Earlier in the week, Space Studios Hackney’s summer party saw live music in the courtyard as well as complimentary food and drink. Attendees were invited by 40 in-studio artists to engage in the processes of their art creation. Live demonstrations of screen-printing and the opportunity to print an illustration were also on offer. An arty […]
If the European Football Championships is a celebration of Euro sporting excellence then the Harlequin Euro Festival running concurrently celebrates European culture and language in a very different way. The soccer hooliganism happening in host nation France though is at odds with this five week programme of events in Devonshire Square, Liverpool Street which embraces […]
Distinguished broadcaster Zinovy Zinik combined a sound installation, graphic art exhibition and lengthy audience chat at his book launch for ‘Sounds Familiar or the Beast of Artek’ at The Horse Hospital, Russell Square. His offbeat horror novel draws its inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Notably, Mary Shelley also wrote Frankenstein on this day in 1816 […]
Tourists and London sightseers flocked to St Paul’s Cathedral on the anniversary of a date etched in history. It was on June 21st 1675 that construction began on one of Britain’s most renowned places of worship, built by the nation’s most famous architect Sir Christopher Wren.
Describing himself as a radical traditionalist, (a label pinned on him by art historian Marco Livingstone) world renowned British sculptor Michael Sandle pulls no punches in this interview with What’s Hot London?’s Eddie Saint-Jean. He doesn’t hide his distaste for contemporary art and claims that many of today’s artists cannot draw and show no interest […]
What’s Hot London?’s Eddie Saint-Jean captures London’s seven day a week centre for nightlife at the West End in this captivating photo series covering Leicester Square, Piccadilly, Shaftesbury Avenue’s theatreland and Covent Garden. Any favourites?
When was the last time you saw a British horror movie truly worth the ticket price, one that really made you jump when you least expected it? In fact make that ANY recent horror film. This creepy flick about a haunted flat in Enfield pushes all the right buttons because the American producers have done […]
Whatever happened to the brief British summer time? It’s become even briefer now. Never known for being beachy at the best of seasons it’s now gone into hiding despite forecasters predicting this would be a heatwave that would go down in history. But don’t let that put the dampeners on your dining experience. Catch a […]
They are here because you were there. There is an umbilical connection. There is no understanding Englishness without understanding its imperial and colonial dimensions.’ So reads a quote on the National Portrait Gallery walls attributed to so-called ‘Godfather of multiculturalism’ Professor Stuart Hall, 1932-2008 to whom the exhibition is dedicated. It’s an apt quote expressing […]
The Fitzrovia area of Central London, encompassing the City of Westminster and much of Camden, celebrated its annual Fitz Fest music festival using venues not typically associated with classical music. World renowned musicians performed Mozart’s Wind Serenade in C Minor in the Darren Baker Gallery on Charlotte Street. A pretty off-kilter venue, you’ll agree. It’s […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
