GSK Contemporary – Aware: Art Fashion Identity

GSK Contemporary– Aware: Art Fashion Identity


Helen Storey: Say Goodbye (2010)


Alexander McQueen: Red lace dress covering head from 'Joan', AW98




Alicia Framis: 100 Ways to Wear a Flag (2007)


Hussein Chalayan: 'Son' of Sonzai Suru (2010)


Helen Storey: Say Goodbye (2010)


Claudia Losi: Les Funerailles de la baleine (2010)


Marcello Maloberti: Marceilo Who Arrives by Train (2001)

The Yvonne Rainer Project (BFI Gallery, London)

Interview with Chantal Pontbriand curator of The Yvonne Rainer Project (BFI Gallery, London)

Tiffany & Co. presents Skate at Somerset House

Tiffany & Co. presents Skate at Somerset House

William Firebrace book launch

William Firebrace's latest book, Marseille Mix

Sean Edwards and Sam Jacob speaking at the Architectural Association, London

High Society at The Wellcome Institute

Joshua White


(foreground) De Historia stirpivm, Leonard Fuchs (Basel, 1542) Wellcome Library
(background) Frolic by Huang Yong Ping (2008)


Joshua with his back to us and Seth of The Joshua Light Show



Joshua White describes his Light Show




Co-designer of The Joshua Light Show Seth Kirby
and interviews with High Society's curators

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (British Museum)

Outer coffin of Henutmehyt - the Chantress of Amun (about 1250BC)

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (British Museum)


Senet board of Amenmes (a game that was frequently placed in the tombs of elite individuals so they could play the game in the afterlife)


The Coffin of Inpehefnakht (about 1000BC)




The coffin of Horaawesheb painted with 'Protective entities' (about 900 BC)

Africa United (press conference 54th BFI London Film Festival)

Roger Nsengiyumva at the press conference for
AFRICA UNITED


Yves Dusenge


Sanyu Joanita Kintu


Eriya Ndayambaje (L), Sherrie Silver (R)


Eriya Ndayambaje

Aicon Gallery, London

Saad Qurwshi in front of one of his Untitled series, Disappearing in Yesterday


Anwar Saeed: Habits of Being
(i guess artists these days get younger and younger ;)

LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2010: Never Let Me Go

Director Mark Romanek of Never Let Me Go


R: Alex Garland (screenwriter),Kazuo Ishiguro (novelist),and cast members



Isobel Meikle-Small, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield
(London Film Festival 2010 press conference)

Street Culture at the Courtauld Institute

Niall Atkinson


Dan Jones


Kate McGrath


Ornette Clennon

JEAN NOUVEL'S SERPENTINE PAVILION 2010

London Festival of Architecture 2010 and Ben Uri Gallery

Romania's contribution to London Festival of Architecture City Skills for Life opened Monday evening with Augustin Ioan's lecture Resisting Interpretations: The House of the People's Dead Duck

Introduced by

Gabriela Massaci, Director Romanian Cultural Institute London

And Eugen Ciocan & Gabriela Massaci's 17min documentary essay that was a very funny self-deprecating look at the city of Bucharest. Fashion designer and artist Carmen Secareanu created an outdoor installation Welcoming Fields for the steps of the Institute as well as the centre of Golden Square in London's West End. .......................Golden Square...............................

The Italian Embassy's contribution:




And the Ben Uri Gallery new temporary space was opened by the Royal Academy's former director Sir Norman Rosenthal All photos, as always, copyright ANDREW LUCRE 2010

A rare photo of George Clooney's pate at last year's Times BFI London Film Festival press conference for The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)