How many official and unofficial art galleries has London?

What do the art galleries in London differ and what do they offer?

• which ones do modern art and which do traditional art or do they all do both?

• Answer:

  To add to the first answer: the Saatchi Gallery has the modern, weird art; the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park has modern exhibitions, too. The big galleries are generally for more traditional art, but they also have the modern - they usually mount small, special exhibitions on one artist, or one theme, which can be modern or include it. The Royal Academy generally mounts traditional exhibitions; it has had themes like Chinese Emperors; the Turks; the Aztecs, etc. You can see a huge variety in the larger galleries, and the Wallace Collection, just behind Selfridges in Oxford Street, is well worth a look - if only for "The Laughing Cavalier"! The National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the adjoining Sainsbury Wing are emormous, with art ranging right through the centuries. They are all in or off Trafalgar Square, so you can pop in to the crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields for a drink or meal. There are also plenty of small and private galleries - Whitechapel Gallery in the East End, The White Cube, etc, and many more in central London. There is the Dulwich Gallery in south London - very well worth a visit. It's small, has a nice cafe, and you reach it by walking through a park - one approach, anyway. It has a permanent display including Rembrandts and others, and usually has a temporary exhibition. If you're coming to have a look, buy "Time Out" magazine, or the Evening Standard newspaper on a Thursday, and they will tell you what is currently on offer along with the permanent displays.