{"id":97598,"date":"2026-08-05T04:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/97598\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T04:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:11:39","slug":"one-of-londons-most-famous-art-galleries-is-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/97598\/","title":{"rendered":"One of London\u2019s Most Famous Art Galleries is Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"

London<\/a> is the place to be if you\u2019re a billionaire looking for intriguing contemporary artworks to invest your cash in (or simply to hang on your wall, to remind the world you still have a soul). And that\u2019s fantastic for ordinary culture fans, who hotfoot it to the city\u2019s rarified commercial galleries as a way of seeing the most exciting artworks on the global scene for free.<\/p>\n

Still, of late these white-walled temples to art haven\u2019t been quite as serene as usual. Massive international gallerist Larry Gagosian recently exited\u00a0the location on Burlington Arcade\u00a0\u2013\u00a0as well as closing\u00a0a Basel branch \u2013 as part of a wider trend of top galleries reassessing their bricks-and-mortar presence in expensive inner-city postcodes.<\/p>\n

Gagosian\u2019s Burlington Arcade branch launched in 2023. It had a retail shop at ground level and a gallery space upstairs that housed exhibitions including this summer\u2019s show on the late artistic power couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude\u2019s site-specific projects. Now, it\u2019s lying empty, with rumours swirling that ultra-luxury trinket manufacturer Faberg\u00e9 could move into the premises.<\/p>\n

The Gagosian\u2019s branch in Basel has also closed its doors for good. But this gallery giant still has two outposts left in London: 20 Grosvenor Hill and 17\u201319 Davies Street in Mayfair.<\/p>\n

These two spots aren\u2019t exactly tiny, either. 20 Grosvenor Hill takes up a whopping 18,000 square feet. Its double-height spaces will soon show \u2018This Is Still Not a Pipe: The Afterlife of Magritte\u2019, a tribute to the Belgian artist that includes many of his most famous works, full of images of pipes, apples and bowler hats. There are also five Gagosians in New York<\/a>, plus branches in LA<\/a>, Paris<\/a>, Hong Kong<\/a>\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n

\"Gagosian
\nPhotograph: Alizada Studios \/ Shutterstock.comGagosian Gallery, New York <\/p>\n

So the\u00a0latest contraction in the Gagosian empire isn\u2019t necessarily something to keep art fans up at night. Still, it is a sign of uncertain times, especially when taken in combination with the departure of gallery Zwirner from its Manhattan Upper East Side spot, and layoffs at huge gallery chain Pace. During that process, CEO Marc Glimcher described the mega-gallery model of constant expansion as \u2018not only broken, but unfixable\u2019, in a volatile climate rocked by global conflict, economic uncertainty and rising costs. This probably won\u2019t be the last mega-gallery to rethink its London presence in years to come.<\/p>\n

Here are the top 10 exhibitions to see in London<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plus:\u00a018 never-seen-before Georgia O\u2019Keeffe paintings are going on display at London\u2019s Courtauld Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Stay in the loop: sign up for our\u00a0free Time Out London newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London is the place to be if you\u2019re a billionaire looking for intriguing contemporary artworks to invest your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[494,552,27,553,1102],"class_list":["post-97598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-art","tag-categories-art","tag-london","tag-news-art","tag-outside-kl-london"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117040951279740987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}