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Here's all the art that's going to be on the new Tube line

Eddy Frankel
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Eddy Frankel
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The Whitechapel Gallery is hosting a show of sketches and proposals for new public artworks that will be installed at stations on the Elizabeth line later this year. This is underground art of the future:

Yayoi Kusama
She of the infinity rooms and pumpkins is installing a massive stainless steel thingymajig at Liverpool Street.

Yayoi Kusama Digital rendering of Infinite Accumulation 2017 © Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai and Victoria Miro, London/Venice

Conrad Shawcross
British artist Shawcross is weaving his magic with metal, constructing this sort of screw-like doodad on the other side of Liverpool Street.

Conrad Shawcross Digital rendering of Manifold (Major Third 5:4), 2017 © Conrad Shawcross Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice

Douglas Gordon
Tottenham Court Road is your gateway to Soho, and Gordon’s work is a big, bright reminder of the area’s neon – and perfectly seedy – past.

Douglas Gordon © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018. Photo: Balazs Studinger

Darren Almond
Evoking memories of train travel of old, Almond’s work at Bond Street will feel like its always been there. Just like the M&S.

Darren Almond, courtesy White Cube

Simon Periton
Periton’s Farringdon artwork is inspired by the diamonds of Hatton Garden and the metalwork of Smithfields.

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Chantal Joffe
Joffe’s paintings of passers-by outside Whitechapel station will become permanent reminders of local life.

© Chantal Joffe. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London / Venice

Michal Rovner
Rovner’s screen at Canary Wharf will reflect the stations’s architecture and the flow of commuters. 

© Michal Rovner Studio

Richard Wright
Wright is bringing some bling to Tottenham Court Road with loads of intricate gold leaf business along the escalators.

© Richard Wright. Courtesy Gagosian

Spencer Finch
Finch is installing a glass canopy full of clouds in Paddington. Because London’s not cloudy enough, is it?

© Spencer Finch; Courtesy Lisson Gallery

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