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Home to one of the greatest art collections in the UK, The ¹ú²úÎÞÂë Gallery is located in the magnificent historical setting of Somerset House. The Gallery is particularly known for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and exciting programme of temporary exhibitions.

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The ¹ú²úÎÞÂë Institute of Art is a research-led, independent College of the University of London, with one of the world’s most prestigious programmes of art history, curating, and conservation.

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Roger Mayne: Youth

14 June – 1 Sep 2024 

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An exhibition of evocative documentary images of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s, by acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) . Friends go free.

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Two groups of men and boys on Southam Street, North Kensington, London. A young West Indian boy looks straight at the camera.

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Roger Mayne: Youth

14 June – 1 Sep 2024 

An exhibition of works by photographer Roger Mayne, bringing together his evocative documentary images of communities and neighbourhoods of 1950's inner London, alongside intimate images of his own family at home in Dorset in the 1970s....

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Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall

8 June – 22 Sep 2024 

This exhibition, a collaboration with Henry Moore Foundation, considers Henry Moore’s (1898 – 1986) celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist’s fascination with images of the wall. ...

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Fantasies Reframed: Orientalism and its Contexts

Monday 1 – Friday 5 July 2024 | £645

This course is designed to explore Orientalism in its artistic, political and historical contexts and to provide participants with a framework through which to approach and interpret these works. ...

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