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The Phoenician Ship Expedition
Now that the Olympics are over and crowds are beginning to thin, spare some time to visit the picturesque St Katherine Docks, home to the Phoenician Ship Experience until 30 September 2012. The replica Phoenician ship, built using methods dating from 600BC, launched in 2008 and has travelled the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, Yemen, the Cape of Good Hope, […]
View of the week: Animal Inside Out
July 20, 2012
Gunther von Hagens‘ unique and awe-inspiring plastination techniques are currently being showcased at South Kensington’s Natural History Museum, in Animal Inside Out. Subjects include a shark, an ostrich, a gorilla and an elephant, and while the exhibits are light on scientific or anatomical description, they are certainly impressive to look at, and a good source of inspiration for further […]
Leonardo da Vinci @ Queen’s Gallery
July 10, 2012
Recently, we tagged along on a tour of the Queen’s Gallery’s current exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci – Anatomist, led by its impressively knowledgeable curator, Martyn Clayton. We highly recommend this exhibition to you all, but for those who can’t make it, here’s what we learned. The exhibition begins with a short introductory film. Nature has also produced an excellent video […]
View of the week: Hirstmania
May 18, 2012
Tate Modern is currently hosting a Damien Hirst retrospective, which has attracted a lot of mixed publicity. I’m no art critic, but I know what I don’t like. Thanks to a borrowed Tate Member card, I was able to disapprove of the artworks in person, at no cost. It goes without saying that photography is not allowed inside […]
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
August 13, 2012
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