Annika’s Top Tips
A selection of events and items of interest. I haven’t done all of them, but they sound inspiring, please check dates, opening times etc beforehand.
Blockbuster Ideas:
Frieze London & Frieze Masters 3-6/10
Somerset House – 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 3-6/10
Saatchi – Tutankhamoun 2/11/19 ends 3/5/20
Barbican – Into the Night: Cabarets & Clubs in Modern Art to 19/1/20
National Gallery – Gaugin from 7/10/19 ends 26/1/20, Leonardo from 9/11/19 ends 9/1/20, Titian Poesie starts 16/3/20
National Portrait Gallery – BP Portrait Award ends 20/10/19, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters from 17/10
Royal Academy – Antony Gormley ends 3/12
Tate Britain – William Blake ends 2/2/20
Tate Modern – Olafur Eliasson ends 5/1/20, Dora Maar from 20/11 ends 15/3/20
V&A – Mary Quant ends 16/2/20, Tim Walker ends 8/3/20
British Museum – “Inspired by the East” from 10/10, Rembrandt drawing 350 year Anniversary of his Death
“Off piste” Ideas:
Cliveden – Nancy Astor “Vigour, vitality and check” anniversary to December
Ham House – Candlelit Christmas 1/12-6/1/20
Osterley – “Rise of a Banking Family” 4/11-23/2
Kew Gardens – Refurbished Temperate House, Chihuly ends 27/10
The Garden at 120 Fenchurch Street – public skygarden in the City, need to book
Elephant West, art gallery in White City
Camden Arts Centre, Victoria Miro with Kusama from 2/10
Foundling Museum – “Show business in Georgian England” ends 5/1/20
V&A – Gallery talks on Thursdays at 1pm, Conservation Studio tours – 2nd and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 11am, book via Contact Centre ext.2000
Westminster Abbey – new upstairs Queen’s Gallery and David Hockney stained glass window
Soane Museum – Hogarth from 9/10 ends 5/1/20 Wed-Sun guided tours upstairs at 1.15, 2pm prepare for queue, candlelight evening events, Hogarth
Somerset House – studio tours every 3rd Saturday week of month at 12.15, 13.15, 14.15, 15.15
London Walks – Hampstead Spies 3rd Sunday of the month
Southside House – Candle lit tours, classic English afternoon tea
Charterhouse – tour with Brothers