The L.E.G artist collective has created a sound and light installation called Capsule 4, which is a sensory experience that heightens the emotions in an immersive environment. They invite you to step into one of their (seemingly) neon-lit cages, put on a pair of headphones and take on the Capsule 4 experience. Eddie Saint-Jean, arts […]
MARCH is a month with a focus on women. International Women’s Day on March 8th, Mother’s Day on March 11th and, of course, it’s Women’s History Month. What’s Hot London? magazine’s Eddie Saint-Jean interviewed a number of women artists about their work. All recently exhibited at the Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green. This included the Denise […]
After a successful 10-month run at the Art Ludique Museum in Paris, the DC Exhibition: Dawn of Super Heroes opened in London in February at The O2 Arena. The exhibit is a culmination of DC’s colourful history and iconic superheroes. It will run until Sept. 7, 2018, which means there is plenty of time for comic […]
What’s Hot London?’s editor and writer/film director Eddie Saint-Jean’s selfie titled ‘Postcard to Nowhere’ is one of the photos being exhibited at the Candid Arts Selfie Exhibition in Angel, Islington which opened this week. The exhibition will run through March 4th and entry to the exhibition is free.
The White Cube Gallery recently launched two exhibitions by different artists but both on the same day to stamp their intent on a competitive February art calendar. Catch Andreas Gursky’s large-scale photograph Ruckblick and also Eddie Peake’s Concrete Pitch which brings together intestinal-like sculpture, gallery wall glory holes and brightly coloured neon-lit paintings.
THE RISE ART PRIZE at House of Vans, Waterloo yesterday evening drew together an impressive line up of judges, Gavin Turk and Fiona Banner among them, to do justice to the equally impressive 26 shortlisted artists competing for the £10,000 prize. This international crop of painters, photographers and sculptors survived the cull of the 2,300 […]
WITH ALL the recent headlines about the Parthenon Marbles being exhibited along with Rodin’s sculptures in April 2018 restoking arguments about ownership, here’s a glimpse of the magnificent marble sculptures. You’ll soon understand why Keats and Lord Byron visited the British Museum to see them and then wrote poems in their honour. You’ll also get […]
Those familiar with the term Duppy Conqueror will know that it is a title of one of Bob Marley’s songs but may be unaware that ‘Duppy’ is Jamaican for an evil ghost or demon. Artist Faisal Abdul’ Allah uses it as a metaphor for the past spectres within and without the black body. Curator Mark […]
The Roman Empire lasted from 27 BC to 395 AD during which it took over great swathes of Europe including Britain. The Celtic tribes that ruled were defeated in 43 AD and Londinium (London) emerged as a vital trading centre and base for troops. The most important British city before the Roman conquest was Colchester […]
Just as the Turner Prize hit its thirties it suddenly got all age-conscious and decided being older isn’t such a bad thing after all. It was established in 1984 and was named after British landscape painter J.M.W Turner who was a bit of a whizz kid himself – elected as a full member of the […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
