Notes & Essays

Museums

Tate Modern After the Rework: What Changed and What Survived

The permanent collection has been rearranged. Here is what the new hang does well and what it leaves alone.

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Museums

The British Museum's Egypt Rooms Without the Crowds

The Rosetta Stone and the mummies, seen in the right order and at the right hour.

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Museums

The Natural History Museum: A Building Worth the Queue

Terracotta, cathedrals and the blue whale — the building is the real exhibit.

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Museums

The Courtauld's Compact Collection: Where Impressionism Lives

Manet's bar, Van Gogh's self-portraits and a collection you can actually finish.

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Museums

Sir John Soane's House of Curiosities

Hogarth's moral sequences and a Pharaoh's sarcophagus in a Georgian house.

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The Wallace Collection: A Palace of Paintings in Marylebone

Frans Hals, Fragonard and the best free rooms in Marylebone.

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Dulwich Picture Gallery: Britain's First Purpose-Built Gallery

Soane's 1817 experiment in daylight, still the way to hang a painting.

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Museums

The Design Museum: Where Everyday Objects Become Art

The Tube map, the Anglepoise and the case for everyday design.

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Galleries

The Mayfair Gallery Circuit: A Self-Guided Afternoon

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

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Galleries

Saatchi Gallery and the Art of the Big Reveal

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

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Galleries

Whitechapel Gallery: A Century of Firsts

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

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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.

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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.

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South London Gallery: Peckham's Quiet Powerhouse

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

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Galleries

Where to See Photography in London: A Practical Map

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

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Galleries

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.

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Artists

Women Artists You Can Actually See in London's Museums

Gentileschi, Vigée Le Brun, Morisot — where the work actually hangs.

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Artists

London's Printmakers: The Workshops Keeping the Craft Alive

Etching, screenprint and the workshops keeping the presses running.

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Artists

Street Art in East London: A Walk Without the Tourist Hoards

Brick Lane's side streets and the railway walls, before the tours arrive.

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Artists

Six Young Sculptors Working With the City's Materials

Six sculptors turning the city's concrete and scrap into new work.

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Artists

London's Ceramicists: The Studio Potters Making Their Own Rules

From Leyton's big wheels to the shop opposite the British Museum.

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Artists

Portraiture Today: How London Artists Redraw the Face

Invented sitters, bark cloth and the portrait's second life.

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Artists

Notes From the Studio: How London Artists Protect Their Practice

Rents, open studios and the economics of keeping a practice alive.

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