06-03-2025
West End: Free public art gallery 'Art after Dark'
London's West End is having an intergalactic illuminated sculptures have been dotted around Leicester Square by artist and designer Dr Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, founder of NASA's International Space Art After Dark, the three-night exhibition is part of a wider event called Piccadilly:Unplugged which has been set up to mark International Women's Day. The project aims to showcase the capital as a cultural hub with some galleries, including the National Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts, will be staying open late on Friday.
Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, eco-feminist artist and designer of experiences, said: "Piccadilly Un:Plugged invites you to break free from the everyday and step into the extraordinary and alien aesthetics - to gaze into the cosmos, and to understand that we are only a small part of a much larger ecosystem and solar system itself. "Powered by an electric team of incredible scientists and female, trans, and non-binary artists, this experience reimagines the future of nightlife - on Earth and beyond." "I'm beyond excited that everyone can now be part of it, engage their radical imagination and question what other futures could be like," she exhibition, which runs from 6-8 March, was delivered by Heart of London Business Alliance and Westminster City Council.
