This year marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, without which it’s likely that most of his plays would have been lost, and there are two exhibitions to mark the anniversary.
One of the most precious pieces of historic fabric in the UK has been displayed for a few weeks in an exhibition that almost outshines even this most precious of materials.
There’s a large scale model of St Paul’s Cathedral dome in the Guildhall Art Gallery at the moment, as part of an exhibition marking the 300th anniversary of Sir Christopher Wren’s death.
A large woodcut print by Sir Grayson Perry has gone on display in the Guildhall Art Gallery, representing the irrational market that governs the City of London’s stock market traders.
Over the centuries, the City of London has collected some massive paintings of the city and its events, and now an exhibition shows off these monumental sized works of art.
An exhibition of Victorian art inspired by music and poems has opened at the Guildhall Art Gallery, calling on the City of London’s permanent collection to look at how the muses inspired artists.
If you fancy a visit to either the Guildhall Art Gallery or to the Roman Amphitheatre, best to do so before Christmas as it’s closing for several months.
A room inside the Guildhall is currently filled with woodworking tools, as this year marks the 450th anniversary of the granting of a Royal Charter to one of the City of London’s livery companies
Noël Coward, so often seen as an upper-class dandy in a dressing gown, but who was actually a middle-class workaholic, charity fundraiser, and even now, some of his work in WW2 remains classified.
In 1314, Nicholas de Farndone, the Mayor of London, acting on behalf of King Edward II, banned the “striking of great footballs” in the City of London.
For the next few months, there’s a chance to see a selection of works by one of the greatest Victorian potters, William De Morgan, inside the City of London Guildhall.
There’s an exhibition open at the moment about death and mortality. It opened a couple of months ago, and I’ve been struggling to think of something to say about it.
A curiously powerful and moving collection of art created by school children, but inspired by memories of WW1, with a Flanders trench like pathway to navigate.
A stage will be set up in Guildhall Art Gallery’s Basinghall Suite with a lectern and a free standing microphone to enable people to read, recite or perform their piece.
Whenever the City of London puts on its pomp and ceremony, off stage, frantic preparations are taking place, and now some of those preparations have been revealed.
Two drawings of London’s skyline have gone on display side-by-side, one made in 1616 showing the old London, and a recreation showing London from the same location today.
For nearly 600 years it has sat in a box in a vault, taken out just once a year for a ceremony and then put away, but finally, Henry V’s Crystal Sceptre has gone on public display.
