Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Luxembourg + Co.
London / New York gallery Luxembourg + Co. emerged in 2020 out of Luxembourg & Dayan, founded in 2009 by Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan
Art Gallery of the Week
London’s gallery scene is varied, from small artist-run spaces to major institutions and everything in between. Each week, art writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives a personal view of a space worth visiting.
So here is Art Gallery of the Week
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Tate Britain
Tate Britain opened as the National Gallery of British Art on the site of the former Millbank Prison in 1897, but soon became commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Handel Street Projects
Montenegrin gallerist and curator Fedja Klikovac, who arrived in Britain in 1992, currently shows mainly from his home in Islington – though there are plans to change that.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Frith Street Gallery
Frith Street Gallery was founded in 1989 by Jane Hamlyn – daughter of the famous publisher Paul Hamlyn – originally in a Georgian townhouse at 60 Frith Street, just off Soho Square.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Barbican Centre
The Barbican’s galleries lie within a labyrinthine concrete complex, part of an estate that also includes 2,000 flats, innumerable walkways, three restaurants, a public library and an impressively planted conservatory as well as an arts centre known for theatre, film, music and dance as much as visual art.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sid Motion Gallery
Sid Motion comes from an artistic background – her father is Andrew Motion, poet laureate 1999-2009; her mother Jan Dalley, arts editor of the Financial Times –
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Niru Ratnam
Niru Ratnam (don’t call him Ratman, a common error!) has popped up across the years in various galleries I’ve visited – I recall him at Aicon, Frith Street and Koenig as well as running fairs.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Estorick Collection
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Estorick Collection, which occupies a distinctive niche as Britain’s only museum devoted to modern Italian art.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Gagosian
Virginia Verran in her show of Bruce Bernard photographs Gagosian, 20 Grosvenor Hill, London W1K 3QD (plus three other London… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Belmacz
Julia Muggenburg founded Belmacz – close to Bond Street underground station – in 2000 as a means of hosting a critically engaged exhibition program alongside her sculptural jewels and objects.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Bernard Jacobson Gallery
Bernard Jacobson started his career in London in the 1960s as a journalist, leading him to befriend many artists, and set up his own gallery in 1969.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Camden Art Centre
Camden Art Centre, founded in a former library building in 1965, has been in the news recently for an unwelcome reason: its annual Government funding has been cut by more than a third, from £937,000 to £600,000.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Royal Academy of Arts
I guess no one needs to be told about the Royal Academy, founded in 1768 and iconically located not once but thrice: in the former Royal Palace of Somerset House (1771- 1836), the National Gallery (1837-67) and Burlington House, Piccadilly (1868 onwards). It used to be considered crusty and old-fashioned (the Royal Academy o‘ Farts, perhaps) but has become cooler in recent years.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Brown Collection
The artist Glenn Brown has opened a free-to-visit gallery-come-museum over a sleekly impressive four floors of a purpose-adapted house in Marylebone.
Paul’s Gallery of the week: Lungley Gallery
Mark Lungley started his gallery Lungley Gallery modestly in 2018 in the cellar of a pub in Dalston – but 25 rapid fire shows made adventurous use of it, including David Harrison’s exceptionally direct ‘Fuck Me’, Lana Locke expressing her milk on film, and Brian Dawn Chalkley
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Marlborough Gallery
The Marlborough Gallery goes back a fair way – founded in London in 1946, then expanding to New York from 1963.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Phillida Reid
Phillida Reid and David Southard founded Southard Reid in 2010, showing in Soho over the following decade. Since 2019 it has been solely operated by Phillida and she has recently opened a spectacular new space the other side of Charing Cross Road
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sprüth Magers
Leading German gallery Sprüth Magers started in Cologne, where Monika Sprüth (in 1983) and Philomene Magers (in 1991) opened separately, merging in 1998.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery, opened 1968, was named after Sir Isaac Hayward, a miner and trade unionist who was the last leader of the London County Council (LCC), a few pointless local government reorganisations back.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Holtermann Fine Art
Holtermann Fine Art opened on Cork Street in late 2019, just ahead of the challenges of the Covid era. The owner, Marianne Holtermann, is a Norwegian as cheerful as she’d need to be, given that timing.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Pi artworks
Pi artworks, 55 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8EG www.piartworks.com Insta: @piartworks Jade Yesim Turanli founded Pi artworks in Istanbul in… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Workplace
Workplace has an unusual history and positioning: it was founded in Gateshead – close to the Baltic Centre – in 2005 by Miles Thurlow and Paul Moss.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Newport Street Gallery
Say what you will about Damien Hirst’s cash cow modes of production, he loves art and ploughs a good proportion of his gains back into acquiring and showing it at his purpose-built gallery halfway between Waterloo and Vauxhall.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: White Conduit Projects
White Conduit Projects is unusual in both location – in the middle of Islington’s bustling street market – and its programme. The gallerist, Yuki Miyake, is Japanese and her imaginatively varied exhibitions always have a link to her home country.