Every Thursday from 23 May - 27 June 2013, 10.30am-12.30pm
If you’ve ever been taught how to look at a painting, then you’ll know how much being able to ‘read’ a work of art increases the pleasure of going to any exhibition. (John Berger’s classic book, Ways of Seeing, is… Continue reading
11 & 12 May and 18 & 19 May, 11 am - 6pm
Here’s something for the weekend – The Dulwich Festival. This year’s event was brought to our attention by quiltmaker extraordinaire Cassandra Ellis, who is throwing open the doors of her home as part of the Artist’s Open House… Continue reading
26 June - 8 Sept 2013. The Academy of Ancient Music is performing every Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the exhibition space (on the hour every hour; performances last 20 minutes)
This show has blockbuster written all over it. And when we say blockbuster, we mean tickets selling like hot cakes, so if you wait till the reviews are out to go, you won’t get to see it for months. Our… Continue reading
14 - 23 June 2013
The annual Meltdown festival at the Southbank, put together each year by a guest artist (David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Antony, Patti Smith have all done it), is always a bit wacky and sometimes just a little too esoteric for us.… Continue reading
Exhibition 14-22 Mar 2013, 11-6pm (9pm on Mar 21); sale 23 Mar, 8am-6pm
We really missed one of our highlights of the contemporary art calendar last year, but praise be – the RCA Secret exhibition is back. The annual postcard sale sees over 2,000 (this year it’s 2,700) miniature artworks displayed in a… Continue reading
4 - 21 July 2013
The Manchester International Festival is always one of the highlights of our cultural year. We’ve seen performances there that we’d never see anywhere else, from a lesson in how to watch performance art by Marina Abromovich to being chased through… Continue reading
7 Feb – 27 May 2013
The National Portrait Gallery’s first big exhibition of 2013 is set to be a silvery mirage of sublime elegance. We’ve always found the work of Dadaist photographer Man Ray utterly mesmerising – think of the curvilinear sensual splendour of Kiki… Continue reading
Listen online anytime. Chapter One was read on 16 Sept. Chapter 5 starts today, 20 Sept 2012. Each day another chapter is read. Catch up on chapters anytime.
This is utterly brilliant. Moby-Dick Big Read is a madly ambitious project that launched this week, and if you’ve missed it so far, get on board now – we urge you. Writer Philip Hoare (if you haven’t read his much… Continue reading
Opening Festival: 18 July - 28 Oct 2012
Not content with being the most visited modern art gallery in the world, cultural Mecca Tate Modern is upping the ante this summer by throwing open access to its huge former industrial oil chambers, which sit to the south of… Continue reading
From 6 July 2012
Website design London by Joe Smalley. Wallpaper: from the Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers. Courtesy British Library Board.
