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Category Archives: Art
Milling About London’s Millbank (OneTravel)
Milling About London’s Millbank Londonist, Mar 08, 2012 Starting from Parliament and Westminster Abbey and heading toward Pimlico Station, here are a few of Millbank’s many highlights … READ MY COMPLETE POST: Milling About London’s Millbank
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Tagged Art, henry moore, London, millbank, Millbank Tower, OneTravel, parliament, PIMLICO, river, river thames, Riverside Walk Garden, RODIN, sculpture, tate britain, thames, Victoria Tower Gardens, westminster, WESTMINSTER ABBEY
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Canary Wharf Screen (CheapOair)
Canary Wharf Screen CheapOair, March 02, 2012 Canary Wharf Screen is an innovative new motion picture screening program that will launch at Canary Wharf Tube station this March. The program will be presented on one of London’s largest projection screens, … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, CheapOair, London, Travel, Video
Tagged Art, canary wharf, CANARY WHARF SCREEN, CANARY WHARF STATION, cheapoair, London, london underground, TFL, tube, Video
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Picasso & Modern British Art at Tate Britain (OneTravel)
Picasso & Modern British Art at Tate Britain OneTravel, Feb 29, 2012 Picasso & Modern British Art examines the reputation of this famed Spanish artist as well as the influence he held in Britain. It also shows how British artists … Continue reading
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Tagged british art, exhibition, millbank, modern art, OneTravel, pablo picasso, picasso, Picasso & Modern British Art, tate britain
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Radical Dining Society Promises a Convivial Dining Future (Great British Chefs)
Radical Dining Society Promises a Convivial Dining Future Great British Chefs, February 29, 2012 Yes, a unique dinner it truly was. Beyond commendable even. And very delicious, but was it radical? READ MY COMPLETE POST: Radical Dining Society Promises a … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Drink, Food, Great British Chefs, London, Restaurants, Wine
Tagged GBC, GREAT BRITISH CHEFS, London, RADICAL DINING SOCIETY, the king's speech
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London to Host Biggest Celebration of Russian Culture Outside of Russia (OneTravel)
London to Host Biggest Celebration of Russian Culture Outside of Russia OneTravel, Feb 14, 2012 The Maslenitsa celebration is a centuries-old Russian tradition that bids farewell to the bitter winter months and welcomes the beginning of the spring. READ MY … Continue reading
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Tagged BLINIS, festival, London, LONDON MASLENITSA FESTIVAL, MASLENITSA, OneTravel, pancakes, RUSSIA, RUSSIAN CULTURE, TRAFLAGAR SQUARE
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Miami’s Thriving and Vibrant Wynwood Art District (CheapOair)
Miami’s Thriving and Vibrant Wynwood Art District CheapOair, February 14, 2012 The Wynwood Arts District is the epicenter of contemporary art for the Greater Miami area, arguably all of Florida and, at the moment anyway, one of the fickle art world’s most celebrated destinations … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, CheapOair, Florida, Graffiti, Travel
Tagged cheapoair, downtown miami, florida, galleries, Graffiti, MIAMI, Photography, street art, Travel, wynwood, wynwood art district
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London Food & Drink News: 2 February 2012 (Londonist)
London Food & Drink News: 2 February 2012 Londonist, February 2, 2012 at 16:15 pm A bubbly bubble bath that’s the “ultimate indulgence” and more in this week’s food and drink news round up … READ MY COMPLETE POST: London … Continue reading
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Tagged 33 PORTLAND PLACE, AVO HOTEL, BAVARIAN BEERHOUSE, beer, cadogan, CARNIVAL FANCY DRESS PARTY, champagne, CHAMPAGNE BATH MENU, chocolate, dalston, DANIEL MORGAN, hotel, knightsbridge, London, london food & drink news, Londonist, LOVE CHOCOLATE DESSERT CLUB, MAGNUS REID, NIKO B ORGANIC CHOCOLATES, NINE FRENCH PLACE, pop-up, RADICAL DINING SOCIETY, restaurants, Valentine's Day
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Best of Hackney Wick (CheapOair)
Best of Hackney Wick CheapOair, February 2, 2012 This week’s “Hackney Wick and the Olympics” post put the spotlight on an area of East London that’s in an interesting state of transition and well worth paying a visit the next time you’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, canals, cheapoair, east london, HACKNEY WICK, London, london 201, london 2012, olympic park, OLYMPIC STADIUM, olympics
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London to Host Maslenitsa Russian Culture Festival (Londonist)
