City Visions Live Debate: Are Cities Good for Us? at the Barbican
A season of films, talks and debates, exploring the ways in which cinema has engaged…
"Talk"
Pam Hogg at the V&A
It looks like I’m going for a royal flush of 80s fash here. So whilst…
Balenciaga on the silver screen
Well Berlin really isn’t such a bad month to be in February after all! The…
APHRODISIAC PLANTS
It’s probably too soon for more random pictures of plants that no layman is likely…
If You Build It, Will They Come? The Future of Museum Architecture
Clearly those in the urban ‘realm’ as it is so warmly referred to, are sick…
Between life and death in Kinshasa
LSE’s screening of ‘Cemetery State’ is introduced by anthropologist Deborah James and followed by discussion…
The Fairyland of Horror: The Old Nichol, E2
Arthur Morrison, Arthur Harding and the re-branding of the Old Nichol Slum Whilst you’re tucking…
HERE BE DRAGONS
And another trip West for the Frontline’s foray into Albania? I am awaiting the tourism…
What’s missing in your life? Mermaids.
Spotting Mermaids: from William Clift to Sir Henry Wellcome and beyond with Ross MacFarlane – at…
Talks, walks, trips and flicks all about The Smoke
From 18 September to 2 October the Barbican presents Urban Wandering – Film and the London…
Tonight – an audience with elBulli’s Ferran Adrià at Somerset House
Today, Somerset House opens a retrospective exhibition on Ferran Adrià, and the restaurant he built…
Beyond Vodka
Grey Goose have their latest campaign underway, exploring notions of taste. A summer of events…
Smells in Space
This Thursday head to the Royal Institution for an interactive, olfactory event presented by Marek…
Picks from the London Architecture Festival
It’s not a vintage year for the London Architecture Festival. Ouch, the cuts run deep….
Market Place: Food quarters, design and urban renewal in London
Tonight, Dr Susan Parham will be discussing her new book Market Place: Food quarters, design and…
A surveillance double bill?
Top pic, FSB HQ in Moscow; below, my flat in Berlin! Very Moscow chic, bearing…
British Writers and M15 Surveillance 1930 to 1960
Well does it ease the pain that They’ve always breathed down our necks? No, not…
Who Owns the Future? with Jaron Lanier
Next week Jaron Lanier will be in town. A tech inventor and philosopher, he’s been…
The Corporation of London: London’s Secret City?
This article in The Guardian some time ago wedged in my memory. We’ve read about…
Paula Rego talk tonight, Barbican
Tut – when you’re looking forward to a night and then bam, something unmissable falls…