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View of the week: Einstein’s brain

April 11, 2012

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If you visit the Wellcome Collection‘s latest exhibition, Brains: The Mind as Matter, you will surely want to lay eyes on one of their most heavily-promoted highlights, a piece of Albert Einstein’s (1879 – 1955) brain. The sliver of cortex on display is not particularly illuminating, and  far from the most interesting thing in the gallery space.… [Read more…]

View of the week: New concourse for Kings Cross

March 27, 2012

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The new concourse at Kings Cross St Pancras, designed by John McAslan and Partners, was recently unveiled and has been grabbing lots of attention from media and architecture enthusiasts alike. On the day we visited, there seemed to be as many people photographing the steel roof as there were scurrying to catch trains. It certainly is striking… [Read more…]

View of the week: BPAS protest

March 15, 2012

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I thought I’d have to go all the way to the USA to see abortion clinics being targeted by religious protesters, but no – it’s happening right here in Bloomsbury. Spurred on by Ben Goldacre‘s recent tweets about an ongoing protest in Bedford Square, I wandered down to see what the fuss was about. Police were… [Read more…]

View of the week: Spring Festival

March 2, 2012

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Is it really springtime in London? The British Library says so, and has a fashion & creativity-themed Spring Festival, running from 1 – 5 March 2012, to prove it. Today, the library forecourt hosted a pop-up craft market, made up of a dozen competition winners including Cole of London, Ketchup on Everything, Phoebe Richardson, Ruby Red and Squid… [Read more…]

View of the week: British Library

February 6, 2012

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After a reasonably mild winter, London has at last had its first (and possibly only) snowfall of the season. Here is the British Library‘s forecourt, with Eduardo Paolozzi‘s (1924 – 2005) Newton sculpture covered  in a few centimeters of snow. The 1995 bronze sculpture is a representation of the scientist Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727), after a famous illustration of the same by William Blake (1757… [Read more…]

View of the week: “I Can Not Help the Way I Feel”

January 23, 2012

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This bulbous, organic sculpture by John Isaacs, I Can Not Help the Way I Feel (2003), is just one of many features of the Wellcome Collection’s permanent gallery, Medicine Now. The life-like construction of polystyrene, steel, foam, wax and paint simply demands attention. Every time I see it, I can not help feeling that I shouldn’t have eaten that… [Read more…]

View of the week: British Museum reading room

January 11, 2012

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Sadly, this lovely space is now permanently closed as a reading room and used entirely for visiting exhibitions. By sheer coincidence, we stopped by in the last few minutes of the last day that it operated as a library (a few years ago, now), and took some shots of the interior. Read more about the… [Read more…]

View of the week: Bertrand Russell

January 2, 2012

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Only upon posting these photos did I take the trouble to find out who the artist responsible for this work is … and to my complete surprise, it’s Lady Marcelle Quinton, who I encountered several times over the first few years of my London residency. I knew her as a semi-regular visitor to my (then)… [Read more…]

View of the week: Local wildlife

December 20, 2011

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It’s not uncommon to find squirrels peeking in our windows, and foxes lounging on our rooftops and in our gardens. This one was a particularly attractive specimen, and very obliging with the impromptu photo session.

View of the week: Nereid Monument

December 11, 2011

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The Camden Concert Band performing before the Nereid Monument in Room 17 of the British Museum on Friday 9th December 2011.

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