The British Art Prize 2024: Interview with winner Samuel Owusu Achiaw The winner of the British Art Prize 2024 has just been announced. Samuel Owusu Achiaw took first prize for his exquisitely diaphonous and hyperreal graphite and charcoal portrait of his sister, titled ‘Looking’. We attended the awards ceremony at Southbank’s Gallery@oxo and were […]
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What’s in a name? London place names decoded We’re surrounded by street signs every day and casually type these sometimes odd-sounding addresses into Google Maps without a second thought about what they mean or where the name came from. The Romans founded the city of Londinium [London], so you’d expect a Latin root somewhere. Let’s […]
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The British Art Prize 2024: Interview with winner Samuel Owusu Achiaw The winner of the British Art Prize 2024 has just been announced. Samuel Owusu Achiaw took first prize for his exquisitely diaphonous and hyperreal graphite and charcoal portrait of his sister, titled ‘Looking’. We attended the awards ceremony at Southbank’s Gallery@oxo and were […]
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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 […]
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 […]
HAILED as the world’s biggest cocktail festival, London Cocktail Week runs from Oct 2 – 8 and at its epicentre lies the Cocktail Village in Old Spitalfields Market with cocktail pop ups of established home brands and smaller international names such as Australian Gin distillery Four Pillars. Established since 2013, Four Pillars has teamed up […]
What’s Hot London? Magazine going one step further and getting reviewers on the ground at the happening previews, private views and openings on Tuesday, September 3rd. Not simply visit info, dates and times of exhibitions but our writers mingling with artists and curators on the night and discussing their sources of creative inspiration. Check out […]
New Scientist Live at the ExCel Centre over the weekend featured exhibitors, talks, presentations and demonstrations in all areas of science, technology and medicine. Even Star Wars had its own easily spotted presentation area where you could learn all about the real-life technology behind Luke Skywalker’s robotic arm and the actual robots used in the […]
Audio technology dominates at the second annual Indulgence Show in Hammersmith but expect classic cars on show as well as products as diverse as rockstar portraits and Surrey honey. There are three floors and much of it devoted to speaker systems and sound/music products for the refined ear and lots of helpful assistants providing demonstrations […]
Arts organisation Poet in the City celebrated National Poetry Day, September 28th with a programme of events which closed with spoken word and music performances in front of the Sir John Betjeman statue at St Pancras International Station. The theme this year was Freedom with particular reference to the freedom to travel and the plight […]
TODAY, Sept 26, is the opening day of the HighTide Festival 2017, the first of its kind in London with Walthamstow the preferred location in the capital. There will be 12 days of live performance ranging from cabaret to theatre. A temporary theatre called The Mix has been set up in Festival Square, Walthamstow Town […]
The City Link Up Urban Showcase gives unsigned acts a platform for their talents every second Wednesday of the month at the Undersolo club, Camden. Right next door is the Good Mixer pub where Britpop’s finest held court in the 1990s but the music performed on this stage was acoustic soul, R n’ B, hip […]
The Sept 8-11 TVL in London Festival celebrating Tel Aviv culture was met with protests over the weekend. Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions activists gathered at the Roundhouse venue in Camden where most of the events were based and verbally clashed with pro-Israel individuals. Festival director Marc Worth is a British philanthropist and also one of […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
