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Arts & Culture
Art Galleries in Hampstead Worth Your Time
From Kenwood House's Old Masters to the contemporary galleries on Flask Walk — Hampstead has a genuinely remarkable concentration of places to look at art.
James Calloway
6 min read
Arts & Culture
Best Photography Spots in Hampstead
Hampstead rewards the observant photographer at every turn — from the Georgian terraces of Church Row to the hilltop panoramas of Parliament Hill and the wild, light-filled spaces of the Heath.
Oliver Hartwell
6 min read
Arts & Culture
The Burgh House: Hampstead's Community Museum
Hidden on New End Square, Burgh House is a Queen Anne mansion turned community arts centre and local history museum. Free to enter, rarely crowded, and entirely worth your time.
Oliver Hartwell
4 min read
Arts & Culture
Hampstead Theatre: 60 Years of New Writing
Founded in 1959 in a church hall, Hampstead Theatre has launched the careers of Harold Pinter, Mike Leigh, and dozens of the most significant playwrights of the past six decades.
Beatrice Thornton
5 min read
Arts & Culture
Kenwood House: Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a Perfect English Garden
Free to enter and containing one of the finest small art collections in England, Kenwood is the kind of place you discover once and return to for the rest of your life.
Oliver Hartwell
6 min read
Arts & Culture
The Constable Connection: Painting the Heath
Between 1819 and 1837, John Constable produced over 100 oil sketches and paintings on Hampstead Heath. They changed the course of Western landscape painting. Here is the story of those years.
James Calloway
7 min read
Arts & Culture
Freud at Maresfield Gardens: The Final Chapter
In 1938, Sigmund Freud fled Vienna for Hampstead. He brought his couch, his library, and his extraordinary collection of antiquities. The house at Maresfield Gardens is now a museum — and one of London's most affecting.
James Calloway
6 min read