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Tatlin’s Tower @ Royal Academy of Arts
Admirers of Soviet Constructivism, and photographers looking for a good shot, would do well to visit the Royal Academy’s new temporary courtyard sculpture at Burlington House, on Piccadilly. Part of the Academy’s upcoming exhibition, Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935, the red, rollercoaster-like design is actually a reconstruction of Monument to the Third International - also known as Tatlin’s Tower – by architect & artist Vladimir […]
London’s best address? (The) Albany, Piccadilly
June 14, 2011
The Albany is discreetly positioned in Albany Court Yard, just off bustling Piccadilly, but it might be another world away. Drawing above, circa 1830, by Thomas H. Shepherd (1792 – 1864). The only difference between then and now seems to be the mode of transport, and the changing fashion for putting a “the” in front of the word […]
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
October 19, 2011
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