TOM HUNTER – Living in Hell and Other Stories

TOM HUNTER – Living in Hell and Other Stories

Currently exhibiting at The National Gallery is an east London artist depicting real life stories taken from The Hackney Gazette. Tom Hunter tells these stories using carefully staged, large format photographs, restaging them in compositions that often directly refer to classic paintings of the past, many of the paintings to which Hunter has referred for [...]

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LEADING LIGHT OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE – David Adjaye

LEADING LIGHT OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE – David Adjaye

Of the many aspiring architects that are part of the renaissance of a new young British Architecture, one name has in recent years begun to appear ever more frequently – David Adjaye. His name has made the crossover to mainstream media and begun to symbolise a new breed of architect, one whom is at the [...]

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SAYLES TECHNIQUE – A Social, Political & Emotional Travelogue

SAYLES TECHNIQUE – A Social, Political & Emotional Travelogue

John Sayles’ work tends to act as a social, political and emotional travelogue rather than a straight-line narrative. The films are all about the compromises that exist between individuals and the society in which they live. Roger Corman’s B-movie factory of the sixties and seventies produced a number of leading film talents like Francis Ford [...]

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VISIONS OF UTOPIA – Utopianism & Post-Ideological Art

VISIONS OF UTOPIA – Utopianism & Post-Ideological Art

Ambitious beyond its means, an international line up of some 150 artists, designers, musicians, writers, thinkers and performers wrestle with the theme of utopia in and around the birthplace of William Morris through exhibitions and installations. News From Nowhere: Visions Of Utopia promises to be one of the largest art events in London this year. [...]

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JAZZ IN THE CITY – Exploration of Jazz & Art

JAZZ IN THE CITY – Exploration of Jazz & Art

Nina considers the musical language of jazz to be one of her greatest inspirations. Her exhibition, Jazz in the City is the culmination of a life’s work for this innovative and unique artist. It also begins a tour featuring Nina as an artist in residence, to include The International Jazz Festival in Moscow, during which [...]

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SHANGHAI ON SCREEN – Film Festival 2006

SHANGHAI ON SCREEN – Film Festival 2006

China’s city of Cinema is being celebrated in the Shanghai on Screen film festival screening at venues including the Museum in Docklands as part of the 2006 China in London event. Of special note are three documentaries screening at City Hall telling the migrant stories of the first Chinese settlers in east Londons Limehouse Basin [...]

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TURNER PRIZE 2005 – Shortlist

TURNER PRIZE 2005 – Shortlist

Tate has announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2005. The artists are Darren Almond, Gillian Carnegie, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling. Darren Almond’s work addresses the themes of time, geography and memory. He uses a wide range of media including film, photography and sculpture to explore the passing of [...]

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BARBICAN – Folk Art Special

BARBICAN – Folk Art Special

Two artists dismayed by the Millennium Dome’s corporate presentation of Britain have created their own snapshot of British artistic creativity. Five years after the Dome presented its shiny, clean vision of Britain, there is now a smaller, cheaper and more democratic snapshot of the UK on show at the Barbican Gallery. A life-size mechanical elephant [...]

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LIBRARY OF THE PEOPLE – Whitechapel Library

LIBRARY OF THE PEOPLE – Whitechapel Library

Whitechapel Library – that great library of the East End – finally closed its doors on Saturday 6th August 2005, after more than a century of use. To those who used it down the years it was much more than a simple storehouse of books, as the poem here by Bernard Kops well shows. From [...]

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