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Read MoreWith 172 exhibitors at Frieze London alone, that’s a lot of booths, and you only have so many hours to spend time in them all. Our top ten ranges from the heavyweight blue chips to younger galleries, and from big-ticket showstoppers to the stands that literally made us stop mid-sentence…
Read MoreFor anyone drawn to the mountains for sport, wellness, and culture, there is The Lodge, the only Alpine address in Virgin Limited Edition, Sir Richard Branson's collection of nine private retreats. The location is ideal, the village and the lifts are mere minutes away, which puts the sculpture park, the festival and the trailheads within reach of a morning…
Read MoreExplore comfort-led layouts, layered lighting, smart storage and flexible styling ideas that make a modern home office work beautifully.
Read MoreFew things are more English than afternoon tea, and Frieze week is as good a time as any to book one. It has been part of English life since the 1840s, when the Duchess of Bedford started asking for tea and bread and butter to fill the long gap between lunch and dinner. It moved from a private habit to a social occasion to a national one, and nearly two centuries on it is booked more than ever…
Read MoreYou have your Frieze Exhibitions Guide. You have your Frieze Music Nightlife Guide. But what about all the other collateral events and activations around the city? Lo and behold, there are many. Luckily for you, we’ve compiled a separate list of events to keep on your radar this Frieze Week, from a knit-and-sip crochet club to the Frieze London opening parties everyone is invited to.
Read MoreLondon is one of the cities she keeps coming back to, which is why we asked her for thirteen places in it, one for every ROOM, to fill the hours around Frieze London and Frieze Masters in The Regent's Park from 14 - 18 October. Here are her thirteen, in her order, in her words.
Read MoreThe busiest week in London's art calendar is back. Frieze London and Frieze Masters open in The Regent's Park from 14 to 18 October. Outside of the fairs, the gallery hopping, the drinks and the dinners, here is your guide to where you are going after, from a fabric birthday weekender…
Read MoreMorus Art Group, a London cultural initiative founded by Alya Entts, makes its first public appearance in the city on 15 October with Out of the Blue, an exhibition that follows an artistic career through its first phases, from early promise to a first award, guidance from others and the point at which an artist begins working independently…
Read MoreIf you want a brief history of Western modern art, Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy of Arts is unexpectedly good for that. Featuring all your favourite names from Claude Monet to Pablo Picasso, the exhibition examines why artists were lured by the Côte d'Azur and its brilliant blue seas in the South of France.
Read MoreCelebrating its 21st edition in 2026, Darbar Festival is the leading festival of Indian classical music in the UK. The five-day celebration of Hindustani and Carnatic music is themed The Shock of the New, and will feature many artists never heard before in the UK…
Read MoreFrieze London and Frieze Masters return to The Regent's Park from 14 to 18 October. Here are fifteen places to eat, and the art to see within walking distance of each table…
Read MoreIn 1959 Claudia Jones staged a Caribbean carnival in a civic hall behind King's Cross. The story of that building, and the history still held in its rooms.
Read MoreFour nights, six postcodes, and not a single one of them in zone 1 until Sunday. An opera rebuilt as a club record in a Tottenham warehouse, a 2010s fever dream in New Cross, Eric Prydz back in the city after six years away, and six uninterrupted hours of the Martinez Brothers at fabric to finish. Below are all the music events we'd go to in London this weekend.
Read MoreBloc is back for one night in March 2027, marking twenty years since the first Bloc Weekender and ten since the last. The reunion will take over The Cause in Docklands on Saturday 6 March. The first wave of artists has just been announced…
Read MoreIronworks is the latest venture from LWE and PROJEKT, transforming a historic industrial warehouse on the banks of the Thames in East London into a next-generation electronic music venue. Spanning more than 150,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space, Ironworks has the capacity for 7,000 people…
Read MoreNothing beats London during Frieze Week. Every October, an infectious buzz settles over the city as galleries, institutions, brands and even bars and clubs all throw their weight behind art and culture. We wanted to whet your cultural appetite by drawing your attention to a variety of exhibitions to sink your teeth into that go far beyond the fair’s traditional white tent set-up.
Read MoreThe Hayward Gallery has announced the largest UK solo exhibition to date by Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei, which is to open in April 2027. The survey will chart her practice from the early 2000s to the present…
Read MoreRenoir and Love opens at the National Gallery, bringing together the artist's multifigure compositions in the first exhibition to focus on this part of his work. It follows the show's debut at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and looks at how Renoir painted romantic love, family life, and affection between colleagues and strangers…
Read MoreKistefos, an hour north west of Oslo in Jevnaker, pairs a preserved wood pulp mill with one of Europe's most ambitious sculpture parks. The industrial museum keeps its machinery turning, while 60 works, almost all of them site specific, are spread along the Randselva river. Here is a guide to the sculptures not to miss…
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