London’s Vagina museum has been two years in the making – and the idea of establishing a museum has featured in the media with reviews being largely positive but some quite cynical. There were interviews with the museum’s founder about the whys and wherefores of establishing such a venue. In fact there’s been a sort […]
Read MoreThe post I did right back in the first days of this blog, London’s museum fish, featured the lovely terracotta tiles seen inside the Natural History Museum. At the time this had been the most successful post so far on my blog. Two more posts were done as a follow up, one in November 2013 […]
Read MoreThe London Mithraeum is the City’s latest historic site to open. Its part of the Bloomberg building which I have written about here. Formerly the Mithraeum was located some 100 yards to the north in what was considered a most unsuited setting, and worse, it wasn’t actually how it should have looked! Somewhat inconspicuous entrance […]
Read MoreThe Walbrook’s not been seen plying between the streets of the City of London for centuries. Everyone knows its lurking down there somewhere as some glorified, almost forgotten sewer that eventually finds its way into the River Thames. I have an interest in London’s lost waterways, and indeed written previously on the Fleet and the […]
Read MoreThis summer has seen an exhibition at the London Transport Museum, as well as several online articles and a good number of tweets, covering the excellent work by women depicting various adverts for the London Underground. Many of these are vintage posters. It depicts works by artists from as early as the 1900s to the […]
Read MoreA follow -up post to One, two, three, let’s swing! This is a quick look at what the Tate Modern is doing in terms of SUPERFLEX’s new conceptual/interactive arts installation at the gallery. In my previous post I mentioned the orange and silver framework would go outside the gallery, creating a further area of fun and […]
Read MoreThe V&A’s £55m new courtyard: ‘Like a Marbella beach bar airlifted to South Ken.’ That’s the view of the Guardian! The V & A Aston Webb screen and entrance to the Sackler Courtyard. I didnt think anything of the sort I thought it was actually a normal sort of British cultural thing, its a bit […]
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