Articles about Millbank

Daylight savings time is finally here, so make the most of your extra hours of sunlight inside dimly lit rooms full of free art. Here are some dates for your cultural calendar in London this Spring and Summer. Kaleidoscope An exhibition featuring nine artists including Florence Hutchings, Mia Feuer and Tillman Kaiser. Laura Buckley’s Fata Morgana is a large-scale kaleidoscope, and visitors are invited to kick off their shoes, step inside and let colourful moving projections wash over them. There are also sculpture, paintings and photography all echoing the themes and patterns of a kaleidoscope. When: Until 5th May Where: Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea Link: Saatchi Gallery website Christian Marclay Christian Marclay is an American–Swiss visual artist who explores connections between sound, photography, and moving image. This exhibition features stop-motion animation, and street photography from around London and a floor-to-ceiling ‘vertical poem’ made up of 22 strips. When: Until 15th May Where: White Cube, Mason’s Yard Link: Official website How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s The Chicago Imagists are a group of artists associated with the School of the Art Institue of Chicago in the late 1960–70s known for surrealism and working with objects found in city thrift stores and markets like pinball machines and old comics. This is the first major exhibition of theirs in the UK and features artists like Roger Brown, Sarah Canright, Jim Falconer, Ed Flood and Christina Ramberg. Expect explosions of colour, and irreverent humour across paintings, sculptures, drawing and printmaking. When: Until 26th May Where: Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art Link: Official website Joanna Piotrowska – All Our False Devices A photographic exhibiton of work by London-based Polish photographer Joanna Piotrowska featuring black and white images. The exhibtion is part of Tate Britain’s Art Now series which focuses on emerging artists. The photographs incude a series where the artists asked people in Lisbon, Rio De Janneiro, Warsaw and London to build shelters in their homes and gardens to subvert ideas about childhood play. When: Until 9th June Where: Tate Britain Link: Tate Britain website Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-1933 Catch the last few months of this year-long display of artworks created in Germany during the inter-war years. Magic Realism is more closely associated with liteature, but it comes from artist and critic Franz Roh to describe realist paintings with dream-like or fantasy imagery. The collection features paintings of period of pre-WW2 hedonism and freedom from artists like Jeanne Manmne and Otto Dix. When: Until 14th July Where: Tate Modern Link: Tate Modern website Check out our full London events page for more things to do this summer.

Articles about Millbank

Free Spring and Summer Art Exhibitions in London

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