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If you went through Stratford Station this morning you might have found the Stratford Grapevine thrust into your paw, in place of the usual news lite freesheets. What you might not have realised is that it was art. You probably thought it looks more like …

Dan Shipsides, Several sequenced problems on Contemporary Art (Frieze), installation view, 2008, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo by Andy Keate. Peckham. The mere mention of this seemingly blighted borough is enough to send some running for the hills. Much in the same way as mentioning …

Beak Street’s finest: The Riflemaker. Unsurprisingly enough, it hasn’t changed its Soho location since the last review. It has changed the artwork on display in the main room on the ground floor though. Daniela Schönbächler’s exhibition is, to be frank, a bit hit and miss. …

We were unprepared for the sheer expansiveness of the Brunswick Gallery, set beneath Bloomsbury’s Brunswick Centre, north of Holborn. It’s a vast room with high ceilings underneath the Centre. Divination, a travelling group show, exhibited in artist run spaces has arrived in London via Hamburg …

Fashion as Art, ay. It’s all over London at the moment. You can see The Supremes’ costumes at the V&A; fashion meets architecture at Somerset House; and Viktor and Rolf’s crazy creations are turning heads at the Barbican. Trouble is, they’re all a bit flamboyant …

We love our Flickr friends, we really do. Where would we be without our obliging and outrageously talented photographer friends happy to share their work with us in the Londonist Flickr pool and be sent off on snap happy adventures once in a while? How …

The British Library isn’t always so good at promoting their free exhibition space, but they do tend to lay on something special for those who happen to wander in. Make a point of doing so for this summer’s exhibit, The Ramayana: Love and Valour in …

Nathan Horton: Controlled Explosion Number 2 Last time we talked about St Pancras Crypt, we were considering buying a London Borough. This week, the tone was rather more sombre with a group show, Responses to Conflict and Loss installed in these meditative, subterranean vaults. The …

Soho East. That’s surely what Shoreditch has become. The Forster Gallery is one of the new breed of expensive gallery you’d normally expect to see in Mayfair, yet set in the (Nathan) Barley fields of Shoreditch. It’s similar to Eyestorm in that it goes for …

Last night, we attended the launch of Darwin 200 at the Natural History Museum. If he was still alive, Charles Darwin would be an actual living legend, due his 200th birthday on 12 February 2009. Clearly he’s dead but that’s no excuse not to have …