Sunday, January 13, 2013

Curating my cultural life in 2013

Another year of art, music, dance, and theatre begins. I'll update this post each month with all the culture I've managed to absorb from this city.

December
Puss in Boots panto @ Hackney Empire Theatre with TMW Sony team

November
Bridget Christie (comic) @ Soho Theatre with Becky
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory @ Theatre Royal with TMW Theatre Club

October
Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man @ Temple Studios with Ollie
Australia @ Royal Academy with Ollie
The Head & The Heart @ Old St Pancras Church with Stu & Kris
Tate Britain (new re-hang of permanent collection)

September
Chimerica @ Harold Pinter Theatre with Millie
Dawes @ Union Chapel with Stu & Kris
The Book of Mormons with Kris

August
Life & Death in Pompeii @ British Museum
Alternative Guide to the Universe @ Hayward Gallery with Jaimee
Janeane Garofalo @ Soho Theatre with Jaimee

July
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Of Monsters & Men @ Somerset House with Stu & Kris
Ed Sharpe with Stu & Kris

June
Glastonbury with Stu, Kris and Mailie

May... oops!

April
Man Ray Portraits @ National Portrait Gallery with Chris (client) and Em (colleague)
Once (musical) @ Phoenix Theatre with Stu & Kris
Lichtenstein @ Tate Modern with Laleh

Man Ray

Man Ray


March
Port @ National Theatre with Rebecca
Norman Parkinson Century of Style @ National Theatre with Rebecca

The Art of Travel, Vogue 1951

February
Wildlife Photographer of the Year @ Natural History Museum

January
Ansel Adams, Photography from the Mountains to the Sea @ National Maritime Museum with Becky




Pre-Raphaelites Victorian Avant-Garde @ Tate Britain
Fantastically detailed paintings with interesting compositions and vivid colour. My favourites were by John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. Included in the exhibition was the famous painting Ophelia.

Autumn Leaves, Millais 1855-1856

Ophelia, Millais 1851-1852

Light from the Middle East @ V&A with Laleh and Nil
Free Exhibition of new photography from the Middle East

Shadi Ghadirian
Abbas Kowsari, 2003


Photos sourced from google images and museum websites - thank you!

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