Richard Wentworth: If history could be folded, where would you put the crease?

Yesterday Richard Wentworth's latest work for TFL/Art on the Underground was installed outside Southwark tube station.

If history could be folded, where would you put the crease?, October 2014

When You Look You May Not See, July 2014 - another contribution to TFL's Art on the Underground

 Plume, 2012

Le Baton, 2000

 If London Looked in the Mirror, 2006

To see more of Richard Wentworth's work visit the Lisson Gallery page

From the upper deck

 

These images form part of a photography project from Przemek Wajerowicz, shot over seven years from the upper deck of London buses. Though not a new perspective for most Londoners, Wajerowicz's photographs capture the capital brilliantly, warts and all.

Monumental Poetry

Monday Portrait: Vivienne Westwood by Juergen Teller

Vivienne Westwood No 3, London, 2009

This week we have chosen a portrait by German photographer Juergen Teller to mark his upcoming show at the ICA. 'Juergen Teller: Woo' opens Jan 23 at the ICA and both his Fine Art and commercial work will be exhibited.

Greater Shakespeare

The tube is 150 today! Our local station Farringdon has been gearing up for weeks.  A few years ago we co-designed the Greater Shakespeare map for the RSC (with a lot of help from Cambridge academic Dr Hesters Lees-Jeffries).  Have you seen it before?

Large version here.

As we're looking at the tube, here are a few great old tube posters.




'Keeps London Going'  designed by Man Ray in 1938


































David Booth's 1986 poster for the Tate

Dover Street Market

This Christmas we swooned at all six floors of Dover Street Market; there are few shops that summon unadulterated admiration (and greed) from everyone at Kit Grover.




Where else would you find T-shirt vending machines, a giant Octopus sculpture and portaloos - albeit repurposed as changing rooms - under the same roof? On January the 26th DSM close for their biannual 'Tachiagari' during which they redesign the space, creating installations and making room for new designers. This exercise ensures that the concept store is constantly evolving - as fashion has seasons it makes perfect sense that a fashion store should too. So much sense that we can't work out why all of them don't do it...

A 'Tachiagari' for our office may also be in the pipeline.

See a comprehensive report by the Clothes Whisperer on the SS11 Tachiagari here.

EVOL tower blocks

On friday Kit discovered the work of German stencil artist EVOL minutes from our office. We can't quite believe these mini tower blocks have been at Smithfield for over a year without us noticing.

Interested? Read more about EVOL and London street art at Hooked blog and see an earlier post about the Barbican area's more famous tower blocks.