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Tickets Alert: Tours of a 250-year old embroidery house

As part of London Craft Week, there's a chance to go on a tour of a 250-year old embroidery house in a converted Victorian school in central London.

Giant letters of Love, Hope & Joy for Covent Garden

A four-storey work of art has gone up in Covent Garden, with the words of Love, Hope & Joy emblazoned across a building overlooking the Piazza.

Colour in your own Moquette

You can now print off plain sheets of London Transport moquette and while away the hours colouring them in.

Prints of Art Deco tube stations

While looking for something else in Google image search I stumbled upon these rather nice illustrations of tube stations.

Shepherd and Sheep in Paternoster Square

In Paternoster Square is a sculpture of a shepherd and sheep, also called Paternoster - the sculpture that is, not the sheep. They are unnamed.

Find Thamesmead’s newly added concrete animals

A row of derelict arches underneath a flyover road gained something rather nice - a menagerie of concrete animals.

A cluster of brick buses outside Leytonestone Station

Just outside Leytonstone tube station, by the bus stop, is a most appropriate work of public art - a cluster of buses, made from bricks.

London Public Art: Queen Anne in Queen Anne’s Gate

A posh street in Westminster has a statue of Queen Anne resting against the side wall of one of the posh houses.

Sharks in the Regents Canal at Haggerston

There may be sharks in the Regents Canal near Haggerston -- later this year, and it's art.

London Public Art: The Broad Family

On the edges of the Broadgate office estate can be found four large slabs of basalt stone, looking not entirely unlike a family.

Public art for Latimer Road tube station

A call has been issued for a public work of art to be displayed at Latimer Road tube station.

Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room Reimagined

A room in the V&A at the moment contains a decaying replica of one of the most famous interior designs of the late 19th century.

See the three Armada Portraits together for the first time

There is a painting of Queen Elizabeth that's so well known, so famous, so literally iconic -- that it can be a surprise to learn that it exists in real life.

Exhibition of Gail Brodholt’s transport and architectural prints

Uniquely distinctive and recognizable, an exhibition of Gail Brodholt's transport and architectural paintings and prints has gone on display in Bermondsey.

London Public Art: Sir Thomas More

This bronze statue is by Leslie Cubitt Bevis (1892-1984) and was cast at the Morris Singer foundry. It's also quite unusual for modern times, as the face and hands have been gilded.

An exhibition of costumes at the National Theatre

From rags to glamorous gowns, the theatre is a wonderment of fantasy that is often brought to life as much by the costumes, as the acting and stage sets. The costumes are also one of the more dynamic aspects of…

Admire Rochester Row’s 1960s concrete frieze

If you wander down a road off Victoria, you might spot a rather fine concrete frieze running along a 1960s building.

Landscape photographer of the year

Each year a selection of landscape photographs are displayed in railway stations -- and the call for entries is now open for this year.

See the Winter Lights at Canary Wharf

The annual fortnight of lighting displays is back at Canary Wharf, and hugely popular as ever. The first hint that this might be pulling in the crowds when on a normally fairly quiet weekend evening, Canary Wharf tube station looks…

Play giant arcade games in a former Royal Mail delivery office

A large Royal Mail building in Nine Elms that will soon be blocks of flats is opening its doors to the public for the first time, and two large displays are being installed, including real-life arcade games.

The Swan mural on Max Bygrave’s old home

There is a mosaic mural of a swan in Rotherhithe that has an indirect link with the late entertainer, Max Bygraves.

Last chance to see the Raphael cartoons for a long time

This year marks the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, and oddly, the V&A has decided to close its Raphael Court for most of the year.

Early porcelain head goes on display at the V&A

An exceptionally rare porcelain sculpture, made in London in the 1740s, and rediscovered in a French flea market has gone on display in the V&A.

A memorial to the legend of Vincent Square

Two hundred years ago a huge plot of land was secured as an open park, by means of simply ploughing a deep ditch all around it.