Welcome to The Art List! I started this list as a way to share my recommendations for art exhibitions and events in London with my friends and wider community.
After a packed September & October, one might have thought that the London art scene would be a bit slower this month but that could not be further from the case! Here is your list of what exhibitions to see, openings to attend, and art events to check out this November, paired with recs for where to get a coffee or drink after.
Enjoy!
X,
Amanda
Openings & Events
Organised by date, Rsvp & ticket requirements indicated where necessary
Exhibition tour & Talk for Bex Massey: The truth is out there at Roman Road on 50 Golborne Road in Notting Hill, Tuesday 8 November (rsvp essential, email rsvp@romanroad.com)
6.30pm guided exhibition tour with the gallery’s founder Marisa Bellani
7pm talk with artist Bex Massey and writer Louis Wise discussing queerness & camp
Head to The Princess Royal, a beautiful upscale pub, for a drink or cosy dinner afterwards
Opening of Grace Weaver: Trash-Scapes at Galerie Max Hetzler, Mayfair, Wednesday 9 November, 6-8pm
Opening of Pia Ortuño at Incubator at 2 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, Wednesday 9 November, 5.30-7.30pm
Get dinner after at Il Baretto or Jikoni just a minute away on Blanford Street
Openings at No. 9 Cork Street, Mayfair, Friday 11 November, 6-8pm (rsvp here)
Launch party for Joshua Perkins: Animals exhibition, with ceramics by Ana Kerin, presented by Partnership Editions, Lower Clapton, Friday 11 November, 6.30-9.30pm (rsvp to hello@partnershipeditions.com)
Opening of Buffer, a group show of recent graduates from art universities in the UK at, Guts Gallery, Hackney, Friday 11 November, 6-9pm
Opening of Rebecca Parkin at Zabludowicz Collection, Chalk Farm, Friday 11 November, 6-9pm
Walk 10 mins to Lemonia in Primrose Hill for a delicious dinner after the opening
Workshops with artist Gema Prades hosted by Partnership Editions, Lower Clapton, Saturday 12 November
Make Your Own Paint with Egg Tempera, 11am-12.30pm (ticket £50)
Make Your Own Watercolours, 3-4.30pm (ticket £50)
The Artists’ Fair at Somerset House, Saturday 12 November, 12-7pm
Performance by Hannah Catherine Jones and collaborator Evan Ifekoya exploring the healing potential of sound at Mimosa House, Bloomsbury, Saturday 12 November, 4-5.30pm (must reserve free ticket)
Have dinner afterwards at either Ciao Bella or Noble Rot, both on Lamb’s Conduit Street a couple minutes from the gallery
Performance evening on occasion of Touch Me Baby show presented by Bad Art at The Bomb Art Foundation in Archway, Saturday 12 November, 6-9pm (ticket required, £5)
Opening of Marius Steiger at Incubator at 2 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, Wednesday 16 November, 5.30-7.30pm
Bodies of Water: A Confluence of Voices, an evening of readings by writer Phoebe Boswell at Whitechapel Gallery, Thursday 17 November, 7pm (ticket required, £5)
Unveiling of the Connaught Christmas Tree 2022 designed by London-based artist Suzy Murphy, Mayfair, Thursday 17 November, from 5pm
Three great gallery openings in Mayfair on Thursday 17 November!
Opening of Radhika Khimji, Lee Miller: Portraits in Space at Sapling Gallery, 6-8pm
Opening of Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews at Gagosian on Grosvenor Hill, 6-8pm
Opening of Ferrari Sheppard: Tremendous at Massimo de Carlo, 5.30-8pm
End the evening with a drink at Hauser & Wirth’s new pub The Audley on Mount Street!
Exhibitions
This is a running list, so you’ll always have a complete, up-to-date exhibitions list in each newsletter!
Gallery Shows
Mayfair
Tyler Mitchell: Chrysalis at Gagosian on Davies Street, through 12 November
Bernar Venet: Hypotheses at Waddington Custot, through 12 November
Radhika Khimji, Lee Miller: Portraits in Space at Sapling Gallery, 17 November-17 December
Ferrari Sheppard: Tremendous at Massimo de Carlo, 17 November-20 December
Amy Sherald: The World We Make at Hauser & Wirth, through 23 December
Anne Imhof: Avatar II at Sprueth Magers, through 23 December
Grace Weaver: Trash-Scapes at Galerie Max Hetzler, through 7 January
Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews at Gagosian on Grosvenor Hill, 17 November-28 January
St. James’s
The Drawing Year 2022, a selling exhibition of drawings & prints from graduates at the Royal Drawing School, Christie’s, 9-11 November
Cecily Brown: Studio Pictures at Thomas Dane Gallery, through 17 December
Soho
A Flash of Blue, duo show of new work by Hannah Tilson and Beatrice Lettice Boyle at Cedric Bardawil, through 26 November
Fitzrovia
Tschabala Self: Home Body at Pilar Corrias, through 17 November
Somaya Critchlow: Afternoon’s Darkness at Maximillian William, through 19 November
Bloomsbury
Hannah Catherine Jones: OWED TO CHIRON (The Wounded Healer) at Mimosa House, through 23 December
North West London
Bex Massey: the truth is out there at Roman Road, Notting Hill, through 26 November
East London
Alice Neel: There’s Still Another I See, at Victoria Miro, Angel, through 12 November
Buffer at Guts Gallery, Hackney, 11 November - 8 December
South West London
C. Lucy R. Whitehead: Stranger at Grove Collective, Battersea, through 19 November
Museum Shows
Two great shows at Whitechapel Gallery: Moving Bodies, Moving Images and Out of the Margins: Performance in London’s Institutions 1990s – 2010s
Followed by lunch or dinner at St. JOHN Bread and Wine a 10 min walk away
Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery (ticket required, £15)
Rebeca Parkins at Zabludowicz Collection, Chalk Farm/Primrose Hill
Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds at Serpentine Gallery
Check out the Serpentine’s restaurant The Magazine
Two wonderful show at the Royal Academy: William Kentridge (ticket required, £20) and Making Modernism, opening 12 November (ticket required, £15)
Relax at a cosy outdoor table afterwards at favourite spot Cecconi’s (directly in front of the RA’s back entrance) or head to Ottolenghi’s Nopi for a delicious veg-forward meal. For a coffee to go, stop at Ralph’s.
Several recommended shows at the Tate Modern: Cecilia Vicuña’s Turbine Hall commission, The EY Exhibition: Cezanne (book ticket, £22), and Maria Bartuszová (book ticket, £16)
For a sweet post-exhibition treat head to Bread Ahead at nearby Borough Market for one of their delectable donuts
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives at The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square (book ticket, £26)
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism at the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House (ticket required, £13)
Get coffee afterwards at WatchHouse across the courtyard. (Also a great spot to sit and work for a bit!)
Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 - Today at the Design Museum, Kensington, (ticket required, £17)
Leighton House museum reopened last month after renovations (ticket required, £11)
The Design Museum & Leighton House are right next to each other, so pair those visits together then grab a coffee (there is a Gail’s right there) and go for a stroll in Holland Park
Dani and Sheila ReStack: Cuts in the Day at Camden Arts Centre (book ticket, free)