Somerset House
Making A Rukus! Black Queer Histories through Love and Resistance.@ Somerset House, London
MAKING A RUKUS is a brand new exhibition exploring the joy, friendship, resistance and art of Black LGBTQIA+ people in Britain. Curated by artist, filmmaker and co-founder of rukus! federation, Topher Campbell, it explores Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans creativity, activism, community and pride through archive materials, contemporary artworks and brand-new commissions, celebrating the…
THE HORROR SHOW! A TWISTED TALE OF MODERN BRITAIN
The Horror Show! is a fantastic new exhibition which has just opened at London’s Somerset House. Curated by Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard and Claire Catterall, the exhibition celebrates the UK’s greatest cultural provocateurs and visionaries, examining how ideas rooted in horror have informed the past 50 years of creative rebellion in Britain. We are invited to…
Gareth Pugh’s THIS BRIGHT LAND: a Summer Festival of Community and Culture
Somerset House is a large Neoclassical complex situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge. The Georgian era quadrangle was built on the site of a Tudor palace (“Old Somerset House”) originally belonging to the Duke of Somerset. The present Somerset House was designed by Sir William Chambers, begun in 1776, and was further extended with Victorian…
