St Tube Map's day

For those who celebrate, St Tube Map's day is here again! It used to happen more than once a year but is now an annual changeover. Here's the Great Switcheroo Ceremony at Liverpool Street yesterday. The old map comes out and the new map goes in. Sometimes a new tube map brings great changes like the addition of blobs, the appearance of trams or the naming of Overground lines. This time the tweaks are minor, especially on the map itself, but there have been presentational changes and some fool's decided to make the key even more complicated. Change 1: new cover art It's farewell to Map Projections by Agnes Denes and hello to Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish by Ellen Gallagher. Ellen is an American artist with biracial heritage who fished commercially before taking a fine arts degree in Boston and now exhibits internationally. What's unusual here is that TfL haven't commissioned this cover from scratch, the work's already appeared in a show at the Gagosian Gallery in Paris. It's one of three…