Gagosian’s New Digs

There’s been much hype about Larry Gagosian’s new gallery space in London. “The Gagosian Gallery proves to be a modest creation, housed in a former garage in Britannia Street, a rats’ alley smelling of diesel and urine, scuttling across the Metropolitan and Circle underground lines as they rattle between Farringdon and King’s Cross-St Pancras. Behind the gaunt facade, Larry Gagosian’s architects, Caruso St John, best known for their New Art Gallery, in Walsall, which opened in 2000, have opened up bright, cavernous, concrete-floored, top-lit white spaces. These are particularly refined white spaces; they have something of a religious air about them…”