This Week's London Picks

See the 70-metre embroidery in London for the first time in nearly 1,000 years, telling the story of 1066 and life around the Norman Conquest.

Hear classical favourites and modern hits reimagined by live musicians in atmospheric venues illuminated by hundreds of candles.

360-degree light projection mapping and live music experience telling the story of London, narrated by Hugh Bonneville and accompanied by a live choir and orchestra inside Westminster Cathedral.

Seven Ukrainian Baroque sacred objects from Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra—including an icon, a silver-bound Gospel and a gilt chalice—are shown in the UK for the first time in the V&A's silver galleries.

A free display in the V&A's Prince Consort Gallery follows the Burberry trench from military outerwear to a familiar fashion staple.

New Delhi filmmaker Amar Kanwar fills Serpentine North with films and multi-screen installations on memory, displacement and the Indian subcontinent.

Magritte paintings, drawings and sculpture shown with new work by more than forty contemporary artists at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill.

The festival's 20th year puts more than 150 arts, culture and science events into Bloomsbury's streets, squares, museums and halls through October. Most events are free to reserve; some are paid.

More than 60 talks, cemetery walks, workshops and performances on death and the city, spread across London venues, with a share of ticket income returned to the host cemeteries.

A ticketed British Museum exhibition of Korean art and objects covering more than 2,000 years, in the Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery. The show is closed on 1 and 2 December.

Explore how the light and landscape of France's Mediterranean coast shaped modern art through works by Monet, Cézanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso and other major artists.

A major exhibition bringing together around 40 paintings exploring love, friendship and human connection in Renoir's work.

An immersive exhibition recreating London around 1700, including a street scene and Edward Lloyd's Coffee House, exploring how the Great Fire led to early fire insurance and helped shape the rebuilt City. Open weekdays.

Guest-curated by Edward Enninful, this exhibition explores the optimism, rebellion and cultural impact of the 1990s through photography, fashion, art and design.

Tim Walker's fantastical portraits of LGBTQ+ activists, performers, artists and writers explore queer identity, love and community.

London’s international contemporary dance festival presents performances, films, discussions and participatory events by artists from around the world.

An immersive Halloween attraction taking over Avery Hill Mansion with two headline haunted mazes, live characters, elaborate sets and five hidden horror experiences.

Eleven international artists transform Regent's Park's English Gardens with a free outdoor exhibition of contemporary sculpture.

More than 200 rare prints trace pictorialism's development across the world, showing how photographers used the darkroom to establish photography as an artistic medium.

Photographs, magazines, manuals, toys and archival material reveal how cameras moved from an elite pastime into children's everyday lives and creative play.

An illuminated Halloween trail after dark featuring fire performers, Dracula's Lair, a cursed tomb, glowing woodland and different levels of scares.

Shonibare's headless sculptural reimagining of Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews is displayed beside the original, questioning privilege, colonialism, identity and wealth.

Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and other Aardman characters fill Lightroom's towering walls and floor in an immersive journey through iconic scenes, new animation and archive material.

Around 200 artworks made by people in UK criminal-justice settings explore childhood, family, decisions and chance, selected by young curators with experience of parental imprisonment.

See the complete series of Hokusai’s celebrated Mount Fuji prints together in the UK for the first time, revealing everyday life, travel and changing landscapes in nineteenth-century Japan.

Dua Lipa curates the Southbank Centre’s annual celebration of books and spoken word, bringing together established authors, emerging writers, conversations and creative events.

Step into a mixed-reality performance by pianist Yuja Wang, combining recorded piano, spatial sound and a virtual world that visitors can move through using a VR headset.

An 18-day festival of independent music documentaries exploring performers, scenes, recordings and subcultures across genres ranging from punk and jazz to electronic and queer art-pop.

Maps, paintings, scientific instruments and a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence explore how science shaped—and was shaped by—the emergence of the United States.

Rare photographs, fashion, artwork and personal archive material celebrate Poly Styrene and the women who shaped punk’s music and visual culture.

A free museum trail presents eight Freddie Mercury looks spanning landmark performances and music videos, celebrating the singer in his eightieth-anniversary year.

Artwork and photography created by survivors of modern slavery appears across central London, exploring identity beyond the label of victim and the role of creativity in rebuilding confidence.

A family storytelling festival with author talks, illustration workshops, play-and-sing sessions and museum tours, including appearances by Jacqueline Wilson and Tom Palmer.

A half-term programme of international animation, family classics, previews and short films, accompanied by introductions, crafting, drawing activities and quizzes.

Rio Cinema’s first children’s film festival combines family favourites and international animation with storytime, creative activities and a Halloween costume parade.

A week of Baroque and early music ranging from intimate recitals and experimental collaborations to Bach’s orchestral suites and Mass in B minor.

Explore the life and imagination of the Queen of Crime through personal letters, notebooks, manuscript drafts, recordings, photographs and objects including Christie’s typewriter and material connected to her most famous mysteries.

Discover the real and imagined London that shaped Charles Dickens, through atmospheric displays and objects including his walking stick, the manuscript for Oliver Twist, an original sketch of Fagin and a childhood doorknocker.

Archival photographs, eyewitness testimony, company records and contemporary survivor portraits expose how the Nazi regime and private businesses exploited millions of forced and slave labourers during the Second World War.

Paintings, photographs and hospital plans trace 250 years of operating-theatre history, from surgery before anaesthesia and antisepsis to modern NHS teams, changing medical technology and debates around patient privacy.

More than 45 artworks, photographs, films, objects and oral histories reveal how artists recorded wartime London, from Tube shelters and damaged docks to displacement, shortages and the resilience of everyday Londoners.

Indian classical music takes over the Barbican through concerts, talks, a pop-up bazaar, documentary screenings, masterclasses, meditation, breathwork and yoga accompanied by live music.

A half-term programme of space-themed family activities, including an immersive mobile planetarium, laser tag and a museum-wide mission hunting mischievous character clones among the aircraft.

Celebrate 120 years of the Piccadilly line through family activities exploring its distinctive stations, architecture, communities and connections across London, including crafts and the chance to design your own station.