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
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
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
11-14 April 2013, 12 – 6pm or by appointment
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Wendy Bevan’s photographs glow with a dusty sexiness, a sepia surrealism, and a lost-world loucheness. You’re probably already familiar with her work as her fashion spreads have been featured in POP magazine and the FT’s How to Spend It – we’re… Continue reading
13 – 24 Mar 2013
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Somerset House’s exhibition spaces are on a roll: the shows of late (Tim Walker, Valentino, Dior Illustrated, Maison Martin Margiela to name four) have been kick ass, plus there was the extraordinary (in the good and… Continue reading
1-3 Mar, 2013; 1 & 2 Mar, 11am-6pm & 3 Mar, 11am-5pm
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Selling itself as “London’s most exciting art fair to launch in a decade” seems a bit of an arrogant claim to us… and yet, Art13 does seem to have a certain chutzpah that we like the sound of. What first… Continue reading
10 Feb 2013, 11.30am -12.30pm
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Hussein Chalayan’s exhibition at the Design Museum was one of our cultural highlights of 2009, so we’re itching to attend the fashion designer’s upcoming School of Life sermon on Fitting In – which essentially means: not fitting in. The British/Turkish… Continue reading
14-21 Dec 2012, 2-12 Jan 2013
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Last Christmas, one of our present successes of the season was a print by the illustrator Natasha Law. Given to a tricky-to-buy-for sister, she was beyond thrilled with the line drawing of a reclining girl which had an arresting, seductive flash… Continue reading
Until Dec 8 2012
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How much do we love Hugo Guinness linocuts? Witty, warm, just about affordable (from £300 upwards), we treated ourselves to an early Christmas present this week at the opening of his new show at Wilson, Stephens and Jones. Whether it’s… Continue reading
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