The Royal Academy blockbuster exhibition of the autumn is on Australian art of the last 200 years. Arts journalists have given it mixed reviews with the the Sunday Times’ Waldemar Januszczak describes indigenous art as “tourist tat”, Frederick McCubbin’s famous The Pioneer as “poverty porn”, and Fred Williams’ desert landscape as “thick cowpats of minimalism”. […]
Adjacent to the new King’s Cross Square at an enviable position between the two great stations of King’s Cross and St Pancras is the Great Northern Hotel, claimed to be the “original railway hotel”. Like many railway hotels, it had suffered years of decline and no doubt at some point there were thoughts of demolition, […]
To much acclaim, the ghastly unloved 1970′s canopy which scarred the facade of King’s Cross Station has been removed and the station restored to its original glory, as has the adjacent Great Northern Hotel. After years of inconvenience and almost daily changes in traffic routes, the area in front has been transformed into a new […]
The Independent newspaper this week reported that physicists from Harvard and MIT exploring the properties of photons – an elementary particle that is the most basic constituent of light and all other types of electromagnetic radiation – have managed to create molecules formed from photons bound together. “Most of the properties of light we know […]
One of the most promising exhibitions of the autumn is Van Gogh in Paris at the Eykyn Maclean Gallery in Mayfair, London. Interest is anticipated to be large and booking through the gallery is recommended. The exhibition includes works from private and public collections from these pivotal two years of his work, supported by works […]
Community art is alive and well in South London. The post-war south london Aylesbury estate is about to be redeveloped – at last. The process has unleashed a huge amount of creativity. Local residents have been providing suggestions for new street names and 22 of them, through a project with the Creation Trust, which is […]
Buildings are like people – they are born, they develop, they age and they die. Photographers love buildings when they are new, often before people have even inhabited them; photographers often also like them when they are in decline. A sad reflection of the changing industrial landscape is the impact on the historic and forgotten […]
At the top of the Walkie Talkie in London, and hopefully not affected by rays of sun as the facade has been, will be the highest gardens in Europe – on the 35th floor. Designed by landscape architects Gillespies, with over 2000 plants selected with advice from Kew Gardens, the Sky Garden will compliment the […]
One of the largest exhibitions to run alongside London Design Week, 100% Design is now in the second year of its new revitalised format. Separate zones cover the best of contemporary office furniture, bathrooms and kitchens and eco-conscious materials for the building industry. The most interesting zones are the international pavilions and the emerging brands. […]
In the surroundings of a dereict old sorting office, designjunction exhibited a wide range of exciting new furniture, lighting and product design from around the world, including both leading global brands and emerging enterprises. This year, designjunction returns to the centrally-located 1960s Postal Sorting Office, where a powerful line-up of renowned international brands, smaller cutting-edge […]
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