Tag: london
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GOD SAVE THE QUEENS: THE WOMEN WHO INVENTED PUNK’S FUTURE
Fifty years after punk erupted into British cultural life, a landmark exhibition at London’s Museum of Youth Culture challenges one of popular music’s most persistent historical distortions. Through previously unseen archives, photography, fashion and fine art, God Save the Queens restores the women who shaped punk to their rightful place: not at the margins of…
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Frieze London 2026: What Deserves Our Attention
Frieze returns to Regent’s Park from 14–18 October. This year’s programme offers a rewarding route through contemporary painting, the politics of materials, domestic architecture and the changing interpretation of modern art. Every October, Frieze concentrates a substantial part of the international art world into a few days in London. Galleries arrive with new work and…
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Cool Britannia: Art, Attitude, and the London of the 1990s
It was the summer of 1997 and Downing Street had turned into a nightclub. Tony Blair, barely weeks into his premiership, was playing host not to diplomats but to designers, artists, models, and rock stars. In the garden, Kate Moss smoked cigarettes with Noel Gallagher of Oasis. Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, the enfant terribles…
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London’s Best Independent Bookshops
London is a city of great libraries and vast chains, but its soul belongs to the independents. These bookshops are sanctuaries of thought and discovery, where browsing is as important as buying and a good recommendation is always personal. Here is a guide to some of the best. John Sandoe Books, Chelsea Address: 10–12 Blacklands…
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V&A East Storehouse: A Backstage Pass to the World’s Great Collections
That old model is changing – and nowhere more boldly than at the V&A East Storehouse, which opened in May 2025 in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
