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West End galleries to have syncronised late night opening evening

London’s West End galleries are having a collective late night opening to encourage people back to the area after the lockdown relaxes.

Greenwich Peninsula art – the Optic Cloak and a Pinch in Time

Most people who pass within a mile or so of North Greenwich or the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs are likely to have seen a shimmering steel tower on the Greenwich Peninsula.

Crossrail’s longest artwork is being installed

At nearly 2km long one of the longest artworks in the UK is currently being installed in East London by Crossrail.

Outdoor photography gallery opening just off Oxford Street

A ‘Photography Quarter’ is being created just off Oxford Street, and near to the Photography Gallery.

Clerkenwell toilets hoardings turned into “art”

A couple of years ago, a screen of black wooden hoardings surrounded a disused toilet on Clerkenwell Green, and recently they became an ironic art installation.

The Regent’s Canal sharks have moved to Islington

Some sharks that have been hanging around the Regents Canal in Hackney have swum up the canal a bit and can now be found in the City Road Basin, in Islington.

Oxford Street shop to be covered in light based art display

A light display is set to cover a large Oxford Street shop later this month as shoppers are allowed back into town once more.

Art exhibition coming to Fulham’s derelict Town Hall

Fulham Town Hall, which has lain empty for over a decade will be opened to the public in May as the derelict interior is turned into a temporary art gallery.

Outdoor exhibition opens around Kentish Town

To mark the one-year anniversary of the pandemic lockdown, an outdoor exhibition is opening in Camden, and it's outdoors because we're still in lockdown.

Old maps of London with modern buildings

What would happen if you made some maps in an old fashioned style, but added modern buildings? This is what.

Sporting heritage murals uncovered by Wembley Stadium

A long wall of murals dedicated to the footballer, Bobby Moore, that have been largely covered up in recent years are to be opened up again for a few weeks.

The Suffragette Memorial, SW1

A large bronze scroll can be found next to a small park in Victoria that commemorates those who fought for women's suffrage in the UK.

Five more bridges joining London’s “Illuminated River”

In a few months time, five more bridges will join the four already completed in being specially floodlit as part of a large public art installation.

City of London looks to post-pandemic cultural recovery

Although a lot of pandemic recovery talk about the City of London has focused on the empty offices and unsold sandwiches in corner shops, the city also has a large creative sector that's been badly hit as well.

The statue of Thomas Coram in Bloomsbury

At a time when there's much ado about statues of slave traders, here's a statue of a Good Man, sitting outside the building he is most famous for.

V&A’s Raphael Cartoons go online

The Raphael Cartoons, one of the greatest treasures of the Renaissance in the UK can now be viewed via a new online service from the V&A museum.

A herd of elephants can be seen in Spitalfields

There's a herd of 21 elephants in Spitalfields at the moment -- one adult and 20 orphaned juveniles.

London Public Art: Three large stone heads on Milford Lane

Three large stone heads can be found looking around corners of a new housing development by Aldwych.

London’s Public Art: Vortex by Barbara Sandler

Just to the north of Spitalfields Market is a public sculpture looking like a swirl of a person crouching down.

The milkmaid statue by Regents Park

If you wander towards Regents Park from Camden you may come across a pile of old stones, and on top, a statue of a milkmaid.

Huge street mural comes to Shoreditch

The newish tower block on the borders of Shoreditch and Spitalfields has gained a new mural, by the artist Agostino Iacurci.

Temporary art in Victoria – Small, Medium and Large Houses

In Lower Grosvenor Gardens just around the corner from Victoria station can be found three brightly coloured "sheds", and they are art.

Find the Highgate Camel

Sitting outside an oriental carpet shop in Highgate is a camel. Sami, for that's the camel's name is a life-size fibreglass camel who has sat outside the shop for the past 35 years, and is a bit of a local landmark.

Temporary art inside Piccadilly Circus tube station

There's a temporary art exhibition inside Piccadilly Circus tube station for the next few weeks, focusing on the protests taking place throughout Europe in the 1970s against racism and fascism.