Southbank Centre highlights for the year ahead.
23 September 2024 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre has announced a raft of new programming highlights for the year ahead, reflecting the vision of Artistic… Read More
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Southbank Centre announces International Performance & Dance programme for 2024-2025
8 February 2024 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre has revealed its 2024-2025 Performance and Dance programme, featuring an array of international work, contemporary collaborations and… Read More
New art installation unveiled in London to promote compassion towards refugees
12 June 2023 • Mark Westall
A new art installation has been unveiled in London’s Southbank Centre to promote compassion towards refugees. This comes as the… Read More
Honey Dijon announces Southbank Centre takeover with Juergen Teller shoot.
22 May 2023 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre today announced that pioneering DJ and producer Honey Dijon is taking over its venues for two exceptional evenings of live music… Read More
Exhibition celebrating David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane to open at Southbank Centre.
29 March 2023 • Mark Westall
Exhibition celebrating David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane to open at Southbank Centre in April. The two-month-long exhibition explores the creation of the album’s iconic artwork
Aladdin Sane: 50 Years celebrates David Bowie’s album, Aladdin Sane.
27 February 2023 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre today announces a raft of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s iconic 1973 album, Aladdin Sane. Aladdin Sane: 50 Years
Southbank Centre team up with Apple to support Black & Black Mixed heritage creative talent.
23 January 2023 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre and Apple today announced national partners and further details of REFRAME, its pioneering new talent development programme to support emerging Black and Black Mixed heritage creatives in London, Manchester and Birmingham.
BODIES and THIRST TRAP by Ray Young
31 August 2022 • Mark Westall
Groundbreaking immersive art installation explores Climate Activism, Neurodiversity & human connection with water
Ai Weiwei curates FREEDOM an art exhibition created by prisoners.
8 August 2022 • Mark Westall
Koestler Arts has announced that their fifteenth Annual UK Exhibition in partnership with the Southbank Centre this October will be… Read More
Greta Thunberg to headline the London Literature Festival in world exclusive launch of The Climate Book
5 August 2022 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival – the longest-running celebration of the written and spoken word of its kind in… Read More
Summer: In the Black Fantastic — imagining new futures through Black art + culture
18 May 2022 • Mark Westall
This summer the Southbank Centre is exploring Black art and popular culture with an extraordinary season of multi-artform events, featuring outdoor art installations, music, literature, poetry and performance as well as a wealth of free-to-attend events.
Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival lights up the holidays.
23 December 2021 • Mark Westall
The Southbank Centre’s Winter Festival features nine weeks of festive events, exhibitions and dazzling performances. Visitors of all ages can… Read More
Hayward Gallery appoints Yung Ma as Curator
6 December 2021 • Mark Westall
Yung Ma has been appointed Curator, Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre to work on the gallery’s dynamic programme that… Read More
Southbank Centre unveils first digital Unlimited festival programme accessible to global audience
7 January 2021 • Mark Westall
TTo coincide with International Day of Disabled Persons, the Southbank Centre today announces details of its first digital Unlimited festival programme, a five-day festival featuring dance, performance, comedy, film, talks, workshops and art that celebrates the artistic vision of disabled artists
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 08/04/18
8 April 2018 • Tabish Khan
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week include: A massive warehouse, floating glass, a new gallery find, Indian independence, lots of dots, instrument cases and British jazz.
Andreas Gursky: Getting the Big Picture
26 January 2018 • Herbert Wright
After a two-year shutdown for a serious makeover, the Hayward Gallery needed to come back big. The architects delivered, and so does the show that opened this week (until 22 April)— an epic retrospective of Düsseldorf-based photographer Andreas Gursky.
Hayward Gallery to stage UK’s first major retrospective of Andreas Gursky
28 December 2017 • Mark Westall
London’s Hayward Gallery to stage the first major retrospective in a UK institution of the work of acclaimed German photographer Andreas Gursky in Jan 2018.
The Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
12 November 2017 • Tabish Khan
Ponytailed tyres, dancers, an artist collective, clothes pegs, a garden, protest and the digital.
Shonky wins the 2017 Curatorial Open
11 January 2017 • Mark Westall
Southbank Centre’s Hayward Touring programme has announced British artist John Walter as the winner of the 2017 Curatorial Open – its yearly call for proposals for an exhibition of contemporary art aiming to nurture new and diverse curatorial talent and expand the parameters of the contemporary curatorial landscape.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
14 November 2016 • Tabish Khan
A darkened lab, psychedelic LEDs, disco balls, golden trees and child victims of Syrian bombings.
David Byrne to Curate Southbank Centre’s Meltdown 2015
13 February 2015 • Mark Westall
David Byrne, the Oscar, Golden Globe, Obie and Drama Desk award winning musician known for his eclectic collaborations and as a co-founder of the seminal new wave band Talking Heads will curate 2015’s Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre.
NOW OPEN: History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain @HaywardGallery Tuesday 10th February 2015
10 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Richard Hamilton, The State,1993 Tate, London 2014 © The Estate of Richard Hamilton, DACS 2014 (Part of Jane and Louise… Read More
The Art Openings to visit this week.
5 January 2015 • Mark Westall
An opening to visit every night of this week and all really different Enjoy!
Bryony Kimmings talks to FAD about MEGA @SouthbankCentre
13 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The spaceship (called Megatron) lasted about 6 months…