Two Temple Place is a neo-Gothic mansion on the London Embankment. In 1895, it cost £250,000 to build for William Waldorf Astor, equal to £25million today. The building, which was designed to characterize literature and embody art, craft and architecture, encompasses Spanish mahogany hammer-beam ceilings and marble floors. This dazzling and dramatic building is home […]
In celebration of their 20th anniversary, Dazed & Confused Magazine are staging an exhibition at Somerset House. The show documents the beginnings of the publication; from when Jefferson Hack and Ian Rankin first met, to the magazine today, in its third generation. Launched in 1991, London, two years before I was born, Dazed & Confused […]
Movement was the focus for this season’s Degas centered exhibition at the Royal Academy. Photography and film showed spectators a previously unthought-of and unexplored influence into the artist of the dance. An array of original film is spread all over this exhibition, which you are greeted to by the silhouette of a single ballerina in […]
When I arrived at the Annroy Gallery to view the joint efforts of Damien Hirst and Rankin’s Myths, Monsters & Legends, I was greeted by a room full of food and various pieces of set for some kind of photo shoot. The girl on reception apologised and explained that there was a shoot taking place […]
Having previously been to exhibitions at the Gagosian Gallery on Britannia Street, I had high expectations for the Mayfair gallery. I arrived at a small, formal, simplistic, slightly quaint building, vastly different to the large, somewhat industrial setting in the city that I was accustomed to. The Gagosian Gallery on Davies Street has an exterior […]