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Category Archives: Art
Frieze 2024
I’m writing this post on Sunday the 20th of October. This time last week I was attending Frieze London, the annual art fair that, according to Harper’s Bazaar, is the “biggest event in the contemporary arts calendar.” This was the … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, London, Luxury, Travel
Tagged Art, art fair, contemporary art, frieze, Frieze London, Frieze London 2024, London
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Cafe Kitsune (All Consumed)
Neil and Chris meet up at Cafe Kitsune in Knightsbridge for an upscale start to a recent Sunday morning podcast recording. While there they marvel at the Japanese-French cafe’s pastries and the drinks (miso rice pudding brioche with a chestnut … Continue reading
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Posted in All Consumed, Art, Coffee, Drink, Food, London, Movies, Podcast, Podcasts, Restaurants, Shopping, Television, Travel
Tagged All Consumed, Drink, DRINKS, film, Food, London, Movies, PODCAST, Podcasts, restaurants, Shopping, Travel, tv
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Occupied City
In a recent episode of the All Consumed podcast, I sang high praises about Steve McQueen’s new feature-length film, Occupied City. Follow this link to hear those thoughts: Now that the film out and being screened, I thought I’d take … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Books, Movies, Netherlands, Travel
Tagged amsterdam, Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945, Bianca Stigter, documentary, film, history, Movies, netherlands, Occupied City, steve mcqueen, Travel
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ICCO Pizza (All Consumed)
Neil Davey and Chris Osburn catch up at ICCO, the People’s Pizzeria, on Goodge Street. At this affordable Fitzrovia mainstay, the duo chat about recent travels – Thailand for Neil, Suffolk for Chris – as well as where to experience … Continue reading
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Posted in All Consumed, Art, Drink, Food, London, Pizza, Podcast, Podcasts, Restaurants, Thailand
Tagged All Consumed, Art, Drink, film, Food, Icco Pizza, London, pizza, PODCAST, Podcasts, restaurants, Suffolk, Thailand, Travel
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Bilbao City Break
Last month, I took a quick solo city break in Bilbao – the largest city in the Basque Country and an excellent destination for great food and amazing art. I’d been to Bilbao a couple of times before and fully … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Bars, Coffee, Drink, Food, Museums, Restaurants, Spain, Travel
Tagged Amaren, Art, Bar El Eme, BARS, Basque, basque country, Baster, Bilbao, Cafe Iruna, coffee, Drink, Food, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, museums, spain, steak, steakhouse
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Index | Tracking the Lion Man
Seeing the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel at Museum Ulm was a thrill. The journey to Ulm made the experience all the more worthwhile. I reckon the Lion Man is a must-see for anybody keen to experience an overwhelming sense of … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Basel, Germany, History, Museums, Switzerland, Tracking the Lion Man, Travel
Tagged Art, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Basel, germany, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Hotel Schemes Haus, hotels, Lion Man, Löwenmensch, Museum Ulm, museums, Prehistoric art, Schemes Haus, switzerland, Travel, Ulm, Ulmer Munster
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Ulm | Tracking the Lion Man
Continuing on from Baden-Baden, the next stop on my trail was Ulm, Germany – home of the Löwenmensch (Lion Man) of Hohlenstein-Stadel, the reason for my trip. Located roughly halfway between Stuttgart and Munich, this small city in the state … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Design, Germany, History, Hotels, Museums, Tracking the Lion Man, Travel
Tagged Art, Baden-Württemberg, germany, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Hotel Schemes Haus, hotels, Lion Man, Löwenmensch, Museum Ulm, museums, Prehistoric art, Schemes Haus, switzerland, Travel, Ulm, Ulmer Munster
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Basel | Tracking the Lion Man
Welcome back to Tracking the Lion Man, a series of posts about my trip to Switzerland and Germany en route to the city of Ulm to view the Löwenmensch (Lion Man) of Hohlenstein-Stadel – a prehistoric sculpture carved out of mammoth … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Basel, Design, Drink, Food, Germany, Museums, Restaurants, Shopping, Switzerland, Tracking the Lion Man, Travel
Tagged Art, Bäckerei KULT, bakery, Basel, Beyeler Foundation, cafe, coffee, design, Drink, Fondation Beyeler, Food, germany, museums, restaurants, Shopping, switzerland, Tracking the Lion Man, Travel, vitra, Vitra Design Museum, Wayne Thiebaud, Weil am Rhein
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Tracking the Lion Man
I’ve just returned home from a week away in Switzerland and Germany. The reason for the trip was to have an in-person look at the Löwenmensch (Lion Man) of Hohlenstein-Stadel – a prehistoric footlong sculpture carved out of mammoth tusk on … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Basel, Germany, Museums, Switzerland, Tracking the Lion Man, Travel
Tagged Art, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Basel, germany, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Lion Man, Löwenmensch, museums, Prehistoric art, switzerland, Travel, Ulm
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Win #TheFoodieBag / Instagram Bag from the Paper Bag Co
Can’t quite get your dishes to look as scrumptious in your photos as you know they are on your plate? There’s a bag for that! The Instagram Bag from the Paper Bag Co is an ideal accessory (and a very smart gift … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Competition, Drink, Food, Freebies, Photography, Recipes, Restaurants, Shopping, Travel
Tagged #RTtoWin, Art, competition, Drink, Food, food photography, free, freebies, instagram, Photography, recipes, restaurants, retweet to win, Shopping, Travel, twitter competition
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Free Food, Travel and Art Books
I have more than 40 food, travel and art books that I need to get rid of before moving at the end of this month. I’m giving them away on a first come first serve basis.
