White cube galleries are beautiful. They bore me rigid

Two new white-walled galleries emphasise the cliche of such spaces now. They try to confer authority and purity – but it’s all to convince collectors to shell out a million quid for a pile of plasticine shaped like a turd

Perfect white spaces are sepulchres for art. They have all the joy of a cenotaph, all the creativity of a chic shop.

This autumn has seen the opening of two spanking new white-walled art galleries in London – both created by the same architects, Caruso St John, who have sculpted Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery out of a former scenery-painting workshop in south London and designed a lofty white gallery for Gagosian in Mayfair.

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