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Essential
Visual Arts
Celebrating black women through contemporary artists who challenge the way black bodies have been objectified in Western history.
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Dance
Dance interacts with Somerset House's capricious fountains in Shobana Jeyasingh's Counterpoint, part of Summer in the Courtyard
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Kids
Find festive cheer with a touch of elegance: ice skating at Somerset House returns this winter with rink-side DJ takeovers, winter dining and festive surprises
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Things to do
Dodgems, DJ sets and devilishly good street food: Dodge at Somerset House is a colourful mini festival in the heart of the city
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Design
For the centrepiece of the London Design Biennale 2021, artistic director Es Devlin has commissioned a forest of 400 trees for the courtyard of Somerset House
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Visual Arts
The first major UK retrospective of the late French-Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui has opened at Somerset House
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Design
Somerset House's 2020 programme opens with Mushrooms, an exploration of the bizarre beauty of our favourite fungi -
Essential
Visual Arts
Somerset House stages a major multi-disciplinary exhibition titled 24/7 with over 50 interactive installations examining our always-on world
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Visual Arts
Celebrate 50 years of Black creativity in Britain at the major new Somerset House exhibition Get Up! Stand Up!
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Essential
Gigs
Modern sounds in historic settings: Somerset House's annual Summer Series returns with a stellar programme of Spanish pop, alternative soul and avant-garde RnB
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In the Know
Visual Arts
Unparalleled in variety and scope, the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition returns to Somerset House to celebrate the photographic medium
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Best of
From Cape Town to Tunis: Europe’s largest contemporary African art fair returns to Somerset House to showcase the best art of the continent
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In the Know
Visual Arts
Prepare for a blockbuster Autumn season at Somerset House: exhibitions include this poignant multi-disciplinary show exploring the effect of grief on our mental and emotional stability
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Design
From the innovative to the nostalgic, find out what's in store for the Somerset House exhibitions programme, Autumn Season
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Dance
Culture Whisper’s favourite act, Gandini Juggling, come to Somerset House this hot summer with a brand new, site-specific, dazzling show, Cascade. It’s free and unmissable
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Dance
Ever the innovator, choreographer Hofesh Shechter creates Shechter Underground, a unique site-specific show beneath the august buildings of Somerset House
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Cinema
Somerset House and Film4 bring a curated selection of films to the great outdoors
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Best of
We select our favourite photographs from the 2018 Sony World Photography Award competition winners
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Fashion
It's great up north: an exhibition championing Northern England's influence on fashion, art and culture opens at Somerset House
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Tried and Tested
Visual Arts
The Courtauld Gallery's intimate exhibition of Soutine’s expressive portraits is utterly captivating
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Fashion
In this multi-sensory Somerset House exhibition, perfume is stripped of its commercial mystique
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Things to do
Kate Moss through Elgort's lens, surly Rolling Stones, and a solo exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe, check out our photo gallery of Photo London highlights, 2017
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In the Know
Visual Arts
Exploring identity politics through performance art: Block Universe festival takes over London's most prestigious institutions this summer
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Essential
Visual Arts
Head to Somerset House: Photo London fair, the biggest event in London's – and now Britain's – photography calendar, returns for a third year
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Kids
A free family workshop all about hair at Somerset House this January
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Visual Arts
Sidibé's photographic chronicle of the movement towards independence in Mali is an iconic record of independence
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Kids
Meet and draw some real-life wolves at Somerset House at this Halloween London activity 2016
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Tried and Tested
Design
Somerset House announces the first London Design Biennale 2016 featuring the best contemporary design from around the world
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Tried and Tested
Gigs
The Courtney Barnett tour stops by at Somerset House for a night of sublime slacker singalong
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Kids
Families discover utopia at Somerset House this weekend
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Tried and Tested
Visual Arts
Kick-start your summer at London’s Somerset House with the world’s largest photography competition, the Sony World Photography Awards 2016
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Visual Arts
Now in its fourth year, trailblazing Contemporary African Art Fair 1:54 will showcase artists and galleries causing a stir on the African art scene
