Exciting news just in today. The Kentishtowner has just learnt that from Feb 5 to March 27 Tracey Emin will be showing at an empty shop on Malden Road (#46), as part of the Zabludowicz’s forthcoming “The Shape We’re In (Camden)”. For that, we’ll forgive her conversion to Toryism (almost). The press release reads: “Taking …
Regular readers will know that the Zabludowicz Collection, or 176 Gallery, is not only one of our favourite haunts in NW5 – but our beloved capital itself. And Future Map 10, which showcases the finest graduates from the University of the Arts London and opened on Friday (closes Feb 6 – be quick) is its …
It’s nice, at the start of the year, feeling that you can do anything. And weirdly the recent slew of celebrity deaths – Postlethwaite, Karn, Rafferty – somehow heightens the feeling. Is it wrong to say that? One thing I often wonder walking through Kentish Town, as dreary and dystopian in January as it gets, …
Architecture fans rejoice. It was announced last week that the iconic 1920’s former Northwest London Polytechnic building, on the corner of Kentish Town and Prince Of Wales roads, has been saved from demolition. As it should have been long ago. Look closely now – it’s even smiling. (Happy New Year by the way. Was yours …
It’s the last entry of the year so, wrapping up our first season here at the KT, we’re pleased to unveil our inaugural Kentishtowner Top 10 for 2010. #1. Southampton Arms.
A brief second entry today to plug this excellently-named 5 day pop-up exhibition at the Parlour Gallery, Queen’s Crescent. Its mission? To “gather information through drawings, found objects and mapping, and explore ideas surrounding place and community.” But wait, come back! It’s quirkier than that. The Institute’s resident artists – Nic Harper, Jocelyn Allen, Milka …
Into the sedate backdrop of England’s Lane has sashayed Lantern, its windows unblushingly large, its interior moodily lit, its 1930s tables rakishly salvaged
Thanks to reader Conrad Ford today for his suggestion on a piece on the defunct South Kentish Town Underground Station (now an attractive “Cash Convertors”, see above.) South Kentish Town was a Northern Line station which closed in a strike in 1924, never reopened due to lack of use. Mr Ford suggests that one idea …
She might not be an obvious beauty, but she sure as hell hides some secrets in her frilly drawers. No, we’re not talking about Mrs Kentishtowner; we are, however, eulogizing the pleasures of Kentish Town Road, a high street so modest its traffic lights are probably glowing red as we speak. Ignore the bump of …