Mnemonic City: Moving Streets
Part of the series Mnemonic City, Moving Streets is the latest exhibition of Magma Collective. Ridley Road Market has been the starting point for a three-month derive that ended up in a two-day exhibition and live performances at Doomed Gallery. The market has been the magnifier to explore relationships, trade, city spaces and the point...
Milk White in London!
The Italian band Milk White is in town. Wanting to know more about it, we asked Stefania Imperatori – the solo guitarist – to answer a few questions. Who are the Milk White? Milk White is a band founded in the spring of 2007 by Erika Giuili, who started all out like a solo project....
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]performance s p a c e [ is one of the most committed and bubbly London-based spaces dedicated to the live art and it is asking for our help. It's time to know more about this artist-led non-profit organisation! ]performance s p a c e [ is 'the UK’s only performance art specific studio & event...
Unknown heroine. Sanja Ivekovic’s first solo exhibition in London
For their first collaboration Calvert 22 and the South London Gallery present Unknown Heroine: the first London-based solo exhibition of Sanja Ivekovi?. Split between the two venues, the exhibition shows four decades of the Croatian artist’s work focusing on an exploration of the female identity at the SLG and on the questioning of historical amnesia...
Bellini’s Doge Leonardo Loredan at the @NationalGallery London
Giovanni Bellini’s portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan in the Sainsbury wing of the National Gallery is a masterpiece of poise and reflection. It is one of those portraits so precisely rendered that you half expect the doge to turn and speak to you – in the Italian of 500 years ago, for this painting was...
Cut and fold. Interview with Gianluca Piaccione
We met in London in a very sunny morning while you were exploring the city’s art galleries landscape. How did you find it? What differences have you noticed in comparison with Taranto, the city where you live and work? London is a city were different tendencies cohabitate, from the architectonical tradition to the extreme structures...
It’s time for Something Human. Interview with Annie Jael Kwan
Annie. You have a theatre arts and law background and you work as freelance producer and project manager for arts projects as well as creative producer and filmmaker. On top of that, you are the director of Brockspace, a new pop-up arts venue in Southeast London. This is truly impressive! Tell me more about your...
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Say hello to Frieze Masters
Mexican dolls, early 20th century Dutch and Flemish paintings Installation of Don Judd’s works This year Frieze has launched Frieze Masters, a new fair for ‘historical art’, alongside Frieze proper in Regent’s Park. In contrast to Frieze which is pretty much the thermometer of ‘what’s hot and what’s not’ in the realm of contemporary...
First Look: The Greater Thief
The day the man at the end of the road got shot was a fairy tale day. It was a day I’d spent in another world wondering if my prince would trot round the corner and along the grisly north London street on a white horse. I thought it all through thoroughly, as I sat...
