Art exhibitions in London this weekend

Get up close and personal to the moon, experience the mind-boggling possibilities of artificial intelligence and glimpse the future of our eating habits

Hype Cycle: Machine Learning, © Universal Everything.

AI: More than Human, Barbican Centre

Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our lives in more ways than most of us realise, influencing our shopping choices, our financial decisions and even our politics. This timely exhibition at the Barbican explores our relationship with machine learning with an assortment of interactive exhibits set to open our eyes to the possibilities, good and bad.

WHEN

16 May 2019 – 26 Aug 2019

WHERE

Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

Museum of the Moon at University of Bristol UK (CREDIT) Carolyn Eaton

Museum of the Moon, Natural History Museum

Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon is coming to the Natural History Museum. This is more than an Instagram opportunity. This is the chance to be transported from the terrestrial concerns of daily life, to get up close and personal with lunar surface and to consider the splendour of the natural world.

WHEN

17 May 2019 – 08 Sep 2019

WHERE

Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road , SW7 5BD

(Detail) SymmetryBreakfast © Michael Zee

FOOD: Bigger than the plate, V&A review

The V&A’s past exhibitions have expounded the beauty and versatility of a whole range of materials, from pearls to plywood. Now the museum pays homage to food, which, according to Dutch designer Marije Vogelzang, ‘is the most important material in the world’. Expect a plethora of culinary surprises and eye-opening (read also, eye watering) revelations.

WHEN

18 May 2019 – 20 Oct 2019

WHERE

V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL

Mary McCartney Ballerina in Sink, London, 2004 © Mary McCartney

Photo London, Somerset House

Photo London, the capital’s largest photography exhibition, returns to Somerset House for its fifth edition. Photography fans will be spoilt for choice, as almost 100 galleries from 21 countries are taking part. The works on offer will span the entirety of the photographic medium, from the journalistic to the experimental and everything in between.

WHEN

16 May 2019 – 19 May 2019, Times vary

WHERE

Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA