London art exhibitions, galleries, fairs and artists
Four London museums have made it onto the longlist for the 2010 Art Fund Prize. The Natural History Museum, Hampton Court Palace, the Royal Institution and the National Army Museum have all excelled in the past year and are gagging for your votes. The quartet …
Photo / Fin Fahey A right old bun-fight has erupted at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, between director Ekow Eshun, exhibitions director Mark Sladen, and hirsute chairman Alan Yentob, over the leadership of the ailing arts centre. According to The Guardian, Sladen is reported to …
EAST Festival returns this week with 6 days of creative and cultural events taking place from Barbican to Stratford, Docklands to Hackney and all the bits in between. There’s a lot happening. Boris’ office have been busy sticking as many things under the EAST 2010 …
Seems one of the themes for 2010 is going to be reappropriating empty spaces and putting them to good alternative use. It’s not just artistic squatters, city farms and allotments getting in on the act. Back in October 09 The Space Makers Agency made the …
Photo / dot-dot-dot Via Time Out’s print edition, we learn that the Barbican is planning to close Cinemas Two and Three in March. The plan is to replace the two screens, which are located a fair distance from the larger Cinema One, with state-of-the-art auditoriums …
Hackney Transient Arts Project is a research-based arts initiative that investigates Hackney’s cultural identity. Their recent in/flux exhibition on Kingsland Road was the brainchild of Lucy Tomlins and Marnie Baumer, and curated by Marsha Bradfield and Miriam King. It took inspiration from Hackney as a …
The Arts Activists of Barking and Dagenham The best reason to go to Barking we’ve ever had bursts into life today. Let’s hope the weather holds as it’s outdoors aerialistics to put a spring in the first steps of this performance festival tonight. Transe Expresse …
By Richard Parmiter via the Londonist Flickrpool London 2012 Open Weekend is upon us and, as expected, is ram full of things to do between Friday and Sunday. Celebrating the 3 years to go milestone, events range from the athletic to the historic, artistic to …
A sneak preview of LIFT’s Shoreditch Festival Parade plans Last week we highlighted some of the brilliant local festivals going on around the boroughs this summer and we got some great tip offs in response, telling us about even more great happenings that hadn’t yet …
Taking a staycation? No holiday at all? Locked in London for the rest of the sweltering summer? Hooray! You can come to the Camden Fringe. Bigger, better and more pigeony than ever before, the sparky young pretender to the deranged and sprawling Ed Fest throne …
Crowd at Lambeth Country Fair 2007 by doodledub, with thanks Local festivals are big news this summer. Wandsworth had a heritage festival throughout June, Camberwell Arts Festival started with a park party and finishes today and we’ll be bringing you some spectacular photos of Greenwich …
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