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Community Pinboard: E.Mono to launch Patisserie

By on May 18, 2012 in Art, Books, Community, Food

Welcome to a new item on The Kentishtowner – by popular demand. Got a local event coming up? Paste it on our Facebook Page, or email us (info@kentishtowner.co.uk) and we’ll pick our favourites for Community Pinboard every Friday. Scroll down for some exciting E.mono news too. Here are this week’s picks: 1. A Vintage Fair [...]

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Life Tips #15: Julia Riddiough, Artist

By on May 1, 2012 in Art, Life Tips

1. You’ve got to Speculate to Accumulate in this life. So declared our belated and much admired friend P.G. Wodehouse and I think that I’m inclined to agree! 2. Cross Hatch, Cross Pollinate and never turn down a ‘Cut and Shut.’ Be prepared to be flexible and you will be rewarded! 3. Always be Convivial, [...]

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Free Weekend? Try the Tate a Tate Guerrilla Audio Tour

By on April 6, 2012 in Art, Free Weekend?

Whether an art lover, a protest junkie or just your average culture vulture, hostile soundscape takeovers are where it’s at. Three totally unofficial, free audio downloads have just been made available for anyone who wishes to take a guerrilla tour of Tate Britain or Tate Modern – and travel between the two on the Tate [...]

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Why It Matters: Art Auction For Japan, Flat Planet, Soho this Wednesday

By on March 19, 2012 in Art, Why It Matters

Kaori Homma, Japanese-born artist and Associate Lecturer at University of Arts London. As told to Jaillan Yehia. With a group of fellow artists from King’s Cross-based Central Saint Martin’s – where I’m an associate lecturer – I’ve tried to find a way to help after last year’s nuclear and humanitarian disaster in Japan. If I’m [...]

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Why It Matters: Art in a Kentish Town Shed

By on March 5, 2012 in Art, Why It Matters

The Free Space Gallery project is a toddler now; at two years old we feel ready to utter some of our first fully formed sentences. And like many precocious children, we think what we do is important – and I’m here to tell you why. The Kentish Town Health Centre, nestled behind the High Street, [...]

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Free Weekend? Explore Weighted Words at Zabludowicz

By on March 2, 2012 in Art, Free Weekend?

Here at Kentishtowner HQ we are more than partial – as you should by now have realized – to a bon mot or two. In fact, one of Mrs Kentishtowner’s favourite words is ‘boondoggle’ (a term she has been known to hurl, on particularly bleak days, at this very project – how very dare her!) [...]

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Why It Matters: The Parlour Gallery, Kentish Town

By on February 13, 2012 in Art, Why It Matters

Other local galleries may be better known, sexier, or more on-trend but Queen’s Crescent’s Parlour Gallery is one that makes consistent effort to engage with the community and curate exhibitions with genuine local interest. And this is definitely the case with 10 Artists/10 Pubs, an original show by a new collective, The Ken-Ditch, which runs [...]

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The Wednesday Picture: Classic Camden Graffiti, 2003

By on January 25, 2012 in Art, Wednesday Picture

‘I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love for the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you [...]

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Free Weekend? Try Future Map at the Zabludowicz

By on January 13, 2012 in Art, Free Weekend?

Today we launch our new column, Free Weekend? No prizes for guessing what this one’s about – even Mrs Kentishtowner’s nan is keeping up (just) – but yes, the idea behind Free Weekend is to help you celebrate our glorious area with a weekly tip that will cost nowt. Nada. Zilch penneth. So send any [...]

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Best Gallery 2011: Zabludowicz Collection

By on December 15, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Art

1. Zabludowicz Collection 2. Cob Gallery 3. Spring Projects Best gallery was an interesting one. Whilst many of you were headstrong in your opinion, a good few were foxed by the category. (‘Call me a philistine’, quipped Mark, Conrad and several others.) We thought you all read The Kentishtowner? Oh, you do… Happily, votes did [...]

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