This is not your average zoological museum: there appears to be far more material to display than there is room in the Grant Museum of Zoology, so that you are met with unnerving specimens from every angle and from every cabinet. Inviting in its modesty, this collection has an extremely high concentration of interesting specimens per square meter.
Image © UCL Grant Museum / Matt Clayton
I know that sometimes experiments simply can go wrong and that audiences may remain unresponsive. I am more than ready to see past those weaknesses if there is a brave idea at the heart of the performance. But Wish Experience’s The Awesome Show, however, had a disconcertingly lewd and witless vacuum in the place where its heart should have been. At the Tristan Bates Theatre.
Image © The Awesome Show
Korean Eye is the exhibition of the summer. Playful, witty, solemn and astute - it presents Korean cultural identity as shifting, dynamic and globally interconnected. The range of media, its scale and originality make this exhibition a fantastic visual experience. Once you’ve visited the gallery, you’ll want to go back again.
Image: Sungsoo koo, From series Magical reality comics, 2005 © Courtesy of the Artist
Parading pandas vie with birds and bears on jam-packed walls this summer as the Cartoon Museum examines the fascination with using animals for social and politcal satire in their latest exhibition.
Image: Spectator, 29 June 2005 © Martin Honeysett
This new stage version of the classic story quite sensibly stays loyal to C S Lewis’ original book and tells the children’s adventure with charm and imagination. Add to the classic story a big top tent in the middle of Kensington Gardens and some wonderful puppetry and you have a sure fire treat. At threesixty Theatre.
Image: Philip Labey (Peter) with Aslan © Simon Annand
Lynda Morris has taken the brave step of opening up her personal archive as curator, writer and art historian to deliver this show, which focuses on Morris’s involvement with the contemporary art world across a career of over forty years, and shows her to have been constantly at the cutting edge of emerging artistic talent.
Rita Fennel reviews at CHELSEA Art Space.
Yinka Shonibare, Aliens © Photo: CHELSEA space
This collaborative work of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat was their artistic response to the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, and is a perfect demonstration of how the Olympics is not only concerned with athletics.
Ashitha Nagesh reviews at the Gagosian.
Image: Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol, Olympic Rings, 1985. © 2012 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ADAGP, Paris/ARS, New York; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
For anyone with an interest in Baroque music, this is a fascinating space as it gives one a true sense of how music was performed and enjoyed in a domestic setting in Handel’s time. Below the elegant sash windows, the traffic rumbles along Brook Street and Bond Street. Turn back into the room, and you are in Handel’s enchanting world again.
In this series on London’s art districts, Jessica Shepherd takes us on a tour of the Art Spots you need to know about. Each article examines a different area, from Vyner Street to Bermondsey. Read on to find out what makes them worth a trip…
The Whitechapel Gallery’s London Open is an exhibition of fresh artworks that are right on the pulse of contemporary experiences. There is a great vibrancy and freshness about the show that is suggestive of artists fearlessly pushing themselves to explore new ideas.
Image: Leigh Clarke, Detail from the Heads of State installation, 2012 © Courtesy the artist
