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View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern
Have you joined the crowds yet to see Tate Modern’s cheerful and popular Lichtenstein retrospective? On display is Roy Lichtenstein’s early work, some sculpture and ceramics, and plenty of the ‘comic strip’ pop art for which he is famous. I’m not a big contemporary art fan, and while I found Lichtenstein’s work rather shallow, it was more interesting […]
Alex Gibney @ Curzon Soho
February 14, 2013
Film-maker Alex Gibney appeared at the Curzon Soho for a preview screening of his new documentary, Mea Maxima Culpa, on Wednesday 13 February 2013. Gibney’s impressive body of work includes Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, and Casino Jack and the United States of Money. He won an Academy Award for his 2007 film, Taxi to […]
(Re)View from the red carpet: The Hobbit
December 18, 2012
Christmas came early for us this year. Thanks to a generous friend with connections, we were gifted a pair of precious tickets to the highly anticipated royal premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Wednesday 12th December 2012. We are big fans of the achievements of Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Richard Taylor & Tania Rodger, and were thrilled to attend the […]
Outsider II: Brian Sewell @ V & A
December 10, 2012
Art historian and Evening Standard critic Brian Sewell appeared in the V & A‘s gorgeous Lydia & Manfred Gorvy theatre on Friday 7th December, to promote the second instalment of his autobiography, Outsider II: Always Almost: Never Quite. Sewell entertained the audience with all the witty asides, personal snipes and colourful anecdotes that we have come to expect from the […]
View of the week: Museum of Curiosity
November 24, 2012
Mike Snelle’s pop-up Museum of Curiosity in Soho is what you would get it you threw the Natural History Museum, the Soane Museum and Lassco into a cooking pot, and seasoned the mix with pinches of Keith Lo Bue, Adbusters, Lewis Carroll and VAST. There’s a distinct whiff of the Museum of Jurassic Technology about the place too, which my mate Physicus just reminded me of. […]
View of the week: Dead Can Dance
October 28, 2012
We were privileged to catch the cult, goth, world fusion, ambient, art-rock, eastern-inspired (take your pick of adjectives) musical act Dead Can Dance perform last night at the Royal Albert Hall - the only UK stop on their 2012/2013 world tour. Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry were on absolute top form, their voices as strong and perfect as any […]
Sex dolls and cat-suits: London Fashion Week 2012
September 30, 2012
London Fashion Week 2012 ended about a week ago. Think of these shots as fashionably late (as opposed to just late). Hang on, did I say London Fashion Week? I meant the filming of The Fifth Element Redux. That’s certainly what it seemed like, when we stumbled across all these fantastic people posing their way around […]
View of the week: A Long Way Down
September 27, 2012
Scurrying along Lambeth Palace Road last week, heading for the Gardening Museum, we spotted a film set right by Lambeth Bridge on the south bank of the Thames. Now, it’s not uncommon to stumble across film crews as you make your way around London, but in this case, three high profile actors were on set – […]
Nick Cave & John Hillcoat @ Curzon
September 8, 2012
After queuing for over an hour for unclaimed tickets, we were fortunate to land some last-minute seats at the preview screening of John Hillcoat‘s new film Lawless, at Curzon Soho on 4th September 2012. But while we always try to support Aussie film, we were really there for the post-screening Q & A with Hillcoat and his mate, […]
Cult films on tap @ Prince Charles Cinema
September 4, 2012
Rather embarrassingly, despite living here for six years, we have only just managed to stumble across the most awesome independent cult movie cinema in London. Even worse, it’s been practically under our noses the entire time, just a short walk from our Bloomsbury base. And it seems we’re in the minority, since our very first […]
Bloomsbury Bytes
- Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill @ Doughty St May 16, 2013
- In Search of Classical Greece April 3, 2013
- View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making March 16, 2013
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