Gallery Guides

Gallery Guides

Commercial spaces, artist-run rooms and the walks between them. These are the guides to the capital's gallery scene — where to go, what to expect and how to look without getting gallery-fatigue.

Converted warehouse galleries on an East London street

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A Weekend Route Through East London's Galleries

Whitechapel to Victoria Park in six rooms, with the walks between them mapped out.

8 min read · By the editors

Sunlit museum galleries with a tall ceiling and polished floor

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Free Art in London: Twelve Rooms That Never Ask for a Ticket

A full week of looking, no door charges. Twelve rooms that prove London's best art is still free.

7 min read · By the editors

A white-walled Mayfair gallery with a single large painting on display

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The Mayfair Gallery Circuit: A Self-Guided Afternoon

Cork Street to Savile Row in one free afternoon of blue-chip rooms.

6 min read · By the editors

The long white entrance hall of the Saatchi Gallery with a large artwork on the wall

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Saatchi Gallery and the Art of the Big Reveal

White halls, big reveals and a former army HQ in Chelsea.

6 min read · By the editors

The stone facade of the Whitechapel Gallery on Whitechapel High Street

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Whitechapel Gallery: A Century of Firsts

Guernica's 1939 landing and a century of East End firsts.

7 min read · By the editors

A converted shop-front gallery on a Shoreditch side street

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Shoreditch Gallery Hopping: What to Skip and What to See

Raven Row, Autograph and the side streets the weekend crowds miss.

6 min read · By the editors

The vast white main hall of White Cube Bermondsey

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White Cube's London Spaces and the Business of Art

Bermondsey, Mason's Yard and Hoxton Square — one brand, three rooms.

6 min read · By the editors

The Victorian gallery space of the South London Gallery with wooden floors

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South London Gallery: Peckham's Quiet Powerhouse

A Victorian art club, a fire station and Peckham's quiet power.

6 min read · By the editors

A bright gallery wall hung with large black-and-white photographs

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Where to See Photography in London: A Practical Map

The Photographers' Gallery to the free museum rooms, mapped in order.

6 min read · By the editors

A bronze sculpture on the South Bank with St Paul's across the river

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London's Open-Air Sculpture: From St Martins to the South Bank

The Fourth Plinth, the South Bank bronzes and the Line's free walk.

6 min read · By the editors

A gallery wall densely hung with paintings of many sizes

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Inside the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

The world's largest open submission show, decoded room by room.

7 min read · By the editors

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