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London’s summer art scene 2025

Victoria Miro celebrates 40 years; the Treasure House Fair returns to the Royal Hospital Chelsea; and Jenny Saville’s National Portrait Gallery show reviewed

From left to right: Silver hawk by Nakano Bika (1912-1916); Iznik pottery dish (16th century); ‘Plant and Garden Produce at Benton End’ (1958) by Cedric Morris; ‘Three curves with strings (Gold Mincarlo)’ by Barbara Hepworth (1971); work by Yukito Nishinaka © Laura Bordignon; Kent Antiques; Philip Mould; Piano Nobile; Adrian Sassoon

Victoria Miro: ‘Art should open your eyes to something you don’t know’
As her gallery celebrates its 40th birthday with a unique retrospective, the celebrated dealer and grande dame of Britart gives a rare interview to the FT
‘They’ve got 20 Canalettos in the dining room!’ How to hang a painting like an aristocrat
The Grand Tour changed English interior decorating forever — and that upper-crust spirit of accumulation lives on today
Jenny Saville, National Portrait Gallery review — horror rendered with featherlight tenderness
The best works in this career-spanning show are proof of an artist with prodigious and audacious talents
Are London’s museums getting too close to the art market?
As public institutions struggle for money, the support of dealers has become more important than ever
Want to be an old masters dealer? You’ll have to become an expert raconteur
Collectors are buying colourful lives as much as paintings — and sleuthing gallerists know how to feed those appetites
How collector Bérengère Primat ignited her passion for Australian Aboriginal art
The founder of Switzerland’s Fondation Opale on promoting Indigenous art in Europe — and the show that changed her life