Arts and Culture
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Lives captured in that one perfect moment
If every picture tells a story, Lou Boileau’s pictures tell the best stories. And, in an age when everyone has a camera at their fingertips and isn’t afraid to use it, Lou’s tell the stories…
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Ambitious cultural programme part of build-up to site move
The Museum of London is launching a new cultural programme around its future home in Smithfield, thanks to City of London Corporation funding. Over the next three years, the museum will deliver a free, world-class…
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Off the streets and onto the stage with ground-breaking opera project
People with experience of homelessness will take to the stage and boost their confidence thanks to new funding for a ground-breaking opera project. Streetwise Opera was founded by opera critic and homeless shelter volunteer Matt…
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Powering ahead with launch of events space
Battersea Power Station has unveiled the first images of its newly restored Control Room A, ahead of the Grade II* listed building’s opening this autumn. Accessed through the Directors’ Entrance to the south of the…
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A new line in public artwork
Customers using Transport for London (TfL)’s new Elizabeth line can enjoy public artworks in stations and surrounding public spaces by acclaimed British and international artists including Turner Prize winner Richard Wright, British artists Chantal Joffe…
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Breathing new life into an iconic building
A collaborative design team led by architects Allies and Morrison and Asif Khan Studio, has been selected to deliver a multi-million-pound renewal of the Barbican Centre. The project will preserve the iconic building’s original architectural…
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Flowing through the heart and history of a city
The Thames is the heartblood of London, the trade access upon which the city was built and the source of much of its wealth as it grew into the capital we know today. It’s a…
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Housing the treasures of knowledge & experience
Standing in the heart of corporate London, while looking for all the world like a Greek temple, The British Museum is a bastion of curiosity, history, ideas and critical scrutiny of all that has gone…
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Guiding city safely back to life
Designed by London-based artist, Yinka Ilori as part of London Design Festival and supported by Bloomberg, 11 pedestrian crossings on Tottenham Court Road and six pedestrian crossings in the City of London, as well as…
