Ever been to someone’s house and been struck by an incongruous piece of art? You know, where the Draylon sofa and figurine collection just doesn’t chime with the great work of art reproduced on the wall? Well then Great Art in Ugly Rooms is the website for you.
London Transport nerd-out alert! It may not be clean, cheap or cool, but London’s tube system does feature some wonderful art and graphic design in its underground depths. We’ve reported before on Tottenham Court Road station’s vibrant ’60s tile murals by Eduardo Paolozzi, but here is another bit of tube tile trivia. I’ve just wasted a […]
A while ago my friend Meg, the photographer, told me she’d just come back from photographing a man who lived in the woods. I’ve finally got around to investigating further, and it turns out she wasn’t on the trail of the Sasquatch, but photographing the wonderful work of sculptor, artist and wood-worker Joel Parkes. Dorest-based […]
Last week I went to the wonderful Dennis Server’s House in Folgate Street, Spitalfields. It’s a beautifully preserved textile merchant’s house dating from the 1700s, open to visitors. I have been there once before, but this time I was there to interview the current Keeper of the house for The Chromologist. It was an amazing […]
I’m 37 years old and I only just watched Blade Runner for the first time. How I’ve managed it I don’t know – there have been boyfriends through the years droning on about it certainly and to all them, yes, yes it is good. Anyway under the haze of two large Negroni’s on saturday night, […]