London Art Galleries
Discover reviews and listings for all of the best London art galleries and museum exhibitions
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London's best photography exhibitions
Lose yourself in all kinds of new worlds by tracking down the best photography exhibitions in London.
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The best museums and galleries in London
August 2025: We're in peak summer, which means that visitors from all the world are thronging London's biggest museums. But that doesn't mean you should...
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The best free art in London
We all know that it costs an arm and a leg to enjoy a day out in London these days. Step out the front door and you’re probably already down a tenner...
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Inside the Royal Academy’s 2025 Summer Exhibition
Featuring gold rats, inflatable balls and community photography
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Millet: Life on the Land
To reach Life on the Land, the National Gallery’s exhibition on the nineteenth century French artist Jean-Francois Millet, you have to walk through...
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Tai Shani: ‘The Spell or The Dream’
‘The sleep of reason produces monsters’. It’s a perpetually instructive aphorism that artists have repeatedly returned to....
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Virtual Beauty
‘Instagram face’, CGI influencers and AI sex dolls are all going under the microscope in the new Somerset House exhibition, Virtual...
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akâmi: Duane Linklater
The Canadian First Nations artist playfully pokes the ideas that underpin the western art world
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Ithell Colquhoun: ‘Between Worlds’
Strange, occult and experimental, this survey reveals the British surrealist’s sharp eye for composition
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Edward Burra at Tate Britain
This major retrospective underlines the defiantly radical vision of the 20th-century painter
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Dulwich Picture Gallery is opening a new pavilion and sculpture garden
The south London gallery is hosting a two-day family festival to celebrate the unveiling of its £5m redevelopment
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A new Banksy artwork has gone on display in London
The artwork was painted on a train signalling box back in 2019, and now it’s on show in Covent Garden
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London is getting a new museum all about brutalist architecture
The museum will be housed in one of the UK’s last brutalist school buildings
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The 40 best photos of London ever taken
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...