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Marylebone
Posted in: Books, Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions

What’s Hot Marylebone? From Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street to boujee French cuisine, we track the cultural and foodie delights of Marylebone. We discovered a streetful of antique shops as well as high-end boutiques, indie bookshops and backstreet art galleries. But which are our chosen hotspots? So, What’s Hot Marylebone?   Madame Tussauds It doesn’t take […]

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Frieze Sculpture, Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park
Frieze Sculpture & Art Fair
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

Frieze Week: Man in underpants found wandering around Regents Park!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       If you are visiting Regents Park to catch Frieze Sculpture 2023, it’s likely you’ll also catch sight of a half-naked man wandering around the sculpture site in a dazed state. Indeed, last week from afar it looked as if park security had finally cornered […]

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  • The Young Masters Prize
    The Young Masters Art Prize 2017
    Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights

    “If one is a master of one thing well, one has insight into and understanding of many things.” This simple quote by Vincent Van Gogh sums up in one sentence the importance of all artists learning the tradition, rules and methods of the Old Masters, even if those lessons are later inverted or even discarded […]

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    Hot Shorts Film Festival London 2016
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights

    It  was red carpet night at the Roxy on October 8th! A weekend when the cream of short-filmmakers and emerging talent were invited to show the world what they were capable of. And once they had braved the videographers trying to squeeze an interview out of them before they even took their seats, the festival […]

  • Lord Nelson
    Sept 29th: Lord Nelson’s Birthday
    Posted in: Highlights, People, Places

    Britain’s greatest naval officer was born today September 29th in 1758 and no doubt the National Maritime Museum’s Nelson, Navy, Nation gallery on its 2nd floor will be paying tribute to his achievements in a fitting way. The humble son of a village rector became a Navy midshipman at an age when you were probably just into […]

  • Miss Black & Beautiful
    Miss Black & Beautiful
    Posted in: Highlights, Photos, Shows & Exhibitions

    The Miss Black & Beautiful beauty pageant of the 1970s and 80s broke new ground as regards representations of black beauty, with women sporting full afros for the first time in this UK event. The work of photographer and event organiser Raphael Albert was exhibited at Autograph ABP, Shoreditch and discussed by guest speakers including […]

  • Theatre Opportunities for Newbies
    Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Highlights

    Trying to bag tickets to watch Merchant of Venice at the Globe theatre in the summer sun and it’s all sold out? Don’t worry, why not go one step beyond and write your own stage classic and sell out your local community hall in the sun! Not appealing enough? Too much hard work? Well even […]

  • Stella Mccartney
    September 13th: Stella McCartney’s Birthday
    Posted in: Highlights, People

    With London Fashion Week fast approaching on Sept 16th let’s sneak in some timely birthday greetings to British fashion designer Stella McCartney, who is 45 today. Although her parentage is pretty illustrious – daughter of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife American photographer/musician Linda – she made her name in this notoriously competitive industry where brand […]

  • David
    September 8: Michaelangelo’s David Unveiled in 1504
    Posted in: Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions

    Exactly 512 years ago Michaelangelo’s statue of biblical hero David was unveiled in Florence, then the spiritual heart of the European Renaissance and this its undoubted signpost and centrepiece. And that was on this day September 8th, today auspiciously falling on a Thursday, a week day now synonymous with art appreciation and private views across […]

  • Soviet Hippies
    Soviet Hippies
    Posted in: Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions

    During the Cold War era of the 60s when President Brezhnev was locking horns with his liberal, free thinking arch enemies in the West, the first signs of a counter culture that dared to be even more free-spirited than democratic capitalism grew out of the music, art, fashion, poetry and world love philosophy sweeping Western […]

  • Novel London Sept 2016
    Novel London
    Posted in: Books, Highlights

    If you’re an undiscovered author or book fan seeking an event where you can network with fellow literary minds and hear first chapter readings by emerging novelists then look no further than Novel London, which runs every first Friday of the month. Organised by creative writer Safeena Chaudhry, it has been running since 2015 during […]