The Middle Passage Remembered Exhibition Black History Month is a time to celebrate millennia of black history and pause to reflect on centuries of a brutal slave trade that saw 12.5 million Africans transported to the Americas, with two million perishing during the Middle Passage. London-based artist Nefateri Asantewa’s solo exhibition at the Elitha Gallery, […]
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London has never had a single definition of fun. A night out can still mean a West End show, live music, dinner or drinks in Soho, but entertainment increasingly carries on at home and on mobile screens. The result is a leisure culture that moves between crowded venues and individual downtime, giving Londoners more control […]
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Five Fun Things to Do in Battersea Battersea Power Station’s iconic brick tower still proudly stands as a totemic landmark to its industrial past, but the smoke-spewing heart of this south London district has long since been gutted, to make way for the shopping, dining and leisure attractions that make this lively and whimsical cultural […]
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In a mammoth programme from September 2015 to Jan 2017 the Whitechapel Gallery hosts the Barjeel Art Foundation Collection in a series so big it requires four separate exhibitions. This is the largest exhibition of Arab art ever held in the UK and comes from Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi’s UAE based archive of work sourced from […]
The Black British experience is explored on many levels by this selection from the London Metropolitan Archives. Covering issues such as identify, struggle and broader culture, the work is varied, and incorporates many platforms of expression and creative tools. Its ‘No Colour Bar’ banner underpinning the work of all of these British-centred artists, but also […]
It’s easy to become distracted at the V&A. It’s not everyday you have Leonardo da Vinci’s handwritten notebooks within eyeshot, competing with the sensual overload of countless other glorious artefacts and paintings spanning centuries. Within this glory, understated and enlightening, lies the history of the black experience in the medieval and renaissance period. Understated because […]
The Sabbat Festival of Dark Arts exhibition is all things dark and taboo with a touch of humour. The forbidden (read evil and horrifying) practices and rituals from paganism, shamanism, witchcraft, wicca is what you are up for in this exhibition. Artwork reproduced from an old horror film Satanic Mojo 1972 AD stands out on […]
Bristol based animation studio Aardman’s renowned Sheep, Shaun is in the capital. 50 giant figurines of Shaun the Sheep created by various artists and designers are occupying vantage points across central London creating an art trail and will be up for auction later in the year to raise funds for sick children in hospitals across […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