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Posted in Art, Books, Drink, Food, Freebies, London, Recipes, Shopping
Tagged Art, Art books, Awesomestow, books, Cook books, Drink, E17, east london, Food, free, free books, freebies, London, Recipe Books, recipes, Shopping, Travel, travel books, waltham forest, WALTHAMSTOW
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2020 Vision | Index
Here’s an index to all the posts in Judith Schrut’s 2020 Vision miniseries. Hope you had fun with our brief but spectacular preview of 2020 London’s top cultural treats. Here’s a list with links to all the posts in this miniseries:
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Posted in 2020 Vision, Art, Entertainment, London, Museums, Music
Tagged Art, dance, Judith Schrut, London, museums, music, theatre
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2020 Vision: Meandering Museums
Looking for a place to come in from the cold on a London winter’s day? Judith Schrut thinks you can’t beat a visit to one of London’s incredible range of small museums and galleries. Much as I love London and … Continue reading
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Posted in 2020 Vision, Art, London, Museums
Tagged Art, british museum, charles dickens museum, foundling museum, galleries, Judith Schrut, London, museums, wellcome collection
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2020 Vision: Art from the Heart
First up in our new miniseries, Judith Schrut drools over some upcoming treats for art lovers at London’s top museums and galleries. Did you know London is happy home to no less than four of the world’s Top Ten art … Continue reading
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Posted in 2020 Vision, Art, Bars, Entertainment, London, London Living, Museums
Tagged Art, gallery, Judith Schrut, London, museum, national gallery, TATE, tate britain, tate modern, V&A Museum
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2020 Vision
Contributor Judith Schrut takes us on a brief but spectacular tour of 2020 London’s upcoming top cultural treats. Continue reading
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Posted in 2020 Vision, Art, Entertainment, London, Museums, Music, Theatre
Tagged Previews
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London Literature Festival at the Southbank
Spread the word: Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival is in full swing. Judith Schrut thinks it’s a real page turner. The 13th London Literature Festival, on this week at the Southbank Centre, is packed with live readings, book launches, debates, … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Live Performance, London
Tagged Armistead Maupin, arts, Bernardine Evaristo, Judith Schrut, literature, live performance, London, southbank
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Ocean Encounters – a Photographic Exhibition by Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts
Demi Perera reports on Ocean Encounters, a photography exhibition by Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts. Greta Thunberg has successfully challenged the conversation on climate change. Our oceans, which play a key role in the debate have featured heavily. Such times calls … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Hotels, London, Luxury, Photography, Travel
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Unmissable Final Month for Underbelly Festival Southbank
September is the final month for this year’s Underbelly Festival Southbank, but oh what a month! Judith Schrut tells us more. Summer’s nearly over (cue loud wet sobs) but London’s Underbelly Festival still has a jampacked, ubercool month of comedy, … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Live Performance, London, Theatre
Tagged cabaret, comedy, Drag, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Judith Schrut, live entertainment, southbank, theater, underbelly festival
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London Art Openings | Leonardo da Vinci at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
A spectacular new exhibition salutes the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci, the original Renaissance Man. Judith Schrut pays a visit. This year marks 500 years since the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the extraordinary Italian artist, architect and anatomist, … Continue reading
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Tagged art exhibition, buckingham palace, history, Judith Schrut, leonardo da vinci, London, The Queen's Gallery
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Covent Garden in Bloom Returns
Fleur de Villes has returned to Covent Garden with yet another dazzling display of luxury floral couture. It’s part of the annual Covent Garden in Bloom event, which runs from 15th May to 5th June 2019, kicking off Spring in the city. The exhibition, held in Central Street inside the Market building, celebrates the changing of seasons and is, as expected, an utter treat on the senses. Continue reading
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Solange Berchemin and 111 Places in the Lake District (All Consumed)
