Ben Eine's November 2011 work London Riot was painted on a building in Hackney
The London Riots in Art looks at how artist interpreted last summer’s disturbances in London, Manchester, Birmingham and beyond. What did the riots inspire them to create?
Artists featured: Nick Scott, Stan Karczmarz, Peter Brown, Ian Stevenson, Ben Eine, Dave Stephens, Anthony Freda, Elizabeth Eisen, Emmeline Pidgenm, David Lewis-Baker and Elizabeth Eisen.
Photoshoot in London waiting for Christmas (16-18 Dcember 2011) © TRISTRAMBROS
__A teenager has been charged with the offence of "riot" - the first person to be charged with the offence in relation to the disorder in London last summer.
Jerome Amankwah, 19, of Rochford, Griffin Road, Tottenham, will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 9 February.
_Video by TRISTRAMBROS
Music by Digitalism "Idealistic"
_An astonishing golden outfit made from the silk of spiders goes on display at London's Victoria and Albert Museum on Wednesday, the largest example of the material in the world.
The four-metre-long (13-feet-long) hand-woven textile, a natural vivid gold colour, was made from the silk of more than one million female Golden Orb spiders collected in the highlands of Madagascar by 80 people over five years.
_Every year, Ian takes to the
streets of London early on Christmas Morning to photograph the normally thronged streets in their state of eerie emptiness.
Photos of an Empty London on Christmas Morning
