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Fashion and Status in Tudor and Stuart times

Fashion and Status in Tudor and Stuart times

After visiting the State Rooms and Coronation exhibition, visitors could do no worse than going to see the current exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery.  Somehow many people miss it, perhaps because its subject appears unexciting, but it has had stunning reviews – by Richard Dorment in the Telegraph and, most unusually, from Brian Sewell in the Evening Standard who […]

Chelsea Fringe at Battersea Power Station

Chelsea Fringe at Battersea Power Station

Along the riverside at Ballersea, where eventually you will be able to walk from Vauxhall to Battersea Park once the transformation of this part of London is complete, there is a “pop-up park”, a temporary garden for the “Chelsea Fringe” –  an alternative to the Chelsea Flower Show, which is gathering pace across London.   […]

Interiors London

Interiors London

20th May 2012 www.interiorsldn.com Interiors exhibition set in the sterile environment of Excel, where the bland atmosphere almost submerges creative design.  Several exhibitions, each quite small, all located together focussed primarily on kitchens, bathrooms, lighting and furniture.  A mixed bag of furniture with some contemporary interpretations of old classics and highlights that were works of […]

Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum

Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum

19th May http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/pompeii_and_herculaneum.aspx The British Museum’s block-buster of the year, this exhibition is very popular and too busy; perhaps it was a mistake to go on a Sunday morning.  Although I have been to Pompeii, but not Herculaneum, it is good to see the artefacts that came of of the excavations at this museum and […]

Rural: Urban

Rural: Urban

18 May 2013 http://www3.syngenta.com/global/photo/en/home/pages/home.aspx An fascinating exhibition of photographs on this weekend at Somerset House: The Syngenta Photography Award 2013 – Rural:Urban, which aims to raise awareness about the tensions between rural and urban environments, and the impact these issues have on sustainability.  It includes photographs from all around the world including one taken a […]

Plant Sciences

Plant Sciences

17 May 2013 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/whats-on/Plant-Science.aspx Opening today, this exhibition is a collaboration between the Estates Department and the Performance Foundation at King’s College London, where items from an empty and evocative scientific building in south London become works of art in an exhibition in the Inigo Rooms at Somerset House, prior to being auctioned. Damien Hurst […]

Hawksmoor’s Churches

Hawksmoor’s Churches

16 May 2013 Charming exhibition of evocative black and white photographs by Hélène Binet of the remaining seven of Hawksmoor’s churches, offset by resin models of the main steeples, including one demolished. http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/nicholas-hawksmoor-methodical-imaginings Tweet

King’s Cross Terminus, London

King’s Cross Terminus, London

15th May http://www.arup.com/Projects/Kings_Cross_Station.aspx At Arup’s offices in Fitzrovia is a small exhibition of models and illustrations of the new canopy at King’s Cross station, which is a stunning piece of architecture/structure.  Railway stations are meant to celebrate starting a journey or arrival at the end, and this does so very elegantly/ Its good to see […]