In this episode of All Consumed, I interview writer and photographer Solange Berchemin about her new book, 111 Places in the Lake District That you Shouldn’t Miss. Published by Emons as part of its 111 Places/111 Shops series, Solange’s book provides an insider’s guide to the Lake District and features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides. Continue reading
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Posted in All Consumed, Art, Books, Drink, England, Food, interview, Podcasts, Travel
Tagged 111 Places, 111 Places in the Lake District, 111 Places in the Lake District That You Shouldn't Miss, All Consumed, books, england, interview, lake district, Podcasts, Solange Berchemin, Travel
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Unmissable Stage Premiere | Small Island at the NT
Leah Harvey & Shiloh Coke in Small Island, photo credit Brinkhoff Moegenburg, courtesy NT Press Office Andrea Levy’s novel about the postwar Caribbean-to-Britain migrant experience has been adapted for the stage. Judith Schrut reviews this powerful, unmissable show, which opened … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Entertainment, Live Performance, London, Theatre, Travel
Tagged Andrea Levy, Art, Entertainment, immigration, Judith Schrut, London, national theatre, Small Island, The Windrush, theatre
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Dancing Dogs, Flying Plates, Giant Pillows: Sadler’s Wells Family Weekend
Aracaladanza Dance Company, ©Pedro Arnay, photo courtesy Sadlers Wells Media Library Dancing dogs, flying plates and giant pillows took centre stage this Easter at Sadler’s Wells Family Weekend. Judith Schrut and her young companion went to see what it was … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Easter, London, Theatre
Tagged ballet, Children, dance, easter, Families, Judith Schrut, London, sadler's wells
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Mary Quant at the V&A
“I don’t have time to wait for Women’s Lib,” declared Mary Quant. Judith Schrut’s been to the V&A to see why Quant became a role model for a generation of women. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Fashion, London, Museums
Tagged Art, fashion, Feminism, Judith Schrut, kensington, London, Mary Quant, museum, Shopping, Sixties, SW7, V&A Museum
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Bearing Witness: Don McCullin Retrospective at Tate Britain
As a major retrospective of Sir Donald McCullin’s work opens at Tate Britain, Judith Schrut looks at what his 60 years of photography have given us. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, London, Photography
Tagged Art, Bearing Witness: Don McCullin, Don McCullin, London, millbank, Photography, SW1, SW1P 4RG, TATE, tate britain, Travel
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Shimmer, Dazzle, Sparkle | Christian Dior at the V&A
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams is the Victoria and Albert Museum’s latest blockbuster show. Judith Schrut has been to view. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Fashion, London, Luxury, Museums, Travel
Tagged Art, Christian Dior, design, Dior, fashion, House of Dior, Judith Schrut, London, luxury, Margot Fonteyn, museum, museums, Princess Margaret, reviews, south kensington, Travel, V&A, victoria and albert museum
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London Art Openings | Pierre Bonnard and the Colour of Memory at Tate Modern
To help us cope with the speed and stress of modern life, we’re encouraged to try slow cooking, slow tourism and slow living. Now, with its first show of the new year, Pierre Bonnard: the Colour of Memory, Tate Modern introduces us to the delightful concept of slow looking. I viewed the show, slowly, earlier this week and was completely smitten. Continue reading
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Tagged Art, gallery, Judith Schrut, just opened london, London, museums, painting, Pierre Bonnard, Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory, reviews, SE1 9TG, southbank, TATE, tate modern, The Colour of Memory
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Good Grief! It’s an Interview with Claire Catterall About Her Peanuts Exhibition at Somerset House | #TCTalks Episode 54
Here’s an interview with Claire Catterall, Senior Curator for Somerset House, about her exhibition, Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Celebrating Snoopy and then Enduring Power of Peanuts. For this 54th episode of tikichris Talks, I skate over to Somerset House for … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Design, interview, London, Museums, Podcast, Podcasts, TCTalks, Travel
Tagged #TCTalks, Art, Celebrating Snoopy and the Enduring Power of Peanuts, Charles M Shultz, Charles Shultz, Charlie Brown, Claire Catterall, design, EXHIBITIONS, Good Grief Charlie Brown, interview, London, London WC2R 1LA, museums, peanuts, PODCAST, Snoopy, somerset house, Strand, The Peanuts, the strand, tikichris talks, Travel, WC2
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Food Glorious Food: Dinner with Dickens
