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Graffiti Lessons, Hackney, London
September 29, 2009 – 9:50 pm | No Comment
Graffiti Lessons, Hackney, London

I’ve always considered good graffiti rather a treat. However, if you look around you when traversing London you’ll often find yourself confronted with ’street art’ which is not so much of a treat. In fact …

Elizabeth Peyton at the Whitechapel Gallery, London
September 24, 2009 – 6:43 am | No Comment
Elizabeth Peyton at the Whitechapel Gallery, London

I’m not really one for exhibitions, they seem to me too often to just be pictures of subjects I’m not really interested in or, in the case of one opening I went to a year …

Museum of Hackney Wick
August 16, 2009 – 6:45 am | No Comment
Museum of Hackney Wick

Hackney is an area that has undergone much in the way of change in recent times.  Having spent many years as a dark, uninviting hole of a district with the appeal of a burned out …

Dalston Windmill
August 7, 2009 – 6:30 am | No Comment
Dalston Windmill

A windmill in the middle of London. That’s just crazy talk right? Well actually no. The ubiquitously trendy Dalston has only just gone and got it’s very own sail-driven, wind powered wheat pounding machine. Not, …

Artist sells off his whole life in new exhibition/sale
July 26, 2009 – 11:12 pm | No Comment
Artist sells off his whole life in new exhibition/sale

Have you ever been dumped by someone you loved? I’m sure it was painful. How painful was it? What did you end up doing as a result of the break-up? Looking back, did you do …

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Hyde Park
July 24, 2009 – 3:39 pm | No Comment
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Hyde Park

Were you to hover over Hyde Park in a helicopter, glider or other airborne machine and direct your gaze in the general direction of the Serpentine Gallery you would probably be slightly surprised to see …

Westfield- Terry O’Neill Photographic exhibition
July 22, 2009 – 11:34 am | One Comment
Westfield- Terry O’Neill Photographic exhibition

If, like me, you’re beginning to tire of the paparazzi shots of celebrities falling drunkenly into their cars, taking to podiums or flashing their bits indiscriminately then there is a new exhibition running until 3rd …

Art in London – Hayward Gallery, Southbank
July 9, 2009 – 11:37 pm | One Comment
Art in London – Hayward Gallery, Southbank

Here’s my follow up to my last post about the ‘Walking in my Mind’ exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, because yesterday I managed to sneak away from the missus and the kids for a couple …