Ending SoonJoseph Beuys: Bathtub for a Heroine
Until Mar 28
First exhibition tracing the evolution of Beuys's monumental Bathtub sculpture
The United Kingdom has been building its cultural infrastructure for centuries, and the result is something genuinely rare: world-class art that's actually free to everyone. Permanent collections at the Tate, National Gallery, V&A, and British Museum cost nothing to enter — a policy that shapes the entire character of the country's art culture and sets it apart from almost every other major art nation. London is the obvious centre of gravity, housing most of the flagship institutions and the commercial market. But the UK's real strength is its regional network, which operates at a level of ambition that few countries…
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Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First
Until Apr 19
Largest ever UK survey of bold, irreverent paintings by Rose Wylie RA
Ending SoonLaura Lima: The Drawing Drawing
Until Mar 29
Brazilian artist subverts the life drawing class with mechanised platforms
Theatre Picasso
Until Apr 12
Wu Tsang stages 45+ Picasso works marking The Three Dancers centenary
Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals
Until Apr 12
170+ works in the landmark Turner 250th anniversary show at Tate Britain
William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity
Until Apr 19
First museum show outside South Africa focused on Kentridge's sculpture
Ending SoonLise Herud Braten: All is silent but the wind
Until Mar 28
Textured porcelain and stoneware forms rooted in the rugged Norwegian landscape
Ending SoonBlitz: the club that shaped the 80s
Until Mar 29
Immersive deep-dive into the legendary London club night that launched New Romanticism
Ending SoonWangShui: Night Signal
Until Mar 29
WangShui's UK debut: paintings on dreams, consciousness and technology at Bermondsey
Ending SoonKlára Hosnedlová: Echo
Until Mar 29
Hosnedlová's UK debut: photorealist embroideries, sculpture and living mycelium
Ending SoonGesture and Being
Until Mar 30
Six RCA and Slade graduates paint fluid, unruly figures of body and self
Ending SoonBetween Waking and Wanting
Until Apr 6
Four artists navigate the erotic charge and dream logic of interior life
Rodney Graham: Who does not love a tree?
Until Apr 11
Inverted Oxfordshire oak photographs and immersive woodland video
Emilija Škarnulytė
Until Apr 12
Immersive films journey through nuclear ruins and deep sea as future archaeology
Don McCullin. 90
Until Apr 12
90 works spanning McCullin's seven-decade career, shown in his home county
Sour Loop: Laurel Halo & Hanne Lippard
Until Apr 12
Sound installation on how muzak, ads and anti-loitering audio shape spaces.
Takesada Matsutani: Shifting Boundaries
Until Apr 18
Matsutani's first London show in a decade: 60 years of vinyl glue and graphite
Tetsumi Kudo: Microcosms
Until Apr 18
Kudo's first London show in a decade: cages, gardens and New Ecology assemblages
Julia 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
COLLECTIONS
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Ending SoonJoseph Beuys: Bathtub for a Heroine
Until Mar 28
First exhibition tracing the evolution of Beuys's monumental Bathtub sculpture
Ending SoonLise Herud Braten: All is silent but the wind
Until Mar 28
Textured porcelain and stoneware forms rooted in the rugged Norwegian landscape
Ending SoonWangShui: Night Signal
Until Mar 29
WangShui's UK debut: paintings on dreams, consciousness and technology at Bermondsey
Ending SoonKlára Hosnedlová: Echo
Until Mar 29
Hosnedlová's UK debut: photorealist embroideries, sculpture and living mycelium
Ending SoonBlitz: the club that shaped the 80s
Until Mar 29
Immersive deep-dive into the legendary London club night that launched New Romanticism
Ending SoonLaura Lima: The Drawing Drawing
Until Mar 29
Brazilian artist subverts the life drawing class with mechanised platforms
Ending SoonGesture and Being
Until Mar 30
Six RCA and Slade graduates paint fluid, unruly figures of body and self
Ending SoonBetween Waking and Wanting
Until Apr 6
Four artists navigate the erotic charge and dream logic of interior life
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Coming SoonNew Members of the Craft Potters Association (2)
Starting Apr 2
Ten newly elected CPA members showcase the breadth of contemporary British ceramics
Coming SoonSony World Photography Awards Exhibition 2026
Starting Apr 17
Over 300 award-winning photos plus immersive showcases by Meyerowitz and Nelson.
Coming SoonThe Wink & Nudge: Andrew Moncrief and Sebastian Neeb
Starting Apr 3
Moncrief and Neeb deconstruct meaning and materiality through irony
Coming SoonTextile Art Redefined
Starting Apr 10
15+ artists reimagine the boundaries and possibilities of contemporary textile art
Coming SoonLiza Lou: FAQ
Starting Apr 10
Liza Lou combines glass beads and oil paint to interrogate gestural abstraction
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 SoonVeronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations
Starting Apr 1
A 40-year survey of Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan's sculpture, textiles and drawing
FEATURED ARTISTS
Ending SoonJoseph Beuys: Bathtub for a Heroine
Until Mar 28
Joseph Beuys
First exhibition tracing the evolution of Beuys's monumental Bathtub sculpture
Theatre Picasso
Until Apr 12
Pablo Picasso
Wu Tsang stages 45+ Picasso works marking The Three Dancers centenary
Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals
Until Apr 12
J.M.W. TurnerJohn Constable
170+ works in the landmark Turner 250th anniversary show at Tate Britain
William Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity
Until Apr 19
William Kentridge
First museum show outside South Africa focused on Kentridge's sculpture
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
The Whitworth
Manchester
Royal Academy
Mayfair, London
Saatchi Gallery
Chelsea, London
The Hepworth Wakefield
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Tate Modern
Bankside, London
Contemporary Ceramics
Bloomsbury, London
Design Museum
Kensington, London
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place, London
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton, Wakefield