The Charles Dickens Museum is set in the only remaining home of the beloved Victorian writer and social activist. In this renovated Georgian terraced house on a Bloomsbury back street, you can experience the sights, sounds and living spirit of the man, explore the family home of the writer, his wife Catherine and several of their 10 children, the furnished rooms where Dickens dined and entertained many famous guests and the working rooms where he wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby. From more than 100,000 treasures in the Museum’s collection, you can view original ma Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Books, Christmas, Food, London, Museums, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, bloomsbury, books, charles dickens, christmas, christmas in london, Doughty Street, Food, Food Glorious Food, galleries, Judith Schrut, museum, museums, WC1, WC1N 2LX
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The UK Jewish Film Festival 2018: Promise at Dawn
The classic, if stereotyped, relationship of the devoted but overbearing Jewish mother and her son forms the subject of UKJFF 2018’s powerful closing film, Promise at Dawn (La promesse de l’Aube). Starring legendary French superstar Charlotte Gainsbourg and rising star Pierre Niney, it is at once funny and tragic, heartwarming and heartbreaking. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Celebrities, France, London, Movies
Tagged antisemitism, Celebrities, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Curzon, Curzon Mayfair, Curzon Street, film, film festival, france, Hollywood, Jewish, Jewish film, Judith Schrut, London, mayfair, Movies, poland, Promise at Dawn, reviews, Romain Gary, W1, W1J 7TY
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The UK Jewish Film Festival 2018: Three Identical Strangers
Most of us have had the unsettling experience of being compared with or mistaken for someone we look like– but when you find out you look exactly like another person, have the same birthdate, and have both been adopted– that is quite different. And made all the more so when you find your third exact match. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Entertainment, London, Movies, Photography
Tagged adoption, antisemitism, Art, Celebrities, cinema, documentary, Entertainment, film, film festival, Israel, Israeli film, Jewish, Jewish film, Judith Schrut, London, Movies, new york, Sammy Davis Jr, sundance, Tim Wardle, triplets, women filmmakers, Лондон, لندن, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Glass Bubble Project | Cleveland Talks | #TCTalks Episode 46
This episode of Cleveland Talks features an interview Michael Kaplan, owner of the Glass Bubble Project. Located in Ohio City neighbourhood next to West Side Market, Glass Bubble is the city’s premier glass blowing studio and gallery. Continue reading
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Posted in #TCintheCLE, Art, Cleveland, Cleveland Talks, interview, Ohio, Podcast, TCTalks, Travel, USA
Tagged #TCintheCLE, #TCTalks, 44113, Art, Bridge Avenue, Cleveland, Cleveland Ohio, Cleveland Talks, craft, glass, Glass Blowing, Glass Bubble Project, interview, Michael Kaplan, midwest, Northern Ohio, Ohio, Ohio City, PODCAST, tikichris talks, Travel, USA
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Preview: The UK Jewish Film Festival 2018
The hugely popular UK Jewish Film Festival returns this week for its 22nd season. This year’s Festival will feature 85 diverse films from 16 countries including 51 premieres, with screenings and live events at 21 cinemas around the UK. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Celebrities, Live Performance, London, Movies
Tagged antisemitism, Art, Celebrities, cinema, Entertainment, film, film festival, Israel, Israeli film, Jewish, Jewish film, Judith Schrut, London, Movies, Sammy Davis Jr, women filmmakers, Лондон, لندن, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Hot Tickets: Choose Laughs Festive Special
On 9 December Help Refugees is hosting a world class night of comedy in London, featuring an astonishing line up of top comedians. Choose Laughs Festive Special will see MC Nish Kumar, Simon Amstell, Katherine Ryan, Stewart Lee and other comedy favourites come together to raise the roof with laughter as well as much needed funds to help refugees across Europe survive the coming winter. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Celebrities, Entertainment, Good Cause, Live Performance, London, Theatre
Tagged Angela Barnes, Celebrities, comedy, good cause, Help Refugees, Judith Schrut, London, Nish Kumar, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, Playhouse Theatre, preview, Refugees, Simon Amstell, Stewart Lee, Travel, WC2, WC2N 5DE, Лондон, لندن, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Eine: Everything Starts Somewhere | #TCTalks Episode 42
Episode 42 of tikichris Talks features an interview with street artist Ben Eine. More widely known simply as Eine, the Southeast London born artist has found international success and garnered quite a fan base for his large-scale block letter paintings. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Graffiti, interview, London, Podcast, TCTalks, Travel
Tagged #TCTalks, Art, Ben Eine, E1, E1 6TD, east london, EINE, Everything Starts Somewhere, Graffiti, interview, London, Osborn Street, PODCAST, stolenspace, Stolenspace Gallery, street art, tikichris talks, Travel, whitechapel, Лондон, لندن, ロンドン, 伦敦
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