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art : features Sketch When Sketch opened earlier last year, I was instantly bored by all the fuss and hype, especially the claims from the Standard, Time Out and Vogue etc. that this was "the best new place in London blah blah blah". The endless celeb-athon pictured pouring out of it's doors just made me think of my brother and his "you can keep your bloody London". However, in order to review Isaac Julien's new film Baadasssss Cinema, I was forced to take myself (and my shoulder chip) inside it's hallowed doors. And I tell you now, it was lucky that I hadn't actually booked a table for lunch, as I was too busy eating my words. Sketch, on Conduit Street, (just off Regent Street) is a multifaceted place with a restaurant, tea salon, library, art gallery and bar. It is housed in an amazing Georgian building which has been remodelled with a mixture of stark white walls, 1960s sci-fi primary colour seating and 16th century fake gold rococo trimmings. It sounds insane, I know, but it works extremely well. The art space, which I was expecting to be a little room with a TV, is a massive old ballroom with five glass domes in the ceiling and a huge square of white leather sofas. The Julien film was shown simultaneously on 12 cinema sized screens stretching around the room. And to top it all for me, Dylan Jones (editor of GQ) was having a cup of tea in the cafe. What a geezer, what a place. TD |
Interview: Tate's
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