Undercover Surrealism

Undercover Surrealism explores the ’subversive climate’ of the dark undercurrent within Surrealism in the late 1920’s spearheaded by Georges Bataille. The exhibition draws together work by Picasso, Miro, Masson, Giacometti as well as imagery from the magazine Bataille edited from 1929 to 1930 called DOCUMENTS :
“..a shocking and bizarre juxtaposition of art, ethnography, archaeology and [...]

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Satirical London: 300 years of irreverent images

“Anything sharp or severe is called a Satyr” : Cocker’s English Dictionary 1704.
“..an exhibition of visual satire produced in and about London over three centuries. In this period the form of satire has changed radically, from popular individual engravings to newspaper cartoons and television.
Some images are produced by amateurs, others by leading artists such [...]

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Ring

Ring – Koji Suzuki 
 
Published in 1991 – the book behind the cult movie/s. Has been since translated into English and published by HarperCollins.
The guardian review referred to this as 'postmodern japanese terror' – well however you choose to phrase it – it was certainly that. Postmodern – perhaps because there are no gory scenes – [...]

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Photomontage at the Getty

Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage 1920 – 1938 is currently exhibiting at the Getty Center. An illustration of the power of images and imagery. Heartfield worked in Germany and Czechoslovakia between the World Wars, using his medium to represent the chaos – social and political instability of the time.
The exhibition is running till [...]

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Ordinary Liberty

The Cold War Studies Centre and the Institute for the Study of Americas at LSE presents a public lecture by Orlando Patterson who is Professor of Sociology at Harvard, this evening at 6:00 p.m. The lecture focuses on the relevance of what people actually mean by ‘freedom‘ and how these underlying ideas impact on race [...]

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Open Garden Squares Weekend

This is the one weekend in the year when many of London’s private garden squares and other gardens open their gates to welcome visitors. A number of special activities will take place at some of the gardens and this year Loire Valley Wines are offering free wine-tasting at selected [...]

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The Summer House : Christobel Kent

from the blurb on the back cover:
“Rose Fell’s friends think she’s taking a big risk when she leaves the security of home and career to move to the beautiful but isolated village of Grosso, near Genoa. But after a year of emotional turmoil Rose no longer has any ties back home, and she relishes the [...]

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Beautiful Bodies

beautiful bodies – laura shaine cunningham
painfully honest and reflexive. i don't often read too many books that deal honestly with certain aspects of 'female friendship' – the group dynamics, peer pressure, the bully of the group that no-one actually likes but are too kind and diplomatic to do anything about. it reveals the frustration that [...]

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Rossetti’s Regina Cordium

Painted in 1866 – Oil on Canvas.
Regina Cordium translates as "Queen of Hearts" and the model – Alice Wilding- was one Rossetti painted frequently. 
From the BBC's Painting Flowers virtual gallery. 

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victorian london

exploring victorian london…
a wonderful find ( via Metroblogging London who got it via Boing Boing)..i’m particularly interested in old maps and street names and architecture so this is a real treasure.

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