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Ever since the August riots, trendy, energetic areas like Hackney and neighbouring Dalston have felt distinctly less boisterous and a little more subdued. However, it’s clear that the east end’s manifesto of creativity and entrepreneurialism is still very much alive. Evidence of the area’s continued regeneration includes the recent opening of…
George Condo excels at doing the one thing that your art teacher always warned you not to: he paints from his imagination. And it’s the grotesquely comic, brightly coloured portraits for which he is best known which cover much of the wall space at this major retrospective of the American artist’s…
Located on Great Eastern Street – home to some of East London’s hippest venues – East Village Club certainly manages to hold its own. The underground club plays host to a variety of DJ-led nights where the music is the main event, rather than acting as a backdrop for flirty…
Gilles Peterson and Louie Vega will be playing together for the first time in London, along with some of Cuba’s best musicians to mark the release of the DJ’s new album Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura – The Search Continues. We’re giving away 4 pairs of tickets to what’s set…
Plot: A Mormon kidnapping, celestial sex and a pitbull cloned in South Korea… Academy Award winning filmmaker Errol Morris presents the incredible and peculiar life and times of Joyce McKinney who went from a 70s beauty to tabloid queen. Cast: Joyce McKinney, Dr. Hong, Peter Tory Directed by: Errol Morris Critics…
This summer I published London Walks, my alternative city walking guide, with The Tate. One of my walking gurus (yes I do have them), Walter Benjamin, once wrote: “Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance, nothing more. But to lose…