Forget spoiling your loved one, this weekend you can focus on you. This Sunday the Valentine’s Fair arrives in East London. A vintage collection of novelty bits and bobs and sexy underwear awaits. That may seem like an odd combination but the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club pulls it off with flying poms poms. Browse [...]
Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Have A Love A-Fayre
Posted in Art, Dating, Drinks, Fashion, Food, Live Music, Photography, Romance, Shopping, tagged Bethnal Green, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, burlesque, Buxom Bangs, Chris Ratcliffe, fair, Garudio Studiage, Lady Luck Rules OK, Laura Cave, sexy underwear, Storm in a Teacup, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Love A Fayre on February 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Medieval Beauty
Posted in Art, tagged China, Christian, Donatello, Europe, Islam, Medieval, Onyx, Renaissance, Roman Empire, South Kensington, Victoria & Albert Museum on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Victoria & Albert museum has put together a stunning new exhibition of Medieval and Renaissance artwork. There are beautiful carved ivories and fabulously intricate wrought iron works that will wow you. The collection as a whole tells the story of art and culture in Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the [...]
Happy New Year!
Posted in Art, Ballet, Beauty, Dance, Drinks, Fashion, Film, Food, Live Music, Music, Nightlife, Opera, Photography, Politics, Romance, Shopping, Sport, Theatre, Travel, tagged London, new year on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hello and welcome back to my blog after my little hiatus Expect all the latest details on the coolest to-be-seen-in places- let’s have a brilliant and fun 2010!
Affordable Art Fair
Posted in Art, Drinks, Photography, tagged Affordable Art Fair, Alicia David, Art, Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, Fine Art Consultancy, Hirst, James Hunt, Photography, sculpture, Sloane Square, Theo Booth, Vanessa Pooley on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve always dreamed about buying some art but have always been slightly put off by the price tag then fret no more. The Affordable Art Fair is here for you. Opening on Thursday, it will host exhibitors and galleries that specialise in good art for reasonable prices. You could buy something for between £50 [...]
Inside Out Knowledge
Posted in Art, Lecture, Live Music, Theatre, tagged Andrew Motion, Beer, Birkbeck, Cesarini, Gideon Koppel, Holocaust, Holocaust Research Centre, Inside Out, Joseph Conrad, King's College London, Laptop Orchestra, LCACE, London Centre for Arts and Cultural Events, London College of Communication, National Portrait Gallery, Orlando Figes, Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, Somerset House, Theodore Zeldin, University of London, Wives and Widows of the Sea Captains on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Get informed this week on arts, media and culture at the inaugural Inside Out Festival. Curated by the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Events, it showcases the best professors and the more original musicians from the University of London’s nine colleges. For this week only, attend an improvised concert for £5 in King’s College’s [...]
The Maharaja’s Court
Posted in Art, tagged Art, jewellery, Maharaja, Maharaja's Court, V&A, Victoria & Albert Museum on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A beautiful exhibition has opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum. It depicts the splendour and majesty of the Maharaja’s court from the 18th century until the mid-20th century. When we imagine maharajas, great kings, we think of them as turbaned and bejewelled men surrounded my exquisite wealth and stunning ladies in waiting. This exhibition [...]
A Carriage of Curiosity
Posted in Art, Drinks, Food, tagged Bompas & Parr, Hendrick's Carriage of Curiosity on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been wandering around Manchester Square this morning you may have noticed a very curious-looking train carriage sitting on the green. It’s Hendrick’s Horseless Carriage and is home to a collection of strange objects and eccentric contraptions. David Piper, host of the Carriage, found a lot of the items here saying that “every object, [...]
