Mat Collishaw turns to virtual reality for the first time to take audiences back to the dawn of photography
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An exhibition of 50 shortlisted and winning works from this year’s World Illustration Awards
/press/world-illustration-awards-2017-exhibition
Billy Donsanjh uses archive footage, and original interviews to tell the forgotten stories of the South Asian diaspora in his West Midlands hometown.
/blog/kaleidoscope-qa-filmmaker-billy-dosanjh
Restraint, breaking convention, and the personal experiences driving her music: musician Karen Gwyer on her new piece commissioned for this year’s ASSEMBLY series.
/blog/assembly-interview-karen-gwyer
concepts, including where appropriate information on possible form, appearance and materials that might be ... Digital in redefining the cultural centre as a place where cross-disciplinary work is imagined, made and ...
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Somerset House announces its major autumn exhibition celebrating the world's longest-running weekly comic: Beano
/press/beano-art-breaking-rules
An exhibition exploring the joy, friendship, resistance and art of Black LGBTQ+ people in Britain
/press/making-rukus-black-queer-histories-through-love-and-resistance
This summer, Somerset House celebrates the rich contribution of different cultures to Britain
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Highlights from Somerset House Studios programme announced
/press/somerset-house-studios-winter-season-announced
Artist Helga Schmid invites you to turn up, tune in, time out, take a nap, awake in a clockless world.
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A series of presentations, organising workshops, film screenings and performances reflecting on the many dimensions of abolition.
/whats-on/abolition-defence-translation
An innovative sensory installation in our courtyard by British artist Michael Pinsky.
/whats-on/michael-pinsky-pollution-pods
For the second ASSEMBLY season, resident artist Christian Marclay will curate a series of intimate musical performances.
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Meet our second intake of young people currently in work placements across Somerset House.
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DEFRAG returns for another series investigating the myriad ways that technology continues to change culture and society.
/whats-on/defrag-deep-fakes
Publisher Margaret Busby explores the rise of Carnival as a means of celebration and defiance for the Windrush generation
/blog/horace-ov%C3%A9-and-notting-hill-carnival
Sam Williams and Roly Porter present Salvage Rhythms: a new multimedia commission for Somerset House Studios.
/blog/salvage-rhythms-sam-williams-roly-porter
Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura hosts an intimate dinner exploring the themes of birth, marriage & death through taste & sound, with a menu by Hannah Hammond.
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Johanna Hedva brings 'Tom Cruise Studies' to our Transmissions series with expert guests Vivian Ia and Matthew Miller.
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Dennis Bovell, Margaret Busby, Normski, and Zak Ové share their personal stories and discourse around the Black experience, activism,
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