It looks like London has succumbed to its annual bout of art measles, because the Royal Academy is covered in red dots. It’s not really an infectious...
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June’s got it all for art fans. It’s a busy month in the art world, with major summer openings at almost every London institution, covering pretty...
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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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Roger Mayne: ‘Youth’
Roger Mayne: ‘Youth’
Poor kids, what chance have they got? Back in the 1950s, Influential British street photographer Roger Mayne looked at the world that we bring children into...
‘The Body as Matter: Giacometti Nauman Picasso’
‘The Body as Matter: Giacometti Nauman Picasso’
Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, modern art maestro Pablo Picasso and conceptual pioneer Bruce Nauman walk into a gallery. It’s the setup to a joke I...
Rheim Alkadhi: ‘Templates for Liberation’
Rheim Alkadhi: ‘Templates for Liberation’
You can contain the whole history of a nation in a tarpaulin. At least, Rheim Alkhadi can. The Iraq-born artist uses the sturdy plastic material to recount...
‘Dominion’
‘Dominion’
Your taste reflects your personality, so all the art in this gallery full of snark, smut and death can only be Damien Hirst’s. ‘Dominion’,...
John Baldessari: ‘Ahmedabad 1992’
John Baldessari: ‘Ahmedabad 1992’
In 1982, master of modern American conceptualism John Baldessari (1931-2020) was invited to India. On an artist residency in a swanky modernist villa owned by...
Hajime Sorayama: ‘I, Robot’
Hajime Sorayama: ‘I, Robot’
Hajime Sorayama dares to ask the questions everyone is too afraid to know the answers to, like: ‘what if there was a sexy robot at the Hindenburg...
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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...