• A new digital exhibition revealing the role Bushy Park played in planning D-Day has gone online ahead of the 80th anniversary of D-Day on 6th June. The exhibition, which is on the Royal Parks website and coincides with new interpretative material at the park itself, features previously unseen archive images of Camp Griffiss which once housed more than 3,000 service personnel. For more, see www.royalparks.org.uk/read-watch-listen/operation-bushy-park-plotting-d-day-royal-park

• Umbrellas lost on London’s trains, Tubes and buses have been transformed into
yōkai – a class of supernatural beings and entities that abound in Japanese folklore, literature, art and popular culture – in a new installation at the Young V&A. Lost and Found Yōkai, which features the sounds of supernatural Japan, celebrates Young V&A’s current exhibition, Japan: Myths to Manga and takes visitors on a journey through “Kasa-obake Alley”, where the umbrellas once lost, now dance with life. The installation can be experienced until 1st December which Myths to Manga runs until 8th September. For more, see vam.ac.uk/young.

• On Now: HEROES: The British invasion of American comics. This exhibition at how early American comics such as Buster Brown, Miss Fury and Superman influenced British artists and culture, and then explores how subsequent British comic creations, such as Watchmen and V For Vendetta, were then exported to the US. Highlights include British imitations of American comic strips dating from the 1940s; an exploration of the story behind the 1972 launch of Marvel UK; see rarely-seen full-colour early American comic newspaper pages by RF Outcault, Harold Foster and Alex Raymond; and artwork by key figures from the history of British and American comics, including works by Jack Kirby, Jack Davis and Tarpe Mills. Runs until 19th October. Admission charge applies. For more, see www.cartoonmuseum.org.

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