15 for 150, Art on the Underground, Various London Tube stations, Starting from June
London's underground railway transport network is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year with various notable projects, including 15 for 150, under which 15 well-known contemporary artists are creating images for reproduction as posters. The posters will be shown at four central London Tube stations: Gloucester Road, Southwark, St. James's Park and London Bridge. Each of the artists (including Melissa Gordon, Sarah Lucas and Wolfgang Tillmans) is also making a series of signed and numbered limited-edition prints that will be sold this month at auction with a starting price of 150 GBP. Revenues from the sales of the prints will help to support other programmes by Art on the Underground, which was founded in 1908 and was then known as Platform for Art. Mona Hatoum, a Lebanese artist of Palestinian origin, has designed the new map of the Tube to look like a globe, symbolically depicting London as a microcosm of the world and as a home for people of all races, cultures, nationalities and religions.