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New Year’s Day Parade London – 1st
LNYDP attracts over 10,000 participants from the USA, UK, Europe and beyond to delight our street audience of over 500,000. The parade takes place at midday at Piccadilly, with the route going to Westminster.
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Whales at St Albans Cathedral – 31st December till 4th February
Three colossal sperm whale sculptures will soar above the Nave for the start of 2026. Come and see these magnificent creatures, created by artist Tessa Campbell Fraser, during our regular visiting hours or lit spectacularly at one of our many exciting events underneath the Whales.
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Photographic Walk in Cassiobury Park Nature Reserve – 10th
Take a guided walk through Cassiobury Park Nature Reserve led by Andrew Lalchan (local photographer), exploring winter in the nature reserve. This walk offers opportunities to take nature photos, and Andrew will be on hand to provide any photography tips.
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Source Fashion at Olympia – 13th to 15th
Connect global manufacturers and suppliers with buyers who want the security of knowing every conversation could lead to a new range creation. Source Fashion is the gateway to retail for manufacturers and suppliers from across the world.
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London Photo Convention at Novotel London – 14th to 17th
Join thousands of photographers, creators, and storytellers in London for Europe’s largest photography convention, accompanied by a tradeshow from the 15th to 17th.
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Colourwalk in Spitalfields Market – 15th
It is an informal gathering of colourful, creative souls who meet, dressed in their finest, to walk, talk, and strut their stuff. It is excellent for photography.
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Kate Mayer – Tuned In exhibition at 54 The Gallery – 19th to 24th
Tuned In is a transformative new solo exhibition by Kate Mayer, exploring the powerful relationship between sound, energy, and colour. Each abstract painting is created in response to a specific piece of music or soundscape, translating vibration into gesture and emotion.
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Canary Wharf Winter Lights – 20th & 31st
Winter Lights will return in January 2026 for its tenth edition! Winter Lights festival showcases exceptional light art by acclaimed artists and studios from around the world. This year’s theme is Dreamscape.
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London Art Fair at Business Design Centre – 21st to 25th
Discover and buy from an exceptional line-up of modern and contemporary art galleries from across the globe, enjoy curated displays through the annual Museum Partnership, engage with an inspiring programme of talks and tours, and explore new themes in Encounters and Platform.
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London Short Film Festival – 23rd to 1st February
The London Short Film Festival (LSFF) is the UK’s leading short film festival, now in its 23rd year. Founded as the Halloween Film Society in the early 90s, it is now a BAFTA- and BIFA-qualifying, internationally regarded independent festival.
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Laura Lima exhibition at the ICA – 27th
The Institute of Contemporary Arts is exhibiting The Drawing Drawing, the first London solo exhibition by Brazilian multidisciplinary artist Laura Lima (b. 1971, Minas Gerais).
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Vibrance Festival in the City Of London – 29th & 30th
Vibrance will transform the City of London, creating unforgettable encounters with light, sound and live performance. Historic landmarks, hidden gardens and striking façades are reimagined with colour, music and storytelling. It’s free from 5:30 to 8:30 pm. Features more than a dozen artworks across five iconic locations, uniting historic monuments with cutting-edge technology.
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Destinations, The Holiday and Travel Show – 29th to 1st February
Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show, in association with The Times and The Sunday Times, is the UK’s largest and longest-running travel event. Whether you’re looking to travel independently or on an escorted tour, revisit old favourites or explore new horizons, the show offers a unique chance to tap into expert knowledge and tailor-make your perfect getaway.
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Snoopy Sculpture Trail at Fleet Street Quarter – 16th January 2026
the world-famous character will take over the streets of the Quarter in the form of a sculpture art trail, placed in surprise locations for visitors to discover. Celebrating 75 years of Charles M Schulz’s beloved Peanuts™ comic strip, twelve sculptures, featuring Snoopy perched on his iconic red doghouse, have been transformed by artists into beautiful and playful works of art.
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Winterlights on the Southbank – 1st till 18th January 2026
Over the dark winter nights, the Southbank site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all. Started on the 30th of November.
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Wayne Thiebaud. American Still Life at The Courtauld Gallery – till 18th January 2026
This exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery will be the first ever museum show of his work in the UK. It will present Thiebaud’s remarkable, vibrant and lushly painted still-lifes of quintessentially post-war American subjects, from diner food and deli counters to gumball dispensers and pinball machines. These are the paintings with which Thiebaud made his name in the USA in the early 1960s.
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Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern – till 11th January 2026
Renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c.1914–1996) created compelling, powerful works that reflect her extraordinary life as an Anmatyerr woman born in Alhalker in the Sandover region of the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Gilbert & George at Hayward Gallery – till 11th January 2026
This exhibition showcases Gilbert & George’s artistic journey, highlighting new pictures created since the start of the millennium. With bold, single-word titles, each piece delves into societal norms and taboos, spanning the mundane and the illicit, with their art challenging boundaries of taste and propriety.
