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Salamanders at Gloucester Road station and a new mural at Brixton tube—Art on the Underground 2023 programme revealed
Monster Chetwynd, Jem Perucchini and Zadie Xa will all unveil works around London’s transport hubs
London's National Portrait Gallery to reopen its doors in June 2023 after three-year closure
The refurbishment is backed by a raft of sponsors including British-American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik and international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills
East London art space Raven Row makes a comeback
Launched in 2009, the gallery took a five-year hiatus in 2017, but will return early next year with a TV archive show
Immersive David Hockney show will launch new interactive art space in London
The Lightroom project, due to open next year, is backed by Tate Modern sponsor Leonard Blavatnik
London operating theatre—the oldest in Europe—goes under the knife for major restoration
Victorian hospital will re-create the original skylight that aided innovative treatment of “working and deserving” women
Museum of London to close ahead of relocation to Smithfield Market
Institution will reopen in 2026, with Fabric its first "nightclub in residence"
National Portrait Gallery in London has raised half the £50m required to acquire Joshua Reynolds's Omai
The museum has until March 2023 to stop the work leaving the UK
London's Wellcome Collection accused of cultural vandalism after closing 'racist, sexist and ableist' display of artefacts
The institution asks “What’s a museum for?” as it shuts display devoted to objects amassed by its founder
London's National Portrait Gallery receives £10m donation from Leonard Blavatnik
First floor of London museum to be renamed the "Blavatnik Wing" and will display 100 years of portraiture across nine galleries
London gallery turns Premier League football match into an art installation
Mark Titchner's work was displayed at Tottenham Hotspur's stadium and broadcast to millions of fans
Historic London foundry that made Big Ben's bells could be saved from hotel development
The digital heritage preservation company Factum Foundation and conservation group Re-Form Heritage plan to buy the site and hold it in perpetuity as a working foundry
Mark Hallett appointed director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London
He joins from Yale University's Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and will now oversee the next phase of the Courtauld's £57m redevelopment project
German Expressionist women who made an indelible mark on Modernism get a rare London showing
Royal Academy of Arts exhibition includes well known names such as Käthe Kollwitz, as well as equally accomplished, but less famous, artists like Marianne Werefkin
Brutal cuts to London arts organisations as national funds are moved away from capital
“We’ve had to make invidious choices”, says Arts Council England’s chair, Nicholas Serota, as funding portfolio for 2023-26 announced
Acquisitions round-up: the first painting by Swiss avant-garde artist Ferdinand Hodler to head to London's National Gallery
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
In memoriam: London art dealer and restaurateur Andrew Edmunds represented a special and vivid chapter in Soho’s history
The world expert on the prints of William Hogarth, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson was a great and colourful character
‘Everything has a price’: estate agent lists historic foundry that once cast Big Ben's bells
Latest chapter in troubled history of foundry sees it put up for rent—and possible sale
Digital Art Week comes to London with editions planned for Paris, Lisbon, New York, Miami, Seoul and Tokyo
Backed by crypto art denizens and web3 startups, the inaugural edition brings six free events to the capital
Artist Bones Tan Jones on how a six-day walk from London to Stonehenge inspired them to make their own huge monolith
The exhibition "Tunnel Visions" at Queercircle explores the threat of urbanisation and pollution
First major Donatello exhibition to come to UK after rave reviews in Italy
The Victoria and Albert Museum show next year will explore the life and legacy of the “driving force behind the Italian Renaissance”
Sound installation puts voice of artist Maggie Jencks back into the Postmodern house she helped create in London
Edwin Heathcote—'keeper of meaning' at The Cosmic House built by the Postmodernist theorist Charles Jencks and his wife Maggie—explains how a sound work is bringing the building back to life
Paris vs London: which capital will win the hearts of art collectors?
London’s struggles with the reality of leaving the European Union coupled with a government unsympathetic to the arts means the French capital is gaining the edge over its rival
Frieze London gossip: the flakiest of ice-cream vans, art tattoos and Kate Moss shows support for Shane MacGowan's art
Plus, Waddington Custot steps up for students and the filthy fountain of the future
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers covered in tomato soup by eco activists
The environmental group Just Stop Oil says it attacked the painting in response to the UK government’s inaction on the cost-of-living and climate crises
Frieze London gossip: Rumours of an Anna Delvey appearance, a sculpture goes missing and Laure Prouvost is feeling ticklish
Plus, Victoria Miro director shares his secret to staying wide awake all week
Top-shelf secrets lie behind the Victorian respectability of newly restored Sambourne House
House in London's Kensington includes hundreds of commercial artist Linley Sambourne’s illustrations and cartoons—and (not on view) his pornographic photographs
Walk with Hilma af Klint: AR brings works by the mystic mother of abstraction to London's Regent's Park
Seventy-eight years after her death, the artist famed for her geometric and spiral forms, has realised her goal of creating a giant temple for her work— thanks to cutting-edge technology