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Spectacular Detail In Alexander James’s Underwater Photography
At first glance these works look like they could pass for 16th century still life paintings, yet they are photographs and Alexander James goes to great lengths to create the perfect work in...
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Menagerie Of Curious Contemporary Art Creatures
Does art have to be serious? Beastly Hall, an Artwise-curated exhibition of 26 of the most famous contemporary artists and their animal-inspired works, would argue not. This exhibition, held in the...
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Last Year’s Top Photographs From Around The World Arrive At Somerset House
It’s the closing weekend for the excellent Landmark photography exhibition, but to ensure visitors to Somerset House can still get their fix of superb images the Sony World Photo Awards exhibition has...
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Homegrown Artistic Talent At The Saatchi Gallery
It’s been two years since the Saatchi Gallery’s year long survey of British Art concluded, and now it brings us a smaller exhibition looking at the latest emerging talents on the British art scene. It...
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Iconic Prints Of London At Gallery@Oxo
London is a bustling city that can seem chaotic at times, it can almost be overwhelming with all the famous landmarks and things to see. But what if we stripped it back to the bare minimum, removed...
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The Superstitious History Of A Feline Sculpture At The Savoy
The 14th Guest, Jonty Hurwitz. Courtesy Old Street Gallery, Photo: Niina Keks Kaspar’s Seafood Bar & Grill opens at the Savoy today, but who is Kaspar and what is his association with the hotel...
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Emerging Artists Compete For The Catlin Art Prize
The Catlin Art Prize only started in 2007 but in that time it’s built a reputation for being an excellent talent spotter for emerging artists. Each year the organisers produce a guide, which is then...
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A Retrospective Ranging From Black History To Underwater Fantasy At Tate Modern
Not all retrospectives at Tate Modern can be blockbusters like Lichtenstein. But this is no bad thing as we discovered in the subtle and intricate sculptures in the Saloua Chouchair exhibition. The...
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Gig Preview And Interview: V V Brown
Picture: Zoe Zimmer She’s back! Well, very nearly. Ahead of the release of her as yet untitled second album, V V Brown guests on All About She’s Bullet, although you’d be forgiven for not recognising...
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High Fashion, Tudor-and-Stuart-Style, Comes To The Queen’s Gallery
There’s an excellent new exhibition opening at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace today. Called In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion, the show features more than 60 portraits from...
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The London Group Of Artists Celebrates Its Centenary
The London Group is the UK’s longest running artists’ collective, with celebrated members including Henry Moore, David Hockney and LS Lowry. To celebrate its centenary, it’s putting on a two-part...
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What To Make Of Tate Britain’s Re-hang?
If you’ve either walked into or walked past the Tate Britain in the past year or, so you will have noticed closed off sections and entrances. Major developments have been afoot, and now one of the...
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Seacole, Turing, Bond And Paddington Commemorated With New Park Sculptures
Here’s a lovely thing. Three new sculptures of local heroes have appeared near St Mary’s, Paddington. The two-dimensional artworks depict famous nurse Mary Seacole, computer pioneer Alan Turing and...
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John Monks Creates Beauty In Dereliction
John Monks is an artist who’s been on our radar for some time now, so we’ve been eagerly awaiting this solo show. His ability to create foreboding and neglected scenes in his expressionist style and...
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Time Travel London: On London Bridge
Continuing our series of images merging different periods in London’s history. Nadja Ryzhakova sends us this colourful vision of London past, present and future, as painted on her iPad. A horse-drawn...
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Baroque The Streets: Dulwich House Gets Street Art Makeover
Take one suburban house in Dulwich. Assemble around 20 of the world’s most famous street artists. Take ‘em round Dulwich Picture Gallery to draw inspiration from some Baroque masters. Then let them...
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Saints Come To Life In An Interactive Exhibition At The National Gallery
Michael Landy was always seen as an odd choice for an artist in residence at the National Gallery. Landy is famously known for his piece of performance art where he destroyed all of his possessions...
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Political Portraits Made From Handwritten Text
Unusual materials and methods are something of a current trend in art. We’ve seen dollar bills, wine corks, train tickets, floppy disks, typewriters and many more everyday items co-opted by artists to...
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Sherlock Holmes Rides The Tube, And Other London iPad Art
iPad artist Nadja Ryzhakova has put together another set of impressive paintings of London life: from Sherlock Holmes riding the tube to reflections on the Thames. You can see more of her work on her...