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Kerry James Marshall: The Histories at Royal Academy – till 18th January 2026
Internationally acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall is one of the most important painters working right now. His vivid and mostly large-scale paintings place the Black figure front and centre. Marshall builds upon the Western tradition of history painting and makes visible those people who were so noticeably absent in the works that came before him.
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Performance of Entrapment by Jane and Louise Wilson at London Mithraeum – till 17th January 2026
Central to the installation will be 2,000-year-old oak stakes discovered during excavations for Bloomberg’s European headquarters. The Wilsons use high-resolution microscopic imagery of the oak’s grain as a starting point for a new body of work. Blending screen-printing, resin, and carved wooden forms, and drawing inspiration from the wood’s structure, patterns and DNA sequencing to create large-scale, visually layered artworks.
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Garden of Blue Whispers at Unit London – 3rd till 31st January 2026
Garden of Blue Whispers marks a period of flourishing for Ugandan artist Stacey Gillian Abe, a new chapter in a journey that began with Shrublet of Old Ayivu, the artist’s first solo exhibition with Unit.
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Radical Harmony Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery – till 8th February 2026
Neo-Impressionists painted in small dots of pure colour. Viewed from a distance, the colours blend to create nuanced tones and an illusion of light. Now known as pointillism, this technique simplified form and played with colour in an entirely new way, verging on the edge of abstraction.
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Peter Doig : House of Music at Serpentine South – till 8th February 2026
Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work. The exhibition features two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums. Music selected by the artist – from his substantial archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes accumulated over decades – plays through a set of ‘high fidelity’ 1950s wooden Klangfilm Euronor speakers.
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Lee Miller Exhibition at Tate Britain – till 15th February 2026
A major exhibition of the trailblazing surrealist photographer Lee Miller at Tate Britain. An extensive retrospective of her photography, staged in the UK at Tate Britain, celebrates Lee Miller as one of the 20th century’s most urgent artistic voices. The exhibition opens on October 2nd and runs until February 15th, 2026.
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The Long Now: Saatchi Gallery at 40 at Saatchi Gallery – 5th till 1st March 2026
This exhibition celebrates the gallery’s 40th anniversary by compiling a “greatest hits” selection of influential artworks previously showcased, featuring pieces by artists such as Richard Wilson, Conrad Shawcross, and Jenny Saville.
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Marie Antoinette Style at V&A – till 22nd March 2026
A complex fashion icon, Marie Antoinette’s timeless appeal is defined by her style, youth and notoriety. Explore the lasting influence of the most fashionable (and ill-fated) queen in history – with over 250 years of design, fashion, film and art.
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Turner and Constable at Tate Britain – 12th April 2026
The definitive exhibition of two pivotal British artists in the 250th year of their births. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other – Turner in 1775, Constable in 1776 – they used landscape art as a way to reflect the changing world around them.
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Theatre Picasso at Tate Modern – till 12th April 2026
Marking the centenary of his famous painting The Three Dancers, this exhibition, staged by celebrated contemporary artist Wu Tsang and author and curator Enrique Fuenteblanca, sheds new light on Picasso’s work. They will transform the exhibition space into a theatre for displaying over 45 works by Picasso from Tate’s collection, alongside key European loans. This includes paintings, sculpture, textiles and works on paper, some never seen in the UK before.
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Hyakko at Kapan House – 26th May 2026
Explore the beauty of everyday things in Hyakkō, a collection of almost 2,000 exquisitely hand-crafted items. Involving more than 120 artists, craftspeople and self-taught makers from across Japan, Hyakkō is a celebration of contemporary Japanese craft aesthetics.
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Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern – till 10th May 2026
Nigerian Modernism tells the story of artistic networks that spanned Zaria, Ibadan, Lagos, and Enugu, as well as London, Munich, and Paris. Through groups like the Zaria Art Society and Mbari Artists’ and Writers’ Club, they fused Nigerian, African and European techniques and traditions to create vibrant, multidimensional works.
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Wright of Derby: From the Shadows at The National Gallery – till 10th May 2026
An exhibition celebrating Joseph Wright of Derby, a master of capturing light and shadow in paintings, often with multiple figures watching a scene unfold in candlelight, who captured the spirit of the Industrial Revolution.
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Sculpture in the City – till spring 2026
Sculpture in the City is an annual sculpture park that uses the urban realm as a rotating gallery space. The 14th Edition of Sculpture in the City will be on display from 16 July 2025 to Spring 2026, and includes 11 artworks from renowned and emerging artists alike: Ai Weiwei, Jane and Louise Wilson, Andrew Sabin, Julian Opie, Maya Rose Edwards, Samuel Ross, Richard Mackness, Elisa Artesero, Daniel Silver, and Oliver Bragg.
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Women In Print at the William Morris Gallery – till 21st June 2026
William Morris Gallery will present Women in Print: 150 Years of Liberty Textiles. Conceived in partnership with Liberty Fabrics on the occasion of the design house’s 150th anniversary, this major exhibition will highlight the pivotal role and contributions of women textile designers.
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