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Design
Somerset House announces the first London Design Biennale 2016 featuring the best contemporary design from around the world
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Visual Arts
Quite simply astounding. Drop everything and go: Ai Weiwei, Steve McQueen and Patti Smith: the first ever Reading Prison exhibition
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Following a major Tate exhibition, Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington comes to Mile End's Viktor Wynd museum - home of the Last Tuesday Society
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Design
Head straight to London Design Fair during London Design Festival for hot designers and fresh talent from around the world
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Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama, Andreas Gursky, Gerard Richter... Anya Hindmarch plays curator at this Sotheby's exhibition and auction
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Drones made beautiful: Mahwish Chishty London show to explore the war in the sky with Pakistani folk art
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If you only make one London Design Festival event, make it designjunction - hands down the most exciting shopping destination
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Sigmund in the mirror... Freud Museum Mark Wallinger show turns psychoanalysis on its head
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London's answer to the New York High Line: discover a side of the East End you never knew existed on the The Line sculpture walk
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When it comes to weird art exhibitions, London's a world leader... From St Paul's Cathedral to a mental hospital, here's our list of art in strange places
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The days shorten, summer slips off, but there's plenty of beauty in store. Fill your weekends (and avoid the tourists) with the best smaller gallery shows this autumn
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Frank Auerbach, the Chapman Bros, Tracey Emin, Howard Hodgkin, Bridget Riley.... just in time for Frieze, Fortnum & Mason announce a pop-up exhibition
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New work from world-renowned British artist Tacita Dean: LA sunshine (and Hockney himself) come to Frith Street Gallery
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Design
A feast of colour comes to the NPG: William Eggleston's photography is a nostalgic love affair that sings through the decades
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All Hail Bjork! A Royal Albert Hall show plus a Somerset House virtual reality exhibition from the world's most beloved Icelander
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A controversial artist heading to the British museum: Maggi Hambling London exhibition comes to Bloomsbury
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The birth and death of avant-garde. Russian Royal Academy exhibition charts art born of revolution - and its downfall
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Visual Arts
Woven wire, balance and poise. American sculptor Alexander Calder didn't just make mobiles, as seen from his vast catalogue of jewellery
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Design
Japan's home design is far from domesticated. For the first time, a major London exhibition explores Japanese post-war architecture in all its wildly radical glory
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Visual Arts
The iceman cometh: not satisfied with defeating England at football, Iceland proves it can also slay us when it comes to installation art
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Glitz and glamour at Masterpiece 2016: the best art fair in London for antique and modern art lovers
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Marina Abramović, Francis Alÿs, John Akomfrah and many more come together for this Lisson moving art exhibiton
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Sound and colour come together in The Infinite Mix: an offsite exhibition from the Southbank's Hayward Gallery, with Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller and many more
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Design
A very arty farty party: come and celebrate the transformed Tate Modern
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Visual Arts
Her exhibitions are a rare occurence this side of the pond: but a Cindy Sherman London show is to open this brand new Skarstedt gallery this October
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Poetic, multi-disciplinary art come to Stephen Friedman: Jim Hodges' show rolls into town
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Dynamic duos, white walls and paint on toast: the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy is back. Take our handy guide with you
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Fill sunny days with free events and warm 'n' fuzzy feelings: Love really is all you need at Southbank Centre's 2016 Festival of Love.
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From the alleys of Mexico, Francis Alÿs' London show comes to David Zwirner in June 2016
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Our Etel Adnan review: Serpentine exhibition brings sun-scorched landscapes to the greenery of Hyde Park
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This May at the Foundling Museum, Cornelia Parker curates a show featuring Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Jarvis Cocker and many more
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Not as magical as last year, but the new Summer Houses are well worth a visit... we review Serpentine architecture 2016