Category Archives: Culture Vulture

Exhibitions, events, book and antiques fairs, festivals and other happenings in London, UK.

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Another Library

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Mary Seacole House is a conspicuously modern and distinctive high-rise building on Clapham High Street which houses apartments as well as a variety of public services. One of these is the new Clapham Library. Inside, past a reception desk, steps … Continue reading

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Readers Afternoon

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A fair-sized audience, on a hot and sunny Friday afternoon, turned out at the Omnibus Arts Theatre, for an event featuring four local writers who live and work in Clapham or very near by.  The writers had each chosen to discuss one … Continue reading

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In the Garden….

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…there could be a serpent and an apple tree, earthly delights, a nightingale or, during the length of ‘Omnibus Edition’, Clapham’s Literary Festival, a series of writers. On Wednesday Miss South, joint winner of the 2013 Young British Foodies Fresh … Continue reading

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The painting formerly known as…..

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…’The Arnolfini Wedding’ by Jan Van Eyck now hangs in the Sainsbury wing of the National Gallery on the first floor.  I first came across it when studying History of Art many years ago. It was painted, in oil on an … Continue reading

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Art

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A current National Gallery free exhibition is of Dutch still life painting. I visited some weeks ago, only to discover that I was a day early. So, with an hour or so set aside before meeting friends I decided to … Continue reading