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fromianVisits
1 week ago

IWM exhibition shows how Britain disguised its power stations during WWII

The paint effect was camouflage using mimicry and disruptive patterns to confuse enemy pilots. It's one image in an exhibition of around 45 paintings and posters, plus some letters and documents recording life in wartime London.
London
Renovation
fromianVisits
2 weeks ago

Little Holland House: The arts and crafts home open to visitors once a month

Frank and Florence Dickinson built their own house in 1904 and hand-carved all interior decorations, creating a modest but intricately decorated home now preserved as a public museum.
London
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Flock and awe: inside the big changes at Henry Moore's glorious sheep-filled Hoglands home

Henry Moore's rural retreat in Perry Green became a permanent cultural ecosystem dedicated to his artistic legacy and personal history.
Arts
fromTime Out London
3 weeks ago

A landmark free David Hockney exhibition is opening in London this week

David Hockney's 90-metre digital artwork 'A Year in Normandie' debuts at London's Serpentine Gallery this spring, featuring 220 iPad panels depicting seasonal changes in his French garden.
Paris food
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Martin Parr's Eye for Human Folly

Martin Parr's photography combines visual humor with conceptual intelligence, using ironic juxtapositions to critique human behavior and cultural contradictions across diverse settings.
London
fromianVisits
3 weeks ago

Tickets Alert: Take your old things to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow

BBC's Antiques Roadshow is filming in London on June 7, 2026 at Valentines Mansion in Ilford, with ticket applications available through ballot allocation.
fromianVisits
1 month ago

Amersham's fairground organ museum is starting to offer tours

The charming Amersham fairground organ museum, which is usually open a few Sundays per year, has now started offering guided tours. The occasional open days are more a chance to sit and listen to the old fair organs playing their pipes, and have a nice lunch at the same time. However, the guided tours, which will take place on Saturdays, will offer a deeper dive into their collection of organs and the music cards that control them.
Music
Film
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Museum marks Aardman's 50th year with exhibition

The Young V&A presents Aardman’s 50th anniversary exhibition with clay models, props, interactive displays, and career-focused creative inspiration for children.
History
fromianVisits
1 month ago

Shop windows tell the story of London's revolutionary illustrated newspapers

A corner shop at the Strand now displays Lost Landscapes of Print, showcasing 19th-century Strand printers, an 1862 replica press, and related printing artifacts.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Wallace, Gromit and a new use for lentils: Aardman exhibition aims to break records and recruit children

Aardman studios' character designs and archives reveal evolving Wallace and Gromit concepts, rare surviving models, and major commercial and awards success.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It's about hurling yourself into the unknown': Charmaine Watkiss on turning a UK museum upside down

Charmaine Watkiss connects Caribbean, African and UK botanical knowledge and diaspora histories through portraits and sculpture emphasizing medicinal plants and ancestral herbal traditions.
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