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Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
Modern Italian painting and sculpture in an Islington townhouse, a concentrated art stop away from the largest museum crowds.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Young V&A
A Bethnal Green museum built around childhood, creativity and design, with a different energy from a conventional art-gallery afternoon.
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Lisson Gallery, Bell Street
A contemporary-art gallery provides a focused exhibition stop near Edgware Road.
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Flat Time House
An artist's former home and studio offers a particular lens on an art visit in Peckham.
Free entry
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White Cube Bermondsey
Expansive rooms, a courtyard and a specialist bookshop give contemporary art space to breathe at White Cube’s Bermondsey gallery.
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Saatchi Gallery
Contemporary art in Chelsea’s Duke of York Square, with a changing exhibition programme to check before choosing your afternoon.
Free entry
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Queen’s House
Art, architecture and the Tulip Stairs make the Queen’s House a quieter Greenwich visit beside the larger maritime museums.
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Bankside Gallery
Watercolours and original prints make this gallery beside the Thames a focused stop on a South Bank art walk.
Free entry
PlaceActivities
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Waterways, gardens, public art and sports venues give the former Olympic site plenty of different ways to spend a day in east London.
Free entry
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White Cube Mason’s Yard
A compact St James’s courtyard leads to White Cube’s two-level gallery, a useful contemporary-art stop within a West End walk.
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Foundling Museum
Art, philanthropy and the history of children’s care meet in this Bloomsbury museum near Coram’s Fields.
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Troxy
Large-scale gigs and live entertainment occupy Troxy’s Art Deco hall on Commercial Road, east of the central concert circuit.
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
Art, film and ideas on The Mall, with a programme that gives central London a more experimental cultural stop.
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Royal Academy of Arts
Artist-led exhibitions and free displays share the Royal Academy’s Piccadilly home, with a programme spanning historic art and contemporary practice.
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South London Gallery
Contemporary art on Peckham Road, with exhibitions that make a strong starting point for exploring Camberwell and Peckham.
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The Brown Collection
A collection devoted to Glenn Brown's work offers a concentrated art stop in Marylebone.
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Eltham Palace and Gardens
Medieval royal history and a later Art Deco home meet at Eltham Palace, with gardens that extend the visit beyond the interiors.
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Cell Project Space
An independent exhibition programme gives Cambridge Heath a smaller-scale art destination.
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Garden Museum
Garden history, contemporary art and the plants around us meet in a former church beside Lambeth Palace, with a courtyard garden and café.
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Kenwood
An art collection in a historic house on the edge of Hampstead Heath, easily combined with a longer walk across the landscape.