Art on the Underground

Artwork at King's Cross St Pancras

Art On The Underground: Mark Wallinger’s “Labyrinth”

Something to while away the minutes while waiting for the next train to arrive.

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Book Review: The Roundel

100 artistic reinterpretations of the famous transport logo.

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Art On The Underground Releases Two New Books

Art on the Central and Jubilee Lines.

Artist Eleanor Lindsay-Flynn

Art Below at Regent’s Park Tube Station

More art to brighten your commute: this time at Regent’s Park station

Art on the Underground at Liverpool Street

Michael Landy’s Acts Of Kindness Art Project Opens On The Central Line

Sickly sweet or stimulating? London’s latest Art on the Underground project was unveiled today

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New Artwork For Tottenham Court Road Station

New entrance hall to be brightened up by Buren.

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Celebrate 25 Years Of Poems On The Underground

New Poems on the Underground are themed around the value of the written word.

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Vote For Your Favourite Tube Map Cover, Win A Prize

To commemorate the launch of a new tube map cover design by Barbara Kruger (a not particularly inspired version, using the all-too familiar trope of contextually renaming the station names — most recently spotted in these very pages), Art on the Underground are asking commuters …

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Gloucester Road To Get ‘White Light’ Sculpture

The biggest neon light installation in Europe is coming to Gloucester Road Tube. The station, noted for its regular programme of Art on the Underground, will show the work from the end of summer, just as commuters need a photonic boost. The radiant distraction will …

Full Circle, by Knut Henrik Henriksen, on the Northern Line platform concourse

In Pictures: New Kings Cross Ticket Hall & Artwork

On Sunday 29th November, the new ticket hall for the Northern line platforms at Kings Cross will open to the public. The £800 million hall, the third at King’s Cross Undeground, provides a new entrance to the station, improved links between the different lines, and …

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Art On The Underground: Central Line Stories

“The Central line draws an invisible line across London”, says Sarah Butler, “connecting east to west, rising up like the edges of a smile”. Well, you certainly couldn’t tell by riding the thing through rush-hour London, where faces burrowed into newspapers and white cords trailing …