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Will the Festival of Brexit Divide the Nation or Succeed As a Unifying Showcase?
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions, Technology Tags: Brexit Festival of Britain, Festival of Britain, Great Exhibition 1851, South Bank

South Bank’s 1951 Festival of Britain may be the blueprint for a 2022 Festival of Britain and Northern Ireland Britain’s past Great Exhibitions were held as landmark events to showcase the nation’s arts and technology. The post-Brexit Festival of Britain and Northern Ireland planned for 2022 will be inevitably tied to the contentious EU referendum […]
Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, Exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo Experience a Masterpiece

It’s a remarkable legacy to have completed only 15 paintings (known to be in existence) yet still be recognised as one of the greatest artists in history. This extraordinary polymath has produced work that survives today as undoubted cultural icons and his early working life in Milan provided the apprenticeship for much of these works […]
Interview with Singer/Songwriter Riva Taylor
Posted in: Concerts & Gigs, Features Tags: Music, Riva Taylor, Running at Walls, singer/songwriter

Singer/Songwriter Riva Taylor hails from Hammersmith, West London. Here she chats to What’s Hot London? about her latest single Running at Walls. _ Tell us about your new single ‘Running at Walls’ I wrote this song a year ago with an amazing songwriter and friend, James Walsh, and I’m so happy to be launching the music […]
Sunday Art Fair 2019 Comes to Marylebone (Art)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: art review, Sunday Art Fair

The 10th anniversary of the Sunday Art Fair, Oct 3-6 promises a celebration of international young and emerging talent, with 30 galleries from all over the world exhibiting at Ambika P3, Marylebone. Amongst the UK contingent are London-based galleries Annka Kulty, Hackney and Roman Road, Bethnal Green. The art fair encourages experimentation and unfettered artistic […]
Lina Iris Viktor: Some Are Born to Endless Night (Art Review)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, Lina Iris Viktor

British-Liberian artist Lina Iris Viktor presents a September exhibition at Autograph ABP, Shoreditch which offers striking commentaries on a vibrant palette, imbued as it is with spiritual, historical and ethnic elements. She brings together an exploration of hermetic philosophies and mathematical and scientific principles in this empowered celebration of the African queen. You’re left in […]
Bankside And South Bank, Tips For Summer Along The River
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Features, Galleries & Museums, Movies & TV Shows, Places, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Bankside, Southbank, Thames

Bankside and South Bank can both lay claim to being the cultural heart of the Thames. Expect tourists and UK-based visitors to flock there this summer to savour some of the galleries, restaurants, theatre, cinema and riverside sights on offer. Luckily, only a flight of steps separates one from the other so you can quite […]
Get Up, Stand Up Now (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, Somerset House

Nothing best illustrates the dissolving of social inequalities in Britain over the centuries than the venue for this exhibition. Somerset House was once owned by Georgian aristocracy and has retained much of its noble presence even though its Neoclassical courtyard is now just for the tourists and open-air arts events. Fast-forward to 2019, and the […]
Palm Print: The Madonna in Contemporary Art
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Features, Shows & Exhibitions

Comparing contemporary depictions of the Madonna with Renaissance masterpieces. London-based artist Denise Wyllie, fresh from being interviewed by the BBC at the Royal Academy yesterday, turns her attention to a piece she won’t be submitting to the RA just yet but which has recently done the rounds at international exhibitions. She has brought a new […]
Park Seo-Bo ZIGZAG: Ecriture (Exhibition)
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Reviews Tags: Exhibitions, Park Seo-Bo

When art critic John Ruskin saw an exhibition of American artist Whistler’s abstract paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he so disliked the work he accused him of ‘flinging a pot of paint in the face of the public’. And if that paint was Dulux White and you accidentally stepped in it, the footprints […]
Global Surrealist Filmmakers Follow in the Footsteps of the Surrealist Pioneers
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Features, Galleries & Museums, Movies & TV Shows, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: F.O.L.D., Film, surrealim

A century after the word surrealism was first used, a global collective of surrealist filmmakers has reinvented surrealist leader Andre Breton’s fold drawings – but this time using film, of course. And they may well be the first in a century to do it this way, using social media connectivity and digital film technology. In […]

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Will the Festival of Brexit Divide the Nation or Succeed As a Unifying Showcase?

Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece (Exhibition)

Interview with Singer/Songwriter Riva Taylor

Sunday Art Fair 2019 Comes to Marylebone (Art)

Lina Iris Viktor: Some Are Born to Endless Night (Art Review)

Bankside And South Bank, Tips For Summer Along The River

Get Up, Stand Up Now (Exhibition)

Palm Print: The Madonna in Contemporary Art

Park Seo-Bo ZIGZAG: Ecriture (Exhibition)

Global Surrealist Filmmakers Follow in the Footsteps of the Surrealist Pioneers

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