Whitechapel Gallery, Aldgate
The original East End gallery, the Whitechapel comes complete with shop, cafe, restaurant, oh and plenty of galleries in which you will find work by some of the biggest names in 20th and 21st Century art...
Raven Row, Spitalfields
A relatively new addition to the East London art scene, Raven Row is a substantial gallery, with three floors of exhibition space and a serious program that already boasts one Turner Prize-nominated exhibition...
White Cube (Hoxton Square), Hoxton
Old stomping ground for many of the YBAs, the White Cube is one of the most notoriously successful commercial galleries in London, it also has a high turnover of world-class shows...
Victoria Miro, Old Street
In this two floor, 10,000-square-foot, converted Victorian furniture factory, Victoria Miro - one of the grandes dames of the Britart scene - curates exhibitions that successfully negotiate between being both outstanding and unpretentious…
KK Outlet, Hoxton
Small shop with an exhibition space showing experimental work from little-known artists and graphic designers from around the world. Worth a visit if you are in the area….
Tate Modern
I hope I'm not the only person to have confused Tate Modern and Battersea Power Station. Once, in my neophyte days of art appreciation, I was visiting the Tate Modern alone for the first time and, being sketchy on London geography, panicked a little when I saw from the train window a similar building just...
Tate Britain
Tate Britain all started with a sugar cube. Sir Henry Tate made his millions as a sugar merchant and then generously donated his beloved art collection to establish the then called National Gallery of British Art; the first of its kind to celebrate purely home-grown artists.
V&A
I think it’s the name that puts most people off: it’s not ultra-hip-chic-modern. You won’t catch anybody pickling a chain-sawed cow or shitting abstractedly on a four-foot canvas at the Victoria and Albert.
Wallace Collection
Tucked behind Selfridges, in the leafy Manchester Square, stands the beautiful Hertford House; home to the Wallace Collection. Generations of Marquises’ of Hertford - dedicated collectors of European art - ensured that this Collection is as varied as it is magnificent.
Camden Arts Centre
An easy to reach location, spacious galleries, a lovely café and intelligible exhibitions...
National Portrait Gallery
I love people watching, I do it everywhere. The Xhosa people of South Africa have a proverb that runs 'Ubuntu ungamntu ngabanye abantu' - people are people through other people. This is true, I think, and it is one of the reasons why I love the National Portrait Gallery. It is a gallery that is...
October Gallery
October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL Opening Hours: Tuesday and Thursday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm; Wednesday, 10am – 9pm. www.octobergallery.co.uk October Gallery shows art that is by turns colourful, unpredictable and, just occasionally, spectacular. Hidden away in a converted Victorian school in Bloomsbury, the gallery promotes the work of contemporary artists...
