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PlaceTokyo
Nezu Museum
Art, a garden and a slower pace in Minami-Aoyama, with admission tied to the exhibition calendar.
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PlaceMexico City
Museo Jumex
Contemporary art under a sawtooth roof in Granada. Free entry makes it easy to come back for the next exhibition.
PlaceBuenos Aires
Fundación Proa
Contemporary art beside Caminito, with a bookshop and café that give a La Boca afternoon somewhere to linger.
GuideTokyo
Tokyo, at your own pace
Three ways to shape a Tokyo day: a garden, a temple neighbourhood or an afternoon with art. Choose one starting point.
GuideNew York
An afternoon on Manhattan’s west side
Start with art at the Whitney, take the High Line at your own pace, and keep a Village pizza stop in reserve.
Free entry
PlaceLos Angeles
The Broad
A contemporary-art anchor on Bunker Hill. The collection is free to visit; special exhibitions can have separate tickets.
Free entry
PlaceParis
Musée Cernuschi
Asian art at the edge of Parc Monceau. The permanent collection is free, with room for a museum visit and a little time outside.
Free entry
PlaceShanghai
Shanghai Museum East
A museum day in Pudong, shaped around Chinese art. Choose a gallery and leave yourself time to look properly.
Free entry
PlaceLos Angeles
Fowler Museum at UCLA
A free museum on the UCLA campus, with exhibitions that open conversations about art, objects and cultural life.
GuideBerlin
Open sky, a food hall and the eastern river
Room to breathe at Tempelhof, lunch in Kreuzberg and art along the Wall. Leave the last stop open for a music-led night.
Free entry
PlaceLondon
Tate Modern
Modern and contemporary art on Bankside. The collection is free; choose a paid exhibition only if it is the reason you want to go.
PlaceLondon
Whitechapel Gallery
An East End art institution with free displays, a bookshop worth lingering in, and Thursday evenings that carry on until nine.
PlaceBuenos Aires
MALBA
Latin American art in Palermo, with room for a long look before the next café or walk.
GuideNew York
New York, with room to breathe
Three free places to spend time, from a SoHo art room to the Brooklyn waterfront. Pick one and let the day grow from there.
EventShanghai
Computer Worlds
A West Bund exhibition follows the computer into art, design and architecture. Pair the gallery with a walk along the Huangpu.
GuideParis
Two museums. No ticket required.
Two free permanent collections for an afternoon in Paris: choose city history in the Marais or art and a garden pause near the Champs-Élysées.
PlaceParis
Musée Guimet
Asian art at place d’Iéna, with enough detail in a single gallery to reward an unhurried afternoon.
PlaceLos Angeles
LACMA
A Wilshire art day with room to wander, from the David Geffen Galleries to exhibition spaces and the outdoor campus.
PlaceBerlin
Neue Nationalgalerie
Glass, steel and a serious afternoon with art. Let Mies van der Rohe’s building set the pace before choosing the exhibition.
On the house
EventBarcelona
Free first Sundays at MACBA
Three Sunday mornings to build around art. Keep the afternoon for lunch, a walk or a different side of the city.
EventParis
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
Four decades of painting and Black representation at the Musée d’Art Moderne, with late openings on Thursdays.
Free entry
PlaceLos Angeles
Getty Center
Art, pale stone and space to look out over the city. Free admission, with a timed reservation and a separate parking charge.
PlaceLondon
Hayward Gallery
Contemporary art in a building that asks to be looked at too. Make a current exhibition the centre of a South Bank afternoon.
RestaurantBangkok
Baan Somtum Sathorn
A table of som tum and shared dishes off Sathorn. An easy lunch anchor before an afternoon of art or a later hotel-bar booking.