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Archaos: When Hell's Angels met Billy Smart's
Roll up, roll up – for an exhibition about the radical collectivist circus Archaos, running as part of the Mayor's Thames Festival this September.
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Unseen photos of The Beatles go on show
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Previously unseen photographs charting The Beatles’ formative years will go on display at Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery & Museum next week.
Eat your art out: Artists develop a taste for food
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Matilda Battersby: Antony Gormley's bread bed is back in a new exhibition
Hendrix in Britain and Handel's house
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
By all accounts iconic ‘70s rock star Jimi Hendrix and eighteenth century classical composer George Frideric Handel, are pretty dissimilar. But there is a surprising connection between the musical pair: they lived at the same address in Mayfair, London, albeit 209 years apart.
Edinburgh festival's flyers
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
For decades, they've been cheap and gaudy, but handouts and posters at this year's festival have some style to them.
Britons in New York
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Previously unseen portraits by photographer Jason Bell, inspired by the 120,000 British men and women living in New York City, go on display at the National Portrait Gallery next week.
On the agenda: London International Animation Festival; Getty Images Gallery; Gossip Girl; Open House London weekend; Ian Rankin; Un-Convention
Sunday, 15 August 2010
We're off to market to see Diana Dors and getting an Edinburgh tour from Ian Rankin
Hoardings – the new gallery of the streets
Friday, 13 August 2010
Have you noticed how art on hoardings is everywhere these days? Whether it's pencil sketches by the Swedish artist Martin Karlsson on the Transforming Tate hoardings at the Tate Modern, or the Graffiti Kings collective making their commissioned mark on a new development of flats on the Holloway Road, or the Bankside Gallery's London Lives competition where the winning artists will have their work blown-up on a huge hoarding on Blackfriars Bridge for a year (from September) – the hoarding has become another artistic outlet worth taking notice of.
Silver spoon successes: The intellectual, affluent and well-connected new generation of Young British Artists
Friday, 13 August 2010
Today's Young British Artists are well-connected, appear in Tatler and are mostly Oxbridge-educated – a far cry from the rough edges of Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst.
Love from London: A City of Stars
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
A new photography exhibition captures stars from the golden age of cinema as they enjoy stepping out in London. From Elizabeth Taylor fending off pigeons in Trafalgar Square to Audrey Hepburn taking her dog for a run in Richmond Park.
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