Visual Art
London's visual art scene is famous for being on the cutting-edge of the art world. This section gives an overview of visual art venues, from the more prestigious venues like the Royal Academy of Arts to the wonderfully formed White Cube in Hoxton.
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"I have always been inspired by Chuck Close... I was not only blown away by the level of detail in his work, but also the varied approaches he took to achieve a final piece. ... I looked into how he worked and saw that he planned… Read More
Founded in 1856, the aim of the National Portrait Gallery, London is ‘to promote through the medium of portraits the appreciation and understanding of the men and women who have made and are making British history and culture, and ... to promote the appreciation and understanding… Read More
The Old Truman Brewery, East London's revolutionary arts and media quarter, is home to a hive of creative businesses as well as exclusively independent shops, galleries, markets, bars and restaurants. For fifteen years the Old Truman Brewery has been regenerating its ten acres of… Read More
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The Zabludowicz Collection is dedicated to bringing emerging art to new audiences and actively supporting arts organisations and artists. It was founded by Poju and Anita Zabludowicz in 1994, and contains over 2000 works by over 500 artists, spanning 40 years of art production. Its focus is on emerging…
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The Whitechapel Gallery is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London’s cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world’s most vibrant contemporary art quarter.
With beautiful galleries, exhibitions, artist commissions, collection displays,…
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White Cube, Mason’s Yard opened in September 2006. It is located off Duke Street, St. James's, home of the original White Cube gallery, on a site that was previously an electricity sub-station. Also designed by MRJ Rundell & Associates it is the first…
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White Cube was set up by Jay Jopling in 1993 as a project room for contemporary art. Although it was one of the smallest exhibition spaces in Europe, it was arguably one of most influential commercial galleries of the past decade. Situated on the second floor…
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Watts Gallery was opened to house the studio collection of George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817-1904), one of the most important artists of the Victorian age. The collection contains more than 1,000 works of art including portraits, landscapes, symbolist paintings, sculptures and drawings, as well as…
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Bequeathed to the British nation in 1897 by Lady Wallace, the Wallace Collection opened to the public as a museum on 22 June 1900. Apart from breaks during the two world wars it has been open ever since.
It is probably best known for its paintings by artists…
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Victoria Miro first opened her gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair in 1985. The gallery quickly earned acclaim for showing the work of established and emerging artists from the USA, Europe and Asia, and for nurturing the careers of young artists from the UK. In 2000 Victoria Miro…
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Welcoming over 400,000 visitors through its doors every year, the V&A Museum of Childhood in London's Bethnal Green houses the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of childhood-related objects and artefacts, spanning the 1600s to the present day.
The collection features toys -…
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Built to elaborate specifications by William Waldorf Astor, later first Viscount Astor, in 1895 as his residence and estate office on reclaimed land following completion of the Victoria Embankment in 1870, Two Temple Place has been acquired and preserved by the Bulldog Trust and offers a unique…
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