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...The British Library (2014), which I first pored over in Turner Contemporary in Margate in 2016 — three years before it was acquired by Tate — has 6,328 hardbacks, gorgeously covered in Dutch wax fabric,...
...“I used to DJ and would make big paintings of people dancing as a backdrop for our parties,” says the Margate-based German artist. “It’s about the power of the group”....
...Some moved to the coastal towns of Margate and Hastings, others to Berlin and Lisbon. Art increasingly resists the Bohemian formula....
...The collection of new paintings, in a palette of navy, red, black and white, and collectively titled Lovers Grave, will be the first time she has shown in the city for seven years. 4 November until 13 January...
...In Margate, mosaicist and LSM alumnus Amy Exton draws on rhythmic, 19th-century techniques for contemporary effect....
...Day trips from London Walpole Bay, Margate Good for: Beach parties on New Year’s Day and a proper seaside swim Not so good for: Getting out your depth FYI: The fastest train to Margate from London is...
...acrylic plastic at a specialist atelier on the outskirts of the city....
...Over the years, the fair has also helped both the London art market and the city more broadly, with galleries reporting strong sales and new clients....
...Certainly the self-styled modernists (or mods) who’d spent that summer fighting on the beaches of Clacton and Margate seemed to share a similar itch for geometry, clean lines and neat finishes to the planners...
...After working in the City, she set up a party-planning company, Hills & Wold Events, in a pandemic-inspired change of life plan....
...Now married, the pair opened Oast (named after the kilns that litter the Kent countryside) in 2022, and are already a key component of Margate’s burgeoning food scene; the boutique Fort Road Hotel serves...
...With a long career embracing major cultural projects from Anchorage to Kyoto via Berlin and Margate, I ask Chipperfield (who is dressed, as he always is, in white jeans and a black polo-neck) what he has...
...An object I thought I’d never part with is our beach hut on the waterfront in Margate....
...The pop-up plant market launched in London in 2018 but now holds regular events in Bristol and Margate. This year it is expanding into Manchester and Edinburgh....
...So what explains the rise in city rents? Some people did spread out: Londoners to places such as Dartford and Margate; New Yorkers to the Hudson Valley....
...In collaboration with Ryan, Gordon has orchestrated a live neon-making demonstration at the gallery, creating a spectacle to chime with the city’s Christmas lights....
...“It’s probably going to attract artists from other cities where maybe it’s too expensive to live now, and getting studio space is so hard,” he says....
...out the picture. sohohouse.com The real Deal A hodgepodge of genteel Georgian façades and twee cottages, Deal is set into the wide curve of lower Kent – at a healthy remove from the seedy sparkle of Margate...
...Haeckels founder Dom Bridges: ‘Margate changed my life’ Sébastien Foucan, freerunnerBook: Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S Grover “Grover was Michael Jordan’s trainer and this is...
...Toiletries come in reusable containers and are filled with products from Haeckels, a luxury sustainable skincare brand from Margate. Water from the sinks is recycled as toilet water to minimise waste....
...Along the coast and closer to Margate, Walpole Bay, which has the UK’s largest tidal pool, is on my list to visit. You will have about three hours to swim either side of low tide....
...Margate is bristling with good places....
...They performed a warm-up gig at Dreamland Margate on August 24, but London is the main event....
...Reel Art Press, £19.95 CA The Perfect Imperfect: The Wedding Photographs of John Dolan Dolan began capturing weddings in New York City in the late 1980s, and has immortalised the ceremonies of everyone...
...There’s a second store across the city in Charlottenburg....
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