The National Gallery is never short of visitors. Certain areas can pull in hundreds of art fanciers and idle browsers every hour (Room 45, roost of the Sunflowers, we’re looking at you). It’s very rare to find yourself alone in any one of the Gallery’s …
Image by Simon Rigglesworth (or is it a fake?) The National Gallery held its annual press conference yesterday, as you might be able to intuit from the number of stories floating around this morning. Most reports give top billing to an upcoming show on fakes …
Ha, 40 portraits in one photograph. So sue me. Image not copyrighted by M@. A US citizen who uploaded thousands of images of National Portrait Gallery paintings to Wikipedia has been threatened with legal action, if a letter from Lincoln’s Inn lawyers Farrer & Co., …
Carmen Miranda, 1965 Fans of Private Eye will know Barry Fantoni better as the elegiac EJ Thribb (aged 17½) author of meandering spoof obituary poems and as the penner of cartoon, “Scenes you seldom see”. For the first time his private life as an artist …
Last year we witnessed the Fitzrovia Noir project which had rescued remnants and relics from the closed Middlesex Hospital in an artistic attempt to preserve the memories of its people and patients. Now Wellcome Library is also a party to the past of this historic …
German boy-girl graffiti team, Herakut, are back in London with a new show, titled Dirty Laundry and running until the 7th of December. That’s not a lot of time to examine their stains – so we advise getting over the 22 Wellington Street (WC2E 7DD) …
If we were ill we’d definitely hope to see our doctor wielding a stethoscope rather than a sketchbook – but from Da Vinci’s anatomical drawings to Damien Hirst’s medicine cabinets, art has long been influenced by medicine. A new exhibition now aims to prove that …
Akram Khan & Juliette Binoche by roll the dice We were fortunate to be in the company of the beautiful people on Friday when actress Juliette Binoche and dance star Akram Khan revealed their upcoming Franco-British collaboration for the National Theatre. The project – In-I …
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 …
Pigeons may be flying rats to Ken Livingstone and thousands of other Londoners – but to some, they are war heroes. And worth a pretty penny in portrait form. Oil paintings depicting the birds who flew back and forth during two world wars, acting as …
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