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View of the week: Alien doppelgänger
Late last year, South Kensington’s Natural History Museum unveiled their Cadogan Treasures Gallery, which features twenty-two objects including a moon rock, a dodo skeleton, Darwin’s pigeons, a box of butterflies, and dinosaur teeth. (thanks to the Natural History Museum for this video) But what caught our eye was Johannes Belkien’s 17th century carved Nautilus pompilius shell (from the collection of Hans […]
Noam Chomsky @ British Library
March 27, 2013
The much admired linguist, author and public intellectual Professor Noam Chomsky appeared with journalist Jonathan Freedland at the British Library on 19th March 2013, for a wide-ranging discussion that began with a focus on political propaganda. Noam Chomsky spoke to a capacity crowd, and you know it’s a hot ticket when there are Oscar winning actors rubbing shoulders […]
View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern
March 12, 2013
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 […]
Neil Shubin @ RSA
January 31, 2013
Neil Shubin, Professor and Associate Dean of Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago, paleontologist, and author of Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of our 375-million-year-old Ancestor, spoke at the RSA today, 31st January 2013, about his new book, The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure. If you didn’t venture out into the ghastly weather for this talk (and who can blame […]
View of the week: Harrods owl
January 28, 2013
Exiting Harrods department store the other night, we stumbled across an enchanting spectacle – this beautiful, inscrutable owl, perched above Knightsbridge Tube commuters, was the subject of an impromptu photo-frenzy. I overheard the owl’s handler say that it was an eighteen month old female, but as to the species, does anyone know? Photos by […]
(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. […]
Sir John Sulston @ Westminster Faith Interview
November 11, 2012
Step aside Steven Pinker, George Monbiot, and Sir Christopher Frayling … my new intellectual crush is biologist and Nobel Laureate Sir John Sulston, who spoke about his life and beliefs with Guardian journalist Andrew Brown at the Westminster Faith Debate at Sixty One Whitehall (RUSI) on 7th November 2012. Topics discussed included Sulston’s upbringing with a religious […]
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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