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)

Kevin Spacey looking sheepish at last year's Times BFI London Film Festival press conference for The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

Aleksandr Petrov (Александр Петров)

Fifth European Psychoanalytic Film Festival (epff5)

Photo Copyright 2009 Andrew Lucre
INTERVIEW (MP3) available here...

Cabinet gallery

Opening of Sakti Burman's solo show at Aicon Gallery, New York (May 13) in a surprise conversation with MF Husain.