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• Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu at Tate Modern

  24-10-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The cavernous space of Tate Modern’s turbine hall is currently home to two very tall hanging artworks made from ropes and mudlarked objects found on the Thames.It is candidly though very difficult to understand the meaning behind the art unless you dig out some information and read it — the art on its own without context is simply decorative.
  Created by Cecilia Vicuña, it’s a giant form of quipu, an Andean recording device that can be crudely described as an early form o
  
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• Tickets Alert: Night at the Kilmorey Mausoleum

  24-10-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  On Halloween night, one of the UK’s finest examples of an Egyptian-style mausoleum will be lit up to glow in the dark.
  (c) Habitats & Heritage
  Built on the instructions of the 2nd Earl of Kilmorey in the 1850s, this memorial to the dead was for him, and his beloved mistress. It cost a staggering £30,000 and was originally in Brompton Cemetery, but moved a couple of times, until it found its current home, in the grounds of the Earl’s estate in Richmond.
  A tunnel was dug from
  
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• 20 photos from the Elizabeth line’s new Bond Street station

  24-10-2022 11:09 via ianvisits.co.uk
  After several months of passing through without stopping, at 5:47am this morning an Elizabeth line train carrying passengers called at Bond Street station for the first time.Bond Street station had been due to open with the rest of the Elizabeth line, and even as the Elizabeth line was delivered late, Bond Street was even later, and had more work to catch up on. Finally, this morning the final station* on the Elizabeth line opened, completing the Crossrail project.
  Apart from making trips into t
  
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• London’s Alleys: Flitcroft Street, WC2

  24-10-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This may be called a street, but it’s undeniably alley-like in appearance, snaking around the back of shops at the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street.
  It’s also an alley that has one very unusual feature that is often pointed out by people who know about it to their friends, who in turn share the story — of a remarkably tall narrow set of green doors in one of the buildings.
  But more about those later.The alley has been around for at least 300 years when the are
  
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