Category: Art

Oct 5

Museum of Youth Culture celebrates gigs and DIY culture

The Muse­um of Youth Cul­ture is a valu­able space with an evolv­ing pro­gramme of exhi­bi­tions, takeovers and spe­cial events. And after so many years of facil­i­ties for young peo­ple being closed down, this venue’s new week­ly Youth Club is more than wel­come. This space offers under-18s a free, ded­i­cat­ed place to meet, get cre­ative, develop…

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Mar 28

Museum of Youth Culture – permanent home in Camden

On 15 May 2026, the Muse­um of Youth Cul­ture opens in Cam­den as the UK’s first per­ma­nent insti­tu­tion ded­i­cat­ed to pre­serv­ing youth cul­ture as a defin­ing force in mod­ern British his­to­ry. Found­ed in 1997 by Jon Swin­stead, Jamie Brett joined in 2012, togeth­er devel­op­ing the organ­i­sa­tion as a sim­ple pho­to archive in a shed. Pho­tographs were gath­ered before they were lost.…

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May 13

Scale: 100 lifesize guitars exhibition in Shoreditch

New exhi­bi­tion Scale will pre­miere at Unlocked in Shored­itch from 12 June to 31 August 2025. Scale is a strik­ing pho­to­graph­ic col­lec­tion of 100 life-sized gui­tars, paired with inti­mate and often humor­ous sto­ries that reveal their impact on music his­to­ry and their intrin­sic con­nec­tion to the artists who played them. Mul­ti award-win­n­ing Aus­tralian music pho­tog­ra­ph­er Kane Hib­berd has spent the last…

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Shirley Baker photo in Manchester slums
Sep 24

New Shirley Baker online exhibition “Pavement Cracks”

Unseen Vin­tage Street Pho­tographs  Online Exhi­bi­tion: 24th Sep­tem­ber – 1st Novem­ber 2024.  The Cen­tre for British Pho­tog­ra­phy is hold­ing a new online exhi­bi­tion of street pho­tog­ra­ph­er Shirley Bak­er’s images. Tak­ing its name from a recur­ring motif in Lemn Sissay’s poem Flags, Pave­ment Cracks unveils pre­vi­ous­ly unseen images cap­tured by Shirley, tak­en in and around Man­ches­ter. The Cen­tre’s…

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Shirley Baker film poster
Mar 11

Shirley Baker film “Life Through A Lens” premiere in May

A new film about pho­tog­ra­ph­er Shirley Bak­er is to be unveiled soon. Shirley Bak­er: Life Through a Lens, is the first fea­ture length doc­u­men­tary devot­ed to Shirley’s life and work, and will take place on May 18th at the Cen­tre for British Pho­tog­ra­phy, Jermyn St, Lon­don W1. Shirley Bak­er: Life Through a Lens is writ­ten and produced…

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Feb 15

Acid Jazz residencies touring exhibition

Acid Jazz & Oth­er Illic­it Grooves record label cel­e­brates 35 years of trail­blaz­ing music with a series of res­i­den­cies, tour­ing loca­tions across the UK where Acid Jazz was arguably the strongest influ­ence, in Birm­ing­ham, Leeds, Lon­don, Bris­tol and Luton The music, arts, dance & cul­ture exhi­bi­tion will host exclu­sive Q&As with Acid Jazz stal­warts of the scene,…

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The Centre for British Photography
Jan 29

The Centre for British Photography opens in London

This week we attend­ed the pre­view of the new Cen­tre for British Pho­tog­ra­phy on Jermyn Street, in the cen­tre of Lon­don. It is an excit­ing new devel­op­ment and one that feels right for pho­tog­ra­phy now, cel­e­brat­ing and doc­u­ment­ing the past while also mak­ing a deter­mined effort to invest in and be a part of its…

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Beans on Toast Bee character
Oct 13

Beans on Toast with new album and books for kids

I expect that Beans on Toast, the pop­u­lar folky fes­ti­val artist, will be ton­ing down the sweary lan­guage in his new series of chil­dren’s books. Called The Fas­ci­nat­ing Adven­tures Of Lit­tle Bee, the books will be com­ing out in time for Christ­mas, launch­ing on Decem­ber 1st, and there’s an accom­pa­ny­ing album too. Beans on Toast –…

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May 19

Julian Lennon presents NFT featuring Imagine

For the super techie amongst you, here’s an exclu­sive NFT, along with a char­i­ta­ble dona­tion to Ukraine. Yel­low­Heart, the NFT mar­ket­place for music, tick­et­ing and com­mu­ni­ty tokens, which accepts both cryp­to and cred­it card pay­ments, will release an exclu­sive NFT of Julian Lennon’s first record­ing of his father’s beloved song, “Imag­ine.” A por­tion of the…

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Aug 5

Sparks on the beach by Simon Beck

A giant image of the Mael broth­ers Ron and Rus­sell, aka Sparks, has been carved into the sand on Bre­an beach, Som­er­set. The work was cre­at­ed by Simon Beck who was moved to cre­ate the impres­sive work to cel­e­brate the release of the new film about the two, called The Sparks Broth­ers. Simon Beck, a…

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