Galleries & Museums

What’s Hot Battersea?
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Drama & Theatre, Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Battersea, Battersea Park, Battersea Pier, Battersea Power Station, London Peace Pagoda, The Pump Gallery, Tunman Thai Restaurant
Westminster, Parliament & Politics
Posted in: Highlights Tags: Andy Burnham, Brexit, electorate, History, Keir Starmer, Labour party, London, Makerfield by-election, May local elections, Nigel Farage, Parliament, politics, Reform, UK Prime Minister, voting
Little Venice
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Drama & Theatre, Events & Festivals, Food & Dining, Highlights Tags: Browning's Pool, Canal Cafe Theatre, Canals, IWA Canal Cavalcade, Little Venice, Lord Byron, Paddington Basin, Rembrandt Gardens, Robert Browning, Truman Capote, Waterside Cafe, West London
Bethnal Green
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Bethnal Green, cafe, Colombia Road Flower Market, E Pellicci, East End, East London, foodie, Gallery Cafe, Museums, Tower Hamlets, Victoria and Albert Museum, Young V&A
AI and Robotics
Posted in: Editorial, Highlights, Technology Tags: AI, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Super Intelligence, Elon Musk, employment, Generative AI, job loss, quantum computing, robotics, robots, the economy
London’s Music Venues
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Highlights Tags: business rates, Cart & Horses, dublin castle, fiddlers elbow, hope and anchor, Iron Maiden, live music, London music venues, London pubs, music venue association, night time industries association, Pubs, water rats pub
New Year, New You!
Posted in: Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Fortnum & Mason, Museums, New Year, Olympic Park Waterglades, Piccadilly, Restaurants, Tate Modern, V&A
Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Movies & TV Shows Tags: experimental film, film festival, filmmaking, independent film, indie film, short films, Sur-REEL& Uncanny Film Fest, Surrealism, The Uncanny

Freelancing in London? Here’s What You Need to Know

Posted in: Features, People

From 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. […]

Gauguin in London
Posted in: Features, Galleries & Museums, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, British Museum, Camille Pissaro, Courtauld Gallery, Kew Gardens, National Gallery, Paul Gauguin, Post-Impressionism, South Seas, Synthetism, Tahiti
London Place Names
Posted in: Features, Places Tags: Barbican, Londinium, london history, London place names, River Fleet, Roman fort, Roman history, Roman London
Exploring London’s Thriving Combat Sports Scene: From Paintball to Historical Reenactments
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Features
London’s Most Successful Football Clubs Revealed
Posted in: Features, Sports & Fitness

London’s Youngest Gallery Owner Morgane Wagner
Posted in: Features, Galleries & Museums, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, Morgane Wagner

A few weeks back on May 12, Morgane Wagner launched her new art venture the Square Gallery in Battersea Square, bearing the title London’s Youngest Gallery Owner. As we enter the first week of June, the 22-year-old shares her experiences and reveals whether it has been a baptism of fire in the competitive but rewarding […]
A Duel of the Museums: Jack the Ripper Museum vs East End Women’s Museum
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights

An East End duel between The Jack the Ripper Museum in Whitechapel and the recently opened pop-up museum East End Women: The Real Story near Shadwell played out in the national press only when there was a hint of confrontation. Not the type of publicity either would have sought but emotions run high where the […]
Britain’s Youngest Gallery Owner’s Launch Party
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, People, Photos

Britain’s youngest gallery owner Morgane Wagner launched her Square Gallery with much wine and fanfare on May 12th. It must surely have been the Art Party of the Year. It was so packed you couldn’t even see the paintings with people standing outside. Named after Battersea Square where it is located, it showcased the best […]
Valentine’s Late
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Galleries & Museums, Highlights Tags: Shows, Valentine's Day

On the most romantic day of the year Valentine’s Late at the National Gallery February 12th offered a programme of love themed art and entertainment. Its normally silent Sainsburys Wing became a mini concert venue of sorts, taken over by traditionally dressed musicians with lutes and drums setting the tone for English court society in […]
Red Africa at Calvert 22
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Shows & Exhibitions

None other than Labour MP Diane Abbott was among the distinguished guests at the February 4th opening party and private view for the Red Africa exhibition at Calvert 22, Shoreditch. It’s a season of art, film and events examining Cold War relations between Africa and the Soviet Union. A combination of history, politics and major […]
Nike Davies-Okundaye (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: African art, Davies-Okundaye

Chief Davies-Okundaye is, indeed, a Yoruba chief, but her life story is one of entrepreneurial vision and an independent spirit. She points out that she achieved everything on her own merit after her separation from a husband with 15 wives and 62 children. She is now such a renowned artist that as well as this […]
A Tour of JMW Turner at the Tate National
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Tate Gallery, Turner

Artist Joseph Mallord William Turner is regarded as an undoubted national treasure and along with Constable probably the most recognisable name in the history of British art. His status as a master of landscape painting reflected by the Tate National’s guided tours which walk visitors through the evolution of his career from 1789 to his […]
UK/raine: Emerging artists from the UK and Ukraine (Art Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

An open call for artists aged 18-35 from the UK and the Ukraine resulted in 10,000 entries of which 30 were shortlisted for this exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, South Kensington. It marks a collaboration with the Firtash Foundation and follows on from their Days of Ukraine in the UK Festival. The entries ranged from […]
Greek Legacy to the Rescue?
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights Tags: History

Greece’s geopolitical significance as a corridor between East and West is evident today as refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and much of the Muslim world use it as a passage to Europe but during the reign of its most celebrated ruler Alexander The Great (356 BC – 323 BC) this strategic position allowed him to […]
Simon Schama’s Face of Britain (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews

Historian Simon Schama’s five-part series of the same name was recently broadcast on BBC2 and this exhibition of portraiture featuring powerful figures from British history runs in conjunction with a similarly themed book. The exhibits are divided into Power, Love, Self, Fame and People and it is left up to the visitors to attach meaning […]

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