What colours do you associate with festivals or celebrations?

Explore photographs that trace the environmental and human impact of industrial activity on the natural world

Akram Zaatari explores how the internet fulfils the desire to perform for strangers

Explore the hidden, changing lives of artworks

Explore the experimental ways the Soviet Union used photography, publications and posters to promote the socialist state

Fountain, Duchamp’s ‘readymade’ sculpture, was one of the most influential artworks of the twentieth century

Explore how geometric abstraction fabricated dreams of a new society in the twentieth century 

See British artworks from 1730–1765, including paintings by Hogarth

Explore a time of artistic change in Britain, from 1650–1730

Discover the influence of Italy on eighteenth century European artists in this display of drawings, watercolours and oil sketches

These works explore surreal, irrational and mysterious aspects of modern life

See landscape painting and great neoclassical works from 1810–1840

Trace the story of British art from the Tudors to WWII

What does it mean to be modern?

Using photomontage, Yates reflects on her mourning process over the death of her mother

South African photographer Ernest Cole’s images document life for Black people during apartheid. Cole’s photographs are displayed alongside his photobook, …

Seamless connects familiar objects from everyday life into a three-dimensional network

Reflect on the range of art produced in Britain from 1930–1940

Learn how Metzger's art expressed concerns about the destructive power of technology, its role in modern warfare and its catastrophic …

In Commonplace 1999, talcum powder is brushed into rectangular shapes on the floor, resembling delicate white paintings