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One of the London Festival of Architecture’s most interesting exhibitions is a show at Southwark gallery, charting the unvisited reaches of the Thames Estuary.
As you head out of London along the Thames, the glitzy office blocks and shiny residential developments disappear. Instead, there are sheds, warehouses, the strange concrete shapes of water towers, […]
Following my report on ‘Last Stop’, Ralf Obergfell’s exhibition of photographs on the last eighteen months of the Routemaster’s service for London Transport, I had the chance to interview the photographer about his work.
LT: When did you first encounter the Routemaster bus? How far back does your fascination with it go?
RO: I first saw the […]
Have you ever thought what London would look like after global warming raises the sea level? Which parts of London would be left - and how people would live in it?
That’s the starting point for Squint/Opera’s Flooded London exhibition, which opens Friday at Medcalf bar and restaurant in Exmouth Market, as part of the […]
The Momart fire was one of the great disasters of Britart. In a single warehouse fire, works by Tracy Emin, Damien Hirst, Gavin Turk, and other artists were destroyed - and one of the works lost to the flames was Hell, by Jake and Dinos Chapman.
But now, the Chapman brothers have revived Hell - calling […]
Imagine a house that explodes around you. Or one where you have to crouch and wriggle to get into it. Imagine making your home in a coccoon. Or living in a house made of paper. Or seeing your life explode in front of your eyes.
That gives you an idea what you’ll see at the Psycho […]
Since I’ve been blogging a few tea-related themes I had to post this one - a superb image from an exhibition by Mai-Thu Perret which will open in London later this year.
It’s a teapot, but not as we know it…. it doubles as a walk-in art gallery.
Now you might look at this as just a […]
Regular readers of this blog will know I’m fascinated by industrial buildings and landscapes, like the old railway stations of London or the two great ‘cathedrals of power’, Bankside and Battersea power stations.
Ed Burtynsky is another person whose heart beats faster when he sees a huge industrial building or landscape. He’s a photographer who spends […]
This splendid crucifixion painting is on show now in the British Museum (which will be holding an Ethiopian Day on May 3rd).
It’s just been restored, and it’s on show together with a reconstruction of the colours as they would have been when it was freshly painted - vibrant as it is, the original has faded.
Just […]
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery shines a light on black talent in the acting profession with photographic portraits of thirty black British actors. They’ll be shown on a plasma screen in the Ondaatje wing of the NPG from April 4th to June 8th; admission is free.
Photographer Franklyn Rodgers has a distinctive, […]
I rather like this statue of Sir John Betjeman in St Pancras station. (It’s on the upper level, on the way to the champagne bar.) How much nicer it is than the much bigger ‘kiss’ statue which takes pride of place in the restored Victorian station.
Martin Jennings created the image of the poet looking up […]
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