Kings Place
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Kings Place
As the first purpose built concert venue since the Barbican and 100 events over five days as an opening festival, Kings Place is set to create a splash on the London arts scene.
Designed by celebrated architects Dixon-Jones, Kings Place brings together under one roof a creative hub, a dining venue, a conference and events centre, plus office space.
As well as being ’home’ to the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the London Sinfonietta, visitors can expect two multimedia performance spaces, which accommodate a cosy 640 people, plus two galleries, Pangolin London and Kings Place, and regular ’spoken word’ events that offer a broad range of discussions, lectures and readings in a wide range of genres, including poetry, journalism, fiction, drama, science and medicine.
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EXPOSURES: A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF JANE BOWN’S PORTRAITS
On Friday 23 October The Observer and Kings Place will host a new exhibition by legendary Observer photographer Jane Bown.
Featuring some of the world’s most famous faces, including The Queen, John Lennon, Bjork, Woody Allen, Margaret Thatcher, Mick Jagger and Sinead O’Connor, this exhibition spans a 60 year career and showcases over 100 celebrated portraits featuring over 50 that have never been seen before.
Jane Bown’s first portrait for The Observer of Bertrand Russell was published in 1949 and her signature style has been emulated by comtempories since. In 1985 she was awarded the MBE and in 1995 the CBE for her outstanding contribution to photography. In 2002 she donated her entire collection to The Scott Trust Foundation.
Luke Dodd, curator of the exhibition, said: “I have spent the past few years organising Jane’s extensive archive, negative strip after negative strip, all annotated in her own hand with the name of the subject and the date of when the shot was taken. This collection of largely unseen portraits represents a reassessment of Jane’s very considerable achievement. These portraits have not been chosen because of whom they portray, necessarily, but because of the very particular way in which Jane has managed to portray them.”
To accompany the exhibition Exposures is being transformed into a hardback book that will be available through guardianbooks.co.uk from Thursday 22 October.
Exposures takes place in the foyer of Guardian News and Media from Friday 23 October 2009 until Sunday 6 December 2009 and in the exhibition level in Kings Place from Friday the 23rd October to Sunday 21st November. Kings Place is based on York Way, Kings Cross, London. The opening time are 10am to 6pm. Entry is free and for more information visit: www.guardian.co.uk/gnmexhibitions
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