Category Archives: Culture Vulture

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

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Jazz guitar

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This year’s Festival has not only celebrated its past, with its twentieth anniversary recitals, but also its future, flamenco is a developing art. So we have a Japanese dancer headlining a show at the theatre ( though he was 77 … Continue reading

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Indomitable women

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Fiction has many indomitable women, who succeed in what is, essentially, a man’s world. There are, perhaps, rather more ( and rather more independent ones ) in the twentieth and twenty-first century than formerly – though Lady Macbeth and Mrs … Continue reading

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Sherry wine, dancing and song

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In 2016, for the first time in recent years, the Bodega Gonzales Byass is a venue for Festival de Jerez performances, as the makers of Tio Pepe have opened their halls to dancing and song. Situated close to the ancient … Continue reading

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Lamento

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This year the Festival de Jerez is in its twentieth year and, to celebrate this anniversary, includes a series of short concerts, by very big flamenco names in iconic and historic sites across the city. One such took place last … Continue reading

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Somerset House

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It’s difficult now to believe that such a fine building as the current Somerset House was built as government offices, but it was built in the days when government offices were important places of patronage and organisation. The Admiralty and … Continue reading