Author George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize 2017 for Lincoln in the Bardo Latest figures show that the UK publishes more books per capita than any other country. With that much product on offer, you’ll probably find that while browsing in WHSmiths it’s inevitably the short description on the back cover which sells new […]
When the Fauve artists emerged in 1905, led by Matisse himself and creative ally Andre Derain, their paintings would have been pretty OTT by standards of the day to be noted for their vivid, jarring hues. Especially when you consider that around the same period the Expressionist work of Kandinsky and Kirchner were not exactly […]
M Restaurant Wins ‘Most Stylish London Restaurant’ in Blue Badge Awards & ‘Best London Steak Restaurant’ in Lux Global Awards Oct 2017 Described on Bookatable as a ‘James Bond-style restaurant’, one can only guess they are referring to its air of sophistication and cool because there’s not any Bond memorabilia in sight and the waitresses […]
ON THIS DAY Oct 16 in 1793 Marie Antoinette was beheaded not too far from the specially-built palatial, fairy tale village of Petit Hameau, Versailles where she once fancy dressed as a peasant while real peasants in nearby villages starved. Not too long after telling these peasants who didn’t have any bread to go and […]
MAKE_SHIFT is a group exhibition at the Collyer Bristow Gallery so titled, according to curator Rosalind Davis, because the artists create by ‘making, shifting and utilizing the provisional or rudimentary materials to construct their work.’ Across the broad area of mediums and techniques there is a focus on the mechanized. Make_Shift, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London […]
The Saatchi Gallery has been at the vanguard of cometlike young experimental upstarts since the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the Nineties and is inextricably linked to the genesis of art superstars such as Hirst and Emin. Well circa 2017 and it’s a trend that continues with these thirteen artists who claim to be iconoclasts […]
The ninth London Restaurant Festival presents the best of the capital’s cuisine, and reflecting the tastes and population of the city much of it has an international flavour. Ping Pong Restaurant, Southbank is a must-visit for lovers of Chinese food who may relish their offer of seven dishes by the riverside for £20. Well not […]
Red-haired, bearded writer/director Hugh Welchman is a bit of a Van Gogh lookalike himself, well his efforts to produce the world’s first fully hand-painted feature film culminated in a UK premiere at the National Gallery on Oct 9 that also had people at 170 other cinemas across the country holding out for the much-promoted live […]
WHAT’S HOT LONDON? Magazine are always seeking out the hottest most happening events in the capital and the aptly named Hot Since 91 event planners have organised a 90s karaoke night that rejects the private karaoke booth shut-ins that have become the norm and instead turned things up a notch wilder. Everyone attending has to […]
THIS THROWBACK sweet shop in Spitalfields celebrates the confectionery sellers of yesteryear where you could pop in with your loose change and buy quarters of rhubarb and custard sweets, bon bons, gobstoppers, mints or menthol candy – and it exists today. And all the shelves are taken up by jars of this candy and nothing […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
