Last week we showed you very good reason not to visit Harrods, so this week we thought we’d better even things up by giving you a decent reason to visit the store. Over the next two weeks Harrods is going to be showcasing “the best …
Huge sculptures seem to be London’s ‘thing’ at the moment. What with the chair and table on Hampstead Heath and the WEEE man over at City Hall. Now the NHM has its very own large, outdoor artwork in the form of Diane Maclean’s ‘Mountain’. Maclean’s …
Yes, we know – everyone is talking about the Dan Flavin exhibition at Haunch of Venison, but that is with good reason – it is spectacular! Flavin was an American artist who revolutionized modern sculpture with his light installations throughout the world. He began sketching …
Ahh, the good old days of the gentlemen spy: bowler hats, poison-tipped umbrellas, cigarette cases and, best of all, no David Shayler. What’s made us all misty-eyes for the golden years of espionage? The discovery of a KGB ‘spy’s guide to London’ in the latest …
One of the high points for the Londonist of the recent spate of interactive TV voting type shows was BBC2s Greatest Britons series, an example of how the genre can be interesting and informative, stimulate debate, and really engage the viewer. This isn’t bad for …
If a white Christmas fails to materialise this year then you can always compensate by visiting the the White Station exhibition, which opened this week at the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park. The White Station gathers together a handful of artists whose work revolves …
A statue has been erected at Brook Gate in Park Lane to honour the animals that have served and died with British and Allied forces. Unveiled by Princess Anne the memorial sculpture consists of two mules a horse and a dog, and whilst recognising all …
‘Calamity’ Pete Doherty has been at it again, this time destroying a very expensive piece of artwork at an exclusive member’s bar. Pete, who has packed more rock and roll mishaps into the past year than Motley Crue managed in their whole career, was at …
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