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London, Victoria & Albert Museum acquires and exhibits the first YouTube video in history

A YouTube video officially enters the museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, one of the world's leading cultural institutions for art and design, has announced the acquisition of an item destined to mark a turning point in the way museums ...
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Venice hosts the largest museum exhibition ever devoted to Peggy Guggenheim's London period

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice presents from April 25 to October 19, 2026 Peggy Guggenheim in London. Birth of a Collector, the largest museum exhibition ever devoted to Peggy Guggenheim 's London period and her first gallery, Guggenheim J...
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London, at the National Portrait Gallery a major exhibition devoted to the drawings of Lucian Freud

From February 12 to May 4, 2026, the National Portrait Gallery in London will present Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting, a major exhibition devoted to the drawings and paintings of Lucian Freud. The exhibition aims to be the largest museum project ...
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New Banksy in London with children looking at the sky: is the city ignoring the housing crisis?

Banksy has returned to intervene in public space with a new work of street art. The British artist, as usual, confirmed its authenticity through a post on Instagram, publishing an image of a mural that appeared in London in the days immediately befor...
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Six studios in the running for the National Gallery's new 750 million wing

The National Gallery in London has released the list of architectural firms that will compete for the design of the new wing envisioned by Project Tomorrow, the £750 million (about 858.8 million euros) transformation program that aims to redefine the...
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Traces of human activity dating back 6,000 years discovered in Westminster

Archaeological investigations at the Palace of Westminster complex in London's West End have uncovered evidence of human activity dating back nearly 6,000 years, more than a millennium earlier than the earliest Stonehenge structures. It consists of m...
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At the National Gallery in London, the first exhibition in the UK devoted to Flemish painter Catharina van Hemessen

The National Gallery in London will present in spring 2027 the first exhibition in the United Kingdom entirely devoted to the painter Catharina van Hemessen (1527/28 - after 1565), a Flemish Renaissance artist among the earliest documented in Europea...
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A major exhibition at London's Tate Britain on Constable and Turner, Britain's two most famous landscape painters

Tate Britain will host from Nov. 27, 2025, to April 12, 2026, the first major exhibition dedicated to exploring the intertwined lives and legacies of two of Britain's most distinguished landscape painters-J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) and John Constab...
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