Our Friends in the Circus (2008) features in the 'Performance' exhibition, at the gallery which opens in May. © Quentin Blake The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens in Clerkenwell this May, ...

This free display focuses on two exhibitions held here in 1942, which we now might find surprising; both championed the Soviet Union after its entry into the war on the Allies' side. They reveal how ...

Morgan Freeman's dulcet tones can be heard at Baker Street station this Wednesday and Thursday. If you're at Baker Street ...

But too often we're reduced to a narrow image created by Western media. When Latinas show power or talent, it’s rarely recognised as part of our culture, it's just seen as an individual woman ...

A bloke called Jerm via creative commons. It's the station with the longest name on the TfL network — and Cutty Sark (for ...

David Hockney turns 90 in 2027, and the Tate already has plans brewing. Image: Londonist/© David Hockney/Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima. London's been spoiled for David Hockney exhibitions lately, and ...

Until 26 March. Not long left to catch The Kallin Family Exhibition 2026, running at Burgh House in Hampstead (open Weds-Sun) ...

It's easy to find reports of "definitely a raven" all over the place, including in the very centre of London. Many of these ...

Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. See if we've included your local. Yet more impressive Victoriana, in an area dripping with great 19th century pubs, greets the visitor to The Lamb. The ...

This pub was voted among the best in the Victoria Park area by Londonist readers. Pubs named after authors. There should be more of them. Dickens has a couple. Defoe pops up in Stoke Newington. But ...

So claims a Blue Plaque on Kenilworth Court, next to Putney Bridge. (Can we start a rumour that he really lived in flat No. 72, but convinced everybody he lived next door, by throwing his voice?) ...

And, just for a bit of fun, we've added some of the many vanished museums of London, as well as a handful of 'wish list museums' we'd love to see set up. The best way to browse is to home in on one of ...