It’s an ideal name for a restaurant owned by an Olympic track legend who is considered the greatest sprinter of all time. And just in case you need a reminder of those athletic feats, his world record 100 metres time of 9.58 and 200 metres 19.19 are blazoned all over the front desk. It’s minutes […]
Nothing best illustrates the dissolving of social inequalities in Britain over the centuries than the venue for this exhibition. Somerset House was once owned by Georgian aristocracy and has retained much of its noble presence even though its Neoclassical courtyard is now just for the tourists and open-air arts events. Fast-forward to 2019, and the […]
When art critic John Ruskin saw an exhibition of American artist Whistler’s abstract paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he so disliked the work he accused him of ‘flinging a pot of paint in the face of the public’. And if that paint was Dulux White and you accidentally stepped in it, the footprints […]
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.
Claude Monet’s painting of the harbour at Le Havre Impression: Sunrise (1872) gave its name to the Impressionist movement which emerged in France, led by Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cezanne. Art critic Louis Leroy poured scorn on a joint exhibition held by these four artists in 1874. However, his scathing attack and the title of his […]
CHRISTIE’S New York recently sold this Leonardo da Vinci painting, considered lost since the 1600s, for a world record $450 million. A mystery bidder outmuscled the richest and best of the art investment world and forked out the incredible sum of almost half a billion dollars (including fees) based on questionable evidence, at best. Experts […]
M Restaurant Wins ‘Most Stylish London Restaurant’ in Blue Badge Awards & ‘Best London Steak Restaurant’ in Lux Global Awards Oct 2017 Described on Bookatable as a ‘James Bond-style restaurant’, one can only guess they are referring to its air of sophistication and cool because there’s not any Bond memorabilia in sight and the waitresses […]
Red-haired, bearded writer/director Hugh Welchman is a bit of a Van Gogh lookalike himself, well his efforts to produce the world’s first fully hand-painted feature film culminated in a UK premiere at the National Gallery on Oct 9 that also had people at 170 other cinemas across the country holding out for the much-promoted live […]
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 […]
Exactly a hundred years after French poet Guillaume Apollinaire invented the term surrealism, The White Cube’s latest exhibition Dreamers Awake explores this art movement through the work of fifty female artists. Fellow Frenchman Andre Breton is credited with kick starting the revolution but today it has influenced the work of many artists, some of whom […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
