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Design fans rejoice: London Design Festival is upon us from this Saturday for nine days full of events, exhibitions and general designer love. The festival is huge and extremely varied: there’s a massive chess board installation in Trafalgar Square and prizes in the shape of …

Hong Kong-born artist Suki Chan has created a deeply evocative and meditative outdoor video installation and Sleep Walk, Sleep Talk has more power than it initially seems. On the flat roof of A Foundation, we can’t help but feel isolated. Screened only after dark, iIt’s …

The Bargehouse at Oxo Tower Wharf is an uncannily appropriate venue for Katrina. The calm, orderly riverbank and festivity of the restaurants and bars feels like New Orleans pre-hurricane; once inside The Bargehouse, its five floors of dilapidation, peeling paint and neglect is a powerful …

After a packed summer of either being rained out of or scorched to a crisp in parks, fields and on the streets for a variety of festivals [local love series], we’re looking forward to the Tower Festival, Thursday 10 to Sunday 20 September. This is …

Two pigeons in Trafalgar Square watch the antics of a One And Other participant. Bill: He’s got a tent. Ben: What the hell is that? Bill: [Bobbing up and down with excitement] It’s a blow-up doll! It is! It is a blow-up doll! Christ almighty, …

Spidey by Clav from the Londonist Flickr pool Starting today and buzzing on until Sunday, Pestival is taking over the South Bank Centre with a four day jamboree celebrating insects in art and the art of insects. If you’re the type to shriek, scream and …

Image of graffiti, definitely not art by lindseymclarke We are pleased to announce that the world has officially gone mad: local residents in Stoke Newington are upset that graffiti has been painted over in what they call an act of vandalism. But then again, we’re …

Image by SallyB We’ve reported on, photographed and interviewed squatters previously and always like to bring the other side to the story, doing what we can to dispel the myths of grotty, grubby, nefarious, squalid squatters coming into your area, taking all your skips etc …

Twisting corridor connecting the Royal Ballet School to the Royal Opera House. Image author’s own Deloitte, Time Out and the Royal Opera House are coming together again to present the second Deloitte Ignite in that august institution in Covent Garden. We were awed and over-excited …

Image author’s own Peter Stringfellow protested it (in his inimicable, awful way), the Proud Galleries protested it (with nipple tassels) and now Equity is applying its considerable union-shaped weight to the battle against it. ‘It’ is the reclassification of burlesque, lap dancing and pole dancing …