London Art Galleries

The body positivity movement will tell you that to find happiness you just have to accept your earthly vessel, foibles and folds and all. It’s as simple...

Life, what’s it all about? Well, in Jane Hayes Greenwood’s latest series, it’s reduced down to its most fundamental and primal elements:...

At a time when photography was going gonzo – when people were hunting out action, shooting from the hip – Evelyn Hofer turned the other way. The...

An aesthetic battle took place in Portland in the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 murder. Demonstrators painted their slogans across the hoardings of...

All the hardened climate sceptics coming to the Hayward Gallery are about to have their minds powerfully and irrevocably changed. Because written in big,...

You get to watch life slowly collapse in Martin Wong’s art. Across his career (he died in 1999 aged 53), the Chinese-American artist documented the free...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The permanent collection draws from the Tate’s collections of modern art (international works from 1900) and features heavy hitters such as Matisse,...

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...