Just opened – A stunning exhibition of exquisite vanity boxes, nécessaires, minaudières and compacts, made by famous goldsmiths and jewellers. From the 1920′s and astonishingly as late as the 1960′s, these hark back to an era of style and elegance that we seem to have lost. What a pity there is not at least one […]
Ellen Gallagher, one of the most interesting, and in some ways challenging, artists from North America, mixes cultures, advertising and art in a variety of art forms. Starting with her yellow pictures which are almost a development of the childrens’ game of adding different hairstyles/wigs to faces, her last work become more interesting as human […]
A small but beautiful exhibition on this modern Middle Eastern artist who deserves to be better known – and well done to the Tate for this exhibition. I am biased as if she had not been an artist, she would have wished to have been an architect – and it shows in her sculpture. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/saloua-raouda-choucair […]
Tate Modern 2, the new extension designed by Herzog & de Meuron, architects of Tate Modern 1, starts to take form on Namkside. “The building will be a model of environmental sustainability, setting new benchmarks for museums and galleries in the UK. It will draw the majority of its heating and cooling energy needs from […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
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