The anonymous crowds of Trafalgar Square continue to provide inspiration to artists intent on introducing us to one another. Last month we were sending out smoke signals through the Memory Cloud; coming up this month, we (or the 200 of us filmed earlier at the Tate Modern) will be jumping creepily out of each other's shadows. For Under Scan, 110,000 lumens of light are to be thrown onto the square nightly from tomorrow until......

It seemed the debate over Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth was settled: after Boris' election pledge to install a statue of Sir Keith Park was shot down, the space would continue to home modern art. But perhaps not: Prospect magazine reckons Westminster council plans to erect a statue of our dear Queen once she's pegged it. Like her nearby relative George IV, the scheme would see Liz on horseback, though we're not sure that would be......

Image courtesy of randydandy via the Londonist Flickr pool Right, so Gothamist isn’t returning our phone calls, and we can only assume that they’re not going to take us up on our Telectroscope dance challenge. Chickens. Dance-off or not, we wanted to check out the Telectroscope for ourselves. Would it be awkward to stand there gaping at people on the other end? Is it worth leaving behind the webcam and the comfort of our......

Archiving is so important these days. Here's our vision of the ideal place to display former Fourth Plinth occupants. 'Old Stumpy' next to Blackfriars Bridge provides twelve storage pedestals for the growing collection of erstwhile Trafalgar Square plinthians. And how about employing Battersea Power Station's chimneys for the generally larger Turbine Hall sculptures? Got a vision for London that's even skewier than the Mayor's? Send your ideas and images to londonist - at -......

Londonist is thrilled by the announcement that the Government Art Collection is to open its doors to the public, with pre-booked tours to be available to interested plebs on Saturday May 17 as part of Museums and Galleries Month. Having previously taken advantage of a rare opportunity to see the home of the GAC during Open House Weekend last year, we urge all art lovers to grab the chance with both hands, as the unassuming location of the collection - a side alley near the Goodge Street end of Tottenham Court Road - hides some beautiful art treasures which deserve better than to be hidden away in some obscure embassy or government office. Set up originally to provide cheap decoration for His/Her Majesty's representatives' official residences around the world, in recent times the GAC's objectives have been shifted to emphasise the promotion of British art and artists, although giving embassy staff and civil servants something nice to look at while they toil away furthering the national interest is still very much an important part of the collection's role. The GAC, we were told on our Open House tour, is a thing constantly in motion, with pieces shipped around the world constantly, and with works sent back to London to be lovingly restored by a team of art experts, before being crated up and sent back out....

There's a Spitfire in Trafalgar Square today. Not a Banksy Spitfire, amusingly positioned so it looks like it is crashed into the steps leading from the National Gallery. It's not propped up between the lions by a protest group and it's not there as a misguided celebration of Prince Harry's safe return to England. It's there to launch a campaign to put a statue of Sir Keith Park on the fourth plinth and do......

When you're picking up your freesheet on the way home tonight don't just leave it on the train for some other, poor, reading material starved sucker. Turn it into public art! No, we don't mean have an art attack on the platform and start making saucy hats or paper planes (although both are better uses for these "newspapers" than reading them). We mean, go to Gillett Square in Dalston and help build the Newspaper......

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......

News of a film installation to be unveiled at Rayners Lane and Sudbury Town stations shortly alerted us to the fact that TfL's jolly and diverse Platform for Art programme had undergone a rebrand and will be relaunching as Art on the Underground at the end of this month. There's not much in a name, of course, but always fans of wordplay and puns we rather liked "Platform for Art". However, TfL has opted......

Channel 4 is 25 years old in November hence the glorious retro branding and Richard Whiteley era-Countdown appearing on TV. Famous for bringing close-ups of willies, tits and countless controversial things into the living rooms of thousands, it's rightfully celebrating a quarter-century of good reasons to stay in on Friday nights and legendary water-cooler moments. A special off-screen marker of 25 years of success is unveiled today outside the TV station's headquarters. A towering......

The Treatment Rooms is a privately owned three-story house in the West London suburb of Chiswick, which over the past several years has had its exterior walls transformed into an ongoing self-contained conceptual piece of mosaic art. The vibrant and well executed mosaics, which cover the front wall of the house and the back garden wall are well worth paying a visit to see. Recently, Londonist took an opportunity to visit the Treatment Rooms......

With the Millennium and all its bugs naught but a distant memory the Greenwich Peninsula has lain fairly industrially desolate and half done for years, known mainly for the white elephant Dome, the sickly smell of the Tate & Lyle processing plant and the arse end of the Blackwall Tunnel. Life is stirring in North Greenwich though and today saw the grand opening of Peninsula Square, the gateway to the finally reappropriated and rebranded......

The tube loves throwing money at art almost as much as it loves making money from big corporate advertising. Platform for Art is TFL’s public art programme and its latest commission sees Turner Prize winner Liam Gillick’s work on the new cover for the tube map - the design shows the words of the date of the last day in London without the Underground network: Friday 9 January 1863, done in the 12 colours......

The Turbine Hall in Tate Modern is, to put it mildly, bloody huge. It's... enormous. And sometimes filled with polystyrene sugar cubes, strange weather or the mutterings of millions. However, a space like that has rarely seen live performance which makes sense if you've been there - it would be a bit like shouting Shakespeare into the upturned wok formerly known as the Millennium Dome. "Collaborative performance and installations" do, on the other hand,......

It's difficult to know what to think about this Peter Saville/Sony 'public art' collaboration. The idea is that Sony PSP produce 500 pieces of "graphic design focused public art" decorated by Saville and a gang of other graphic design artists (like Neville Brody and Danny Sangra). Plus, 50 of the cut outs have been signed by Saville. These works of art then get displayed at locations across London over the next week or so......