Shining a light on the everyday issues that matter to Londoners
Today is the last chance Londoners have to see David Hockney: A Bigger Picture – the most talked-about exhibition to hit the capital since, well, Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery (which hadn’t actually closed its doors when the Royal Academy opened theirs to Hockney’s brightly-coloured compositions).
Their proximity is testament to the wealth of artistic blockbusters London has been treated to recently – and few exhibitions have caught the public’s …
Having had the unexpected pleasure of dining in the very same restaurant as two of Britain’s most iconic artists, Gilbert and George, a few weeks ago, it was with an extra surge of anticipation that we attended their most recent exhibition, London Pictures, at White Cube‘s Hoxton branch last week.
As well as dining at a Turkish restaurant on Kingsland High Street in Dalston, at precisely 8pm on every night …
Hackney, with its industrial history and cultural diversity, is no stranger to change. Now a new project run by the Hackney Museum aims to record the changes to the people and places of the borough in the run up to the 2012 Olympics, and create a lasting legacy for future generations.
Mapping the Changeis a community heritage project providing a snapshot of Hackney today and the changes and developments the borough is undergoing as the site of the Olympic Park.
London Living went …
A timely collection of imagery capturing the spirit of East London, collated from the archives of Getty Images, is currently exhibiting at the Getty Images Gallery at Westfield Stratford City from now until April 1st 2012.
London Living attended the opening night last week on a snowy evening in Stratford, which couldn’t have created a more captivating backdrop to the event. There was a brass band playing in the band stand by the red carpet with a captive audience, …
Friday 6th January saw the opening of the London Transport Museum’s ‘Painting by Numbers’ exhibition, which runs alongside the ‘Sense & the City’ show already in place there.
For those with an interest in the relationship between art/design and Britain’s transport system, this is certain to hit all the right spots.
And those of us who thought the infographic was a recent method of presenting facts and figures will stand corrected.
As the London Transport Museum explains, the infographic has been used for thousands of years:
‘Often thought of as a 21st …
