I didn't know what to expect from Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold at Battersea Power Station. I had the vague sense of a school trip – educational, earnest, slightly dull. I was completely wrong. The exhibition opens in near-darkness. Then a colossal stone head emerges from the shadows, flanked by illuminated cartouches. It takes a moment to process the scale of it. This is a man who ruled Egypt for almost 70 years. He built half of what tourists now fly to Egypt to see. He was

The Hayward Gallery showed Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child from 9 February to 15 May 2022. A record of the fabric figures, the cages and where to see her work in London.

Just seven days left to discover the story of Amy’s early career through her teenage notebooks, candid pictures, and early recordings. Get ready to explore the creative process behind her incredibly confessional music and deeply personal songs. Click here for a short video preview. The Design Museum exhibition pays tribute to a wealth of eclectic influences including jazz, rock, hip-hop, Motown, R&B, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Mark Ronson, Erykah Badu,

Noguchi at the Barbican was the Barbican Art Gallery's Isamu Noguchi retrospective, 30 September 2021 to 23 January 2022. A record of the show, the Akari lamps and where it toured.

Be part of a global premiere as a rare collection of rediscovered drawings by Hokusai will be on display at the British Museum between 30 September 2021 – 30 January 2022. The exhibition, called “Hokusai The Great Picture Book of Everything,” features 103 recently acquired drawings produced between the 1820s–1840s by the creator of the iconic Great Wave. The sketches were initially commissioned for an illustrated encyclopaedia titled “The Great Picture Book of Everything” tha

Under the alluring motto “nourish your creativity and purchase limited edition works of art during your weekly shop", the pop-up shop at Design Museum London challenges the meaning of “essential” during a global pandemic. The adjective “essential” has its roots in the Middle English “essencial,” Late Latin’s “essentialis”, and the Latin “essential”, meaning "the basic nature of a thing, its essence" and adding the Latin suffix “-alis” stands for "relating to." Although there’

Soane bought it in 1800 for £4,500, pulled most of it down and rebuilt it as a house that would turn his sons into architects. Ten years later he sold it. What is left is the only house he designed, built and lived in.

If you often fantasize about a purple field of - let's say - crocus bulbs, then The Ham House Gardens in Richmond Upon Thames near London is the place to be every spring from now on. The National Trust has planted 120,000 Ruby Giant Crocuses and every year in February-March, Londoners can admire these spectacular purple carpets in full bloom. Ham House History in a Nutshell Known as one of the grandest Stuart houses in England, Ham House was originally built in 1610 on the ru

There is a building next to Acton Town station, behind a wall you have probably walked past without a second glance, that holds more than 320,000 objects from 160 years of London transport history. Most people who live in London have never heard of it. That is the point of this post. The Museum Depot is the working store of the London Transport Museum. The Covent Garden building gets the visitors; Acton gets everything that will not fit: full-size train carriages, horse-drawn