Arts & Culture in Central London · Page 2

Springtime for gays on screen

The British Film Institute's annual gift (thank you?) to the LGBT community and its followers since 1986 ranks as one...

Central London · BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, Waterloo, London

• cinema

Major 1950s-period mostly classical concert hall

Opened in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain (a welcomed and needed postwar cultural redevelopment), the Royal...

Central London · Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London

• performance

The UK's biggest movie screen.

Perhaps the defining landmark of Leicester Square, this cinema — the biggest of the three that overlook (or...

Central London · 24—26 Leicester Square, London

• cinema

Deservedly renowned and beloved theatrical institution

Publicly funded repertory theatre founded in 1963 and operating in its current iconic Denys Lasdun/Peter...

Central London · South Bank, London

• theater

Preserved domestic space with antiquities and treasures

A favourite among London visitors, the seemingly untouched home of neo-classical architect John Soane...

Central London · 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, London

• museum
• art gallery

A-list art enterprise geographically out of the main frame

With spaces in New York, Beverly Hills, Rome, Paris, Athens and Hong Kong, art mogul Larry Gagosian consistently...

Central London · 6-24 Britannia St, King's Cross, London

• art gallery

Queen of London cinemas

Luxurious and arty cinema built in 1966 (now a Grade II Listed building) following the destruction of a cinema on...

Central London · 38 Curzon St, Mayfair, London

• cinema

Paintings in the middle of traffic

London's most most sadly situated museum is sandwiched between Hyde Park and traffic-aggressive Hyde Park...

Central London · 149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London

• museum
• art gallery

Totally gay-friendly theatre, cabaret and comedy establishment

Opened in 2008 with both a main house and an intimate basement space to host international A-list and often naughty...

Central London · 6 Leicester Place, London

• mixed gay/straight
• theater

Europe's tallest ferris wheel happens to be in London

Staked at a southside edge of the Thames in a seemingly precarious but imposing position halfway between the Palace of...

Central London · Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Rd, London