Articles tagged ‘Tate Modern’
Bankside Frost Fair
By Chris | December 11th, 2007 |
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The fifth annual Bankside Frost Fair takes place this weekend, 14-16 December, along the south bank of the River Thames outside of Tate Modern and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Its a celebration of the frost fairs of hundreds of years ago when the river used to freeze over in winter, the very first frost fair taking [...]
The Mayor’s Thames Festival
By Chris | September 12th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The biggest event in London this weekend 15-16 September (apart from Tottenham v Arsenal) is The Mayor’s Thames Festival, two days of music, street theatre, open air art, pyrotechnics, special food and craft markets and river events all taking place along a three mile stretch of the Thames from Westminster to Tower Bridges with some [...]
Major art gallery locations in London
By Chris | August 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The National Gallery
Tel:020 7747 2885
Fax:020 7747 2423
Address: The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN - Map
email:information@ng-london.org.uk
Opening Hours
Daily 10am-6pm (9pm Wed)
National Portrait Gallery
Tel:020 7306 0055
Projected Cities at Tate Modern
By Chris | July 6th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
In conjunction with their new exhibition Global Cities, Tate Modern have a series of films running under the title Projected Cities that look at different perspectives of urban living. Films this month include the following,
15 July - Shai Heredia Shai Heredia is director of Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. For Projected [...]
Global Cities
By Chris | June 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Global Cities is a new exhibition running at Tate Modern until 27 August 2007 that looks at 10 of the most dynamically changing cities in the world, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo.
It does this by focusing on five elements of change, Size, Speed, Form, Density [...]
Dali and Film in London
By Chris | May 29th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Tate Modern opens a new exhibition, Dali and Film, featuring the work of Salvador Dali including major paintings, photographs, drawings and films that illustrate how important cinema was to Dali.
The exhibition has examples of some of the collaborations Dalí made with legendary film makers such as Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock and the [...]
The Long Weekend at Tate Modern
By Chris | May 23rd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Tate Modern has got together with UBS to stage a series of events under the title The Long Weekend, featuring one off performances in film, music, performance and visual art by celebrated international artists in the Tate’s unique and massive Turbine Hall.
The Long Weekend runs from 25-28 May and more than half the events [...]
Film’s at Tate Modern
By Chris | April 6th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tate Modern is having a series of screenings of well known British movies from the 60s and early 70s this month. The series called J’aime le cinéma anglais runs started on 1 April and runs until 29 April and films include the 1960 film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning starring Albert Finney about working class [...]
Tate Modern gets the go ahead to expand
By Chris | March 28th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Only opened in May 2000, Tate Modern was London’s most visited tourist attraction last year with 4.9 million people going in to take a look at the national collection of modern art.
The building is the converted former Bankside power station and now Southwark Council have given planning permission for a £215million, 23,000 sqm, 11 [...]
Upcoming events in London 01.22.07
By Chris | January 22nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Book Slam An event that started in November 2006 and takes place on the last Thursday of each month, it aims to spice up the book reading format with writers, poets and musicians all contributing to the event at west London’s Neighbourhood club. On this Thursday, 25 January starting at 7.30pm, tickets cost £5. The [...]
