Top 5 #LondonExhibitions

What will you be doing this weekend?

 

Fractured

Curious Duke Gallery Projects hosts Sam Peacock’s second solo show as he raises the debate over fracking into a reality of processes, socio economic arguments and threats to the environment.

Now-14^th March

Curious Duke Gallery

173 Whitecross Street, London EC1Y 8JT

Open Monday – Friday 11:30 – 6:30, Saturday 12-4

Nearest stations: Old Street exit 6, Barbican

Free

 

Luxury Complex

Based on the 1972 novel Luxury Complex by E L Palmers, artists Lisa Cradduck, Marc Hulson, Dean Kenning and Andy Sharp have created works that explore the parasitic contagion of gentrification of London and a twist of horror.

Opening tonight 6-9, - 29^th March

Five Years

66 Regents Studios,

8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN

Open Saturday – Sunday 1-6

Nearest station: Cambridge Heath and Bethnal Green

Free

 

The Foundation

Chisenhale Gallery present Patrick Staff’s major film installation that

explores queer intergenerational relationships following that have followed from the legacy of gay icon Tom of Finland.

Now-12^th April

Chisenhale Gallery

64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ

Open Wednesday- Sunday 1-6.

Nearest stations: Mile End, Cambridge Heath

Free

 

Bite your tongue

Serpentine Galleries present a collection of work by American figurative painter Leon Golub.  His first show in the UK for 15 years, and ten since his death, with over 50 years of work on show.  His life with Nancy Spero, experiences of fighting in WWII and his involvement as an activist in movements against the Vietnam War.

Now – 17^th May

Serpentine Gallery

Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA

Open Tuesday – Sunday 10-6

Nearest station: South Kensington

Free

 

The Witches and Old Women Album

This major exhibition reunites all the surviving drawings from the Witches and Old Women Album for the first time, offering a fascinating and enlightening view of a very private and personal Goya.

 

Drawn in the last decade of his life, the album was never meant to be seen beyond a small circle of friends. Goya gave free rein to his creativity, inventing extraordinary images that range from the humorous to the sinister and the macabre.

Now-25^th May

Courtauld Institute of Art

Strand, London WC2R 0RN

Open: Daily 10-6

Nearest station: Temple

Tickets £8.50 here, concessions apply.

 

 

Happy weekend!

Written by Curious Duke Gallery blogger Sinéad Loftus.

Lover of all art and fluffy cats.