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Working in a shop in Camden provides no end of entertainment. From street punch-ups, cross dressers and eccentric homeless people, to the crazy man who sits outside my shop every Thursday afternoon blaring out reggae from a ghetto blaster on his shoulder, there is never a dull moment.
The Royal Vauxhall Tavern is a dowdy gay boozer in South London – not the most likely of places to be graced by fashion royalty, but last week, Dame Vivienne Westwood put in an appearance and Mooks was there to lap up every word of wisdom which dropped from the yellow-haired Queen’s mouth.
The strange urban metropolis that is the Barbican Art Gallery is currently home to the first UK solo exhibition by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, a French artist who specialises in creating multi-sensory experiences for his audience.
Last weekend, I managed to escape the smells and sounds of the big smoke and found myself in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for Tallinn Music Week. In it’s second year, Tallin Music Week sees 6000 music fans, 100 artists and 107 international delegates descend on the city for three nights of music.
By Jessica Hazel There’s a new gang on the streets of East London. More terrifying than any gun-wielding estate mob and more wayward than the hobos found loitering outside the job centre. They call themselves, Gaggle, a choir of twenty-odd women led by classically trained choir master (and ex-586 member) Deborah Coughlin.
By Jessica Hazel Anyone who has studied or taken an interest in art, will understand what it’s like living in a house full of old paintings, sculptures, collage of crisp packets, collection of ‘found objects’ and not having a clue what to do with them. Too ghastly to put on display and downright insulting to give away as gifts, but then again these artworks were often slaved over and not to mention the money spent on creating them. Luckily UK artist Michael Landy, has come up with a solution in his latest project entitled: ‘Art Bin’. Landy is using a giant glass skip, that resides in the South London Gallery, to slowly fill with donated/rejected artworks. |
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I am a 25-year-old freelance journalist who lives in London. I have been writing about art, music and culture since graduating with a BA honours degree in Music And Visual Art from Brighton University in 2007. I started out writing for the student paper and then went on to write for publications such as NME, Artrocker and The Fly as a music journalist. I have also worked on several small magazines in editorial positions. I moved to London back in April of 2009 and have been doing my best to keep up with the fast-paced arts scene ever since. I live in East London which is currently the epicentre of aspiring new musicians and artists. Alongside my writing I also promote gigs and work in a vintage shop in Camden. Berlin - Germany
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