Arts & Culture in Central London · Page 4

Comfy West End movie multiplex

This nine-theatre cinema in the northeast corner of Leicester Square pales in comparison with the neighbouring Odeon...

Central London · 3 Cranbourn St, Leicester Square, London

• cinema

Central London's last independent cinema

Sharing little in common with its massive-screen Leicester Square neighbours, the former single-screen/now-duplex...

Central London · 7 Leicester Place, London

• cinema

Major 'very now' contemporary gallery minutes from Soho

A Zürich-based art house with top-drawer rooms in London and New York. Artists include Louise Bourgeois, Mary...

Central London · 23 Savile Row, London

• art gallery

Cherished art gallery

The Courtauld Institute is dedicated to the study and preservation of art and architecture, and houses this popular...

Central London · Somerset House, Strand, London

• art gallery

Popular collection of art and armour in a Marylebone mansion

Two minutes north of overwrought shopping boulevard Oxford St stands this quietly grand late-18th-century townhouse,...

Central London · Hertford House, Manchester Square, Marylebone, London

• museum
• art gallery

Neo-art deco indy cinema opened in 2022

In March 2022 central London's film scene welcomed a new jewel in this independently owned cinema found in a...

Central London · 39-41 Parker St, Covent Garden, London

Serious art collector specialising in the male form

Gay collector Henry Miller – a specialist with a keen eye for the male form (paintings, drawings and...

Central London · 30 Tottenham St, Fitzrovia, London

• art gallery
• LGBTQ+ owned

UK's first LGBTQ+ museum

A first ever permanent home for Queer Britain, an organisation co-founded in 2018 by Joseph Galliano, dedicated to...

Central London · 2 Granary Square, London

• trans-friendly
• mixed LGBTQ+
• museum
• art gallery

Indie-spirited and comfy mainstream cinema

An excellent but rather pricey seven-screen complex that opened in June 2015 inside what used to be the tacky London...

Central London · 20–24 Shaftesbury Ave, London

• cinema

Restored 19th-century theatre with modern-thinking arts venue

A flexible studio space with a rotating schedule of live theatre, concert and contemporary dance, The Print Room was...

Central London · 103 Notting Hill Gate, Notting Hill, London

• theater
• art gallery
• cinema
• live entertainment