[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V8VeuvlTlw] Gospel Oak boy Benjamin Garfield dropped us a line the other day about ‘Benches’, a three minute flick he’s entered into this year’s Reed Short Film competition. Rather wisely, it’s inspired by a 2006 feature yours truly wrote for the Times Magazine. Flattery will, of course, get you everywhere. ‘I was thinking about jobs …
One of our favourite higher-brow blogs, The Arts Desk, got it exactly right this week when they asked: “Is North the new East?” Why? Well, joining Zabludowicz, Spring Projects, the Annroy and other, smaller spaces in the manor is The Cob Gallery, an innovative breeding ground for upcoming artists just a stone’s throw from Kentish …
Just south of the emerald-green Westport Inn, with its lively clientele, and rock ‘n’ roll karaoke evenings, is one of the more intriguing parades on Malden Road. Here you’ll find the first of two of the longest-standing businesses in the Wild West: Bob Sharp’s ‘Fishing’ shop, with its wonderful facade, owned by his family since …
Well, it was about time. It’s by NW5-based artist Russell Loughlan. Pick up an original at Sharon Elphick’s on Columbia Road, E2. So do we like?
Now and again, Mrs Kentishtowner gets a craving to go east. Not necessarily to Shoreditch or Hackney, you understand, riotous though both are, but to what a slithersome estate agent might term ‘Torriano Village’, up near Brecknock Road, where NW5 snuggles up to N7. And nowhere is this postcode axis better personified than the Torriano. …
First glimpse of ‘I Kiss You’ (2004), the neon-lit window of the Zabludowicz pop-up gallery at 46 Malden Road, set to open this week (Feb 5). Read full article here. We like.
Artist Claire Elizabeth Hind emailed us yesterday asking if we could put a call out to any local artists who might be interested in exhibiting between 5th – 10th March at The Parlour Gallery on Queen’s Crescent. They are looking for 2D arts, sculpture, dance, poetry, sound and film/video. She says: “The event will celebrate …
If you’ve never been – and I bet that’s a few of you – you’ll be surprised how nice it is: sheep grazing in a valley, outsize hens clucking about in the dirt, a goat chewing pensively as it eyes you up. And nestling in a remote outpost of West Kentish Town, it’s all spread …
A few years ago I used to write a blog and Time Out column on the stories behind London’s memorial benches. Of the dozens covered, none was more touching than that of Peter Stevens, a young man who died at just 26, and is remembered by a bench at the summit of Primrose Hill, bearing …
I know it’s all art, art, art this week on The Kentishtowner, but before we forget, we have to plug the Camden New Journal’s recent interview with NW5 legend Dame Paula Rego on the subject of local graffitti. Rego, whose studio is in Kentish Town, wisely supports the idea of a committee to consider the …