Hollywood movie posters as you’ve never seen them before
An exhibition has opened of movie posters, of familiar films, but unlike any movie posters you seen before.
Art
Help build and destroy a cardboard tower in the City
Fancy spending a day helping to build a tower out of cardboard, only to then tear it down the next day?
An infinite loop of sunrise and sunset at the Barbican
A huge 24 metre length of slowly moving photographic film is currently turning in an endless loop in the heart of the Barbican.
Hear music performed inside a London Underground tunnel
For a few days at StudioRCA you can hear the recording of a performance that took place in the new tunnels that run below Nine Elms as part of the Northern line extension.
Funding for groups marking the sailing of the Mayflower to America
A funding pot worth £140,000 is available for local projects in Southwark marking the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower to America which will be marked in 2020.
Crossrail artists takeover Selfridges shop windows
As part of a larger scale art programme, a number of Selfridges windows have been given over to artists working on the Crossrail project.
Landscape photography at Waterloo Station
If you go up to the mezzanine at Waterloo Station, there’s a display of landscape photography as part of an annual competition.
A glowing deer made from rubbish in central London
There’s a festive deer in Piccadilly at the moment made from rubbish that glows when you make a donation to charity.
Giant glowing slugs outside the Tate Britain
As part of its Christmas decorations, Tate Britain has commissioned an artist to design two giant slugs to sit outside the art gallery.
For one week only – see 10,000 flames surround the Tower of London
For the remainder of this week, every evening, 10,000 individual flames will be lit within the moat of the Tower of London.
Exhibition – Ribera: Art of Violence
Visitors to genteel Dulwich are in for a shock at the moment, as they are confronted with torture, blood, pain, and human skin — in the local gallery’s latest exhibition.
Art in the Age of Computers at the V&A Museum
Since they were created, people have wondered if computers could create art, and now the V&A has an exhibition of some of the results of that pondering.
Sir Quentin Blake draws scientists for the Science Museum
A large room at the top of the Science Museum, normally filled with schoolchildren has also gained a huge new mural by the illustrator, Sir Quentin Blake.
Unseen drawings commissioned by the Bank of England go on display
In 1957, the Bank of England opened a new printing press in Debden on the edge of London, and a series of drawings of the people working in the building have gone on display for the first time.
See a humpback whale at Liverpool Street station
People using the footbridge across Liverpool Street station may have to duck under a humpback whale, if an art project can raise the necessary funding.
Unique studio apartment in outstanding location
A unique studio apartment is now available to view in a unique central London location.
Cardboard models of English Cathedrals
These are rather delightful, an expanding range of models of some of England’s Cathedrals, Abbeys and Minsters, all made in card.
A Southbank exhibition of drag artists
An exhibition of photos of drag artists may cause you to expect lots of men in voluminous quantities of make up and attitude, but this is rather more nuanced.
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