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Sculpture In The City Returns On 20 June
Every year, new public artworks pop up across the City of London as part of Sculpture in the City. Opening tomorrow, Thursday 20 June, this year Sculpture In The City will feature the work of eight artists, including Jake & Dinos Chapman’s dinosaurs, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (2007) which stalk the base of the Gherkin, Richard Wentworth’s Twenty-Four Hour Flag, composed of a number of red kitchen chairs jutting out from the top of the Hiscox Building and the well-known piece by Robert Indiana from 1966, Love. You'll find more information on the webpage that's been set up for the occasion here, but I'll be nipping along in the nex … [Read More...]
Recent Posts
Jimmy C Mural Marks The Opening Of The Many Faces Of Bowie Exhbition @ Opera Gallery
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The Potentates Of Parliament Square
When it was home to groups of protesters, Parliament Square was pretty much inaccessible, but in May … [Read More...]
Singing The Changes – 30 Years Of The Pink Singers @ 3Space Blackfriars
The Pink Singers are Europe's oldest LGBT community choir, and to celebrate it's thirty years of … [Read More...]
London Sights
Open Garden Squares Weekend – The City Of London’s Gardens & Parks
With great pleasure I accepted an invitation to guide a walk for Open Garden Squares Weekend under … [Read More...]
London’s Open Gardens Squares Weekend 2013 – My Visits
This weekend marked the welcome return of the annual Open Garden Squares events, which give … [Read More...]
Learn The History Of The Thames Tunnel @ Rotherhithe’s Brunel Museum
Tucked away between Rotherhithe tube station and the Thames riverbank, you'll discover the Brunel … [Read More...]
Arts & Culture
London With A Mexican Twist – MexFest Returns From 11 July
Next month MexFest is returning to the streets of London for a four-day celebration of Mexican culture, from 11 to 14 July. Commencing with a screening of David Riker’s 2012 movie The Girl at Rich Mix on 14 July (the story of a woman who decides to develop a lucrative criminal sideline by smuggling Mexicans [...]
The Alternative Guide To The Universe @ The Hayward Gallery
‘Outsider art’ seems to be the in-thing on the London arts scene this year – it refers to the work of untrained amateur artists and sometimes involves the output of art therapy classes. Earlier in the year the Wellcome Collection focused on Japanese examples with their show Souzo – Outsider Art From Japan, and this [...]
Tilt’s ‘London Liming’ – A Night Of Spoken Word At Rich Mix On 13 June
This Thursday night, 13 June, Tilt, the London organisation that promotes spoken word performance, is hosting the first of two ‘London Liming‘ nights at Rich Mix in Shoreditch. Starting at 8pm, the evening takes its name from the Trinidadian slang ‘liming’, which means to hang out with your friends. Amongst the artists appearing at this [...]
Food & Drink
Rescuing The Reputation Of Spain’s Sparkling Wine @ Richard Bigg’s Copa De Cava
Richard Bigg, the man behind London’s Camino tapas restaurants and the award-winning Bar Pepito (the venue which reintroduced Londoners to the delights of sherry) is now on a mission to rescue the reputation of another Spanish staple – opening next Monday Copa de Cava on Black Friars Lane invites you to explore the joys of [...]
Ahoy Me Hearties! It’s Beer Mutiny @ The Craft Beer Social Club
The buzz around London’s renewed ability to brew its own beer has not abated in the slightest, so it should come as no surprise that there’s another celebration of craft beer coming to London next month – Beer Mutiny, which runs from Wednesday 19 June to Sunday 23 June. Organised by the The Craft Beer [...]
