Storm Thorgerson: Mind Over Matter
For forty years Storm Thorgerson’s album covers and films have created the visual images we associate not only with the greatest rock bands, such as Pink Floyd, but with our times. London Grip was at...
View ArticleThe Work of Storm Thorgerson
A London Grip online exhibition – Taken by Storm Included are images for bands such as Led Zeppelin, Muse, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, The Mars Volta, The Cranberries, Biffy Clyro, 10cc, Ian Dury,...
View ArticleHelen Donlon interviews Hipgnosis
Archive 2010 Helen Donlon interviews Hipgnosis: Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell Storm is based in Belsize Park, London, and Po divides his time between London and Formentera. The interviews...
View ArticleThe Atomium, Belgium, by Barbara Lewis.
What exactly is the essence of Belgium? Far harder to pin down than French chic or English sang-froid, the nation’s uneasy mix of Walloon and Flemish, surreal and down-to-earth, all miraculously...
View ArticleBike to the Future, Design Museum, Ghent. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Bicycles are as close as it gets to the perfect blend of form and function -- but that doesn't stop designers seeking to make them sleeker, faster and funkier. As such, they are ideal subject-matter...
View ArticleMuseum of the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. Barbara Lewis.
Anyone seeking to be reminded of how we used to work not so very long ago should take the 10-minute tram journey from Birmingham’s newly revamped Grand Central Station to the city’s Jewellery Quarter,...
View ArticleCoincidences, Galleria Riccardo Costantini Contemporary. Review by Barbara...
Stroll through the streets of Turin or look out from the city’s rattling trams and you’re confronted with wall after wall of windows framed by whatever architectural embellishments were fashionable at...
View ArticleT-Shirt: Cult-Culture-Subversion. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Of all the things we wear, the T-shirt has the ability to be both humble and exclusive. To underline the point, the Fashion and Textile Museum’s shop accompanies its exhibition on the T-shirt from the...
View ArticleSP-Arte, Sao Paulo. Review by Barbara Lewis.
It’s testimony to the vibrant creativity and style of Sao Paulo that its international art festival – SP-Arte – can transform an object as potentially mundane and outdated as the tea trolley into a...
View ArticleHumans and Nature
Carla Scarano looks at two V&A exhibitions exploring interactions between human beings and the natural world . Fashioned from Nature (21/04/18 -2 7/01/19) – Gallery 40 Myth and Mortality: the...
View ArticleThe Atomium, Belgium, by Barbara Lewis.
What exactly is the essence of Belgium? Far harder to pin down than French chic or English sang-froid, the nation’s uneasy mix of Walloon and Flemish, surreal and down-to-earth, all miraculously...
View ArticleCoincidences, Galleria Riccardo Costantini Contemporary. Review by Barbara...
Stroll through the streets of Turin or look out from the city’s rattling trams and you’re confronted with wall after wall of windows framed by whatever architectural embellishments were fashionable at...
View ArticleT-Shirt: Cult-Culture-Subversion. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Of all the things we wear, the T-shirt has the ability to be both humble and exclusive. To underline the point, the Fashion and Textile Museum’s shop accompanies its exhibition on the T-shirt from the...
View ArticleSP-Arte, Sao Paulo. Review by Barbara Lewis.
It’s testimony to the vibrant creativity and style of Sao Paulo that its international art festival – SP-Arte – can transform an object as potentially mundane and outdated as the tea trolley into a...
View ArticleHumans and Nature
Carla Scarano looks at two V&A exhibitions exploring interactions between human beings and the natural world . Fashioned from Nature (21/04/18 -2 7/01/19) – Gallery 40 Myth and Mortality: the...
View ArticleHousing Ordinary People in London, by Jane McChrystal.
The Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin once declared “Nothing is too Good for Ordinary People”* and as a founder of the radical Tecton group he designed municipal housing which combined the creation...
View ArticleChristian Dior: Designer of Dreams. Review by Carla Scarano.
Two hundred unique artistic creations by Christian Dior and his successors are featured at the V&A exhibition.
View ArticleSwinging London: A Lifestyle Revolution. Review by Barbara Lewis.
If Brexit is the result of a backward-looking nostalgia, the Swinging London of the Chelsea Set was the opposite: it marked a determination to move on from the devastation and austerity left by World...
View ArticleTokyo: a bridge between tradition and modernity, by Carla Scarano D’Antonio.
Compared to Kyoto, Tokyo is bigger, busier and cosmopolitan. My friend Ornella and I had plenty of time by ourselves as my daughter was busy with her course at the Bunka Gakuen University where she is...
View ArticleMary Quant, V & A. Review by Carla Scarano.
The revolutionary attitude that Mary Quant’s iconic outfits convey strikes the viewer at the V&A retrospective exhibition. She is considered one of the most influential fashion designer of the 1960s.
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