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Art3 September 2026
Seven Major London Exhibitions Close on Sunday
The Barbican twice, the Courtauld, Serpentine, Somerset House, Whitechapel and the NPG all shut on 6 September. Two are free. Four days left, today included.
Art3 September 2026
Strike Closes the David Bowie Centre and Young V&A on Friday and Saturday
V&A East Storehouse, V&A East Museum and Young V&A all shut on 4 and 5 September. South Kensington stays open. Eligible tickets are refunded automatically.
Film3 September 2026
£4 Cinema Tickets Across London This Saturday and Sunday
National Cinema Day returns as a whole weekend on 5 and 6 September: £4 any seat, any format, at 551 participating cinemas. Check yours is one of them.
Film3 September 2026
Oasis's Reunion Film Premieres in Venice Saturday, London Wednesday
Steven Knight wrote it, Disney opens it on 9 September, and BFI IMAX is already selling tickets. The world premiere is Saturday night on the Lido.
Music3 September 2026
Disney's Hercules Plays Its Last Show at Drury Lane on Saturday
Five performances remain after fifteen months on Catherine Street. Remaining seats run £115–£205, and Noël Coward is next in — not Sting.
Music3 September 2026
Sam Ryder's Jesus Christ Superstar Has Five Performances Left
The Palladium run closes Saturday with Julian Clary the last of four King Herods. Tonight's performance is BSL-signed, and it reopens at Drury Lane in October.
Film3 September 2026
Letitia Wright Faces the Critics Tonight in the Olivier
Press night for The Story, Tracey Scott Wilson's newsroom thriller, is tonight. Clint Dyer directs, tickets are from £30, and it runs to 24 October.
Art2 September 2026
Yayoi Kusama Dies at 97, and Tate Counts What She Meant to It
Tate's interim director called her 'an immensely important artist to Tate', whose Infinity Mirror Rooms drew almost a million visitors in three years.
Music2 September 2026
Bon Jovi Take Wembley for Three Nights, Starting Friday
The Forever Tour reaches Wembley Stadium on 4, 6 and 9 September — the band's first tour since Jon Bon Jovi's vocal-cord reconstruction.
Film2 September 2026
The 70th London Film Festival Shows Its Full Hand: 251 Titles
The BFI unveiled the whole programme on Wednesday — 251 titles from 88 countries, an Ian McKellen world premiere, and general booking from 17 September.
Photography2 September 2026
Last Week for Marilyn Monroe at the National Portrait Gallery
The centenary show closes on Sunday 6 September, with 10pm late openings on Friday and Saturday — but not on the closing day itself.
Film2 September 2026
Tilda Swinton Returns to the Royal Court, 38 Years On
She opens on Saturday in Man to Man, the one-woman play she originated there in 1988 — her first stage role in more than three decades.
Fashion2 September 2026
Victoria Beckham's Label Turns Its First Profit in 18 Years
A £7.3m operating profit on revenue of £129.8m for 2025 — the first since the label launched in 2008, and a long way from being £54m in debt.
Fashion2 September 2026
Burberry Shoots Winter 2026 on the Thames
FKA twigs and Romeo Beckham front the house's Winter 2026 campaign, photographed by Glen Luchford with London's river as the backdrop.
Music2 September 2026
Berlin, Argerich and Rattle: The Proms Enter Their Closing Run
The Berlin Philharmonic are at the Royal Albert Hall again tonight, Martha Argerich on Saturday, Simon Rattle on Monday. The season ends on 12 September.
Art2 September 2026
The Bayeux Tapestry Had a Private Audience Before It Had a Public One
The Guardian reports the British Museum privately showed the tapestry to Peter Thiel on 18 August, three weeks before it opens — and staff raised concerns.
Film28 August 2026
Fleet Street Opens Venice: Danny Boyle's 'Ink' Premieres 2 September
Boyle's drama about Murdoch and Larry Lamb launching The Sun — born as a play at the Almeida — opens the 83rd Venice Film Festival and competes for the Golden Lion.
Photography28 August 2026
Tim Walker Builds a Fairyland at the National Portrait Gallery
Five years of photographing queer Britain — Ian McKellen included — becomes 'Tim Walker's Fairyland' at the NPG from 8 October, timed for Frieze Week.
Fashion28 August 2026
The Met Gives John Galliano the Show Only Two Living Designers Got Before
'John Galliano: Horizons' — the 2027 Costume Institute exhibition — starts where he did: the 1984 Central Saint Martins graduate collection that London made famous.
Art28 August 2026
A Climbable Giant Spider Will Guard the Door at Frieze London
Theo Triantafyllidis wins the 2026 Frieze London Artist Award with 'Feral Metaverse (Spider)' — a physical sculpture that doubles as a multiplayer game, Regent's Park, 14–18 October.