London to Host Maslenitsa Russian Culture Festival Londonist, February 1, 2012 at 14:28 pm The world’s biggest celebration of Russian culture outside of Russia itself will take place this month in London from the 19th to 26th. A second year in a … Continue reading
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Tagged BLINIS, festival, London, LONDON MASLENITSA FESTIVAL, Londonist, MASLENITSA, pancakes, RUSSIA, RUSSIAN CULTURE, TRAFLAGAR SQUARE
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Good Stuff
It’s almost February. We’re well into 2012, and I’m just now getting around to post about things from before and around Christmas. Geez. If you had even half as much fun as I had the final few weeks of last … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Beer, Cars, Christmas, Drink, Food, Georgia, Good Stuff, Graffiti, Restaurants, Travel, Video
Tagged 2011, atlanta, BARS, BBQ, bbq cabooe cafe, cades cove, Chattanooga, chattooga county, chickamauga, christmas, clermont lounge, cloudland canyon, cloudland canyon state park, crawfish springs, december, enterprise, enterprise rental cars, fort oglethorpe, ft oglethorpe, georgia, good stuff, Graffiti, great smoky mountains national park, howard finster, howard finster's paradise gardens, lamar's restaurant, lookout mountain, LYNCHBURG, maryville, paradise gardens, pickle barrel, pigeon mountain, pileated woodpecker, rental cars, restaurants, rocktown, summerville, TENNESSEE, tennessee pride, tennessee pride sausage, the tomato head, tomato head, yellow deli
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Mega City Photo Opens at Leeds College of Art
Mega City Photo, an exhibition of street photography from the world’s 26 largest cities opens on Friday in the new gallery space at Leeds College of Art. The first group show I’ve curated, I’m really excited to see how it … Continue reading
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2011 Highlights
Here’s a round up of all the things I blogged about this year and still have me thinking “yeah, that was awesome” as 2011 now comes to a close. The list isn’t about personal triumphs or such and there are … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Drink, Food, France, London, New York, Photography, Restaurants, Scotland, Travel
Tagged 2011, A LA CRUZ, AI WEIWEI, BISTRO DU VIN, blogging, blue, BLUEPRINT CAFE, brittany, Clerkenwell, copas turkeys, edinburgh, FENG SUSHI, haggis, Hansen & Lydersen, john lyden, johnny rotten, julie's hut, leith, martin wishart, new york, nunhead cemetery, nuno mendes, queen elizabeth II bridge, seafood, secretts, secretts of milford, sex pistols, SINGAPORE TAKEOUT, smoke salmon, somerset house, surrey, sushi, sussex, the corner room, the honours, west sussex, year in review
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Sickboy Straddles Heaven and Earth (Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art)
Sickboy Straddles Heaven and Earth Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, December 2011 Prolific London-based street artist Sickboy opened his Celebration of Earthly Sins and Heavenly Fantasies on a muggy Thursday night in early November at east London’s catch all cool stuff megalith, … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Graffiti, London, Whitehot
Tagged Art, contemporary art, Graffiti, heavean and earth, London, old truman brewery, Sickboy, street, Whitehot, whitehot magazine of contemporary art
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London Gallery Hop: 19 November 2011 (Londonist)
London Gallery Hop: 19 November 2011 Londonist, November 19, 2011 at 14:50 pm This week’s round up of interesting gallery exhibitions takes us to Mayfair and Woolwich … READ MY COMPLETE POST: London Gallery Hop: 19 November 2011
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Tagged AIR GALLERY, Art, contemporary art, EXHIBITIONS, free, freebies, galleries, GRAYSON PERRY, hauser & wirth, London, LONDON GALLERY HOP, Londonist, OPEN STUDIOS, PAUL MCCARTHY, SECOND FLOOR STUDIOS & ART, SFSA, STANLEY DONWOOD, SUSAN STOCKWELL, TAG FINE ARTS, THE ART OF MAPPING, THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE, THE KING THE ISLAND THE TRAIN THE HOUSE THE SHIP
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What’s for Lunch? ICN Gallery, Leonard Street (Londonist)
What’s for Lunch? ICN Gallery, Leonard Street Londonist, November 15, 2011 at 11:30 am Simple, to the point, tasty and cheap: a five quid bento box lunch with tagalong miso soup from ICN Gallery makes a lot of sense if … Continue reading
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Tagged ASIAN ART, BENTO BOXES, cheap, EC2, EC2A 4RH, gallery, GREEN TEA, ICN GALLERY, japanese food, leonard street, london londonist, lunch, MISO SOUP, shoreditch, W4L, WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?
