Arts

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) It is important to note that before embarking on a career as a claymation animator you may be resigning yourself to an existence of long days, dark rooms and painstaking, steady progress. The fruits of that labour can be spectacular, however. If you are yet to experience the ragged, visceral joy of animator Lee Hardcastle’s claymation, we aim to fix that immediately. The Leeds native is getting everywhere lately, venting his twisted visions in music videos,...

By Emma Silverthorn (@HouseOf_Gazelle) As the centenary of the Suffragette movement is marked this year and the inevitable backlash from the men’s rights movement is heard, accusing those women instrumental in it of: ‘demanding the rights but not the responsibilities of equality,’ Vital Xposure’s The Disappearance Dorothy Lawrence is a much needed antidote. Dorothy tries to claim both and the reaction against her for doing so is simply put, odious. Dorothy was the only female reporter on the front lines...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent The new Tate Modern is to open to the public on Friday 17 June 2016, Tate announced today, with school children from around the UK invited to visit on the day before the opening to explore the new building and respond to the modern and contemporary art on display. Created by world-leading architects Herzog & de Meuron, the new Tate Modern will feature a complete re-hang, bringing together much-loved works from the collection with new...

By Emma Silverthorn (@HouseOf_Gazelle) In The Disappearance of Dorothy Lawrence theatre group Vital Xposure is set to tell another hidden story from an otherwise repressed voice. In the centenary year of the Suffragette movement it’s not surprising to find more art dealing with the stories of those women key within it; with the film Suffragette, out next month and starring powerhouse Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, being the most high profile of all. But Dorothy Lawrence is not a well-known...

By Tom Stocks @actorawareness  I have been running the Actor Awareness campaign for two years now. The campaign is slowly gathering support from all corners of the industry social media, local newspapers and bloggers. The deeper I look the more apparent it becomes to me that working class actors can not seem to find a way into acting without bags of money. The awareness is at an all time high with high profile actors speaking of the issue and new...

By Myles Longfield (@myleslongfield) This year, the UK will play host to some of the biggest sporting events in the world. Athletes will come from all over the globe to play at tournaments like Wimbledon, the Ashes and the Rugby World Cup. Those living in London will get to see most of this action, given the capital’s world-class stadia and infrastructure. It’s a win-win situation for everyone as Londoners get to see top-level sport that those living in most other towns...

London is currently home to almost two-thirds of all artists’ studios in the UK, mainly concentrated in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, according to the most recent numbers compiled in the 2010 Cultural Metropolis report. But for how long? In the midst of all the desperate land grabbing and selling, and the apartment blocks being thrown up hastily all around us – eloquently described as “the city that ate itself” just last month by Rowan Moore - London’s artists are being...

Europe’s leading photo printing website, Albelli, has teamed up with us here The London Economic to offer one lucky winner the chance to win a personalised canvas print and three runners up the chance to win a personalised mobile phone case (£19.95). Albelli’s canvas prints display your chosen photos in razor-sharp detail on 100% cotton cloth, ensuring your memories last a lifetime. You can win a large personalised canvas measuring 70 x 50cm worth £49.95 with your favourite image on it. Whether it’s taken on...

Next month, swathes of London’s comedians will be making their annual pilgrimage across the border to Scotland, for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We spoke to some of our capital's comedians about how they survive the yearly onslaught of hecklers, expensive accommodation and endless hangovers.   Nish Kumar (Croydon) Best place to catch comedy: Everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. In the past even phone boxes were turned into ersatz comedy venues by enterprising promoters. Best place to eat: David Bann is an incredible...