Exploring London since 2007
Bonnie Alter is a Canadian who has been living in London for the past 15 years. If there is anything to do with gardening, design or the arts, she will be there to check it out. Bonnie also writes on green issues and sustainability over on Treehugger.
Rachel Whiteread has a new show at the Gagosian Gallery in London. Known for her ‘negative’ casts, she is best remembered for the sculpture of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house, which she created on Grove Road in Tower Hamlets during 1993. She is still casting reverse images of buildings but this time it’s garden sheds – [...]
This month there are international photographers on view all over London. The Brazilian Geraldo de Barros is at the Photographers’ Gallery, the American Man Ray is at the National Portrait Gallery and the Natural History Museum is featuring the magnificent works of another Brazilian, Sebastiao Salgado in a new show called Genesis. Best known for [...]
Standing in Kensington Gardens outside the Serpentine Gallery is a sculpture called “Rock on Top of Another Rock”, and for good reason – this new piece of public art by Peter Fischli and David Weiss consists of two granite boulders balanced on top of each other. It’s the first public piece for these two Swiss artists, [...]
