The vibrant visual arts scene and thriving community of artists, galleries and organisations are among the highlights of living in and visiting Brighton & Hove, and an essential part of the city’s creative economy.
Every year, our museums, galleries, open studios, festivals, street art and installations draw thousands of people to the...
Intersections at KMA Gallery Brighton opens this month — and it is one of the most quietly compelling exhibitions coming to the city this summer.
Running from 27 June to 17 August 2026 at KMA Gallery on Church Street, the exhibition brings
together two artists whose own paths crossed years ago...
Henry Moore After Hours Kew Gardens is exactly what it sounds like — and then some.
On four evenings across late June and early July, the iconic Temperate House at Kew Gardens transforms after dark into something genuinely unlike anything else on the summer cultural calendar. Dusk falls. The Victorian...
Expressions in Blue Petworth House stops you before you even reach the door. The first thing you see is the obelisks.
Two soaring columns of cobalt blue porcelain standing on the lawn before Petworth House — monumental, impossibly vivid against the pale stone facade and the wide Sussex sky. Your...
There are gardens you visit for beauty. And then there are places that stop you mid-step.
Visiting the Henry Moore Wakehurst exhibition feels like stepping into a different realm.
Henry Moore Wakehurst exhibition does exactly that — from the moment you arrive, the air feels different. Sounds between the ancient trees...
Ballet Central returns to The Dance Space Brighton this June with a must-see programme that captures both the joy of classical ballet and the thrill of bold new work, performed by the outstanding graduating class of London’s Central School of Ballet.
https://www.balletcentral.co.uk/book-tickets/
This year’s company of 35 young dancers – the...
Felicity Aylieff Petworth House exhibition Expressions in Blue is one of the most ambitious displays of contemporary ceramics in England this year — and it is on your doorstep in West Sussex.
The exhibition runs from 23 May to 27 September 2026 at Petworth House, a 17th-century baroque mansion set...
World Goth Day at Strawberry Hill House 2026 takes place this Thursday, 22 May — and Brighton Journal highly recommends booking tickets today. Horace Walpole's extraordinary Georgian Gothic villa in Twickenham, Britain's finest example of Gothic Revival architecture and the birthplace of the Gothic novel, marks the day with...
We Are Warriors, an immersive sound and light installation featuring the voices of women, girls, trans and non-binary people, has taken over the historic Cab Road Tunnel, beneath Brighton Station, until 24 May 2026
Produced by pioneering arts agency In Between Time, in collaboration with Dreamy Place and videoclub for this year’s Brighton Festival, the installation combines...
Brighton Journal's Henry Moore Kew Gardens review begins with a simple observation: these sculptures do not feel placed. They feel grown.
There is a particular kind of exhibition that does not announce itself.
No white walls. No spotlights. No prescribed distance between you and the work. Henry Moore: Monumental Nature at...
