Things to do in London this Week
LIST: The best London cultural events 2015, January 21-28: from mythy nudes (Rubens, Royal Academy) to Peruvian feasts (UNA).
Gilbert Scott’s glorious St Pancras Clock Tower hosts a Peruvian feast for 12: ceviche, chimichurri, semolina tiger’s milk and the like, levelled out with a clean cucumber sorbet and gorgeous wines.
QUIET SENSATION: Title and Deed
Notting Hill’s The Print Room is one of London’s best fringe venues: and ‘Title and Deed’ is a triumph: a swirling, award-winning monologue, which took Edinburgh by storm. Culture Whisper members receive two for one tickets.
FILM FIX: A Most Violent Year
We’re taken to the boardrooms of New York’s dark, unregulated past in J. C. Chandor’s latest thriller. The impossibly brilliant Jessica Chastain stars alongside Hollywood newbie Oscar Isaac, star of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'.
LAST CHANCE: Late Turner: Painting Set Free
A walk among these sublime landscapes from Britain’s oddest master will turn a rainy January afternoon into a marvel. Wonderful little accounts of the artist’s quirks hang alongside his energetic works.
A TOUCH OF ROMANCE: Liberty Secret Garden Collection
Bohemian and nostalgic, there’s nothing more comforting than Liberty textiles. This brand new design is all 1930s romance; petals and boughs twitching free from the fabric.
JUST OPENED: Rubens and his Legacy
In this blockbusting Royal Academy exhibition, Rubens’ gorgeous palettes, mythy forms and religious fits sit alongside other European masterworks that sing of his influence. Van Gogh, Picasso, Van Dyke, Reynolds, Klimt, Cezanne and Constable all play their parts.
THE POWER OF MUSIC: LPO: Verdi's Requiem and Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles
Two very different takes on the Requiem mass will make for an overwhelming concert on the Southbank. Under the indefatigable baton of Vladimir Jurowski, the LPO are joined by Orfeón Pamplonés, Spain’s 120-person choir.
LIT FIX: David Lodge in conversation with Mark Lawson
Leading British novelist David Lodge has packed away his sharp satirical quill and turned his hand to memoir: hear him discuss his autobiography “Quite A Good Time To Be Born” at King’s Place this week.
ESSENTIAL: King Charles III, Wyndham's Theatre
Rupert Goold’s inaugural Almeida play has it all: Shakesperean pentameter, contemporary concerns, hilarity and lèse-majesté to boot. This is proper theatre: seize your final chance.
POP-UP SCREEN: Nomad Cinema
Come in from the cold and cozy up to Fargo, Harold and Maude, The Graduate and Drive, courtesy of our favorite wandering cinema. Pop up street-hawkers on hand to fill you up, all included in the ticket price.
