasso works marking The Three Dancers centenary
Ending SoonTurner & Constable: Rivals and Originals
Until Apr 12
170+ works in the landmark Turner 250th anniversary show at Tate Britain
Ending SoonTakesada Matsutani: Shifting Boundaries
Until Apr 18
Matsutani's first London show in a decade: 60 years of vinyl glue and graphite
Ending SoonTetsumi Kudo: Microcosms
Until Apr 18
Kudo's first London show in a decade: cages, gardens and New Ecology assemblages
Ending SoonRose Wylie: The Picture Comes First
Until Apr 19
Largest ever UK survey of bold, irreverent paintings by Rose Wylie RA
Ending SoonJulia Phillips: Inside, Before They Speak
Until Apr 19
Phillips's first UK institutional solo: ceramic and metal sculptures on the body
COMING SOON
Coming SoonSony World Photography Awards Exhibition 2026
Starting Apr 17
Over 300 award-winning photos plus immersive showcases by Meyerowitz and Nelson.
Coming SoonJack Doherty: Soda, Porcelain, Vessel
Starting Apr 30
A master ceramicist distils decades of practice into one clay, one mineral, one firing
Coming SoonKatharina Grosse
Starting Apr 22
Grosse's first major UK show: large-scale immersive spray paintings and sculpture
Coming SoonLara Scobie: Incised
Starting May 28
Precise slip-cast porcelain vessels where off-centre form and incised surface are inseparable
Coming SoonGenuine Fake Premium Economy: Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory
Starting May 1
Three US artists dissect class, capitalism and wealth inequity post-2008
Coming SoonSue Mundy: The Tactile Form
Starting Jun 25
Hand-built white stoneware exploring fragility and strength drawn from the natural world
Coming SoonRoni Horn
Starting May 21
First London show in a decade — new drawings and a rare cast-glass sculpture
Coming SoonFrancis Picabia
Starting May 21
Five decades of Picabia — from Dada and Transparencies to late abstractions
FEATURED ARTISTS
Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting
Until May 4
Lucian Freud
The UK's most comprehensive Freud works-on-paper show: 170+ drawings from the NPG
Ending SoonTurner & Constable: Rivals and Originals
Until Apr 12
J.M.W. TurnerJohn Constable
170+ works in the landmark Turner 250th anniversary show at Tate Britain
Ending SoonTheatre Picasso
Until Apr 12
Pablo Picasso
Wu Tsang stages 45+ Picasso works marking The Three Dancers centenary
Sean Scully – The Nature of Art
Until May 9
Sean Scully
Scully's six-decade landscape-to-abstraction journey in photos, paintings and drawings
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
Royal Academy
Mayfair, London
Tate Modern
Bankside, London
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place, London
Saatchi Gallery
Chelsea, London
Barbican Art Gallery
Silk Street, London
Contemporary Ceramics
Bloomsbury, London
Design Museum
Kensington, London
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Village
Hauser & Wirth London
Mayfair, London