Category Archive: Culture

Post Olympics thoughts on branding, marketing and tourism: the GREAT Britain Campaign

As Insidethegames.biz has just revealed, 2012 chairman Lord Sebastian Coe will lead the GREAT Britain campaign, promoting the country as a great place to visit, study, work, invest and conduct business following the Olympics… Continue reading

Closing weekend for major olympic summer Exhibitions: Damien Hirst at Tate Modern + Yoko Ono at Serpentine Gallery

London’s major arts Museums and Institutions have chosen some of the British greatest art icons to celebrate this glorious 2012 Olympic summer: the Tate Modern has shown a five month-long retrospective of Damien Hirst‘s work, the… Continue reading

Last chance to see The Yellow Wallpaper @Cob Gallery – Camden, London

Earlier a couple of weeks ago I attended a very inspiring gallery talk, given by Natasha Hoare and Roxie Warder, co-curators of  ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, a group exhibition closing today the Cob Studios & Gallery. The visit offered a powerful… Continue reading

Opening Week at the Serpentine Gallery: Garden Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Wei Wei

On June 1st the Serpentine Gallery launched the new Pavilion as the twelfth in the series since the first commission in 2000. The design is the result of Swiss duo Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese… Continue reading

V&A Museum launches today “Ballgowns: British Glamour since 1950”

A spectacular exhibition is opening today at the V&A Museum in the newly redesigned Fashion Galleries of the museum: “Ballgowns – British Glamour since 1950“. The show, spanning 60 years of British fashion, features more… Continue reading

Smashing show at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre last night

One of France’s most successful choreographers, Angelin Preljocaj went on show with his 25 dancers company at Sadler’s Wells Theatre until last night: they performed his award-winning 2008 adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Snow White. This… Continue reading

Last chance to see in London : RESISTANCE Subverting the camera

RESISTANCE Subverting the camera opend in London on 18th April at The Fine Art Society Contemporary, 148 New Bond St. This group exhibition features a number of international artists exploring the photographic techniques through the rejection of the… Continue reading

Oxford Historical Dance Society presents: Dances from the 16th century Italian Renaissance

If you want to experience historical dance, costumed performances and unusual and yet philological entertainment in historical settings, join special events and celebrations or simply learn more about Italian Renaissance historical context, then come and… Continue reading

Back on track and……Last Chance to see in London (Contemporary Art Gallery-wise)

It’s time to get things back on track and resume my blogging work activity at last! I took a long though just temporary break from the recording of landmark events and cultural facts as… Continue reading

London 2011

London 2011, un set su Flickr.