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London Gallery Hop: 4 November 2011 (Londonist)
London Gallery Hop: 4 November 2011 Londonist, November 4, 2011 at 14:30 pm This week’s round up of gallery offerings around town (although it’s especially East London-y this time round) … READ MY COMPLETE POST: London Gallery Hop: 4 November … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, Graffiti, London
Tagged Art, BOROUGH AND LANE, EVAN HECOX, EXHIBITIONS, galleries, Graffiti, HEAVEN & EARTH, high roller society, London, LONDON GALLERY HOP, Londonist, MEXICO SINIESTRO, NEW GOTHIC ART, old truman brewery, resistance gallery, SAVANT, Sickboy, stolenspace, street art
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Experimental Food Society Spectacular offers a delectable & weird line up of events (Great British Chefs)
Experimental Food Society Spectacular offers a delectable & weird line up of events Great British Chefs, 17 October 2011 Ever tried (or even contemplating) camel milk ice cream? Would you wear clothing that was designed to be eaten? What in the … Continue reading
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Tagged BANQUET, camel milk ice cream, EXPERIMENTAL FOOD SOCIETY, GREAT BRITISH CHEFS, London, preview, the folly, TRUMAN BREWERY, V&A
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Review: Frieze Art Fair 2011 (Londonist)
Review: Frieze Art Fair 2011 by Bethanyc, photography by Chris Osburn and Zoe Craig Londonist, October 14, 2011 at 13:31 pm The fair feels bigger than ever this year but perhaps a little less exuberant than in the past, undoubtedly due … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art fair, bethanyc, frieze, frieze art fair, galleries, London, Londonist, Photography, regent's park, review, zoe craig
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In and Around the British Museum (CheapOair)
In and Around the British Museum CheapOair, October 13, 2011 One may be able to spend hours, days or even a lifetime discovering the wonders of the world that British Museum holds. But at some point during your visit, you’re … Continue reading
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Posted in Art, CheapOair, Drink, Food, London, Pubs, Restaurants, Travel
Tagged bloomsbury, british museum, cheapoair, London, museum
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London’s Frieze Art Fair 2011 (OneTravel)
London’s Frieze Art Fair 2011 OneTravel, Oct 11, 2011 A must see event for anyone interested in finding out what’s what and what’s to be in contemporary art, Frieze Art Fair is one of the world’s biggest and most influential … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art fair, frieze, frieze art fair, galleries, London, OneTravel, regent's park
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Street Market Focus: Whitecross Street (CheapOair)
Street Market Focus: Whitecross Street CheapOair, September 23, 2011 Formerly a Sunday market, Whitecross Street Market dates back to the 17th century making it one of London’s oldest street markets. Know as Squalors’ Market at the end of the 19th … Continue reading
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Tagged cheapoair, EC1, London, lunch, old street, street market, whitecross street
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Botero’s Broadgate Venus (OneTravel)
Botero’s Broadgate Venus OneTravel, Sep 22, 2011 Amid the hustle and bustle of the City of London (London’s financial district) and seemingly hovering just above the ever busy Liverpool Street Station on the eastern side of Exchange Square, the serene (and enormous!) … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, botero, broadgate, broadgate venus, city of london, liverpool street station, London, OneTravel, public art, sculpture
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The Big Hands at Covent Garden
Anybody else come across that massive six foot high giant white hands installation in Covent Garden’s Piazza today? No clear indication as to what they’re actually doing there, but it looked to me as though they we’re holding an invisible … Continue reading
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Tagged #thebighands, art installation, covent garden, London, Photography, public art, the big hands, thebighands.com
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London Gallery Hop: 16 September 2011 (Londonist)
London Gallery Hop: 16 September 2011 Londonist, September 16, 2011 at 14:00 pm A selection of gallery exhibitions currently on show in London and worth making time to view. READ MY COMPLETE POST: London Gallery Hop: 16 September 2011
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Tagged ALEX DAW, ANTONY MICALLEF, Art, BEAUCHAMP CLUB, BEN TURNBULL, Cyclops, ELEVEN GALLERY, EXHIBITIONS, galleries, lazarides rathbone, London, Londonist, painting, Photography, RAGHU RAI, SUPERMEN, WILLIAM ROAD GALLERY
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London Gallery Hop: 9 September 2011 (Londonist)
London Gallery Hop: 9 September 2011 Londonist, September 9, 2011 at 13:00 pm Suggestions of shows to see in some of London’s smaller galleries … READ MY COMPLETE POST: London Gallery Hop: 9 September 2011
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Tagged Art, ARTLIST, BITTER SWEET: NEW PAINTINGS BY CHEN HONGZHU, chen hongzhu, CRYPT GALLERY, CRYPTIC, EXHIBITIONS, FEMALE ARTISTS, FERAL FAMILY (MAMMALIAN PASTORAL), galleries, GALLERYLIST, GROUP SHOWS, high roller society, JAMES FREEMAN GALLERY, KIRSTY WHITEN, London, Londonist, LUDO: METAMORPHOSIS, MARIA ARCEO, SEXY100, ST PANCRAS CHURCH, stolenspace, The Old Truman Brewery, WALL TO WALL
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Mega City Photo Exhibition: Call for Photographers
