No gallery is in all five cities. Seven are in four, and 25 more in two or three
The exhibition spaces of each gallery with one in more than one of the cities, city by city
Gagosian3221Hauser & Wirth2112Perrotin1131David Zwirner2111Carpenters Workshop Gallery1111Pace1111Sprüth Magers1111Galerie Max Hetzler112Lisson121Skarstedt211White Cube121Almine Rech111Galerie Lelong & Co.12Hoffman Donahue12Matthew Marks21Thaddaeus Ropac12Anat Ebgi11David Kordansky11Esther Schipper11François Ghebaly11Galerie Buchholz11Galerie XII11Hales11James Fuentes11Jeffrey Deitch11Karma11Lehmann Maupin11Marian Goodman11Mendes Wood DM11Nicodim11Peter Freeman, Inc.11VeneKlasen11
The numbers
| Gallery | NYC | London | Paris | LA | Berlin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gagosian | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – |
| Hauser & Wirth | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – |
| Perrotin | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – |
| David Zwirner | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Carpenters Workshop Gallery | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Pace | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Sprüth Magers | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 |
| Galerie Max Hetzler | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2 |
| Lisson | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | – |
| Skarstedt | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| White Cube | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – |
| Almine Rech | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Galerie Lelong & Co. | 1 | – | 2 | – | – |
| Hoffman Donahue | 1 | – | – | 2 | – |
| Matthew Marks | 2 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Thaddaeus Ropac | – | 1 | 2 | – | – |
| Anat Ebgi | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| David Kordansky | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Esther Schipper | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| François Ghebaly | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Galerie Buchholz | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Galerie XII | – | – | 1 | 1 | – |
| Hales | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
| James Fuentes | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Jeffrey Deitch | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Karma | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Lehmann Maupin | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
| Marian Goodman | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
| Mendes Wood DM | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
| Nicodim | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Peter Freeman, Inc. | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
| VeneKlasen | 1 | 1 | – | – | – |
Spaces open to the public for exhibitions, as On View’s maps have them. New York is Manhattan and Los Angeles the county. David Kordansky’s New York gallery, Mendes Wood DM’s in Paris and Almine Rech’s and Skarstedt’s in London are not on the maps yet, and are counted from the galleries’ sites. Sources: On View’s listings, October 5, 2026; the galleries’ own sites.
From the report
Five art cities, compared in charts
New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles and Berlin, measured against each other: how many galleries and how far apart, which night they open, what a museum ticket costs and how many people buy one, the fairs, the auction rooms, and the galleries and artists the cities share.
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- Five art cities in numbers, October 2026
- The leading galleries of Los Angeles opened there a generation after New York’s
- Seventeen galleries have a space in both New York and Los Angeles, more than link any other two cities
- The four largest galleries keep 14 spaces in New York, and five each in Los Angeles, London and Paris
- Half of London’s galleries stand within 1.2 km of one point. In Los Angeles it takes 7.6 km
- In Manhattan the next gallery is 20 metres away. In Los Angeles, 256
- Chelsea has 71 galleries and Tribeca 64. Outside New York, London’s Mayfair has the most, 52
- New York opens its shows on Thursday, Berlin on Friday, Los Angeles on Saturday
- On one Thursday in September, 85 gallery shows opened in Manhattan
- In New York, 95% of the gallery shows on view opened in September
- A gallery show runs about six weeks. Berlin gives it seven
- Four in five London and New York gallery shows are solo shows. In Berlin, two in three
- Paris’s galleries are showing 23 of the world’s top-selling modern artists this autumn, London’s 20. New York’s are showing 13
- Fifteen artists are in gallery shows in both New York and Paris this autumn
- The Louvre drew 9.0 million visitors in 2025, half as many again as the Met
- Paris and London have seven each of the world’s 100 most visited art museums. Berlin has none
- The museums of Los Angeles and London are still short of their 2019 crowds. Most of Paris’s are ahead
- A New York museum ticket costs $30. In London, all eight leading museums are free
- London’s British Museum was founded in 1753, more than a century before the Met
- New York, Paris and London each hold more than a dozen art fairs a year. Berlin holds three
- Paris’s three largest fairs, all held under one roof, the Grand Palais, each drew more than 70,000 visitors
- The United States sells three times as much art at auction as the United Kingdom, and five times as much as France
- Of the 100 highest auction prices of 2025, 68 were paid in New York, 15 in London and six in Paris. Los Angeles and Berlin had none