• Introduction
• 1. Berlin
• 2. Chicago
• 3. Florence
• 4. London
• 5. New York
• 6. Paris
• 7. Rome
• 8. San Miguel de Allende
• 9. Vienna
• 10. Washington, D.C.

London

The London art scene is a lot like the city itself: a hodgepodge of traditional and modern, majesty and tawdry. This fascinating mix is bound to tantalize with over 200 art venues offering something for every taste. Of course, if it’s your first visit, you’ve got to start with the staples: the British Museum, the National Gallery, and the Tate museums. Whether wandering through the vast antiquity-filled halls of the British Museum, gazing at awe-inspiring paintings by da Vinci and Van Gogh at the National Gallery, observing the evolution of Turner, Constable, and other British notables at the Tate Britain, or marveling at video installations and big-name contemporary art exhibits at the Tate Modern, you’ll get your fill of the phenomenal assortment of art the city has to offer. And, if you can’t resist a bit of scandal, the controversial Saatchi Gallery showcases a shocking (to some of the upper crust) spectacle of outrageous contemporary art. A more low-key (but equally satisfying) art source is the decadent Apsley House, the onetime mansion of the Duke of Wellington; it’s packed with Velázquez paintings, military memorabilia, and priceless silver and porcelain. The Museum of Everything debuted in October 2009 as the scene’s newest boundary-pusher, displaying an oddball collection of notoriously indefinable “outsider art” in a variety of surprising, unconventional manners (like requiring binoculars for viewing).

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