by Hannah Kane | Aug 28, 2014 | Culture
Imogen Heap wows us with her month-long cultural festival, Reverb, at the Roundhouse. Pop-music as we know it tends to remain the sum of a set number of standard parts: a standard studio, a standard set of instruments, and standard recording software. But what would...
by Hannah Kane | Aug 15, 2014 | Culture
Visual tastemakers have one thing in common: they know how to get our attention. By placing the everyday in the brighter context of the art world, fashion designers, artists and filmmakers highlight the sublime character of the things we so frequently perceive to be...
by Hannah Kane | Aug 11, 2014 | Culture
Panoptic, interactive experiences and cross-disciplinary events in unlikely places are all the rage. Whether the event in question entails attending a 3D film premiere in a jacuzzi or enjoying gourmet street food in a power station, it’s exciting to see cultural...
by Hannah Kane | Aug 6, 2014 | Culture
The Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision exhibition promises to explore the writer as a “novelist, intellectual, campaigner and public figure” with the help of over 140 items, including family photographs, private letters and paintings by her literary...
by Hannah Kane | Jul 9, 2014 | Beauty
Find out what happens when the potency of perfume and the richness of colour unite… It may seem peculiar to launch two new perfumes at The National Gallery, especially when the exhibition tied to the launch is called Making Colour – paintings gathered...
by Hannah Kane | Apr 23, 2014 | Culture
The Saatchi Gallery have announced the winner of the world’s first GIF art competition The Saatchi Gallery and Google+ have announced that Christina Rinaldi has been awarded first prize in the world’s first Motion Photography competition. A still from...
by Hannah Kane | Apr 11, 2014 | Culture
Roy’s People: Street Life is a playful exhibition from Roy Tyson, a new kid on the urban art block. Tyson’s images explore the whimsical side of the everyday and are guaranteed to raise a smile. His work, which features miniature hand-painted figures going...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 31, 2014 | Culture
Few young British artists could count on the presence of Michael Fassbender, Ed Sheeran and Pam Hogg at the launch of their latest Shoreditch show. But then few young British artists have anything like the quiet self-assurance and technical accomplishment of east...
by Hannah Kane | Feb 3, 2014 | Culture
20th century art in textiles and fashion from Cubism and Surrealism to Pop Art A new exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum on Bermondsey Street brings together over 200 fabric designs from an impressive roster of artists, including Barbara Hepworth, Ben...
by Hannah Kane | Jan 27, 2014 | Culture
★★★★☆ Hannah Höch, Whitechapel Gallery, until 23 March Für ein Fest gemacht (Made for a Party), 1936; Photomontage 36×19.8cm; Collection of IFA, Stuttgart It’s about time Brits got better acquainted with the wonderful, witty art of Hannah Höch. A dazzling...