Centre Point Tower letters to be sold offLong a landmark over London, the glowing 1960s letters from the top of the Centre Point tower are up for sale – to raise money for a homeless charity. The tower became controversial when it was left empty for several…
Tickets Alert: Emerge – a night time arts thingamajigOver two nights in September, the newly created Emerge Festival will see a “creative kaleidoscope” of events take over 11 London Boroughs.
London Underground’s 30th tube map cover now availableLast week you might have noticed the pocket sized tube maps handed out in tube stations changed — with a new cover design. Art on the Underground’s 30th tube map cover commission is by former Turner prize winning French artist…
The Typographic Dante at the SouthbankA selection of images is on display at the moment made with a variety of “obsolete” printing technologies and representing the various stages of Dante’s journey into hell. This is Barrie Tullett’s “The Typographic Dante,” an exhibition showcasing the artist’s…
Future tube posters go on displayOne hundred posters has gone on display at the Transport Museum, and one of them could go on to become an official tube poster.
Photos of 1980s-90s London theatre go on displayTowards the end of the Cold War, a Czech photographer came to London, and his photos are now on display in the V&A museum.
An unexpected corridor in the V&A MuseumA long wood lined corridor that’s not on the map contains a rather charming gallery of actors and other artistic sorts.
Queen Victoria’s sapphire and diamond coronet goes on displayIn this the 200th anniversary of the births of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the V&A museum has put Queen Victoria’s famous coronet on display after it was saved from being sold overseas.
V&A puts Elton John into Room 101Room 101 in the V&A has been refurbished and is now half of a space given over to the museum’s photography collection.
You can now stand inside Trajan’s ColumnEver since it was built in 1873, there’s been a tantalizing door inside the V&A Museum that normally locked, and only very occasionally opened — but now is open all the time.
Odd video art in the BarbicanThere’s a video screen that shows changing shapes in a sort of 1980s home computer version of the 2001 Space Odyssey scene.
A “steampunk” exhibition by a Victorian eccentricAn exhibition is opening soon showing off rediscovered and restored photographic work of one the 19th century’s strangest characters, Samuel Heracles Gascoigne-Simpson.
Tickets Alert: London’s crafts shown off for a week in MayLondon Craft Week returns in a few weeks time, as London’s craftsmen and craftswomen show off what can be done when not relying on factory made goods.
Controversy over restoration of Waterloo Station poemIn 1999, an artist was commissioned to help improve a subway leading from Waterloo Station. In 2019 the same artist protested about efforts to restore the art.
Tickets Alert: Tours of Carters heritage steam funfairThis summer there will be a chance to discover fairground art through the decades and hear the history of the vintage Carters Steam Fair.
Salvador Dalí’s champagne lamps go on displayThe V&A says that it has acquired one of the most important examples of modern lighting ever designed in the UK, a joint creation of artist Salvador Dalí and his most important British patron, Edward James.
Admire these illustrations of London Underground tube stationsThe illustrations span the entirety of the London Underground network, from Cockfosters to Clapham South, and from Barking to Baker Street.
Rediscovered portrait of Dickens to go on display for one week in AprilA “lost” portrait of Charles Dickens, recently re-discovered after 174 years, will go on public display for one week this April in the Charles Dickens Museum.
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