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The crown jewels, Buckingham Palace, Camden Market…in London, history collides with art, fashion, food, and good British ale. A perfect day is different for everyone: culture aficionados shouldn't miss the Tate Modern and the Royal Opera House. If you love fashion, Oxford Street has shopping galore. For foodies, cream tea at Harrod’s or crispy fish from a proper chippy offers classic London flavor. Music and book buffs will love seeing Abbey Road and the Sherlock Holmes Museum (at 221B Baker Street, of course).
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1. Leyden Gallery
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5.0 based on 6 reviews
Leyden Gallery is a unique art gallery and event space with licensed artBar on the boundaries of The City of London and Spitalfields. This vibrant & young London Gallery opened in August 2013. Expect great art, a warm welcome, enthusiasm, knowledge and integrity along with a superb selection of music events. Positioned in the midst of a unique and wonderful community in Leyden Street, E1, which (until now) has been one of London's best kept secrets. Located on a series of boundary lines, woven behind and between Petticoat Lane and Spitalfield's Markets and the boundary of the City of London, Leyden Gallery occupies a corner of a beautiful traditional building, which stands beneath the shimmering towers of commerce in the City. Set on the corner of Cobb Street and Leyden Street it is a vibrant cultural hub waiting to be discovered. Featured Creative Events & Exhibitions: Drink&Draw, Sybarite Nights, City of London Walking Tour, Platform for Emerging Arts
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3. Whitechapel Gallery
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3.5 based on 247 reviews
For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has premiered world-class artists from modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Frida Kahlo to contemporaries such as Sophie Calle, Lucien Freud, Gilbert & George and Mark Wallinger.With beautiful galleries, exhibitions, artist commissions, collection displays, historic archives, education resources, inspiring art courses, dining room and bookshop, the newly expanded Gallery is open all year round, so there is always something free to see.The 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.
Reviewed By futtock21 - London, United Kingdom
The main event here is the revival of Radical Figures occupying the largest two ground floor and two first floor visions. But as a free alternative there are four other exhibitions across the gallery’s other spaces. On the ground floor Carlos Bunga’s strange warehouse world of ladders, upside down chairs, antique mirrors, pots and irons. A sort of sculptural version of MIchael Craig-Martin without the neon or the colour for that matter. In the theatre Rachel Pimms’s Plates combining landscapes from Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe. Upstairs a reprise of a selection of mainly Spanish painting and photography by one Veronica Berber Bicecci. Most impressive for me was the revival of an exhibition of paintings by artists featured in The Return of The Spirit in Painting at the RA in 1981. Only five artists represented but what stunning paintings, all masterpieces in their own right from the likes of Bruce McLean, Julian Schnabel, Mimmo Paladino and even a Georg Baselitz. Had there been an exhibition fee for all five exhibitions would have been worth the price for this group of paintings alone. Some useful archival material is available about the original exhibition.
4. Gallery46
This new art-space from Martin J Tickner, Sean McLusky, Martin Bell & Wai Hung Young in Whitechapel, London’s long-standing centre of radicalism and independence. Housed in a pair of newly renovated Georgian houses in the grounds of Whitechapel Hospital and set over 3 floors and 8 rooms is a kaleidoscopic addition to Whitechapel’s burgeoning gallery scene and its artistic heart.
5. Cave
The Cave is a home for the creative, worldly man & woman. Offering an extensive, well thought curated collection of Modest clothing, beauty, gifts, and homeware. We aim to inspire everyone to live and dress attractively.
6. Gift Zone
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
