Gallop's picks for London galleries, October 30–November 5, 2026: 4 shows worth the trip, plus 2 openings and 4 last chances, each with a note from Gallop's editors.
This survey spans Pope.L's painting, sculpture, drawing and installation, plus performance videos in a dedicated room. Times Square Crawl (1978), his first public street performance, finds him crawling West 42nd Street in a pinstripe suit with a bright yellow square sewn on the back.
Alongside an exhibition of new work, Noland's two-volume, 600-page book The Clip-On Method, published in 2021, is being relaunched. Arranged as a nonlinear archive, the book mixes photographs of her sculptures and installations with sociological, political and historical readings and her own writings.
Drawn from across Sturtevant's career of repeating other artists' works by hand and from memory, the selection includes a gallery of Warhols and rarely seen Krazy Kat drawings. A rug she designed after a Keith Haring piece has been made especially for the show.
Photographs and a nine-minute film by Seilopoulos follow people and places under threat in Athens, where he returned after twenty years away. The series National Cruising comprises nine photographs of nocturnal encounters in the city's National Garden.
Hallett's multichannel audio works portray four poets, including Wayne Koestenbaum and Penny Arcade, through their voices. Each composition draws on a recording session in which the poet warms up, reads, sings and makes casual conversation.
Nine black monochromes from Soulages's Outrenoir series span 2003 to 2021, the year before the painter died at 102. In Peinture 130 x 130 cm, 25 avril 2021, overlapping blade-like strokes leave paint heaped along their edges.
Paintings by Peter Doig, Hurvin Anderson, Chris Ofili, Gary Hume, Cecily Brown and Glenn Brown, six British artists whose practices took shape in 1990s London, make up this show. The gallery sets them against the YBA conceptual movement then dominating British art.
Domestically scaled amphoras, a vessel once used in the ancient Mediterranean for storage and transport, each come with a support Chaile built. His materials include clay, mud and adobe, used to rework familiar forms through the material and cultural languages of Northeast Argentina's Indigenous communities.
Hsu's first UK solo show starts from the earliest postcard she sent her now fiancé, Leander, written on the back of a reproduction of Courbet's 1873 painting The Trout. He later answered with a postcard from Wyoming, where the couple now live.
Late-1960s works, woven painted strips from the Naissance series and a folded, rippled canvas, open this survey. For his Conjunction series, begun in the early 1970s, Ha pushes dense oil paint through coarse hemp canvas from the back.
Everything else on view: every gallery show in London.
Gallop's picks for the week of October 30: Pope.L at Modern Art (West End); Cady Noland at Gagosian (West End); Sturtevant at Raven Row (East London); Alexios Seilopoulos at Roman Road (East London). Each comes with a short note on what's in the show.
Opening the week of October 30: Nick Hallett at Soft Opening (East London); Pierre Soulages at Timothy Taylor (West End).
Last chance the week of October 30: Surface Tension: British Painting in the 1990s at Ben Brown Fine Arts, until Friday Oct 30; Gabriel Chaile at Cecilia Brunson Projects, until Friday Nov 6; Brook Hsu at Heidi, until Saturday Nov 7; Ha Chong-Hyun at Lisson, until Saturday Nov 7.
Gallop's editors go through every show on view in London each week and pick a handful worth the trip, with a note on each. The same picks go out in Gallop's weekly email every Thursday, and every show is on the Gallop map with the gallery's address and hours.
Gallop's picks for London, every Thursday.
