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Now Play This
6 Apr-14 Apr 2024
Somerset House
London WC2R 1LA
Overview
Now Play This, the UK’s leading experimental games festival, returns to Somerset House this spring showcasing the very latest in independent and innovative game design from across the globe. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the festival offers engaging interaction and play for all ages to enjoy, fusing art and games with a new themed edition, Liminal: Playing Between Worlds.
As part of the city-wide London Games Festival, this year’s Now Play This features games that ask players to think of the way they perceive the spaces around them, and about the way people relate to one another. Encouraging self-reflection, the interactive festival explores the transitory, borderless spaces between artist’s imaginations and audiences' inner worlds.
Alongside games, installations, activities and workshops, there will be an accompanying programme of live events.
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Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads
The Courtauld
until 27 May
The Life of Forms
Hayward Gallery
until 6 May
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In
National Portrait Gallery
until 16 Jun
Love Will Come Back: Ann Craven with Robert Mapplethorpe and Mohammed Z. Rahman
Phillida Reid
until 4 May
The Last Caravaggio
The National Gallery
until 21 Jul
The Blue Hour
Union Pacific, WC1
until 4 May
Theodore Ereira-Guyer: The Second Heart
Cedric Bardawil
until 4 May
Aria Dean: Abattoir
ICA
until 5 May
Legion: life in the Roman army
The British Museum
until 23 Jun
Robyn Denny
Vardaxoglou Gallery
until 11 May
ANNA VAN OOSTEROM / MARY NORDEN: 'TORN'
Vivienne Roberts Projects
until 9 May
Raqs Media Collective: Come Undone
Frith Street Gallery
until 4 May
Andreana Dobreva - Public Grapes - Anonymous Meat
Fiumano Clase
until 24 May
Vicken Parsons: Time
Cristea Roberts Gallery
until 2 Jun
Darren Almond
White Cube, Mason’s Yard
until 4 May
Kati Heck: TIP-TOE-ECHO
Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street
until 11 May