Sickening news this morning that the aspirational Stephen Lawrence Centre, which only opened last week, had bricks thrown through its beautifully designed front windows this morning. It's shocking enough that there are are people out there who are so against a community centre designed and purpose-built to encourage young people, help them out of deprivation and foster better community relations that they feel the need to damage it. Shocking too that this act of......

Art collector Charles Saatchi's new gallery, at The Duke of York's Building in Chelsea, opens in April with a Tessa Farmer collection entitled 'Swarm'. And that's exactly what you get. A swarm of frickin' insects. But shaped like humans. Argh! The appropriately named Farmer has harvested the wing parts from countless little beasties, and glued them to delicate twig skeletons to form 'evil fairies'. Presumably to scare the Bejesus out of any landlord who......

Dreams That Money Can Buy is a brand new journal of contemporary art, poetry, prose and political satire. In fact you may already have seen it as their first issue came out in March. So why are we telling you about it now? Well, this Saturday DMCB's publishers have organised an evening of spoken word performances to celebrate their debut publication and the lineup is pretty intriguing. Sophie Woolley (pictured) is one of London's......

Freeness looks to be Pop Idol minus everything but the music and with the added perk that the music is the artist's own, not just covers – so actually, not Pop Idol at all, but keep reading anyway. Freeness is hitting Plastic People on Curtain Road on January 26 (that's Wednesday for the calendar inept) for one night only. London is the first of 10 stops on its quest to help modern producers and......

The Whitechapel gallery is one of those London art venues that never gets shouted about too much. It just carries on, month after month, year after year, putting on interesting exhibitions. The latest of these is Faces In The Crowd, an exhibiton which takes its inspiration from a poem by Ezra Pound: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough". Anyone who's ever stood on a tube platform......