When it comes to fashion legends, to omit the Queen of anti-establishment fashion, Dame Vivienne Westwood, would be a serious crime. Westwood has been an inspiration for generations of designers, artists and musicians. Along with her former boyfriend Malcolm McLaren, she orchestrated a revolution felt far beyond the fashion industry, and has been leading it…
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LimeWharf - First Thursdays Whitechapel Gallery - London LimeWharf is a Hackney-based cultural innovation hub & artistic laboratory along Regent's Canal founded and curated by Thomas Ermacora. Located in the heart of east London’s creative quarter on Vyner Street, this innovative and experimental centre welcomes both artists and scientists to collaborate in residencies, think tank…
IRAN DO ESPÍRITO SANTO June 11 - July 5, 2014| Alison Jacques Gallery 16-18 Berners Street London W1T 3LN With an opening reception Tuesday, June 10 from 6 - 8 pm, Alison Jacques Gallery will present their first solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Iran do Espírito Santo (born 1963, lives and works in Sao Paulo).…
PITTURA OGGETTO Almine Rech Gallery London 11 Savile Row, Mayfair 03.06 - 26.07.2014 On Tuesday June 3rd, Almine Rech Gallery celebrated the opening of its London location with the presentation of their inagural exhibit 'Pittura Oggeto.' Curated by Natacha Carron, the exhibit features works by Italian artists Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Paolo Scheggi, and…
Susie Hamilton / Georgie Hayes / Mit Senoj Paul Stolper Gallery 31 Museum Street, London May 22nd – June 21st, 2014 ‘I believe that in contemporary figurative painting the paint is not simply there to be crafted to serve the image, but must make itself felt in a robust and separate way’ (Georgia Hayes 2003). Opening…
The St Pancras Renaissance Hotel is home to one of the most indulgent bathing experiences in the world. When the original Midland Grand Hotel opened in 1873, a Victorian bath menu enabled guests to request private use of one of the building’s 5 bathrooms. At a time when the practice of using hip baths and…
Photo courtesy of Topshop Who doesn't love a good comeback story? Kate Moss will be making hers this May when she releases her second collection with Topshop. This is the first line that Moss has designed with the brand since 2010, which is a surprise since all of her work with Topshop has been highly…
Ryan Mosley Allison Jacques Gallery 16-18 Berners St London W1T 3LN February 21 - March 15 ‘Ryan Mosley is one of the most inventive of the younger English painters at work today, and you can feel the ghostly presence of Picasso here ceaselessly at work… Mosley is a fantasist, a maker of wild, irrational, dancing…
Bob Carlos Clarke: Living Dolls The Little Black Gallery 13A Park Walk London SW10 0AJ May 10 - June 21 The Little Black Gallery presents Living Dolls, marking the 10th anniversary since legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke's final exhibition in 2004, Love-Dolls Never Die, before his untimely death in 2006. It includes a selection of images from the Love-Dolls series,…
Bailey's Stardust February 6th - June 1st, 2014 National Portrait Gallery, London David Bailey has made an outstanding contribution to photography and the visual arts, creating consistently imaginative and thought-provoking portraits. As well as new work, this landmark exhibition includes a wide variety of Bailey’s photographs from a career that has spanned more than half…
Alexander Singh: "The Humans" Sprüeth Magers London 7A Grafton Street January 29th - March 24th, 2014 "A small island of reality ... sometime before the creation of the universe." Sprüeth Magers London presents Alexandre Singh’s The Humans, representing the culmination of years of study, writing, drawing and sculpting by the artist for the creation of a three act…
London Art Fair January 15 - 19th, 2014 Business Design Centre 52 Upper Street, London London Art Fair, the UK's largest fair for modern British and contemporary art, will be celebrating it's 26th year at the Business Design Centre this year. The Fair uniquely represents work produced by both established artists and emerging new talent.…
Sarah Burton’s autumn/winter 2014 Alexander McQueen menswear collection showed today in London and was staged in an unused church - paying ode to the iconic McQueen image. Models donned platform shoes - referencing Goth subculture and UK street-style while screen-print tees, slick jackets, and the signature McQueen tartan kilt made appearances on the runway. The…
“Don’t let the bastards get you down.” These fighting words, passed from mother to daughter, were surely echoing in Kate Nash’s head the day she decided to quit her job at a Portuguese chicken fast food restaurant and pursue music full-time. After being rejected from university and suffering a fall which left her with a…
Kate Moss: 40 - A Retrospective Imitate Modern Gallery - London, England January 17 - February 15, 2014. Kate Moss, arguably the most famous model of all time, will be turning 40 on January 16th of next year and, to celebrate the model's birthday, artist Russell Marshall will be holding an exhibition in her honor. The exhibition…
' HARRY MEADLEY Paradise Row Gallery 74a Newman Street London W1T 3DB November 8 – December 14 The Basement at Paradise Row presents LEVEL 1, a solo exhibition of works by Leeds based artist Harry Meadley. Appropriating the traditional computer game format of 'levels', this is the first in an intended series of exhibitions by…
Matt Johnson Alison Jacques Gallery 16-18 Berners Street London W1T 3LN November 22 - December 21 Matt Johnson's second solo show at Alison Jacques Gallery is alive with plays on materials and fusions of physical and subject matter, but its overriding premise is decidedly simple: Time. Whether working with recycled old-growth redwood, carving million-year-old…
May The Circle Remain Unbroken Gimpel Fils Gallery 30 DAVIES STREET, LONDON W1K 4NB October 18–November 23 Late British fashion photographer and model Corrine Day, who is credited for discovering Kate Moss in the 1990s, has a retrospective exhibit opening in London dedicated to her early work titled “May the Circle Remain Unbroken.” at Gimpel…
Frieze London 2013 Regent’s Park Chester Rd, London NW1 4NR United Kingdom October 17 – October 20 The 11th edition of Frieze London, the international contemporary art fair, takes place in London’s Regent’s Park from 17–20 October 2013. Frieze London brings 152 of the world’s leading contemporary galleries to the UK. The Untitled Magazine presents…
FEELING GOOD Benefit Photography Exhibit 10 - 19 October 2013 Getty Images Gallery 46 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DX Out of Context together with the David Lynch Foundation UK & Getty Images Gallery presents Feeling Good, a collection of images taken by people in the public eye on the theme of something that simply makes…