Roa Artwork Covered Up With Council Advert
Tower Hamlets accused of vandalism for covering over street art.
Hanbury Street
The Fish & Chips Detective: Poppies Of Spitalfields
In search of London’s best fish and chips.
Street Art: Pablo Delgado’s Tiny People
Yet another artist decorating the streets with little people.
The Saturday Strangeness
115. Blood-Stained Ghosts Although the environment that once harboured the elusive Jack The Ripper has altered a great deal since the foggy days of 1888, such ghastly crimes committed have no doubt made an indelible mark upon the framework of the buildings. In the annals …
Londonvidium: #6 James Mason Visits Jack The Ripper
The London Nobody Knows, filmed in 1967, documented some of the less salubrious parts of swingin’ London. In this clip, James Mason visits the site of a Ripper killing, at a time when some of the oldest residents still remembered the murders.
Review: Kings and Queens and Childhood Dreams, Strychnin Gallery Opening
Just in time for Halloween, global dark art peddlers, Strychnin Gallery, opened its East London doors Friday night with the “Kings and Queens and Childhood Dreams” exhibition. The show, which still runs for at least a few more weeks, features the works of dozens of …
Preview: Kings and Queens and Childhood Dreams, Strychnin Gallery to Open in London
If you happened to stroll into Room 420 of the Trafalgar Hotel during the recent Bridge Art Fair, then your eyes were treated to some excellent art exhibited by the ‘low brow to high brow’ cool kids from Strychnin Gallery. With locations in New York …
New Ripper Graffiti In East End
There are no memorials to the five victims of Jack the Ripper in the East End. But there’s little danger of the sites being fogotten. Each year, thousands take a tour of the little-changed back streets where the Ripper persued his grizzly hobby. Over the …
The Book Grocer
Fresh Next Week: This years T.S. Eliot Memorial Lecture is titled Lachrymae rerum: writing about loss. Dannie Abse reads both from Running Late, his latest collection of poetry, and from The Presence, a journal he has been keeping since his wife’s death in the summer …
Smoke & Mirrors
To the Working Men’s Club in Bethnal Green last night for The Idler winter 2006 edition launch party. This issue has an ‘eco’ theme about it – it is dubbed ‘How To Save The World Without Really Trying’ – but taking centre stage at last …
Random Graffiti Of The Week
We’ve spotted a few of these skeletal monarchs round London lately. The one on the left is in Smithfield, the one on the right is down Hanbury Street and the one below sits on Clerkenwell Road (the Latin motto reads: Canis Servo Regina; Dog Save …
