Somerset House Hosts Landmark Exhibition Wayne McGregor, resident choreographer at The Royal Ballet since 2006, is best known as a dance-maker, the creator of more than 200 works for his own Company Wayne McGregor, and a wide range of dance companies the world over, who has developed his own contemporary choreographic language relying on the […]
Lucy Raven: Rounds Review
You hear it before you see it. An almighty explosion, followed by crystalline burbling calls the visitor to the far end of the Curve and the film of a river’s progress towards the sea and back again.
Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion
The Barbican Dwells on the Dirty Side of Fashion Who knew the now ubiquitous torn jeans have a distinguished cultural pedigree? Yes, it seems they are direct descendants of 19th-century Parisian Bohemians’ predilection for “lived-in” garments, by way of the Surrealists of the 1930s, the Beats of the 1950s, the hippies of the 1960s, punks […]
Secrets of the Thames exhibition (London Museum Docklands)
A new exhibition at the London Museum Docklands features 350 mudlarked items found in the River Thames, providing an absorbing insight into London’s past by both satisfying and piquing visitors’ curiosity.
The Future is Female
Women powering the arts On International Women’s Day, exhibitions showcasing female artists blossomed across London. In Chelsea, The Future is Female opened at The Garrison Chapel, while in Hampstead, Burgh House launched two exhibitions of female artists who fled the Nazis and took refuge in the UK in the late 1930s. Built in 1859, the […]
Dear Earth at the Hayward Gallery
A poetic image of hope at The Hayward Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis opens tomorrow at The Hayward Gallery, part of the Southbank Centre’s Planet Summer festival. Featuring fifteen artists from a wide range of backgrounds, some big names alongside artists that have not previously shown at a UK institution, […]