Exhibitions and Events

If you are ever in any doubt about how magical planet earth is, a quick trip to see the mineral collection at London’s amazing Natural History Museum should reassure you. 14,000 specimens are on display, taken from everywhere from the moon to Mexico via South Wales (an area with a surprisingly large array of colourful rocks).

I am something of a crystal geek, so I took a trip to visit the rocks last Friday and this is what I saw - I’m hoping that there are other geeks out there who will appreciate my efforts. These specimens are picked purely on their unusual colours and forms - I am no geologist…although I wish I was. Read the rest of this entry »

After last year’s excellent Postmodernism exhibition at the V&A we are equally as excited to visit the Barbican‘s Bauhaus: Art as Life exhibition - the biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years - opening on the 3rd of May this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite working for a fashion forecasting company I can’t pretend that I know much about clothes myself, I’m much more of a chair person. However after watching all of the coverage of the various fashion weeks over the past month I wanted to feature something on the blog. So I decided to ask an expert in the form of my good friend Lara, who knows a lot more about fashion than I do.

At the top of her list was London based props and accessory maker and designer Fred Butler who showed her autumn/winter 2012 collection as part of London Fashion Week last week. These photos were taken backstage at the show by Wonderland magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

As an avid lover of board games with an arguably unhealthy competitive streak, the ArtGameLab program at SFMOMA seems right up my alley. The interactive exhibit is a series of crowdsourced games designed by SFMOMA’s community that were selected after an open call for inventive but simple and low-cost game ideas. Visitors are given instructions on the games that can be played throughout the museum. The exhibition’s “game design station” allows visitors to provide comments and feedback.On until August 12, the ArtGameLab’s Tumblr drops cryptic visual clues as to what the games entail, and I have to admit, I’m intrigued.

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