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Midweek news. Today’s trajectory takes us from Notting Hill via the Tate, thence to the Olympic Village and Barking.
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Featuring frogs, chihuahuas and a lost steam train. Don’t say we don’t give you variety.
Arts Ahead: What’s On In London 3–9 May
Our pick of London’s arty highlights this week includes Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella, war photography at Tate Modern, and a show by an artist who uses his bald head as a blank canvas
Newly Launched Artangel Collection to Bring Arty Film and Video to the Masses
No, that’s not a photo from Londonist’s last pub crawl. It’s a scene from Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis’s “Battle of Orgreave”, just one of several film and video works commissioned and produced by Artangel over the past two decades set to be added to …
Tate Britain To Get £45m Makeover
Too often overshadowed by its younger, brasher brother downriver, Tate Britain is finally getting some pecuniary TLC: the gallery is to benefit from a £45 million upgrade.
Artists Upset By Tate’s BP Deal
Photo / charlietyack A group of creative artists are planning to picket Tate Britain’s summer party this evening over the gallery’s continued relationship with blundering oil giant BP. The company has sponsored Tate for two decades, and despite BP’s disgraceful management of the oil spill …
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Worker sueing because Tate Modern is too cold. Probably psychosomatic after all those white cubes what used to be there. The Big Cat of Crystal Palace. Trocodero to become 500 room pod hotel. Number of issued parking tickets drops. Man dies while pushing woman through …
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There are concerns that London’s elderly are skimping on food to save money. This thought made Londonist very sad. Oh joy! More jobsworths street wardens for Southwark. Got rhythm in Harrow? Your Morris men need you. The (alleged) woman-bashing G20 PC has been suspended. You …
Tate Extension Approved: Now, Let’s Give It A Nickname
Giant mecha turd or tasteful extension? The twisty poo-hewed extension to Tate Modern has won planning approval from Southwark Council. The £215 million edifice will provide extra galleries for the venue, which often operates at more than twice its design capacity. Herzog and de Meuron’s …
Museums 2.0
Wot no Fan Museum? Some of London’s top museums and galleries are working together on a cultural social networking website (yes, yes, we know. Yawn. But keep reading, there are some jokes in a bit, honest). The National Museums Online Learning project launches this week, …
Late At Tate: Beaconsfield’s Terminal
Vauxhall’s Beaconsfield creative art laboratory is a good old fashioned artists’ collective with a track record for the memorably odd. Curating the Tate Britain for December’s Late At Tate, they sprinkled the galleries with the yeasty mix of stupid ideas and brilliant execution we’ve come …
