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.
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 […]
It’s ‘cool’ in summer but would you brave the Ice Bar in winter? It’s so cold in there that you are given a thermal cape to wear. Also cocktails with ice in the average bar cannot compare to a bar where the actual glass is made of ice and you are given gloves to stop […]
WITH A FLOCK of pink flamingo’s prancing about in its beautiful Iberian-themed gardens and running streams, this Grade II listed nightspot and restaurant had set the tone for luxury and celebrity cool since the 1930s but owners Virgin say it will now permanently close. Virgin Limited Action took over the lease in 1981 and made […]
THIS THROWBACK sweet shop in Spitalfields celebrates the confectionery sellers of yesteryear where you could pop in with your loose change and buy quarters of rhubarb and custard sweets, bon bons, gobstoppers, mints or menthol candy – and it exists today. And all the shelves are taken up by jars of this candy and nothing […]
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 […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
