Lydia Wood began drawing the capital’s pubs after losing her job. Now, after her sketches went viral, she is on a mission to illustrate all the city’s watering holes – before some are closed ...
More than six decades after launching one of Britain’s most influential rock bands, The Kinks’ founding brothers Ray and Dave ...
Ever since the U.K. officially left the European Union in January 2020, the London economy seems to have lost its mojo. Its stock market succumbed its leading European position to Paris last year, and ...
One fateful day in 1967, when the Young British Artists were still in diapers, John Lennon met Yoko Ono in a small but well-connected art gallery in London’s West End. The Japanese artist handed the ...
Van Gogh’s finest early drawing is of Austin Friars, the church of the Dutch community in the City of London. It was confidently drawn, in ink, and has been held up as an example to show that he could ...
Courtesy the artist and Rose Easton, London. Photography by Jack Elliot Edwards This year, Frieze London made the very wise decision to spotlight the city’s booming young gallery scene. Articulate, ...
LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A London fair is seeking to reverse centuries of gender imbalance in the arts world by giving women artists their own platform. The Women in Art Fair, launched last year, ...
“London seems to be in my bloodstream,” said artist Leon Kossoff. “It is always moving — the skies, the streets, the buildings. The people who walk past me when I draw have become part of my life.” ...
Installation view of UVA's Synchronicity at 180 The Strand. Chromatic, UVA, 2023. Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic poses with one of her artworks, entitled 'Portal', during a photocall at ...