What’s on in London

Family Fun on Chapel Square

A Gaurd-Themed Adventure for all ages.

Join the adventure on Chapel Square for three fun-filled days of family activities, inspired activities,inspired by the iconic King's Gaurd of London.Pre-book your spot for free workshops and uniform try-ons. Time your visit with the Changing of the Gaurd on Wednesday & Friday!

Date: 20, 21 & 22 August

Time: 11am-2pm

Location: The Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, SW1E 6HQ 

Notting Hill Carnival

Free Entry | 24th to 25th August 2025

The vibrant annual celebration of Caribbean culture that takes place in London's Notting Hill neighborhood. It's a free, two-day street festival that attracts over a million visitors each year. The carnival features parades with elaborate floats and costumes, music from steel bands and sound systems, and a wide variety of food stalls.

Kiefer / Van Gogh at The Royal Academy of Arts

Till 26 October 2025
Vincent van Gogh has had an enduring influence on Anselm Kiefer. See work by both artists side by side this summer.
Seventy-two years later an eighteen-year-old Anselm Kiefer received a travel grant to follow in the footsteps of Van Gogh, starting in the Netherlands, through to Belgium, Paris and Arles in the south of France. Kiefer has been inspired by Van Gogh’s work throughout his nearly 60-year career. The pioneer of Post-Impressionism has informed the subjects and techniques of Kiefer’s monumental paintings and sculptures which draw on history, mythology, literature, philosophy and science.
 

Millet: Life on the Land at The National Gallery

7th August till 19th October 2025
The sower, the woodcutter, a shepherd girl. These are the subjects that made French artist Jean-Francois Millet famous.
Marking the 150th anniversary of his death, this is an opportunity to see some of Millet’s best-loved paintings and drawings.
Born into a farming family in Normandy, Millet moved to the village of Barbizon in 1849 where he put the people who spent their life working on the land, often the poorest of the poor in 19th-century France, at the heart of his work. He knew these people and his realistic, unsentimental approach to painting them was completely new.
 

Post War Abstractions at The Courtauld Gallery

Till 12 Oct 2025

Drawn from The Courtauld’s significant collection of post-war art, this Project Space display will examine forms of abstraction which emerged in Europe and America in the 1950s and 1960s. It will explore the radical approaches towards non-representational image making and experimentation with techniques and materials that characterised the work of artists including Philip Guston, Jean Dubuffet, and Joseph Beuys. Many of these works are recent additions to The Courtauld’s collection as gifts and promised gifts from the Karshan collection.