Summertime at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside: first out of the gate are Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, followed by hit show Pinocchio in the autumn.

The London Festival of Architecture runs all month, with talks, tours, debates, competitions and workshops across the capital.

June 5 seems the long-awaited opening of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration (the great illustrator himself unveiled a new mural here in May) in an amazing new base in a derelict waterworks in Clerkenwell.

Last chance to celebrate the tercentenary of flamboyant 17th century architect Sir John Vanbrugh by visiting his exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum (closes June 28)

Try Ally Pally's new 'Summit' rooftop walk, with a spectacular views over North London and a climb to the Angel of Plenty on the top.

It's that time of year again...this year's Serpentine Pavilion, the annual architectural confection in Hyde Park, is the Mexico City practice LANZA atelier and features a fabulous wiggly - or serpentine - wall.

June 6-7 weekend is Open Gardens Weekend, a much-loved annual chance to see gardens across the capital, big and small, and often not open to the public.

Quick: there's still a chance to see the Design Museum and la Cinémathèque française showcasing the 30-year archive of filmmaker Wes Anderson, adults from £22 (to July 2026)

Also June 6/7 is the Great Exhibition Road Festival in South Kensington, with tents popping up along Exhibition and College Roads and covering everything from Tech to Health and Happiness.

At 4pm on June 14, the LSO takes over Trafagar Square for a free gig featuring Holst, Elgar and the premiere of London composer Louise Drewett's 'Four Dances'.

Yay, time for the world's largest open air submission art show, the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, with late openings (until 9 pm) on Fridays and Saturdays. Opens June 16.

Yum - the Taste of London food festival rolls into Regent's Park, with a cast of chefs, food writers, restaurateurs, menus and you, the hungry public (June 17-21).

Raindance, the UK's largest film festival, spools out across the West End with an amazing programme of indie UK films, talks, panels and Raindance VRX for virtual reality and new media (June 17-26).

Put June 20/21 in the diary for everyone's favourite musical tapas: West End Live! takes over Trafalgar Square with big stars and excerpts from new shows, all live and free (and there's a big screen in Embankment Gardens).

'Frida: The Making of an Icon' opens at Tate Modern on June 25 and examines the extraordinary life, work and persona of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, one of the great artists of the 20th century.

Last chance to see the Natural History Museum's Wildlife much-loved Photographer of the Year show in South Kensington - in its 61st year (ends June 26).

'Beauty and Destruction: Wartime London in Art' is at the often-underrated IWM Art Gallery, showing London under attack through the eyes of artists. Until November 1.

The Wellcome Collection, always good for a punchy show, examines senescence in 'Coming of Age', with work and objects from 120 artists (to Nov 29)

Get there quick: enfant-terrible-turned-national-treasure Dame Tracey Emin's retrospective, 'A Second Life', runs at Tate Britain (to Aug 31)

Va-Va-VAM! The V&A stages what turns out to be, incredibly, the UK's first show on the out-there sophistication and chic of Elsa Schiaparelli in 'Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art' (to Nov 8)