Art & Design
Explore objects, stories and blogs relating to art and design from – and about – London.
Blogs-And-Stories
A walk through 1920s London
George Davison Reid’s years-long photography project shows us London between two world wars
The Rhinebeck Panorama: A game-changing view
Found in a barrel in 1941, this vast panorama shows the awesome spread of London in 1806
The Prévost Panorama: See London in 1815
An epic six-metre-long painting shows us a very different view from Westminster
Locket portraits of London’s container shipping crews
Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry
A panoramic history of London
These artworks stretched the limits of perspective to show London in all its glory
Preserving a London Fields squat in the 1990s
Tom Hunter’s detailed model of his Hackney neighbourhood helped save it from demolition
London’s artists, illustrators & makers
The talent fueling the fire of this creative capital
Picture Post believed in the power of photography
This London-based magazine pioneered photojournalism in the mid-20th century
London through the eyes of Wolfgang Suschitzky
The grit and glamour of life in the mid-20th century, captured by one of the era’s key photographers