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In Dreams: Cob Gallery Explores The Art Of Sleep
Cob and Garters is a collaboration between Cob Gallery and hybrid boutique shop Guts for Garters, which nestles below the gallery space itself. They’ve curated an exhibition titled “In Dreams”. This...
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Bold Bright Art In Two Retrospectives At Tate Britain
Pop art is bold, bright and eye-catching. Gary Hume and Patrick Caulfield are two British artists associated with this movement — though Caulfield always resisted this genre label — and they have a...
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The Design Museum Shows Off London’s Lesser-Known Architecture
Nunhead Chapel by Theo Simpson. The Design Museum new Café and Tank installation offers images of London’s lesser-known architecture. These structures and buildings, including subways and transport...
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From The Bizarre To The Merely Macabre: Sculpture Season At The Grant Museum
The arrival of Sculpture Season at the Grant Museum sees its zoological collection take an increased turn for the bizarre, the marvellous and the macabre. Thirteen UCL Slade School of Fine Arts...
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Art Inspired By Evolution At Freud Museum
Damian Ortega is a Mexican artist who is known for manipulating everyday objects and materials, giving them his unique spin. Last year, he impressed us with his river of tyres and a monumental...
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Cinematic Visions: Explore How Film Has Influenced Painters
The central theme of this exhibition is to bring out film culture’s influence on contemporary painters. Arguably, it would be easier to make the link the other way round — after all, painting as an...
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In Pictures: Southbank Centre’s Festival Of Neighbourhood
London might be the only places in the country where the idea of celebrating neighbourhoods and community feels whimsical. Through a variety of new installations, exhibitions and activities, the...
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Tiny Figures Hidden Around London For Red Cross Refugee Week
Take a close look at these diminutive sculptures. Four show famous figures associated with London — but all have something else in common. Freddie Mercury fled Zanzibar during the island’s revolution....
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Celebrate Art in SE5 With The Camberwell Arts Festival
Head to Camberwell tomorrow for the first day of a nine-day festival of art based in and around SE5. The Camberwell Arts Festival aims to take art out of the studio and into street to showcase the...
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1,000 Good Deeds At The Foundling Museum
Can a cup of tea change the world? A new exhibition at the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury is inviting visitors take home tea cups labeled with good deeds, and then follow through on those pledges....
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Follow An Alternative Guide To The Universe At Hayward Gallery
With the thought-provoking Outsider Art exhibition at Wellcome Collection due to close soon, here’s another look at art on the fringes. This exhibition has a much broader scope, featuring artists from...
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Socio-political Chinese Art From The Gao Brothers
Contemporary Chinese art has exploded in global popularity in the last 25 years, and the Gao brothers have been involved in this evolution since the beginning. The Hua Gallery specialises in...
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What To Make Of This Year’s Summer Exhibition At The Royal Academy?
Even though it’s been an annual fixture for 245 years, the Summer Exhibition is hard to categorise — falling somewhere between an art fair and a curated show, with works for sale next to massive...
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The Dulwich Picture Gallery Has A Crisis Of Brilliance
Rather than focus on thematically linked artists or a particular art movement, the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s latest exhibition explores a set time and place — specifically the Slade School of Art in...
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A Trio Of South London Festivals
This summer three festivals will grace the streets of South London within three weeks of one another. What’s more, they’re mostly free. Treat yourself to a healthy dose of community spirit with four...
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Take The Curious Art Trail Through West Norwood Cemetery
Images above from Curious 2012. Tiptoe through one of London’s most picturesque cemeteries, looking out for works of art. From this weekend the Curious art trail can be explored in West Norwood...
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Sculpture in the City 2013
While you’re busy ogling the topped-out Cheesegrater building, a sculpture park is being readied at its base. From tomorrow (20 June), all will be in place, and you can wander among works by Antony...
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Spectacular, Free & Alfresco: Greenwich & Docklands International Festival
One of the capital’s most inventive free festivals begins this weekend with a beached whale, an epic arial disaster movie, and fairs full of fun on both sides of the Thames. Greenwich and Docklands...
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New Exhibition Shows The World Manifested Through Paper
In spite of predictions to the contrary, the paperless world has yet to be realised. This is nowhere more apparent than the at the Saatchi Gallery’s latest exhibition, Paper, which opens today. In...
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Heavens Above: The Angels Are Coming To Sydenham Arts Festival
Art and religion have always been closely linked. Most Renaissance paintings were of religious scenes and many were commissioned by the church, often for church altars. Angels were a common subject...
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Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast About London, 21 June 2013
Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher. Londonist Out Loud is...
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