Shows & Exhibitions

Global Surrealist Filmmakers Follow in the Footsteps of the Surrealist Pioneers
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Features, Galleries & Museums, Movies & TV Shows, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: F.O.L.D., Film, surrealim

A century after the word surrealism was first used, a global collective of surrealist filmmakers has reinvented surrealist leader Andre Breton’s fold drawings – but this time using film, of course. And they may well be the first in a century to do it this way, using social media connectivity and digital film technology. In […]
Dumb Listening’s
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Press Release: This July MOCA London (Museum of Contemporary Art London) presents Dumb Listening’s, the first international solo exhibition from Irish artist Richard Carr. For Dumb Listening’s Carr presents a new sonic installation developed specifically for the Museum of Contemporary Art, London. Comprising of three‘sonic objects’, Dumb Listening’s transforms MOCA London into a space for the ear, […]
Denise Wyllie’s Open Studio: Fête De L’Estampe 2018
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FETE DE L’ESTAMPE a French-based festival of print work has extended its reach to include UK studios this year. There’ll be conferences, performances, training sessions and open studios, with participating artists allowing the public to attend studio-based exhibitions where their engravings, lino and woodcuts and much more will be on show. Denise Wyllie’s East Finchley […]
Salon des Refuses, Paris (1863) Comes to Camden Image Gallery, London (2019)
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CAMDEN IMAGE GALLERY 12-15 June will be the venue for this year’s London-based Salon des Refuses exhibition, now a yearly event organised by Happenstance Framing. But some may be unaware that the original Salon emerged in France during the nineteenth century as an alternative for artists who had been rejected by the Paris Salon – […]
After the 1990s Heyday of Britain’s Coolest Art Movement, Where are the New YBAs?
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The YBAs (Young British Artists) first came to prominence in the Freeze exhibition (1988) organised by Damien Hirst. In the 1990s Tracy Emin emerged as one its stars. Here we look at the movement’s remarkable ascent and creative legacy. LONDON art movements are few and far between but when they have emerged it was with […]
Museums at Night: Artist Rachel Howard at Newport Street Gallery
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Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery will be opening late for Museums at Night May 16-19. Galleries and museums all over the UK will be extending their opening hours for talks, workshops and special events. Rachel Howard conducts a tour of her Repetition is Truth exhibition at the Newport Street Gallery and enlightens about how her large-scale […]
Bobby Moore: First Gentleman of English Football (Exhibition)
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The National Portrait Gallery is celebrating the golden career of the first and only England captain to lift the World Cup. Former West Ham captain, Robert Frederick Chelsea Moore was born in Barking and signed professional for West Ham, his local club, in 1956 and went on to make 647 appearances for them in the […]
Adapt to Survive: Hayward Gallery (Exhibition)
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One of the first exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery’s new HENI Project Space, this group exhibition features multi-disciplinary approaches to futuristic living spaces, architecture and environments.What’s Hot London? magazine’s editor & arts reviewer Eddie Saint-Jean attends the private view. What’s Hot London? news, stories and features are available online, limited edition monthly print magazine and […]
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Notebook
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The Victoria and Albert Museum will be expecting a rush of visitors today seeking to catch a glimpse of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks, following his birthday over the weekend on April 15th. These invaluable items are much sought after by museums and private collectors alike and one sold for $30 million at a 1994 auction. […]
Young Guns Exhibition: Interview with Artist Pablo Malick
Posted in: Features, Galleries & Museums, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, DaDa, Surrealism

Artist Pablo Malick (in title photo with gallerist Christian Sulger-Buel) is interviewed by What’s Hot London?’s editor and arts writer Eddie Saint-Jean and discusses his collage, mixed media style which is inspired by DaDa and the Surrealists. His Young Guns exhibition alongside Larry Amponsah (Ghana) and Colin Sekajugo (Uganda) is on at the Sulger-Buel Gallery, […]