For the last two weekends the Barbican has hosted the Darbar Festival and last Saturday I took the opportunity to walk around the fascinating stalls market that is part of the event.
Here are some of my images …
The perfume stall was doing great trade …
Beautiful colours and fabrics were everywhere …
Spectacular brass …
Pretty containers …
Jewellery of course …
Semi-precious stones and crystals …
With a few fossils …
A rather splendid chess set …
Plus …
A really enjoyable afternoon wander.
Meanwhile, in The Curve Gallery you will find Lucy Raven’sRounds installation.
For a great sense of the experience, do take a few minutes to read this review from London Unattached.
I found it very difficult to take pictures in the gallery so here are some images from the official website …
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One of the delights of the City of London is that every now and then something pops up unexpectedly, and last Sunday it was this …
It was a wonderful exhibition with mudlarkers displaying their finds and all happy to chat …
It was only on for two days, so is finished now, but if you want to keep up to date with what is happeneing in the mudlarking world, I suggest you follow Jason Sandy on Instagram or Gail Howell @find_it_pick_it_up
Remember that the London Museum Docklands is still hosting its Mudlarking-themed Secrets of the Thames exhibition. Highly recommended.
A few weeks ago found me walking along the Regent’s Canal where it runs through Mile End Park. These are a few of the sights I saw along the way.
A happily decorated barge …
Three intriguing steel sculptures…
On the left is Sylvia Pankhurst (1882 – 1960), a leading member of the suffragette movement, who worked tirelessly to improve living conditions in the East End. On the right is Ledley King (born 1980). He grew up in the heart of East London and went on to play with Spurs and represent England at the World Cup …
A Towpath Horse …
Horses were essential to pull boats along the canal and bring trade and business to the area.
If the canal ever gets blocked up, a giant plunger is available for use …
I am baffled by what appears to be an anteater in the background …
The canal runs along the edge of Victoria Park or Vicky Park/the People’s Park as it is known by locals. The Chinese Pagoda is actually a replica of one that started life at the entrance to the Chinese exhibition in Hyde Park in 1842 and was then purchased for Victoria Park …
Emerging from the still water, Romanian artist Erno Bartha’s eye-catching hay sculptures have towered the West Lake in Victoria Park for almost ten years …
One exhibition showcases rare behind-the-scenes photographs of fantastic US rock band Blondie. The free display at the Barbican Music Library features 50 images taken in New York during the group’s breakthrough year in 1978, when they released their best-known album, Parallel Lines.
The photographs were taken by music photographer Martyn Goddard, who documented the band in concert, backstage, in the studio and during photo shoots. He said: “When I boarded the plane in May 1978 to photograph Blondie’s lead singer, Debbie Harry, in New York, I could not have conceived that there would still be a demand for my images over 45 years later”.
Mr Goddard described the exhibition as a visual snapshot of a key moment in Blondie’s history, capturing the band’s “energy, rawness, and style”.
“Those assignments produced a body of work that resulted in magazine cover stories, album and single covers, tour programmes, posters, a book, and two photo exhibitions.”
