February
February 20, 2019
Home Futures, The Favourite, Company, Michelle Obama’s Becoming, Parallax Art Fair, Cosi fan tutte, Cirque Éloize’s Hotel, and 6 of the best inspiring London libraries.
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January
January 16, 2019
Peanuts, Widows, Nine Night, The Start podcast, London International Mime Festival, Royal Ballet double, La bohème, and 6 of the best romantic cinemas.
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November
November 7, 2018
Renaissance rivals, A Star is Born, The Height of the Storm, and Sebastian Faulks’s Paris Echo.
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October
October 10, 2018
Designs of the Year, Crazy Rich Asians, Heathers The Musical and Serial.
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September
September 12, 2018
Thomas Cole, The Lehman Trilogy, The Wife and Caitlin Moran’s How To Be Famous.
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August
August 8, 2018
Michael Jackson, Incredibles 2, The King and I, and podcast Backlisted.
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July
July 9, 2018
The Summer Exhibition, Ocean’s 8, Brian Friel’s Translations, and All the Lives We Never Lived.
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June
June 6, 2018
Rodin and Ancient Greek sculpture, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, Tully and sharp women.
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May
May 9, 2018
Abstract art meets photography, A Quiet Place, Strictly Ballroom in the West End, and Circe revisited.
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April
April 11, 2018
Monet and architecture, Brief Encounter on stage, Black Panther and Medieval whodunnit The Western Wind.
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March
March 14, 2018
Picasso’s ‘year of wonders’, Lady Bird, Mary Stuart as a modern political thriller, and true crime podcast West Cork.
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February
February 14, 2018
Andreas Gurky, Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri, Pinter’s The Birthday Party and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.
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January
January 17, 2018
The capital’s future at the Museum of London, Cézanne at the National Portrait Gallery, and Stephen Fry’s Mythos.
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November
November 15, 2017
Pablo Bronstein on Georgian architecture at RIBA, Impressionists in London, and Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd’s podcast.
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October
October 11, 2017
Designs of the Year, Dali and Duchamp, Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust and podcast drama Within the Wires.
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September
September 13, 2017
London Design Festival, Burrell Collection Degas gems, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye and podcast Spirits.
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August
August 16, 2017
New London Awards, John Singer Sargent, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and podcast musical 36 Questions.
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July
July 12, 2017
Plywood at the V&A, sci-fi at the Barbican, The Destroyers and comic film podcast How Did This Get Made?
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June
June 7, 2017
Colour at the Design Museum, the London Festival of Architecture, The Lie of the Land and audio drama Homecoming.
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May
May 10, 2017
A major Giacometti retrospective, Hokusai beyond The Great Wave, MAKERS podcast and Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water.
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April
April 12, 2017
Soviet utopian architectural phantoms, American identity in Thirties art, Fever Dream and binge-worthy podcast S-Town.
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March
March 15, 2017
Post-war Japanese architecture, Michelangelo and Sebastiano’s collaboration, Exit West and forgotten Hollywood histories.
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February
February 15, 2017
Crossrail’s archaeological treasures, Hockney at Tate Britain, Ali Smith and an income-boosting app.
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January
January 18, 2017
Mathematics at the Science Museum, Emma Hamilton, The Nix and a new running app.
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November
November 8, 2016
The new Design Museum, Caravaggio, Zadie Smith and the Actual Fluency podcast.
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October
October 12, 2016
Watercolours, Swinging Sixties, Bridget Jones and stories from anonymous people.
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September
September 14, 2016
London Design Festival, the Great Fire, Jonathan Safran Foer and Dead Authors.
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July
July 6, 2016
Capability Brown, the Summer Exhibition, Adam Buxton and Harry Potter.
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June
June 6, 2016
London Festival of Architecture, Mona Hatoum, Alain de Botton and song secrets.
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May
May 11, 2016
Clerkenwell Design Week, London’s new skyline, meditation and Jane Austen reborn.
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April
April 18, 2016
Urban Jigsaw, street art reclaimed, Caitlin Moran and Radiolab.
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March
March 11, 2016
Public art, Delacroix’s enduring influence and multimedia horror.
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February
February 18, 2016
Alexander Calder, London after dark, and the best podcast for amateur Sherlocks.
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January
January 18, 2016
Pepys’s London, painted gardens, New Year fitness help, and Julian Barnes returns.
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November
November 11, 2015
New London Architecture’s creative solutions to the housing crisis, cycling at the Design Museum, and ‘movies for your ears’.
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October
October 14, 2015
The enduring legacy of Palladio, Ray and Charles Eames at the Barbican, calm with Pacifica, and Margaret Atwood’s latest.
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September
September 16, 2015
The London Design Festival, Open House London, Peak brain training app and The Girl in the Spider’s Web.
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July
July 8, 2015
The Festival of Archaeology, Prize for Illustration, getting organised for summer breaks and Harper Lee’s new release.
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June
June 18, 2015
Brutalist playgrounds, the Summer Exhibition, romantic app help and Milan Kundera’s latest.
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May
May 13, 2015
Innovations at Clerkenwell Design Week and the London Festival of Architecture, and the latest steamy must-read.
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April
April 15, 2015
NLA’s Peter Murray on the capital’s transformation, affordable graphic art, and brush up your Bond skills.
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March
March 20, 2015
The forward-thinking work of urbanistas, Designs of the Year, and great escapes from Kazuo Ishiguro and Richard Herring.
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February
February 17, 2015
Insider secrets of the architect/client relationship, playing detective at Dulwich Picture Gallery, and mastering a new language while on the move.
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