I used to loathe dancing. I was one of those people who stands in the corner looking awkward, refusing to join the dance floor. However, in a moment of daring ...
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Walking up from College, along West Carriage Drive through Hyde Park, it’s easy to miss The Serpentine Gallery’s latest pavilion. Contained underground, it will quickly become West London’s coolest summer ...
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I was in two minds on how to write this. On the one hand as a stalwart Imperialist (person of Imperial College) with a thorough grounding in scientific lore, the ...
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Having first seen comedy group WitTank two years ago at the Edinburgh Fringe on the recommendation of a friend, I’ve been coming back for more at every opportunity. These are ...
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Throughout history a number of great artists have also been scientists. “Anton Tchekhov himself was a practicing physician.” Hassan Abdualrazzak, researcher at Imperial College and playwright tells me in the ...
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Even on a rainy, bleak and depressing morning the British Museum managed to lift my spirits up. The Great Court was dazzling in all its whiteness, filled with noisy and ...
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God, redemption, religion, the forces of good and evil. It is hard to tackle these none too light topics in a manner which doesn’t become cumbersome. Peter Cadwell did it ...
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Lucian Freud Protraits is a monumental exhibition, revealing the life-long strive of the artist to capture the mystery of human flesh. Freud, from his beginnings one of the greatest artists ...
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Gilbert & George, an eccentric duo even by the standards of the London art world, establish the ultimate vision of a dark, murky, sort-of-foggy London. As the ghostly reporters of ...
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The events that took place on 11 March 2011 in Japan were a wake up call for many people. 20,000 died and hundreds of thousands were stranded without homes. This ...
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