Results tagged “exhibition”

Jimi Hendrix, Noel Gallagher and Paul McCartney are just some of the stars featured in a new photography exhibition at the British Music Experience.

The O2 attraction is showcasing the guitarists in the Gibson Through The Lens, celebrating the work of some of the world's best rock photographers with more than 60 fine art prints of rock legends.

EXHIBITION
High Arctic
National Maritime Museum
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
This installation is a beguiling sanctuary that demands an imaginative leap - not your typical museum offering.

Controversial artist Tracey Emin has done the unthinkable. She has managed to shock herself.

Speaking at the launch of her first retrospective, Tracey Emin: Love Is what You Want, she said: "I'm a little bit embarrassed about the tampons. When we unpacked that work I was like, 'oh no'. I made that work I think 12 years ago.

Roger Waters might be wowing the crowds at The O2 with his spectacular live show of The Wall but Pink Floyd fans have the chance for a more contemplative experience.

To mark Waters run at the arena, the British Music Experience is exhibiting a series of photographs of the band spanning their entire career from the 1960s to 2005's Live 8.

It may now be overshadowed by the massive towers of Canary Wharf, but 60 years ago the Lansbury Estate in Poplar was at the forefront of British architecture.

The estate, centred around Chrisp Street Market, was hailed as the future of social housing when it was chosen as the live architecture exhibit for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

EXHIBITION
Watercolour
Tate Britain
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
This excellent exhibition tells an Upstairs, Downstairs tale of an overlooked but very British artform.

A photographic project that started out as a memory jogger for freelance photographer Mark Sherratt has been turned into month-long exhibition.

The 31-year-old is showing 1,000 images at a Limehouse arts centre and, over strong black coffee at the gallery, a somewhat hungover Sherratt filled me in on his first show.

It's been the subject of numerous films and books and a byword for disaster and now an exhibition of artefacts from the ill-fate liner Titanic has opened at The O2.

Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition opens today, with over 300 items from the doomed ship on display, some of them for the very first time.

At the centre of this intriguing exhibition, a full scale installation gives an idea of the experience of visiting one of Pawson's creations.

The exhibition combines large photographs and detailed models that would make excellent cardboard dolls houses.

Kate Moss, Emma Thompson and Davina McCall all have something in common with the Queen. They were all part of an institution that is celebrating its centenary this year - Guiding.

The Museum of London Docklands is paying tribute to a movement that has taught millions of girls to lend a hand and do a good turn every day, with an exhibition.

EXHIBITION
The Deep
Natural History Museum
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
A new exhibition takes visitors 10,000m beneath the surface of the sea to an inky world of strange creatures and hostile environments.

Visitors are invited to travel the full 215 miles of the River Thames in just 200ft, at a new photographic exhibition - River Thames: Source To Sea - now on display at Tower Bridge.

This exhibition promises a showcase of stunning photography illustrating the peace, power, beauty and historical significance of locations along the river.

EXHIBITION
Rude Britannia, Tate Britain
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Four hundred years of comics, satires, caricatures and cartoons tell the story of a subversive Britain ready to stick a pin in over-inflated pomposity.

Middle England has missed a trick. Images that would have caused moral uproar and threatened to close a show appear to have passed under the radar.

Nan Goldin's The Ballad Of Sexual Dependency bears more than a passing resemblance to the work of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Sailor-chic is one of the biggest trends this season.

So, being a dedicated follower of fashion, I set sail for the National Maritime Museum and its new exhibition of Toy Boats.

I stepped into the miniature ocean filled with Borrower-sized ships and submarines.

Toy boat treasures from sailboats to submarines will be on display at the National Maritime Museum next month.

Before the days of video game obsessed kids zapping aliens, miniature ocean liners, paddle steamers and battleships captured the imagination of generations of children.

If I took my dad to Richard Billingham's new exhibition, I am confident he would not be impressed. "That's out of focus," he would say. "He's chopped that guy's head off" and "I could have taken that picture."

I am not suggesting my dad is a philistine, or that the photographer's work is of questionable quality, but rather Billingham, like many artists of his generation, asks rather a lot of his audience.

Take a look at the facade of One Canada Square next month and do not be afraid to say what you see. A 14-metre artwork baring a striking resemblance to a Rorschach ink blot test, is on its way and it's likely to distract from the Wharf's most recognisable tower.

It is a one-off piece based on an organic ceramic work by the sculptor Peter Randall Page and forms part of a larger exhibition of his work scheduled to arrive on the estate in April.

Considering the importance of popular music in British culture the opening of the British Music Experience was long-overdue.

The interactive museum at The O2 celebrated its first anniversary last week and over 150,000 visitors have passed through its doors.

The National Maritime Museum is running an exhibition of the photographs of Alan Villiers.

The Australian, born in 1903, captured the dying days of the Tall Ships in the 1920s and 30s.
Villiers first went to sea at the age of 15 on the Rosthesay Bay which operated between Australia and New Zealand.