You know what goes really well with ice creams and pints in the sun and skiving off work to sit in the park? A trip to a dark, weird little art gallery, that's...
London Art Galleries
Discover reviews and listings for all of the best London art galleries and museum exhibitions.
These seven amazing London art exhibitions are closing in May
As London’s galleries gear up for their big summer exhibitions, they’re closing the doors on their spring shows. Which is a shame, because...
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Free art in London
Looking at great art in London usually won't cost you penny. Pretty much every major museum is free, as is literally every single commercial gallery. That's a...
London’s newest art gallery is in a huge Grade II-listed church
A beautiful listed church smack dab in the heart of Islington has just become London’s newest art gallery. Castor Gallery, which was formerly in...
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‘Michelangelo: The Last Decades‘
‘Michelangelo: The Last Decades‘
There was a lot of love in the last years of Michelangelo Buonarotti’s life. Already hugely successful, the Renaissance master dedicated his final...
‘Pariah Genius: John Deakin, The Psychobiography of a Photographer’
‘Pariah Genius: John Deakin, The Psychobiography of a Photographer’
Fag-stained, booze-drenched, stumbling and slurring: John Deakin captured the lows of Soho at its height. He was the photographer of choice for Lucian Freud,...
Matthew Krishanu: ‘The Bough Breaks’
Matthew Krishanu: ‘The Bough Breaks’
Matthew Krishanu’s work is shrouded in the fog of memory. Across a series of dreamy, washed-out paintings, he digs up his past and recasts it in canvas...
Robert Rauschenberg: ‘ROCI’
Robert Rauschenberg: ‘ROCI’
Can art save the world? Can it lead to world peace? Nah, probably not, but Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) believed it could. In the 1980s, the giant of...
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider
There was a sense that anything could happen in turn-of-the-century Germany: a fizzing, crackling energy of potential. When it did finally burst into life, it...
Kati Heck: ‘Tip-Toe-Echo’
Kati Heck: ‘Tip-Toe-Echo’
Hidden somewhere in the endless maze of symbols and art historical allusions of Antwerp-based painter Kati Heck’s new show is a very simple,...
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Barbican Centre
Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre, a vast concrete estate of 2,000 flats and a leading arts complex, is a prime example of brutalist architecture, softened a little by time...
National Gallery
National Gallery
Founded in 1824 to display a collection of just 36 paintings, today the National Gallery is home to more than 2,000 works. There are masterpieces from...
National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
Portraits don't have to be stuffy. The National Portrait Gallery has everything from oil paintings of stiff-backed royals to photos of soccer stars and...
Tate Britain
Tate Britain
Tate Modern gets all the attention, but the original Tate Gallery, founded by sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, has a broader and more inclusive brief. Housed in a...
Tate Modern
Tate Modern
The permanent collection draws from the Tate’s collections of modern art (international works from 1900) and features heavy hitters such as Matisse,...
Whitechapel Gallery
Whitechapel Gallery
This East End stalwart reopened in 2009 following a major redesign and expansion that saw the Grade II listed building transformed into a vibrant, holistic...