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Viewing Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies at Somerset House

Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies opens at Somerset House this week, a major survey taking over the Embankment Galleries representing the thirty-year practice of the choreographer Sir Wayne McGregor CBE.

This immersive exhibition draws attention to McGregor’s lifelong investigation of the body — its capacity for intelligence, movement and interaction. McGregor has always worked at the intersection between choreography, digital technologies and spatial experience and this exhibition reflects this in motion capture, artificial intelligence, robotics and immersive installations, alongside live, unscheduled interventions by his company of dancers, Company Wayne McGregor. The whole experience is designed to encourage a completely new understanding of dance and how we engage with it.

Also among the highlights is a new commission created with Industrial Light & Magic, melding choreographic imagery and high-end visual effects; and a major off-site immersive work titled On The Other Earth, staged at Stone Nest in London’s West End, which employs a 360° cylindrical LED environment to envelop the audience in movement, sound and spatial choreography. A vivid, enlightening account of McGregor’s groundbreaking, radical and interdisciplinary practice.

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Dates
30 October 2025 — 22 February 2026

Viewing Asian Art in London

Asian Art in London is a year-round initiative promoting the presence of Asian Art across the UK, culminating in a week long annual celebration in London, with performances, gallery talks, openings, as well as exhibitions and auctions.

This year’s 28th edition promises a stellar line-up: highlights include free evening viewings of Asian art on Kensington Church Street, St James and Mayfair, and a private view Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts at the V&A this evening – the first time Asian Art in London has partnered with the V&A.

Asian art week is also taking over the auction houses: don’t miss Sotheby’s online Asian Art/5000 Years auction, from 30 October–7 November, featuring objects from five millennia of Asian art history, a diverse showcase that includes works of art from across the continent. The Chinese Art auction, meanwhile, taking place on 5 November, includes several private collections offered to the market for the first time, encompassing the full range of China’s artistic tradition.

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Dates
27 October 2025 — 06 November 2025

Viewing The Sleepers at Murray Edwards College

At Murray Edwards College until February is this fascinating, nuanced and multilayered look at scenes of rest by women artists. Curated by Laura Moseley with curatorial support from Harriet Loffler it features works converging around ideas of sleeping, pausing, dreaming and contemplating by twelve artists from different generations, including Helen Cammock, Tracey Emin, Laura Footes and Celia Paul.

The exhibition delves deeper into changing perceptions and attitudes towards rest and who is able to access it. The exhibition begins, historically and conceptually, with three early 20th century prints by Gwen Raverat – an artist who lived in Cambridge and who returned constantly to the subject of sleeping in paintings and engravings.

Artists have returned to notions of rest to express shifting concerns with health, society, politics, family and creativity. Through various works made over a century, the exhibition also considers the way chronic illness and disability affects access to rest, and considers the contemporary crisis – particularly among women – with sleep quality.

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Dates
18 September 2025 — 22 February 2026
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Storehouse, including over 100 mini
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