Tag: London
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London – Whistler At The Tate
This is the most insightful exhibition into an artist that is both well-known and one that flies somewhat under the radar. I’ve always thought James Abbot McNeill Whistler ought to be more widely known that he currently is. Whenever I visit Paris, I always make a stop at the Musee D’Orsay to see one painting…
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HURVIN ANDERSON AT THE TATE
The thing about being an immigrant is that home becomes a place of conflict in one’s mind, when considered in the fullness of the word, a conflict of dualities because, where is home? The one we left behind in hopes of a better place on foreign shores? Or the foreign land upon which we hope…
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LONDON QUICK & DIRTY | THE HIP HOP EXHIBITION
Spend an hour or two at the Saatchi gallery on the Kings Road at the Hip Hop exhibition titled Hip-Hop – Living A Dream, which I think is a play on It was all dream. It is a collection of photographs by Jamal Shabazz, Joseph Rodriguez and Gregory Bojorquez and the stories about how those…
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Dinner Above London
Sometimes when you want something all you have to do is simply ask which is what I am always fond of doing when I want to pull something completely special off. Dinner above London is something I have always wanted to indulge in but not just any old space, restaurants with views aplenty in the…
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Day 11 – Christmas Windows; Fortnum & Mason
It will always be Fortnum’s in one way or another for me, if it isn’t a first it is a close second because they take the magic of Christmas seriously. They have but a small window of opportunity to make passersby stop and gasp and by God do they make they best use of it.…
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8 HOLLAND ST. ST JAMES’S PARK
An art gallery within a town house that is not stuffy or pretentious. Sign us up. 8 Holland Street is a contemporary art space where everything is for sale and you can actually test out everything; furniture, art, rugs, vases the lot. The gallery in Bath is both a guesthouse and a museum, speaks to…
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PAVYLLON
The Four Seasons is one of the most incredible place to stay and dine in London with views overlooking that quintessential London view. The previous restaurant where used to serve possibly the best Negroni in London, it was featured in a previous newsletter, is now a new space, a new beautifully charming space that has…
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YINKA SHONIBARE – SUSPENDED STATES
Suspended States addresses the suspension of boundaries, whether psychological, physical, or geographical — all boundaries of nationhood are in a state of suspense. This is an exhibition in which Western iconography is reimagined and interrogated, at a moment in history when nationalism, protectionism and hostility towards foreigners is on the rise.” – Yinka Shonibare CBE…
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LONDON – ACCIDENTALLY WES ANDERSON
I like how unpretentious this exhibition is; it is not in the big fancy museums, rather it is in an unassuming location in South Kensington (apt) and the space in contorted into different rooms through arches which is possibly on purpose so you can do that thing where you see pictures in angles, and on…