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Fear and Freedom: 1940–1965
Ongoing
The Post-War era is one of immense social change and dramatic geopolitical realignment. Artists give visual expression to the experiences …
Construction: 1955–1965
Ongoing
As Britain begins to rebuild, some artists use new materials in dialogue with modern design and architecture, believing art can …
Marcel Duchamp and Richard Hamilton
Until 5 October 2025
This room explores the friendship and collaborations of the artists Richard Hamilton and Marcel Duchamp in the years 1956 to …
Creation and Destruction: 1960–1966
Until 20 October 2024
In the 1960s artists in Britain adopt a radical approach to question society’s values, merging art with life
In Full Colour: 1960–1970
Ongoing
Social changes, popular media and a new spirit of optimism inspire artists to embrace vibrant, colour-saturated imagery
Richard Hamilton
24 April 2023 – 27 May 2024
This display brings together paintings and prints Hamilton made between the 1950s and the 1970s, when modern consumer culture emerged …
Franciszka Themerson: Walking Backwards
3 June 2024 – 30 March 2025
These films, drawings and paintings mingle tragedy and humour to explore the turbulent years before and after the Second World …
Ideas into Action: 1965–1980
Ongoing
Artists begin working with ideas and images that can be rapidly transmitted in an increasingly interconnected world, addressing political and …
Henry Moore
Ongoing
From the comfort of family to the destruction of war, Moore’s sculptures and drawings explore enduring subjects
Francis Bacon and Henry Moore
Ongoing
Bacon and Moore’s dynamic figures explore the relationship between form and space
Balraj Khanna: Theatre of the Natural World
Until 6 July 2025
In these poetic, abstract paintings Balraj Khanna explores ideas of nature, community, imagination and the unconscious
Aubrey Williams: Cosmological Abstractions 1973–85
19 December 2022 – 2 June 2024
This display explores Williams’s involvement with ecology, cosmology, music and pre-colonial civilisations
No Such Thing as Society: 1980–1990
Ongoing
Against a backdrop of economic and social transformation, artists in the 1980s explore their experience of the land and the …
End of a Century: 1990–2000
Ongoing
Media, money and celebrity transforms the landscape of British art. Provocative young artists take centre stage, while others contemplate cross-cultural …
Mona Hatoum: Current Disturbance
Ongoing
Current Disturbance explores systems of control, political tension and the human body under surveillance
Hamad Butt
Permanently Closed
Transmission explores the relationship between seeing and knowing. Hamad Butt places the supernatural and the scientific together to interrogate how …
The State We're In: 2000–now
Ongoing
This final room in our five-century story of British art features artists of different generations working in Britain today. Some …
Zineb Sedira
Ongoing
Dreams Have No Titles combines the artist’s life story with fiction and documentary in ‘a film about film and filmmaking’
Tony Ray-Jones
Until 17 May 2026
These photographs chronicle and celebrate English customs, traditions and leisure activities in the 1960s