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[nickc]

Forget Borough Market and go to Broadway Market in Hackney. Much nicer, smaller, cheaper and there is a great Ghanain food stall there or you can have a fabulous crepe. Go to My Life In Art and see the new exhibition from The Little Artists which opens tomorrow (I think). Then head in to town and do all of the stuff everyone else has suggested.

[butterfly]

Go to Bonhams in New Bond Street and see the pieces up for the Urban Art auction.

www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=16259

[daley]

Can visit the mecca of London - Hoxton! ;D Can pop into Signal Gallery to see Guy Dennings work too while you are there!

[jones27]

go on the thames boat trip from embankment to greenwich. I done it last week and was ace. There will be a tour guide, so much to see on those waters...Greenwich is pretty ace too.

[guest2]

stay away from London transport at rush hour and after dark. Where a stab jacket like the rest of us at all times and don't leave the safety of your hotel room without your man bag and your mace. Don't look no-one in the eye and if anyone says 'have you got the time mate' just keep walking and don't look back. And if you are unfortunate to catch someones eye by mistake and they smile at you, don't smile back, they are probably dangerous!

Apart from those great tips, Enjoy London ;D ;D ;D

[stuey09]

frankie3 said:

stay away from London transport at rush hour and after dark. Where a stab jacket like the rest of us at all times and don't leave the safety of your hotel room without your man bag and your mace. Don't look no-one in the eye and if anyone says 'have you got the time mate' just keep walking and don't look back. And if you are unfortunate to catch someones eye by mistake and they smile at you, don't smile back, they are probably dangerous!

Apart from those great tips, Enjoy London ;D ;D ;D

;D ;D ;D

Yeah come to Darlington and visit the railway museum. For 3 days.

[megaelch]

Hi from munich .... i will be in central London this weekend and would love to look around in some of the galleries ..
any recommendations
Will go to Laz .. cannot find the address of the aquarium .. there are two different ones in the net ... help please ..
other recommendations welcome .. looking for prints .
Oh and i love indian food so any restaurant tips highly welcome !

Stephan

[ganzguile]

If you go to The Leonard Street gallery you will be only a short walk from Brick Lane........the home of the finest curries on earth! And you can have a look at Stolen space while you are there.
Dont forget Laz is closed till the 13th!

[ogrgel]

THE AQUARIUM L-13
63 Farringdon Road
London
EC1M 3JB

[Curley]

megaelch said:

Hi from munich .... i will be in central London this weekend and would love to look around in some of the galleries ..
any recommendations
Will go to Laz .. cannot find the address of the aquarium .. there are two different ones in the net ... help please ..
other recommendations welcome .. looking for prints .
Oh and i love indian food so any restaurant tips highly welcome !

Stephan

Hi there

A number of galleries are closed on Sundays, pls check otherwise you maybe disapointed.

The Aquarium is open both Sat and Sunday.

Enjoy

;D

[romanywg]

The Aquarium is NOT open on Sundays. Only Mon - Sat 11-6pm.
The 'other' address you have for the Aquarium is their original shop which has far less in it but does have the reject art there (lots of affordable prints) Phone first to check they are open 0207 3878417 and they should be open 11- 8pm.
It can be found at 10 Woburn Walk. WC1.
Stolenspace is at Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane. E1 0207 2472684

[stylus]

Worth checking to see if the Banksy exhib is still on at Andipa (Knightsbridge) and BankRobber (Notting Hill). Both worth a visit.

[megaelch]

thanks so much ... any favourite places at brick lane ...?? i like it HOT :-)
oh... by the way there is a german gallery www.lumas.de they do very affordable runs of contemporary photographs and artist .. Usually LE 100s and in the 100 - 200 GBP price range .. very impressive stuff.. you should really check them online !

Stephan

[Curley]

stylus said:

Worth checking to see if the Banksy exhib is still on at Andipa (Knightsbridge) and BankRobber (Notting Hill). Both worth a visit.

Andipa is finished, it was extended but was supposed to finish on 4 or 5th April.

[stylus]

curley said:

stylus said:

Worth checking to see if the Banksy exhib is still on at Andipa (Knightsbridge) and BankRobber (Notting Hill). Both worth a visit.

Andipa is finished, it was extended but was supposed to finish on 4 or 5th April.

D'Oh. Thanks, Curley.

Other galleries:
Cosh (coshuk.com) on Berwick St - near Laz
stolenspace is in the Truman Brewery complex on Brick Lane
Forster Gallery is also nearby (29 Fashion Street) - with the Dan Baldwin exhibition

[romanywg]

oh... by the way there is a german gallery www.lumas.de they do very affordable runs of contemporary photographs and artist .. Usually LE 100s and in the 100 - 200 GBP price range .. very impressive stuff.. you should really check them online !

