Huntsmen and their hounds in Oxford Street, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) Back in days of yore, before Flickr gave ordinary Jones' ample opportunity to display their badly-framed mobile phone snaps to the world, the rhythm of London life was captured by various professional photographers, from a variety of sources, including the influential Picture Post. Such work has been diligently collected over the years by Getty, and the fruits of their Hulton Archive have......

For those of you with a penchant for furniture with an artistic flair or pretty but undeniably useless knick-knacks, your mecca is open for this weekend only. FORM: London - which takes over Olympia National Hall until 2 March - falls somewhere between massive gallery experience and fantasy shopping excursion. Featuring items from understated hand-carved furniture to large-scale paintings to surreal centre pieces. And everything can be taken home if the contents of your......

At Londonist we never knowingly turn down the offer of a canape and glass of sparkly. One particularly quiet week we were even spotted at the Smoked-Meat Purveyors Buffet And Mingle. This is not a quiet week - the Tour De France has come to town, so we headed to ExCeL in Docklands to enjoy a bit of collective excitement with media, athletes and event officials at the temporary Tour de France 'Permanence' (French......

It's true that the centre of London is very crowded. Extremely crowded today as contortionists Delia and Yvette du Sol, and their cousin Michelle Laine squeeze themselves into a tiny Perspex house only 1.33 cubic metres, in the middle of Leicester Square. This twisted and cramped pubicity stunt is for housing and homelessness charity Shelter and their Million Children Campaign. By showing just how uncomfortable and even eye-watering overcrowding in the home can be......

What a draw! After a consistently dull group stage (of which the only real highlight was the sad demise of Manchester United), the Champions League sprang into life today with the draw for the last 16. Arsenal will take on Real Madrid and Chelsea, surprise surprise, have drawn Barcelona again. Seeing as London is still waiting for one of its own to lay their hands on the big-eared cup, it might have been nicer......

It's not every day you pick up the venerable Times to find an article evangelising about the "the Alpine meadows of the thigh region" or the "the exposed belly-button, plus its mandatory side-platter of belly, hip, rib and buttock crevice"! But today it seems Richard Morrison cannot help but pen an ode to "the eternal glories of the female body". You see, it's summer, and there's "so much female leg, tit, tum and butt"......

Can a great artist be a great curator? That's the question they seem to be asking over at the Alison Jacques Gallery, where David Hockney is about ready to unveil his exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs. Hockney and Mapplethorpe go way back to the early 70s, when they bumped into each other at the infamous Chelsea Hotel (Mapplethorpe was living there with Patti Smith at the time, so we can assume he was a......