Tate Modern, London, UK by Hans Peter Schaefer

Tate Modern Museum

The Tate Modern is located at the banks of the Thames River. It is Britain’s national museum of contemporary and modern art. The exterior of the structure is unique because the building was previously a power station. Inside the museum, you will find modern artworks and older masterpieces that are on temporary display.

You can see exhibits for free that feature Matisse, Cezanne, Dali, Picasso, Warhol, Hirst and Pollock among others. This coming October, you can view an exhibit that features Aldo Tambellini’s revolutionary artworks that include paintings, video, sound, slide and film projections. Tambellini’s artworks focus on political change in a creative way.

Official website of Tate Modern

Guts For Garters

Guts For Garters, located at Cob Gallery on 205 Royal College Street, offers something unique to its visitors. This innovative artistic concept integrates a shop, art exhibit and even clothes and furniture in its inventory. Typically, management arranges an exhibit based on a theme with each artist, item and designers working to create a cohesive environment. Exhibits usually instigate debate and out-of-the-box concepts that might make new visitors to the museum question their choice of exhibitions.

Themes like “Sex and Death” and artworks created with real human blood make this museum stand out from other artistic venues. Currently, Guts and Garters is planning an installment on August 17 to 19 with Cathie Pilkington called Traces. The exhibit will include commissioned objects like fabrics, furniture, jewelry and food. The exhibit, which will be located at an old Victorian building, will also feature illustrations, sound and digital art.

Official website of Guts For Garters

Royal Academy Of Arts

This museum was founded in 1768 and is one of the oldest museums on London. On permanent exhibit are some of the works of Michelangelo and personal items of Queen Victoria. To get to the venue, you have to walk through the gates of Piccadilly to get to the Annenberg Courtyard where you will find the entryway to the Royal Academy Of Arts.

You will find current exhibits featuring works from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The show includes artworks from 19th century France that focus mainly on Impressionism. You can also view weird, wacky and wonderful architectural works of art. The Kings Artists is also being featured at the museum till October. The show features anything and everything about King George III and Queen Charlotte.

Official website of Royal Academy Of Arts

Royal Academy of Arts in Burlington House, London, UK by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)

Visiting the top London Art Galleries will allow you to appreciate what Britain is all about. What better way to absorb the culture and history of this country than to see a comprehensive collection of artworks in London’s best art museums and galleries.

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A dancer at Notting Hill Carnival, London, UK / extrageographic

With millions on track to the UK for the greatest show on earth, what are the non-Olympics alternatives for those fatigued with the Games?

Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy – The Science Museum

Though you mightn’t be familiar with Alan Turing you’re probably using one of his inventions as we speak. So as you know, Turing invented the computer. He is also the codebreaker who managed to shorten the Second World War by years. This exhibition pays homage to Alan Turing, whose short tragic life impacts on us all on a daily basis. Based in the excellent Science Museum in London, Codebreaker: Alan Turing Life and Legacy is a must see exhibition this summer.

Damien Hirst – Tate Modern

Whether you see Damien Hirst as the greatest artist of our generation or consider him part business man/ part showman, this exhibition is a must see on a trip to London. Held at the brilliant and beautiful Tate Modern, the artist’s greatest works are in abundance and a visit allows you to see all the meat, medicine and animals suspended in tanks of preserving chemicals you will ever hope for. It’s certainly worth a visit, whether you’re a lover or even a hater of Hirst.

Notting Hill Carnival

Since its beginnings in 1964, the Notting Hill Carnival has become a weekend of significant spectacle. Take part in the celebrations and watch the flats, dancing and ambitious celebration. It’s a vibrant celebration and one that celebrates multi-cultured of Britain in all its colourful glory. Sunday is the best day for family, but the whole festival is a feast for the senses.

Another London – Tate Britain

A wonderful exhibition that documents London’s period of change that was 1930 – 1980. With over 150 photos from some of the twentieth centuries top photographers, this is a must see exhibition to get an insight into the UK’s main city. From the photographers experience of UK immigration to the relationships the photographers had with the city as tourists and citizens, this is a must see and gives a fantastic sense of perspective on London. All the greats are on show, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, Irving Penn, Bill Brandt, Dora Maar and Robert Frank.

Superhuman – Welcome Institute

What better time to look at man’s efforts into enhancing physical performance than just in time for the Olympics. From early prosthesis found in an Egyptian tomb to aids in sight, hearing and limbs, this exhibition focuses on the history of prosthetics. The exhibition has pieces of the wondrous as well as the weird and includes everything from silver noses attached to spectacles for women who disfigured from syphilis, to a piece on the rise of isotonic drinks.

With so much on in London in summer 2012, we’re pretty sure you might even get side-tracked from the Olympics.

Cormac Reynolds writes for specialist UK visa site Global Visas and lives in London.

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