Chelsea Flower Show 2010: all you need to know

26th May 2010 > Craft & Creative, Food, Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff, Travel

Why? Chelsea Flower Show or as it was then known the Great Spring Show was first held in Kensington, London in 1862 and is today the world’s most famous flower show.  A symbol of the start of the british summer, its sets the trends, features the newest and most desirable gardening products and showcases horticultural excellence of the worlds leading nurseries and growers.

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Sell your soul – exhibit at the Tate Modern for the Museum of Everything Exhibition #2

7th May 2010 > Craft & Creative, Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff

Next weekend, May 14th – 16th, the fabulous Museum of Everything is setting up shop in the mighty Turbine gallery at the Tate Modern … oooh check them out, dead posh, innit.

Having started life as a “museum of everything” during the London Frieze Art Fair in October 2009, the M of E was described by fans as, ‘the most interesting collection ever’, and by its creator James Brett as the ‘awful The Museum of Anything’.

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The Thousands – Vandalog Street Art Exhibition

5th November 2009 > Craft & Creative, Ooh.com Stuff, Travel

A while back, we told you about a promising young figure on the London street art scene, RJ, from Vandalog. Well, we’ve recently had an update from RJ about an exhibition he’s hosting, called The Thousands.

Shepard Fairey

Now you can not only take a tour with RJ around London’s best and freshest urban art hotspots, but you can view some of the biggest international names in contemporary urban art at his forthcoming exhibition.

WK-Interact

RJ tells us that much of the artwork at The Thousands is on loan from collectors, allowing him to include artists like Banksy, Os Gemeos, Jose Parla, Swoon, Aiko, Nick Walker, Kaws and many others that wouldn’t normally appear together.

Elbowtoe

In a passionate statement about the collection, RJ tells Ooh.com: “The Thousands includes some of the most amazing paintings that have been made in the last decade, from some of the most interesting artists in the world. I want Charles Saatchi, Jonathan Jones and Jose Mugrabi to show up and fall in love with everything there, because the people I know under 30 care more about Shepard Fairey’s posters than Damien Hirst’s spot paintings. I want to start a war. Tracey Emin was relevant. Now it’s Os Gêmeos’ turn.”

Lister Right, Urban Art

If you’d like to find out more about The Thousands exhibition, click here. If you fancy taking a tour around London’s East End, featuring some of the most recent work by the cities most enthralling street artists, check out RJ’s his listing on Ooh.com!

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