It's Showtime!
Updated: Sep 6, 2020
After a hiatus of several months, normal service is being restored to the London exhibition scene. Along the way, a number of shows have been delayed, others terminated prematurely and a few abandoned for good, for a variety of reasons. On a more positive note, some exhibitions are re-opening with the lifting of the lockdown, giving us the opportunity to see things we may have never expected to see again.
Here is our list of the major exhibitions in town this summer. It's showtime!
From 16 July
Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi
Somerset House
Donation invited
From 27 July until 20 September
Tate Britain
Paid entry (£16)
From 27 July until 15 November
Andy Warhol
Tate Modern
Paid entry (£22)
From 29 July until 13 September
Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company
The Wallace Collection
Paid entry, tickets go on sale on 22 July
From 30 July until 3 January 2021
Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs
The Horniman Museum
Paid entry (adult £9, child £5)
From 31 July until 14 February 2021
Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers
The Design Museum
Paid entry, tickets on sale 10 July
From 1 August
Nightingale in 200 Objects, People and Places
Florence Nightingale Museum
Paid entry to the museum
From 1 August until 31 October
Hayward Gallery
Paid entry (£13.50)
Until 2 August
The Royal Academy of Arts
Paid entry (£20)
Read our review, Taking the Picasso: 'There have been some stand-out exhibitions at the Royal Academy in recent times. Picasso on Paper is not one of them.'
Until 2 August
Cerith Wyn Evans: No realm of thought... no field of vision
White Cube Bermondsey
Free entry, book online
Read our review, Cerith Wyn Evans at the White Cube: 'a sensory experience for the soul'
From 4 August
Serpentine Gallery
Free entry, book online from July
From 7 August until 18 October
Gauguin and the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Ordrupgaard Collection
The Royal Academy of Arts
Paid entry (prices TBC), tickets not yet on sale
From 19 August until 5 January 2021
Driverless: Who is in control?
Science Museum
Free entry
Until 23 August
Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media
The Foundling Museum
Paid entry to the museum
Read our review, Beyoncé's Bump and the Princess Dress: 'a pregnant pause ... but the wait is worth it for this groundbreaking, unmissable exhibition'
From 27 August until 25 October
Victoria & Albert Museum
Paid entry (£16-£18)
Until 20 September
Derek Jarman: My garden's boundaries are the horizon
The Garden Museum
Paid entry to the museum
From 22 September until 1 July 2021
Foe to Friend: The British Army in Germany since 1945
The National Army Museum
Free entry
From 29 September until December
Serpentine Sackler Gallery
Free entry, book online from early September
From 3 October
The National Gallery
Tickets on sale soon
Until 17 January 2021
The National Gallery
Paid entry (£12)
Alice in Wonderland: Curiouser and Curiouser at the V&A has been postponed until 27 March 2021
Angelica Kauffman at the Royal Academy has been cancelled
Bags: Inside Out at the V&A has been postponed until 21 November 2020
Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings at the Royal Academy has been cancelled
Epic Iran at the V&A has been postponed until 13 February 2021
Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature at the Natural History Museum has been postponed
Prada: Front and Back at the Design Museum has been cancelled
Raphael at the National Gallery has been postponed until 2022
Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street at the Design Museum has been postponed until 2021
Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh at the Saatchi Gallery will not re-open
Zanele Muholi at Tate Modern has been postponed until 5 November 2020