Film28 August 2026
Kore-eda, Loznitsa, Morley: The LFF Names Its Ten Competition Films
The 70th BFI London Film Festival has announced its Official Competition — ten films from ten countries, all screening at BFI Southbank, 7–18 October.
Photography28 August 2026
Tate Modern Tells the Story of How Photography Became Art
'Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography' brings 200 rare vintage prints by over 80 artists to Bankside from 14 October — the first global survey of Pictorialism.
Music28 August 2026
Supergrass Announce a Hits-and-Deep-Cuts Tour, London 7 May
After touring 'I Should Coco' in full for its 30th anniversary, the band returns in spring 2027 to raid the whole catalogue — one London night at O2 Forum Kentish Town.
Music21 August 2026
Carnival Turned 60 — and City Hall Put £5.6m Behind It
Sixty years on from the first procession down Portobello Road, Carnival took over W10 across the August bank holiday with £5.6m of City Hall money behind it.
Art21 August 2026
Edward Enninful Curates the Nineties at Tate Britain
The former British Vogue editor guest-curates 100-plus works by nearly 70 names — Hirst, McQueen, Westwood, Corinne Day — at Millbank from 8 October.
Fashion21 August 2026
Frasers Buys Harvey Nichols, Ending 35 Years of Dickson Poon
The Knightsbridge institution went into pre-pack administration and out again on 13 August, sold to Frasers Group with more than 1,000 staff attached.
Music21 August 2026
Jay-Z's Only UK Shows of the Year Are Two Nights in N17
A second Tottenham Hotspur Stadium date was added after record demand — 4 and 5 September, marking 30 years since Reasonable Doubt.
Photography21 August 2026
Nan Goldin Comes Back to London After Twenty Years
The Hayward stages her first UK institutional show since 2002 from 24 November, premiering a new film scored by Mica Levi.
Film21 August 2026
Blanchett and Hoss Swap Roles Nightly in Electra/Persona
The Tár co-stars opened on the Lyttelton on 19 August in Benedict Andrews's fusion of Sophocles and Bergman, alternating both leads across the run.
Fashion21 August 2026
The V&A Gives the Burberry Trench a Gallery of Its Own
A free display opens in South Kensington on 21 September for the house's 170th year, tracing the coat from 1879 gabardine to 19 runway looks.
Film21 August 2026
The Cinema Museum Has Four Months to Buy Chaplin's Workhouse
London's volunteer-run museum of cinema-going launched a campaign on 18 August to raise £500,000 and buy the Kennington building outright.
Music14 August 2026
Ariana Grande Owns Greenwich: Ten Sold-Out Nights at The O2
Her first shows in six years, a fresh UK Number 1 the same week, and the entire European leg handed to one London postcode. Ten nights, all sold out, now done.
Music14 August 2026
Five Nights at Wembley: The Weeknd Took the National Stadium
One of the highest-grossing tours ever staged parked itself at Wembley for five stadium nights in six days, 14–19 August, with Playboi Carti in support.
Fashion14 August 2026
McQueen Comes Home: First London Show in 25 Years
The house Lee McQueen founded shows in London on 20 September for the first time since 2001 — Sean McGirr's SS27, womenswear and menswear on one runway.
Fashion14 August 2026
LFW September: Burberry, Mulberry and a 100-Year M&S Debut
The BFC's September schedule is the strongest big-name British line-up in years — Burberry back, Christopher Kane's first Mulberry show, and M&S's runway debut.
Film14 August 2026
Spider-Man Breaks the UK Box Office After a Leicester Square Premiere
£23.5m in three days — the fourth-biggest UK-Ireland opening ever and a franchise record — days after Tom Holland walked Leicester Square in Savile Row.
Film14 August 2026
Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman Open the 70th London Film Festival
Simon Stone's Elsinore opens LFF's milestone edition on 7 October — a National Theatre story premiering a few hundred metres from where it happened.
Music14 August 2026
A 73-Year Chart Record Falls — and Half of It Belongs to Haringey
Rein Me In's 19th week at Number 1 breaks Frankie Laine's 1953 record. Sam Fender shares it with Olivia Dean — north London's own, now in the history books.
Art14 August 2026
Lady in Blue: Trafalgar Square's Next Icon Arrives 10 September
Tschabalala Self's bronze everywoman, patinated in lapis lazuli blue, becomes the 16th Fourth Plinth commission — and anchors London Sculpture Week.
Photography14 August 2026
World Press Photo Lands on Bermondsey Street
The world's most famous photojournalism exhibition opens its London run on 21 August at MPB Gallery, led by Carol Guzy's World Press Photo of the Year.
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