More than 19.8 million visitors saw an event at the London 2012 Festival, figures show. Arts, theatre, music and exhibitions were part of the £63 ...
More than 19.8 million visitors saw an event at the London 2012 Festival, figures show. Arts, theatre, music and exhibitions were part of the £63 ...
Social Media is a new medium for artists as video art was in the 60's. It is very exciting because an artist can reach an audience on a truly global level. Never in a wild dream a project can be organized where people from Chile, HongKong, London and New York are participating at the same time.
For many people, Mandela is a symbol of struggle, perseverance and integrity but he is also an ambassador for the Olympic Games. It seems even more fitting therefore that his life shaped the vision behind this play, given its relationship to these global Games.
At the British Library, we were aware that summer 2012 demanded something special for our major exhibition programme. From the manuscript of Beowulf, to the notebooks of J. G. Ballard, the Library has the finest collection of English Literature in the world, and the opportunity to open up this literary treasure-house to visitors in 2012 seemed irresistible.
Daredevil performers could be seen leaping across some of London's most famous monuments on Sunday, in a celebratory display which fused dance, acroba...
The full lineup for this summer's Cultural Olympiad includes over 12,000 events, during which time Britain’s cultural map will boast everything from...
What I'm proposing is a spectacle of brutal combat that pits creative types against each other for the entertainment of a baying global audience and the profit of greed-crazed corporate sponsors. Think of it as The Hunger Games with the difference that what these contestants are hungry for is blueberry muffins, skinny lattes, new Apple products and high-end gift baskets.
The Orbit is a case in point. Having seen it last week I can assure you it looks even worse than the photographs. It is an uninspiring piece of scaffolding which has no links to its environment and says nothing about the surrounding area or community.
A boat crafted from 1,200 pieces of wood, including fragments from the Mary Rose and Jimi Hendrix's guitar, will be launched today as part of a nation...
A laser light display brought a vibrant rainbow to the night skies of North Tyneside, to mark the 2012 Cultural Olympiad celebrations in the north eas...
A three-minute chorus of bells will be rung out across Britain to signal the start of the first day of the London 2012 Games. The mass bell-ring...
The Scissor Sisters will head a line-up of international musicians at a festival to herald the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The free fe...
