A walk through Maison Assouline, the luxury publisher's bookshop and cocktail bar inside a small bank that Edwin Lutyens designed next to Wren's St James's Church.

He won medals at the Royal Academy, killed his father in 1843 and painted for forty-two years in Bethlem and Broadmoor. The first Dadd retrospective in fifty years, the painting Freddie Mercury named a song after, and where his pictures live in London once the show closes.

Fortnum & Mason's Christmas windows for 2025, window by window: unicorns under disco balls, narwhals, a Highland cow, a parrot, and the mice in red coats. What was in them and when to look.

Francis Bacon: Man and Beast ran at the Royal Academy from 29 January to 17 April 2022. A record of the paintings, the sources behind them and where to see Bacon in London.

John Hatchard opened on Piccadilly in 1797 and the shop has never left the street. Its history, the royal warrants, Oscar's table, whether it really is the oldest – and what it can still do that the internet cannot.

Did you know there’s a free public outdoor exhibition across Piccadilly this summer? The Royal Academy of Arts has teamed up with Art of London to spark Londoners’ imagination by transforming the area surrounding Picadilly Circus into a huge pop-up exhibition space. Passers-by are invited to discover 13 zebra crossings, 30 colourful floating canvases, and even a 780-metre film, all created by some of the UK’s most original and inspiring artists working today, exclusively pick