Strange things are definitely afoot this week and sightings of fragments of an ancient magic carpet appearing Underground had us temporarily intrigued and reaching for the Fortean Times... but never fear, commuter sceptics, tis just a new tube map cover from artist Pae White who's used the colours of Harry Beck's original map to weave together a mythical mystical carpet that we can all imagine ferrying us home next time our line comes to......

Happy 100th birthday, the roundel. Its exhibition opens today at Rochelle School. More interesting for fans of transport memorabilia and contemporary art who've a few bob still sloshing around in these tight times, you can bid to buy one of these roundel inspired works of art online (like that one, pictured, by James Ireland) from 15 October. 100 artists have contributed to this centennial celebration including Peter Blake, Cornelia Parker, Mark Titchner, Gavin Turk......

On Tuesday, artist Nils Norman will be giving a talk at London Transport Museum, discussing his public commissions and poster artworks, including 'Ideal City' and 'Fantasy Piccadilly Line' for Piccadilly Underground station and Piccadilly line trains. You and A.N.Other can be there for free by entering the no strings, no stress, no question, no problem giveaway below. We'll pick a winner on Monday lunchtime and notify them by email. You need to be able......

From tomorrow, watch out for brand new poster art works, inspired by the ubiquitous tube roundel, which is celebrating its 100th birthday, on a platform near you. The posters are teasers to tempt you to an exhibition of 100 new roundel artworks at the Rochelle School in Shoreditch, where we told you to go and see the Le Gun thing, between 8-30 October.......

Things you may already know about Stanmore station: - it's at the very end of the Jubilee line, north London - it's in Zone 5 - it's one stop after Canons Park Things you may not know about Stanmore station: - it is connected to Bletchley Park, the place where the World War Two German Enigma code was cracked and is currently in not very good condition. 57 Turing Bombe machines were housed at......

If you went through Stratford Station this morning you might have found the Stratford Grapevine thrust into your paw, in place of the usual news lite freesheets. What you might not have realised is that it was art. You probably thought it looks more like a community involvement initiative, celebrating Stratford on the road to 2012 and mustering local people into a renewed sense of - well, community. And you'd be right. There will......

The latest art installation from the London Underground is being unveiled this week in a tube station near you. Artist Anna Barriball has been commissioned to design a series of posters for the underground, and the result is an enigmatic exercise in the art of typographic seduction. Taken from the backs of found photographs, a favourite medium of Barriball, the posters are printed in black and white and in the London Underground's classic New......

To brighten up the New Year the tube map has got a new look as of 2 January. Art on the Underground commissioned Cornelia Parker to create the new cover art which is rather like a pretty Rorschasch splodge that looks a bit like a butterfly or beetle made out of tube lines. While you're musing on it and wondering what it says about your mental state, don't forget that, although single fares have......

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won't already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we'll see what we can move from our sack to your stockings... If you collected the specially commissioned posters from TfL then it's likely you'll fancy this book. Platform for Art: Art on the Underground cunningly......

To celebrate the rebranding of the Platform for Art initiative as Art on the Underground, TfL are giving away specially commissioned posters at 5 Zone 1 tube stations all next week (bound to be a bunfight on Monday though, be prepared). Among the artists is Turner Prize nominated Mark Titchner and poster designs include a fictitious A-Z map and some snow capped mountains. 25,000 of each design have been produced and will be stacked......