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In Search of Classical Greece
By now, everyone and his dog knows about the British Museum’s blockbuster Ice Age Art and Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibitions, currently attracting huge crowds. But there’s another (free) exhibition equally deserving of attention, taking place now in the British Museum’s room 90. It is In search of Classical Greece: travel drawings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi 1805–1806, a pictorial survey […]
Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens @ Foundling
July 10, 2012
The Foundling Museum‘s current exhibition, The Triumph of Pleasure: Vauxhall Gardens 1729 – 1786, is well worth a look if you’re curious about historical London, and about how Londoners entertained themselves in previous centuries. Entry to the exhibition is included with the general admission price, so once you’ve learned all about Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, you can go […]
View of the week: Einstein’s brain
April 11, 2012
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. […]
Rousseau 300: Nature, Self & State @ UCL
February 10, 2012
If you happen to be in the local area over the next few months, with half an hour to spare, pop in to University College London‘s Art Museum, where a small exhibition is showcasing the life of French philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). This event marks the 300th anniversary of his birth, and features books and […]
Slave-owners of Bloomsbury: an exhibition
December 6, 2011
Bloomsbury has a reputation as the home of historic and contemporary literary types, but University College London’s current exhibition on past inhabitants’ links to slavery aims to unsettle that genteel notion. But it wasn’t all bad news back then. For every George Hibbert (1757 – 1837), there was a Zachary Macaulay (1768 – 1838). Father of historian and politician […]
Jurassic pines come to Bloomsbury – Australian garden @ British Museum
May 6, 2011
For the homesick Australian, or the botanically curious, head to the forecourt of the British Museum for a pick-me-up dose of antipodean greenery and the scent of gum leaves. The Australian Season has kicked off with the opening of “The Australian Landscape”, put together with the help of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. The garden is free, open daily […]
London Bytes
- View of the week: Alien doppelgänger March 28, 2013 Belinda
- Noam Chomsky @ British Library March 27, 2013 Belinda
- View of the week: Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern March 12, 2013 Belinda
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