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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Singer/Songwriter Riva Taylor hails from Hammersmith, West London. Here she chats to What’s Hot London? about her latest single Running at Walls. _ Tell us about your new single ‘Running at Walls’ I wrote this song a year ago with an amazing songwriter and friend, James Walsh, and I’m so happy to be launching the music […]
BRITPOPPERS Sleeper are back again, reforming for the Latitude Festival July 12-15. Did you know lead singer Louise Wener left the band to become a novelist? Besides reforming, it’s interesting to discover what these bands have been up to since their 1990s heydays. It was all so very rock n’ roll when the going was […]
If you like your music live and loud get out on the town and support the capital’s numerous singers and bands taking the stage at London showcases tonight. There’s plenty of choice; some require entrance fees and others are free. Here are two to look out for if you’re out and about in Camden or […]
Many of Giuseppe Verdi’s operas explore relationships between fathers and daughters. His The Force of Destiny, currently performed by the English National Opera at the London Coliseum, explores the collapse and end of a relationship between a father and his daughter. The controversial director Calixto Bieito has produced a thrilling staging that is well worth […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
