The Long Now: Saatchi Gallery at 40
Until Apr 26
Saatchi's 40th anniversary group show, culminating with Richard Wilson's 20:50
🇬🇧United Kingdom
43 museums · 20 exhibitions on now · 8 coming soon
Britain's art world extends well beyond London, and that's part of what makes it interesting. The regional institutions aren't outposts: Tate St Ives, the Hepworth Wakefield, the Baltic in Gateshead, and the Whitworth in Manchester run ambitious, independently minded programmes. Turner Contemporary in Margate has helped put the Kent coast on the map, a town with a long connection to J.M.W. Turner.
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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
Ending SoonWilliam Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity
Until Apr 19
First museum show outside South Africa focused on Kentridge's sculpture
Bridget Riley: Learning to See
Until May 4
Six decades of Riley's Op Art surveyed against Margate's coastal light
Ending SoonRodney Graham: Who does not love a tree?
Until Apr 11
Inverted Oxfordshire oak photographs and immersive woodland video
Ending SoonEmilija Škarnulytė
Until Apr 12
Immersive films journey through nuclear ruins and deep sea as future archaeology
Ending SoonDon McCullin. 90
Until Apr 12
90 works spanning McCullin's seven-decade career, shown in his home county
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.
Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto
Until May 4
Edmund de Waal curates the first major UK show of Danish ceramicist Axel Salto's organic stoneware
Kira Freije: Unspeak the Chorus
Until May 4
Twenty life-size aluminium and steel figures arranged in emotionally charged groupings
COLLECTIONS
ENDING SOON
Ending SoonRodney Graham: Who does not love a tree?
Until Apr 11
Inverted Oxfordshire oak photographs and immersive woodland video
Ending SoonEmilija Škarnulytė
Until Apr 12
Immersive films journey through nuclear ruins and deep sea as future archaeology
Ending SoonDon McCullin. 90
Until Apr 12
90 works spanning McCullin's seven-decade career, shown in his home county
Ending SoonTheatre Picasso
Until Apr 12
Wu Tsang stages 45+ Picasso works marking The Three Dancers centenary
Ending SoonSour Loop: Laurel Halo & Hanne Lippard
Until Apr 12
Sound installation on how muzak, ads and anti-loitering audio shape spaces.
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
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
Ending SoonWilliam Kentridge: The Pull of Gravity
Until Apr 19
William Kentridge
First museum show outside South Africa focused on Kentridge's sculpture
Bridget Riley: Learning to See
Until May 4
Bridget Riley
Six decades of Riley's Op Art surveyed against Margate's coastal light
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
The Whitworth
Manchester
Royal Academy
Mayfair, London
The Hepworth Wakefield
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Tate Modern
Bankside, London
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place, London
Saatchi Gallery
Chelsea, London
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton, Wakefield
Ashmolean Museum
Oxford
Barbican Art Gallery
Silk Street, London