New Year, New You!
Posted in: Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions4 Mindful Ways to Toast & Tipple the New Year — After New Year’s Eve […]
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Freelancing in London? Here’s What You Need to Know
Posted in: Features, PeopleFrom pop-up galleries in Peckham to podcast studios in Hackney, freelancing in London offers endless creative opportunities, and just as many challenges. Whether you’re a graphic designer working from a café in Camden or a self-taught filmmaker balancing shoots and edits, life as a freelancer in the capital is full of movement, freedom, and unpredictability. […]
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Sankofa Chronicles
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & ExhibitionsToyosi Saliu Makes a Solid Gold Statement With Breathtaking 24-Carat Art From the heart of the African continent but firmly rooted in London, rises an exciting new artist whose work bridges African identity and ancestral royalty with modern elegance. Nigerian artist Toyosi Saliu uses real 24-carat gold to craft dazzling portraits that bring a […]
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What’s Hot Hackney?
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Saatchi Selfie Competition
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & ExhibitionsDue to the popularity of their current selfie exhibition which emerged from a competition, Saatchi have announced their second such open-entry call out. Submissions opened on June 12th for their #SelfExpression competition which calls on anyone over 16 with a smartphone who fancies themselves as an artist or photographer to turn their talents on themselves […]
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Salon des Refusés at Candid Arts, Islington
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Photos, Shows & ExhibitionsFrom June 1st – 4th London’s version of the Salon des Refusés exhibition will run at Candid Arts, Islington. The original Salon emerged in Paris in the eighteenth century and featured paintings that were rejected by the prestigious Paris Salon. This 2017 exhibition shows works rejected by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. A violinist gave […]
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Renaissance Late at the National Gallery
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Photos, Shows & ExhibitionsThe National Gallery held a Renaissance-inspired late Friday night with Renaissance Selfies in Room 57 where you were offered makeovers wearing costumes from the1400s &1500s. Also, calligraphy workshops where you could try your hand at the handwriting in the letters shared by Michelangelo and Sebastiano. Any have-a-go-artists were encouraged to visit the Vitruvian Village in […]
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Two Female London Gallery Owners Celebrate Their Galleries’ 1st Year Anniversaries
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, HighlightsTelegraph columnist Jo Craven once observed that there were currently only five women gallery owners of note operating in London. Well, this male-dominated industry better take note of two new galleries that opened last year and both run by enterprising women and celebrating their anniversaries in May. JonaQuestArts in Greenwich is owned by African art […]
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Mahtab Hussain: You Get Me? (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews“I feel unwanted here. People still say ‘go back to where you are from.” This simple quote on the walls of the ABP Autograph gallery sums up the sense of isolation and disconnection felt by certain male Muslim members of Britain’s working class communities now documented in an exhibition by Mahtab Hussain. It also examines […]
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Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, ReviewsThe Gagosian Gallery presents a Picasso fascinated with his Spanish bullfighting heritage and featuring works from childhood dated as early as 1889 and up until his death in 1971. It’s easy to associate the complex, strong-spirited artist with this dramatic and gory spectacle. Born in Malaga in 1881, his childhood memories are steeped in the […]
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An Interview with Abstract Artist Alexandre Gondim
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, HighlightsBrazilian artist Alexandre Gondim celebrates ‘Connections to the Mind’ his first solo exhibition in the UK. Displayed at the Willesden Library Gallery until April 29th, it’s a collection of abstract works with more than a touch of South American colour. What’s Hot London? interviewed him to find out what inspired his latest work. Congratulations on […]
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Making Jamaica: Photography from the 1890s (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Photos, Reviews, Shows & ExhibitionsIn recent years Shoreditch’s Autograph ABP has made a name for itself as one of London’s go-to galleries for exhibitions featuring work of cultural and historic significance. This current display of archive photographs from late nineteenth century Jamaica show how the post-emancipation nation for the first time sought to capitalise on its climate and unspoilt […]
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Michelangelo & Sebastiano (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, ReviewsMichelangelo was already scaling the heights of High Renaissance painting and sculpture and engaged in a rivalry with Raphael when he met Sebastiano in Rome in 1511 and took him under his tutelage. They met while Michelangelo was working on the Sistine Chapel vaults 1508-1512, establishing the Mannerist style which would dominate Italian art. The […]
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March 22: The Founding of the National Gallery
Posted in: Features, Galleries & Museums, PlacesOn this day in 1824, the House of Commons voted to purchase banker John Julius Angerstein’s painting collection for the sum of £57,000. Parliament acted to secure these 38 paintings as a national archive and with no national gallery available they were displayed at a makeshift space at Angerstein House, 100 Pall Mall. This was […]
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