EXHIBITIONS
Giorgio Morandi: Lines of Poetry
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 16 January to 7 April 2013.
In 2013 the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art celebrates its ...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas—so we have a special selection of seasonal events and attractions for you to choose from this month, including a Santa’s Eye View ...
Hilary Mantel recently won the Man Booker prize with her Tudor tome about Thomas Cromwell, Bring Up the Bodies—the sequel to Wolf Hall, which also won ...
Bob Marley: Messenger
Mezzanine Gallery, 24 July – 24 October 2012
Following a successful run at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, where it was on display for over three ...
New St. James Theatre opens in London
St. James Theatre, the first newly built theatre complex in central London in 30 years, will open to the public this month. Rising ...
The shortlist celebrates heavyweights next to new writers published by small presses.
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The word “maze” usually conjures up images of verdant hedges perfectly pruned into sinuous shapes, but this is not true of the maze with the punning title, ...
The UK has gone Olympic crazy. Companies and their rather un-Olympic products are plastered all over television adverts, with babies in nappies recreating the triathlon and menstruating women hurdling over ...
Summer Exhibition 2012
Royal Academy of Arts, 04 – 12 August 2012
The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world, drawing ...
It’s a big year for London. There’s the Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics, and it’s about to get bigger still with the sixth annual London Literature Festival (part of the ...
Two poetry events you should try to catch at the Southbank this summer:
The Poetry Takeaway
26 June – 1 July 2012; 12:00-5:00 p.m. everyday
You won’t ...
Aslan apple and almond slice, Fluffy Lucy lemon tart, Peter and the Professor peach tiramisu, white raspberry witches hat, Brownie wardrobe to Narnia… If you were mesmerised by C. S. Lewis’ ...
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
May – September 2012
Celebrating its 80th Anniversary in 2012, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has become a London landmark and a ...
Ways With Words has been running festivals of words and ideas for over 20 years across the UK in Devon, Suffolk, Cumbria, and in Italy and France. This May, it ...
Attractions
The Cutty Sark reopens Spring 2012
The last and most famous tea-clipper, which broke all records for speed in 1885, closed to the public on 5 November 2006 in order ...
February: it’s not just the season where we remember lost loves and new ones, but a chance to embrace a whole array of fantastic literary-inspired events, from Gothic dinners to ...
The seriously stylish department store, Selfridges, has opened their very own pop-up library until March 1st. The 15,000-book library set up in the UltraLounge space in the basement area of ...
December is a month of celebration. There are feasts and festivities wherever you turn, and our December issue is all about giving in to the temptation of food. In December’s ...
To coincide with Mental States, an exhibition by George Condo being held at Gallery, organisers are inviting the public to write 300-word short stories inspired by Condo’s portraits.
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Poet Laureate Ted Hughes called November “month of the dead dog”, but as we’ve discovered, there’s a lot more to it than that. From a burlesque circus to killingly funny ...