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Cultural and historic venues within walking distance of the Whitechapel Gallery are transformed for one night by spectacular artworks and performance. #NocturnalCreatures is a new late-night contemporary arts festival free and accessible to all on Saturday 21 July from 6-11 pm. Come along and enjoy the art after dark!
Map and timeline: http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/…/Noc turnal-Creatures-Tim…

Installation artist Katja Novitskova presents an immersive environment at the Whitechapel Gallery, offering an unsettling vision of the future. Novitskova’s work focuses on issues of technology, evolutionary processes and ecological realities. It explores the materiality and circulation of images – how they are used, recycled and re-contextualised. She is known for her dramatic, cut-out images of animals, presented alongside imagery drawn from financial and scientific sources.

Sculpture in the City, the City of London’s annual public art programme set amongst iconic architectural landmarks has announced the 18 artworks which will make up this year’s outdoor sculpture park in the Square Mile. Two sound projects are included as a new venture for this year’s edition-Marina Abramovic’s Tree at 99 Bishopsgate and Miroslaw Balka’s ‘The Great Escape’ in Hartsthorn Alley, challenging the idea of public art.

This summer, in the heart of London, the Serpentine Galleries presents a major exhibition: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Barrels and The Mastaba 1958–2018, which draws upon their use of barrels to create artworks. The artists are celebrated for their ambitious sculptural works that intervene in urban and natural landscapes around the world and temporarily alter both the physical form and visual appearances of sites. Simultaneously, Christo presents his first large-scale public sculpture in the UK: The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine lake in Hyde Park from 18 June to 23 September. Measuring 20m in height by 30m and 40m, the sculpture consists of 7,506 horizontally stacked barrels, specifically fabricated and painted in shades of red, white, blue and mauve.

As a part of the Barbican’s 2018 season, The Art of Change, Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing and Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds are opening parallelly at the Barbican Art Gallery. Dorothea Lange is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, and Politics of Seeing charts Lange’s outstanding photographic vision from her early studio portraits of San Francisco’s bourgeoisie to her celebrated Farm Security Administration work that captured the devastating impact of the Great Depression on the American population. British contemporary photographer Vanessa Winship on the hand explores the fragile nature of our landscape and society, how memory leaves its mark on our collective and individual histories.

Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up at V&A is the first exhibition outside of Mexico to display her clothes and intimate possessions, reuniting them with key self-portraits and photographs to offer a fresh perspective on her compelling life story. Locked away for 50 years after her death, this collection presents an unparalleled insight into Kahlo’s life, revealing some objects that have never been on show before.

Featuring a rare display of the monumental painting cycle The Course of Empire, THOMAS COLE: Eden to Empire at The National Gallery will be the first exhibition to establish Cole as a major global figure in 19th-century landscape art, and to present the dialogue between Cole and European artists such as John Constable and JMW Turner. In response to Cole’s paintings, Ed Ruscha’s The Course of Empire focuses on the industrial buildings of Los Angeles, and takes a different approach to the subject of the cyclical nature of civilisation, conveying a unique brand of visual American zen.

The Royal Academy is celebrating its 250th Summer Exhibition which is often dominated by the famously crowded and collage-like arrangement of pictures across the RA’s walls. The show exhibits a range of art being made in this moment in time with the theme of ‘Art Made Now’. Alongside it, The Great Spectacle offers a unique view into the 250-year history of the Summer Exhibition, and the annul RA Schools Show presents works of graduating artists, showing independence and a spirit of experiment.

Tate Modern is going to open a new exhibition called Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art. It explores the photography in relation to the development of abstraction, from early experiments of the 1910s to the digital innovations of the 21st century. The exhibition also includes a serious of May Ray's work firstly shown since 1960's MOMA exhibition. Exhibition is on until 14th October, 2018.

British Museum just opened a new exhibition called Rodin and the art of ancient Greece. Exhibition compares Rodin's sculptures along with plaster models from Parthenon sculptures that inspired him very much. This comparison provides a unique insight into the full breadth and depth of Rodin's vision, and the sculptures of an artist that everyone thought they knew.

‪Fashioned from Nature is the latest section in the V&A series of revelatory fashion exhibitions. From 1780s man’s waistcoat to trousers made from synthetic spider silk, it will trace the complex relationship between fashion and the natural world. ‬The exhibition not only shows how fashionable dress recurringly draws on the beauty and power of nature for inspiration but also looks at the role of design in creating a better, more sustainable fashion industry.

AMERICA’S COOL MODERNISM: O’KEEFFE TO HOPPER at Ashmolean Museum brings works of artists who grappled with the experience of modern America with a cool, controlled detachment, revealling fascinating aspect of American interwar art that is yet to be explored in a major exhibition.

Tate Modern stages its first ever solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work, one of the most ambitious shows in the museum’s history. The EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy takes visitors on a month-by-month journey through 1932, a time so pivotal in Picasso’s life and work that it has been called his ‘year of wonders’. More than 100 outstanding paintings, sculptures, and works on paper demonstrate his prolific and restlessly inventive character, stripping away common myths to reveal the man and the artist in his full complexity and richness. Exhibition until 9th Sep. 2018

Whitechapel Gallery is having the final chapter in the ISelf Collection displays：Bumped Bodies. It has been traced the topics on birth, death, sexuality, love, pain and joy in previous displays. This one comes to focus on personal identity and the human condition. Many artists question a sense of physical cohesion by duplicating and modifying human bodies. Exhibition opens till 12th August 2018

National Gallery is having the first purely Monet exhibition from today--Monet & Architecture. The exhibition itself draws attention from Monet's early year practices exploration of picturesque to the later more solid impressionist skills in travel paintings. From Normandy to Venice, to London. Monet revealing the world around him through light and shadow, through buildings and reflections on the water. Exhibition continues till 29 July 2018.

The immersive exhibition at Tate Modern celebrates Joan Jonas's outstanding contribution to art over the last five decades. The exhibition explores her practice from her use of sound to the influence of Japanese Noh theatre on her work. In addition to this exhibition of installations and video works, Jonas is the subject of this year's BMW Tate Live exhibition. Exhibition continues to 5 August 2018.

Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins at Barbican Centre focuses on the powerful images about those on the edges, or outside of the mainstream, reflecting a diverse, complex and authentic view of the world.

Somewhere in between at the Wellcome Collection brings together four immersive installations enriched by art and science. These artworks act as a conduit to consider unanswered questions, hidden systems and intangible connections. Exhibition opens till 27 August, 2018