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Art, craft and design

With the Barbican’s two exhibition spaces, the Guildhall Art Gallery and Tate Modern just over Millennium Bridge, the City couldn’t be better served by the visual arts.

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Photo: AOP Gallery (Association of Photographers)

The Association of Photographers(AOP) is a non-profit-making trade association for fashion, advertising and editorial photographers. Its gallery hosts a diverse and dynamic programme of contemporary.

Photo: Barbican Art Gallery
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One of London's most important galleries, the Barbican hosts a diverse series of major shows, from international art to fashion, architecture, design and photography.

Photo: Bloomberg SPACE

Gallery in the European headquarters of Bloomberg that commissions and exhibits contemporary art for the benefit of employees, clients and the community. Free entry.

Photo: Brick Lane Gallery

The Brick Lane Gallery exhibits an eclectic variety of contemporary art and street art by British and international artists, focusing mainly on exhibiting emerging and mid-career artists. The gallery also functions as a rentable gallery space.

Photo: Cochrane Theatre Gallery

The Cochrane Gallery is one of London’s rare spaces specialising in the display of glass art and has hosted glass exhibitions since 1989.

Photo: Courtauld Institute Gallery

Since 1990 the northern part of Somerset House has housed the Courtauld Institute of Art. Here, in the surroundings of one of the most beautiful 18th century buildings in London, visitors can enjoy an extraordinary collection of works.

Photo: The Curve
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This (oddly enough!) curve-shaped space is the Barbican's free art gallery, showing site-specific commissions from some of the world's most exciting contemporary artists.

Photo: Design Museum

One of the world's leading museums of design, fashion and architecture, the Design Museum has a constantly changing programme of exhibitions combining compelling insights into design history with the most exciting innovations.

Photo: EXHIBIT

Social enterprise gallery on the famous Golden Lane estate that "explores and promotes new approaches to meet the challenges of communal living through arts."

Photo: Eagle Gallery

Emma Hill established the Eagle Gallery in 1991 and promotes the work of contemporary artists through a regular exhibition programme, off site installations and a publishing imprint that commissions collaborations between artists and writers.