Call for photographers for upcoming Mega City Photo exhibition at Leeds College of Art Continue reading
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Tagged beijing, buenos aires, cairo, call for artists, call for photographers, delhi, dhaka, exhibition, guangzhou, istanbul, jakarta, karachi, kolkata, lagos, Leeds College of Art, London, los angeles, manila, mega cities, mega city photo, mexico city, moscow, mumbai, new york, new york city, osaka, paris, Photography, rio de janeiro, sao paolo, seoul, shanghai, street photography, tehran, tokyo, urban photography
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Time Out’s 101 Things to do in London (Including Ten of my Faves)
101 Things to do in London Time Out Time Out London has a fantastic new 101 Things to do in London feature on their site “put together by Time Out’s troop of expert writers and editors (along with suggestions from well-known London … Continue reading
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Tagged 101 things to do in london, Art, bloggers, cigars, Drink, Food, hotel, London, london bloggers, london restaurants, restaurants, time out, time out london, timeout, timeout london, top 10, top ten
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In Pictures: The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 (Londonist)
An enclosed garden is at the heart of Peter Zumthor’s pavilion Continue reading
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Tagged ARCHITECTURE, IN PICTURES, kensington gardens, London, Londonist, PETER ZUMTHOR, photographs, SERPENTINE GALLERY, SERPENTINE PAVILION, W2, W2 3XA
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Photo Series: Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at Somerset House (Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art)
What was a few months back originally scheduled as a press call to interview Ai Weiwei and an opportunity to photograph the artist with his Circle of Animals was altered to a sans artist event due to his disappearance in early April Continue reading
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Hats Off to Mexican Street Photography – Limited Edition Prints at Benito’s Hat
Mexican street photography at Benito’s Hat Mexican restaurant in London – info, pics, and limited edition purchase details. Continue reading
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Tagged benito's hat, exhibition, ferman guzman martinez, hats off to mexican street photography, limited edition prints, mexican food, mexican photography, mexico, mexico city, naye lee, nayeli cruz, Photography, reflex... yo guerrillero, street photography
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Extra-ordinary @ Core Gallery (Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art)
Extraordinary @ Core Gallery Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, May 2011 “Francis Bacon meets Donnie Darko” in an exhibition exploring a “disjointed world of macabre coexistence”. That’s how Core Gallery curator, Rosalind Davis, describes Extra-Ordinary, a subversive mixed media show by three … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, core gallery, deptford, exhibition, extra-ordinary, gallery, London, review, Whitehot, whitehot magazine of contemporary art
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Photograph Fitzrovia and Win with Diemar/Noble Photography Gallery (Qype does London)
Generally hosting exhibitions with some sort of international slant, Diemar/Noble photography gallery is planning now to focus on its own photogenic home, Fitzrovia, and offering the public an opportunity to show their work on their gallery walls and win some fab prizes. Continue reading
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Tagged Art, competition, diemar noble, Diemar/Noble, fitzrovia, gallery, john lewis, London, oxford street, Photography, Qype, Qype Does London, street photography, within a mile
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Exhibition: Some Photographs Taken In France at Diemar/Noble (Londonist)
Want to see some cheeky photographs of Toulouse-Lautrec taking a dump on a beach? That (taken by art dealer Maurice Joyant at Le Crotoy, Picardie) and much more is on show at photo gallery Diemar/Noble in Some Photographs Taken in France. Continue reading
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Tagged Diemar/Noble, exhibition, fitzrovia, france, FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHY, London, Londonist, Photography, review, SOME PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN FRANCE, Toulouse-Lautrec, W1, W1P 3PY
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In Pictures: Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at Somerset House (Londonist)
In Pictures: Ai Weiwei’s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads at Somerset House Londonist, May 11, 2011 at 16:00 pm Detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s first outdoor public sculpture in London has gone on display in the fountain clocked courtyard of Somerset … Continue reading
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Tagged AI WEIWEI, Art, CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART, CIRCLE OF ANIMALS/ZODIAC HEADS, free, IN PICTURES, London, Londonist, Photography, sculpture, somerset house
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Hats off to Mexican Street Photography at Benito’s Hat New Oxford Circus Restaurant (Qype does London)
Hats off to Mexican Street Photography at Benito’s Hat New Oxford Circus Restaurant Qype does London, May 7th 2011 To celebrate the opening of [Benito’s Hat’s] Oxford Circus location, a “Hat’s Off to Mexican Street Photography” exhibition is on show now … Continue reading
