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Giant “soap bubbles” filling the base of the Leadenhall skyscraper

Giant bubbles of fun are filling the space at the bottom of the Cheesegrater - aka the Leadenhall Building - in the City at the moment. It's art, but it's so much fun as well.

London’s Public Art: Unity by Ivan Klapez

Two bronze figures are dancing in an alcove near the Barbican, in a place that's both public, but also not that well known.

London’s Public Art: Geology Rebuilt 2022

On a side street around the back of the rebuilt Tottenham Court Road tube station buildings is a new piece of art, that without wanting to be too unkind, does look rather like giant discarded chewing gum.

IlluminoCity – two winter lights displays in the City

Two displays not far from Liverpool Street station are clusters of glowing geometric shapes by the artist's studio, HYBYCOZO.

Matthew Flinders and Trim the cat – statue outside Euston Station

Outside Euston station is a statue of a man bending over a map while his cat looks the other way. This is a newish addition to the area, having arrived in 2014, on the bicentenary of the subject's death.

The Bourne Valley Wharf pavilion

What looks like an old water tank next to the Thames is actually a raised garden, that just happens to be in what looks like an old water tank, but is in fact a modern water tank clad in copper painted steel panels.

New public art behind the Elizabeth line’s Bond Street station

If you look around the back of the Hanover Square entrance to the Elizabeth line's Bond Street station, you'll spy a large work of public art hanging on the wall.

St. Pancras station’s Christmas Tree is a tower of buildings

Each year, St Pancras station commissions an artist to produce a Christmas tree, and this years is better than most, being a city cluster of London's landmark buildings.

Look out for a spacecraft in St Pancras International station

St Pancras International station currently has a large spacecraft hovering over the entrance to the London Underground -- and it's art.

A new sculpture has appeared on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth

A new piece of contemporary art has appeared on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth, and reinterprets a famous photograph of a Baptist preacher and a European missionary.

London’s Public Art: Selene

On a side street off Soho Square, you can find a sculpture of Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon and of magic sitting on the front of a hotel.

Find the moved John F Kennedy Memorial

If you walk along Marylebone Road near Great Portland Street, you might spy a plinth with a memorial to John F Kennedy, but the memorial is missing.

Your chance to walk inside a hot air balloon

Early this morning, an art-covered hot air balloon lifted into the skies over Thamesmead and will do so over several evenings this week -- and before it takes off people will be able to walk around the inside of the balloon.

Arty hot air balloon to fly over Thamesmead

As part of an art event, a 25-metre tall hot air balloon will fly over Thamesmead in southeast London over the next couple of months

Last chance to see Trafalgar Square’s giant ice cream

The next commission of public art for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth will be unveiled soon, so there are just a few days left to see the current occupant, a giant ice cream.

Visit a viewing platform in North Greenwich

Just around the corner from the London Cable Car is a three-floor high viewing platform, that gives views, of a sort across the North Greenwich area.

The strange history of the Philpot Lane mice

A tiny sculpture of two small mice eating a piece of cheese supposedly remembers the death of a building site worker, or does it?

Sculpture in the City of London – a walking trail of public art

A walking trail around the City of London has appeared, dotted with works of public art. This is the 11th almost-annual Sculpture in the City, which will run until later this year.

An artifical hop field has sprouted at the Southbank Centre

An artificial field of hop plants has arrived at the Southbank as a sculpture that recalls the history going hopping in the 19th-century.

London’s Public Art: Allies, W1

One of London's more famous works of public art can be found on New Bond Street in central London, and shows Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt chatting together on a wooden bench.

London’s Public Art: A giant bath plug in Paddington

If you walk along the Grand Union Canal near Paddington Station, you might stumble upon a giant bath plug in the ground. Is it there to stop the water draining out? No, it's art, but with a hidden purpose.

Snails on stones — art in Aldgate

If you head to Aldgate at the moment, you might come across a stone wall with some curious creatures on it.

A Middle-Earth style map of London

One does not simply walk into Morden...

Rare opportunity to see conservation in action in Greenwich’s ORNC Chapel

The Chapel in Greenwich's Old Royal Naval College contains the last major painting by Benjamin West to survive in its original location, and this summer, the public will be able to watch a restoration project on the massive altar painting.