The leading galleries of Los Angeles opened there a generation after New York’s
The year each city’s leading galleries first opened a space there: the 60 galleries of On View’s guides
- The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good
- Opened by a gallery from elsewhere
- New York12 galleriesPace
- London12 galleriesLisson
- Paris12 galleriesTemplon
- Los Angeles12 galleriesRegen Projects
- Berlin12 galleriesThomas Schulte
The numbers
| City | Gallery | Whose | Opened in the city |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | Karma | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 2011 |
| New York | David Zwirner | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1993 |
| New York | Gagosian | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1985 |
| New York | Pace Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1963 |
| New York | Hauser & Wirth | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2009 |
| New York | Gladstone Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1980 |
| New York | Matthew Marks Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1991 |
| New York | Paula Cooper Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1968 |
| New York | Marian Goodman Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1977 |
| New York | Lehmann Maupin | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1996 |
| New York | Sean Kelly | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1991 |
| New York | Jack Shainman Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1986 |
| London | Gagosian | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2000 |
| London | Hauser & Wirth | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2003 |
| London | White Cube | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1993 |
| London | David Zwirner | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2012 |
| London | Lisson Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1967 |
| London | Victoria Miro | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1985 |
| London | Thaddaeus Ropac | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2017 |
| London | Pace Gallery | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2011 |
| London | Sadie Coles HQ | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1997 |
| London | Thomas Dane Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 2004 |
| London | Maureen Paley | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1984 |
| London | Frith Street Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1989 |
| Paris | Mennour | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1999 |
| Paris | Perrotin | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1990 |
| Paris | Thaddaeus Ropac | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 1990 |
| Paris | Gagosian | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2010 |
| Paris | David Zwirner | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2019 |
| Paris | Galerie Chantal Crousel | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1980 |
| Paris | Templon | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1966 |
| Paris | Almine Rech | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1997 |
| Paris | White Cube | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2020 |
| Paris | Hauser & Wirth | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2023 |
| Paris | Galerie Max Hetzler | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2014 |
| Paris | Marian Goodman Gallery | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 1995 |
| Los Angeles | Karma | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2021 |
| Los Angeles | David Kordansky Gallery | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 2003 |
| Los Angeles | Hauser & Wirth | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2016 |
| Los Angeles | Gagosian | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 1995 |
| Los Angeles | Regen Projects | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1989 |
| Los Angeles | Matthew Marks Gallery | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2012 |
| Los Angeles | David Zwirner | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2023 |
| Los Angeles | Sprüth Magers | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2016 |
| Los Angeles | Pace Gallery | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2022 |
| Los Angeles | Jeffrey Deitch | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2018 |
| Los Angeles | Lisson Gallery | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2023 |
| Los Angeles | François Ghebaly | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 2009 |
| Berlin | Sprüth Magers | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 2008 |
| Berlin | Esther Schipper | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1995 |
| Berlin | König Galerie | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 2002 |
| Berlin | neugerriemschneider | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1994 |
| Berlin | Galerie Max Hetzler | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1993 |
| Berlin | Galerie Buchholz | Opened by a gallery from elsewhere | 2008 |
| Berlin | Capitain Petzel | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 2008 |
| Berlin | Contemporary Fine Arts | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1992 |
| Berlin | Galerie Neu | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1994 |
| Berlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1991 |
| Berlin | carlier | gebauer | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1991 |
| Berlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm | The city’s own: founded there, or moved there for good | 1997 |
The year the middle one opened: New York 1988, London 1998, Paris 1998, Los Angeles 2016, Berlin 1994. Sources: the galleries’ own histories and exhibition archives, and press reports (see How we counted).
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
- Seventeen galleries have a space in both New York and Los Angeles, more than link any other two cities
- No gallery is in all five cities. Seven are in four, and 25 more in two or three
- 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