Stephan[/quote]

Thanks for that. Some really nice prints there, especially like this one by Lilya Corneli

Forster Gallery is not open at weekends. I made that mistake a couple of weeks ago!

[ABC]

Sunday is going to be an issue but any other day I would head to Shoreditch first. (Old streeet tube stn) walk to Leonard st (11 show) then Bimble down to Stolen Space at Trueman Brewery,See Banksys spitfire car on the way in, little further to Dan Baldwins show (Fashion st). On tube (Algate tube stn) Off tube at Tot court road, Round to Laz's. I agree with above Andipa is a must for any Banksy fan, well worth a visit (Knightsbrige), Ive never seen so many Banksys all in one place.
The big one must be the Tate modern on the Bank (A must) and on the way out have a nose in Eyestorm.
If you need any direction or details on tubes etc PM me and I will email you.

[smashedhat]

Check out cargo too on Rivington st, there are some nice works in the courtyard by Banksy, Obey and others, and good availability of beer. Very nice if it's sunny.

There are lots of great curry houses on Brick Lane, a similar number of bad ones too. Standard Balti has never dissapointed, if you want something really special check out Tayyabs, about 10 mins walk from Brick Lane. The food is absurdly cheap and without doubt the best curry I've had in town.

[beau]

Hello lovely people - i've got a do on in london on tues eve and misses has meetings during the day so thought i would take in some much overlooked street art - was thinking of heading to Old St tube and strolling toward bricklane, shoreditch way...

could any of you fine folks tell me what bits to look out for - where and specific streets where bits are? - please! also what galleries are around this way should i check out?

cheers all

[Toykio]

comin over to pick up some stuff & wanted to know if there is any interesting shows or new galleries to check out.
thanks upfront...

[beau]

Having been into the scene for a while i thought i'd better get my ass out and check out some bits on the street for real - so me and a pal spent a very pleasant day yesterday mooching the streets of london, taking it all in!

What a great day ;D

Many thanks to a forum member who sorted me out some advice on what areas and streets to hit

We got the tube to Old St and stumbled upon my first Banksy! - the girl with skull from there we basically just wandered and mooched and stumbled around - old st
shoreditch hoxton

took in a few galleries, the walker show, pure evil, Leonard st

as the beers kicked in we took in less and disappointed ourselves by not making it to the new banksy - we were simply too wasted!

Anyway anyone who hasn't hit that area should do - what a great day!
lots of random bits and lots you instantly recognise

check out a few of my holiday snaps!

RIGHT NR OLD ST TUBE


BEHIND A LOAD OF BINS - THIS LOOKED BRILLIANT!


WHATS LEFT OF HAPPY CHOPPERS - what a waste get it uncovered!






































Hope this hasn't bored you too much - it was inspirational to be out there amongst it all - much better than any gallery exhibition - going to plan out a more thorough route and do it again soon...

CHEERS! ;D

[mcster]

Nice one mate, some pieces I'd not seen there. The artist that did the Oscar the Grouch piece has an exhibition coming up soon in the same place Arofish exhibited at in New Cross.

[romanywg]

Should add them to the 'Street Art' section.

[Guest]

nice post, some great stuff there.

[beau]

Who's the artist who did the oscar the grouch? - it's bloody brilliant!

[Daniel Silk]

Well done Beau! ;D looks like you had a great day out ;D


Lookin at this photo makes you wonder why "Wa Do" or "Premier Inn" dunt pay for the Banksy to be uncovered and restored, coz it would be photographed so much more and get posted online all over the world, with their adverts in it

[mcster]

I keep thinking of the name 'Bam' for some reason. That's been there a while hasn't it, just past Old Street Station.

[beau]

Thanks Silky - you're right -

the council - or clear channel should do the right thing and uncover the Happy Choppers - with the rep banksy has now it'd be like a national treasure - everyone would stop - it's next to a nice little square where you could sit and look at it too - as it is you can see a tiny bit

is it 'nice day' or 'have a nice day' you can just see on it?

I think this is one of Banksys best

[They call me Stephen]

It's by Blam....he has an exhibition coming up as well

www.feedyourwall.com/2008/04/blam-at-new-cross-gallery.html

great photos by the way....looks like you had a great time. Who's the cheeky chap in the Eine Scary picture??

[Guest]

Apr 23, 2008 16:31:54 GMT 1 Daniel Silk said:

Well done Beau! ;D looks like you had a great day out ;D


Lookin at this photo makes you wonder why "Wa Do" or "Premier Inn" dunt pay for the Banksy to be uncovered and restored, coz it would be photographed so much more and get posted online all over the world, with their adverts in it

Its behind a bill board, and that has to be the worst take away in Shoreditch