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Wednesday Picture: The Secret Of Leighton Place

By on Wednesday 16 May 2012 in Wednesday Picture

It’s an oft-told tale that London’s piano industry was based in Kentish Town, but not so many folk know about this claim to fame: it was once home to the most famous taxidermists in the world. Rhinos, aardvarks, tigers, monkeys, elephant waste paper baskets, musical boxes made from tortoise shells – they were all stuffed [...]

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Best Gallery 2011: Zabludowicz Collection

By on Thursday 15 December 2011 in Art, Awards

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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Gallery news: Leighton Space

By on Thursday 26 May 2011 in Art

Now, we have to ‘fess up. We still have yet to visit Leighton Space, the new gallery and studios just a few minutes’ walk from KT tube station. Yet here they are, already on their second (third?) exhibition, so this time round we’ve marked the calendar with a black pen -and promise to report back. [...]

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Gallery Watch: Leighton Space, Liminal & Guts For Garters

By on Friday 1 April 2011 in Art, Culture, Hidden Gem, Pinboard

Another week, another gallery or three. But it’s nice to see this one opening outside the West Kentish Town ghetto and in the previously artistically-untapped “Leightons” area just east of the Assembly House pub. Leighton Space , says the blurb, provides the “opportunity for professional artists to show work at all stages and in a [...]

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