London
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Beautiful People: The Boutique in the 1960s Counter Culture
A unique exhibition has just opened at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London’s East End. The museum was started by designer Zandra Rhodes, a product of the ’60s and still going strong today, with the latest collaboration for Ikea. The museum’s striking exterior was the concept of renowned Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta. Since…
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: When You Need Letters for Your Skin
London-based artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami was born in Gutu, Zimbabwe in 1993 and her work reveals a deeply personal vision of Southern African life. Her new solo show at Victoria Miro Gallery shows new work that draws on her experiences of geographical dislocation and displacement, her paintings combine visual fragments from a myriad of sources such…
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Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray will never die
It may have been 130 years since Oscar Wilde’s classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published but the interest in never ever seems to dim. Maybe Dorian’s obsession with his beauty never fading so that he agrees to sell his soul is what still resounds with us loudly. Definitely, Dorian pursuing…
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Inkandescent presents BOLD Queer Poetry Soirée
Inkandescent is an independent Brit queer publishing venture created by Justin David and Nathan Evans in London with a commitment to ideas, subjects, and voices underrepresented by mainstream publishing, and a hope to discover and celebrate original, diverse and transgressive literature and art, to challenge the status quo. This week sees the…
