EventExhibitions
Anish Kapoor
Mirrors, dark surfaces and large sculptural forms at the Hayward. An exhibition to approach with your eyes and your sense of space.
London / Beyond your usual stop
Thursday 24 September
The local editLondon
Take a different route
A gallery by the river, a market lunch, a neighbourhood you’ve been meaning to explore. There’s always another London.
Less searching. More going.
Your day, your way.
Choose a mood. We’ll connect the good places.
The after-dark edit
London, beyond the last train.
From Canning Town sound systems to Hackney Wick courtyards. Pick your selectors, find your room, make a night of it.
Explore after dark
01London / Canning Town
FOLD
An artist-led electronic music space in Canning Town, for nights organised around the sound system rather than the clock.
Find your nightEditorial artwork
02London / Hackney Wick
Colour Factory
A Hackney Wick meeting point for club nights, live music and time in the garden between sets.
Find your nightEditorial artwork
03London
fabric
A Smithfield finish for a London night built around selectors, sound and the dance floor.
Find your night
04London / Bloomsbury
Fitz’s
Velvet, a disco ball and a richly decorated room off Russell Square: a cocktail stop with a little theatrical flair.
Find your nightExterior photograph
Choose a dated event on the venue’s official programme. Admission and opening times vary.
Follow your curiosity
A few ways to do London.
015 stops, at your pace
From Bloomsbury to the sound system
Treasures, curious collections, a Smithfield table and fabric after dark. London shifts from close looking to deep listening.
Open the itinerary
024 stops, at your pace
London: three free collections to get curious in
An architect’s house, a mansion full of art and a meeting point for health and culture. Three free museum choices beyond an all-day blockbuster.
Open the itinerary033 stops, at your pace
London, with room to wander
A painting, an object, a path through the park. Three free places to give a London day a little direction without filling every hour.
Open the itineraryOn our radar
Worth crossing town for. Or staying local.
King’s Cross
Dishoom King’s Cross
Trafalgar Square
Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation
London
Death Cab for Cutie at Troxy
Out there, right now
What’s on in London today.
EventExhibitions
Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art
Fashion as a way of making art, from Elsa Schiaparelli’s experiments to the house today. A separately ticketed exhibition at the V&A.
EventExhibitions
Ana Mendieta
Body, landscape and belonging through Ana Mendieta’s photographs, films and sculpture at Tate Modern.
EventActivities
FLOP! The Best Songs from the Worst Musicals
Arthur Hull finds songs worth rescuing from musicals that missed their moment, in a cabaret at Wilton’s Music Hall.
Close the tabs. Open the weekend.
A weekend beyond your postcode.
Follow the river, linger over lunch or let a collection fill the afternoon. London has plenty of ways to change the plan.
Make a weekend of it
EventCulture
Ben Okri and Rosemary Clunie at Friday Lates
Poetry and painting meet in a book conversation at the National Gallery’s Pigott Theatre.
EventConcerts
Death Cab for Cutie at Troxy
Death Cab for Cutie play two nights at Troxy around their John Congleton-produced album I Built You a Tower.
The food edit
A city with a world of tables.
RestaurantIndian
Dishoom King’s Cross
Bombay-inspired cooking in a former railway transit shed. A King’s Cross meal that can begin with breakfast or stretch into an evening.
RestaurantItalian
Padella Borough Market
Fresh pasta on Southwark Street. This branch works with a virtual queue, so keep the rest of your lunch plan flexible.
RestaurantBritish
Rules
British cooking on Maiden Lane: game, oysters, pies and puddings, with a dining-room occasion in mind.
RestaurantBritish
St. JOHN: Smithfield
A Smithfield restaurant with a changing British menu. Choose lunch or supper deliberately: the dining room has separate service windows.
Art & culture
Big ideas. Open gallery doors.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Yinka Shonibare and Thomas Gainsborough: A Conversation
A painting and its sculptural response meet in one room. This free National Gallery exhibition opens on 15 October.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Cecilia Vicuña: Foraging Quipu
A free stop in Whitechapel Gallery’s autumn programme, showing Cecilia Vicuña’s Foraging Quipu in Gallery 4.
PlaceExhibitions
The Photographers’ Gallery
Photography exhibitions, a print-sales gallery and a bookshop make this Soho address a focused stop for contemporary image-making.
Free entry
PlaceExhibitions
Serpentine North
Contemporary art and a café sit beside Kensington Gardens at Serpentine North, a free gallery visit that combines easily with a park walk.
Big on discovery. Easy on the wallet.
Good London days needn’t cost much.
Free collections, green spaces and riverside wandering. Spend your time on the things that interest you.
Discover it for yourselfA city of little worlds
One city. Many local worlds.
Editor’s picks
London, one good route at a time.
GuideCulture
London, with room to wander
A painting, an object, a path through the park. Three free places to give a London day a little direction without filling every hour.
GuideCulture
Art, a river walk and something to eat
An exhibition at the Hayward, time along the river and a food stop around Borough. Choose your commitments and leave space between them.
GuideCulture
London: two ways to make an art day
Bankside for modern art, Trafalgar Square for painting, and a Covent Garden table when the day calls for dinner.
GuideCulture
London: three free collections to get curious in
An architect’s house, a mansion full of art and a meeting point for health and culture. Three free museum choices beyond an all-day blockbuster.
A closer look
