What’s on in London today
Welcome to the IanVisits guide to free and cheap lectures, talks, heritage, walks and miscellany happening around London.
Top events in London Today
Free Annual clown’s church service
Watch a procession of clowns arriving for their annual church service.
3pm to :
Hackney
£13.10 He Who Gets Slapped (12A*) + live music by Taz Modi
One of the strangest, most twisted films of the silent era, this is the story of a man who relives the greatest humiliation of his life, day after day, in front of a paying public.
4pm to :
Barbican
£5.00 Gatton Park monthly open day
Monthly(ish) open days at 250 acres of the estate originally laid out by Capability Brown.
1pm to 5pm
Reigate
£5.00 Monthly open day at the Kirkaldy Testing Museum
A monthly opening of the Victorian museum of industrial testing equipment.
11am to 5pm
Southwark
£9.36 City of London Dollshouse Festival
London’s newest specialist event in all things small. We gather together the top craftsmen from around the globe who specialise in dolls houses & miniatures.
11am to 5pm
Wapping
Ten Exhibitions That Are Closing Soon
Disease X: London’s next epidemic?
Prepare for the unknown – on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of ‘Spanish Flu’, this display explores how a future epidemic might hit London.
10am to 6pm
Barbican
Closes today
Gainsboroughs Family Album
Featuring over fifty works from across the world, some of which have never been on display before, Gainsborough’s Family Album charts his career from youth to maturity.
10am to 6pm
Soho
Closes today
Repton Revealed
See how Repton’s career unfolded in this special exhibition which brings together Red Books and watercolour paintings, many never publicly displayed before, to celebrate the bicentenary of his death.
10:30am to 5pm
Southwark
Closes today
Figure Totem Beast: Sculpture in Britain in the 1950s
The uncompromising sculpture that emerged in Britain after the Second World War
10am to 6pm
Pimlico
Closes tomorrow
Aleksandra Mir Presents the Pre-Presidential Library
A collection of US tabloid front covers, enlarged to two metres high, featuring a headline that relates to Donald Trump’s business dealings, political aspirations or personal life.
11am to 7pm
Southwark
Closing soon Thu, 7th Feb
Disrupting the Futurecity
Disrupting the Futurecity explores the way in which international artists are positively disrupting our cities, shaping the way we inhabit and engage with public space.
11:30am to 6pm
Soho
Closing soon Sun, 10th Feb
Lorenzo Lotto Portraits
Discover the expressive sensitivity and immediacy of Lorenzo Lotto’s portraits in the first UK exhibition of its kind
10am to 6pm
Trafalgar Square
Closing soon Sun, 10th Feb
Marcus Lyall: Portrait of Jeremy Bentham
Come face-to-face with the illusion of a living Jeremy Bentham: philosopher, social reformer and inventor of the Panopticon.
9am to 7pm
Euston
Closing soon Mon, 11th Feb
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
A landmark exhibition on the history, art, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England.
11am to 5pm
Camden
Ends on Tue, 19th Feb
Edward Burne-Jones
One of the last Pre-Raphaelites, Edward Burne-Jones brought imaginary worlds to life in awe-inspiring paintings, stained glass windows and tapestries
10am to 6pm
Pimlico
Ends on Sun, 24th Feb