Category Archives: Culture Vulture

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

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Julius Caesar

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Wednesday was my first visit to the new Bridge Theatre, the new venture from Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr near Tower Bridge, set up to provide flexible space for new work ( especially important now that much of the West … Continue reading

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Royal Art

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The Royal Academy’s big New Year exhibition is Charles I, King and Collector bringing together paintings and other works collected by the seventeenth century King, many of which have since been dispersed around the world. We went along on Friday … Continue reading

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Dancing to Different Tunes

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Sometimes it’s instructive to go back to where a tradition comes from so as to really appreciate just how innovative recent developments are. Santiago Lara did that to great effect on the middle Saturday of the 2018 Festival de Jerez, … Continue reading

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The Guitar in Time

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A guitar must be ‘in time’ with the music, particularly so with the fluid, changing rhythms of flamenco, but this is a punning title too. Only someone supremely skilled and confident in their own ability would present a set which summoned … Continue reading

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Caballero and Patino at Sala Compania

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It’s already half way through week one of Festival 2018 by the time all our party arrive in Jerez. As is by now traditional, we head out into a rain-soaked town for our first sherry of this year’s Festival. Not … Continue reading