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Time Out
19-06-2025
- Climate
- Time Out
London travel disruption this weekend: full list of tube and train closures for June 20-23
London is in for an absolutely sizzling weekend. The capital is set to reach a blistering 33C on Saturday, so we wouldn't blame you for keeping activity to a minimum and avoiding trains like the plague. At the same time, though there's tonnes of stuff going on throughout the city that will be worth the sweaty tube ride, we promise. There's Little Simz' Meltdown festival, the Kew Midsummer Fete, the SAFAR Film Festival, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and loads, loads more. Plus, of course, Dua Lipa's first ever headline shows at Wembley Stadium. The last thing you want in this heat is having to unexpectedly replan your route and be walking around more than absolutely necessary. So, we're here will all the information you need on planned train and tube disruptions from Friday, June 20 to Sunday June 22. Dua Lipa at Wembley Stadium travel advice For Dua Lipa's huge concerts on Friday and Saturday, you'll need to get to Wembley Park station (Jubilee and Metropolitan lines), Wembley Stadium station (Chiltern Main Line) or Wembley Central station (Bakerloo and Lioness lines). There's some planned disruption on several Overground lines on the day of the first show so you may need to rethink the route you originally had planned. More details on those below. Full list of tube and train disruptions in London this weekend DLR There'll be partial closures on the DLR on Saturday and Sunday, with no service between Poplar / Stratford International and Beckton / Woolwich Arsenal. TfL says you should use either the Elizabeth line, Jubilee line or the replacement bus services on offer instead. District Don't expect any District line services between Turnham Green and Richmond on Sunday. You'll need to use replacement bus service DL3, which will go between Willesden Junction and Richmond via Acton Central, South Acton (Acton Lane), Turnham Green, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury and Kew Gardens. Overground Suffragette If you tend to travel in the early hours of the morning, bear in mind that on Friday, the 5.48am train from Barking Riverside to Gospel Oak and the 6.24am train from Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside won't be running. Mildmay On Friday, there are no southbound services from Willesden Junction to Shepherds Bush until 6.15am. Lioness There's only a slight alteration on the Lioness line – on Friday, the 5.29am train from Watford Junction to Euston will start from Willesden Junction at 6.04am instead. Weaver Weaver services between Hackney Downs and Chingford will stop running from 10.45pm on Sunday. There'll be replacement buses you can hop on instead. Windrush There'll be no Windrush services between New Cross Gate and West Croydon / Crystal Palace on either Saturday or Sunday. National Rail Southern Rail No services will go between London Bridge and Crystal Palace / East Croydon (via Forest Hill) on Sunday. There are also no trains running between East Croydon and Gatwick Airport on the same day due to urgent repair work.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Portland Gallery - BILL JACKLIN: CITY TO SEA 25TH JUNE
LONDON, June 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Portland Gallery is delighted to announce a major exhibition of paintings, monotypes and prints by Bill Jacklin RA. The exhibition will consist of over fifty works, almost all from the last ten years. Titled 'City to the Sea' the exhibition will feature a range of core themes from Jacklin's oeuvre; from the ice rinks and stations of New York City to the expansive seascapes near his Rhode Island studio. All the works on display show a profound sense of the artist capturing moments in time, recreating movement and depicting man's place within the universe. These moments are represented on both a micro and macro level – from the small movements of chess players in a New York park through to the heavens moving slowly across a night sky. Occasionally there is drama – a falling skater, a bustling crowd or a precipitous wave – but often the tension is more subtly rendered. Unusually, Jacklin's wonder is expressed for both the wilds of nature and the opposite wilds of urban life, and our exhibition seeks to build a bridge between these seemingly disparate subjects. This exhibition will be the first major showing of Jacklin's work in the UK since the closure of Marlborough Fine Art – his dealers for the past forty years. Our show will open shortly after the opening of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition which will feature six works by Jacklin (three oils and three monotypes). Our presentation will be supported by a fully illustrated catalogue with text by Richard Davey. High resolution images available on request Advanced viewings of artworks can be arranged on request The artist is available for interview An illustrated catalogue will support the exhibition About Portland Gallery Portland Gallery was established in 1984 and are leading dealers in Modern and Contemporary British Art. Located in St James's, the gallery is spread over two floors and plays host to fourteen exhibitions a year, principally solo presentations of represented artists and estate. The gallery is operated as an Employee Ownership Trust. For more information please contact:Jamie Andersonjamie@ 493 1888 Photo: View original content to download multimedia: Sign in to access your portfolio
The Guardian
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Jack Vettriano: ‘His paintings are like a double cheeseburger in a greasy wrapper'
In 1992, Jack Vettriano's painting The Singing Butler was rejected by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Anyone who has seen some of the dross picked for display in the RA's annual open submission collision of amateur artists and big stars in recent decades will be thinking: 'Ouch, must've been a real dud.' But The Singing Butler not only wasn't a dud, it went on to become one of the most ubiquitous and – whisper it – iconic British paintings since the second world war. And that tells you a lot about the Scottish artist, who has died at the age of 73. The art establishment has always despised him, but the rest of the world – if you can accept some awkward, problematic conception of 'ordinary people' – absolutely lapped up his art. He wasn't a household name like Tracey Emin or David Hockney. He wasn't lauded by the art world. He sure wasn't celebrated by critics. Vettriano was something else, something almost sinful – he was popular. His paintings aren't classy, or clever, or conceptual. They're lurid, chintzy, fusty, old-fashioned, conservative and often pretty sexist. He painted people dancing on the beach in 1930s outfits. He painted mobsters and tough guys in suits, 'broads' in bras and men polishing muscle cars. They're paintings commissioned by people who own multiple convertibles; rich, greasy men with three buttons too many unbuttoned. The main issue for snobby art types like me isn't the work itself. It's that he lacked a conceptual edge, a sense of irony and any postmodern self-awareness. He didn't paint sexy midnight trysts between half-clothed women and Brylcreemed men as a comment on gendered power dynamics or as a riff on art historical depictions of the female nude. He painted them because they were sexy. Contemporary art wants more. It wants depth and nuance. It's not enough to be nostalgic or sexy. But Vettriano's answer to that is: 'Yeah, but it's so sexy.' And it's a good argument. That simplicity, that directness that is totally unburdened by shame or embarrassment is the appeal. He sold countless thousands of prints of his paintings to 'ordinary people' because the images so effectively communicate their ideas and emotions. These are works of nostalgia, lust, aspiration, love. You look at a Vettriano and you understand it. That's a powerful thing, a good thing. And one of the problems with contemporary art is that it often requires you to be smart enough to 'get it', but all that does is push people away. Vettriano's work pulls you in. I had a friend who considered himself a foodie. He was obsessed with ferments, micro-herbs, gels and gastriques, but he'd never, not even once, been to a McDonald's. How can you love great food if you've never understood why so many other people love McDonald's and everything else at the other end of the spectrum? It's the same for art – and Vettriano's paintings are like a double cheeseburger wrapped in greasy paper, precision-engineered to scratch a specific aesthetic itch. They're not culturally enriching, but they have their place in your artistic diet. The thing is, you can't constantly complain that people don't like Proust and Brahms. Sometimes you just have to find the beauty, or at least the appeal, in Married at First Sight and Banksy. We can learn a lot more from looking for the aesthetic and cultural qualities in 'lower' artforms than from outright rejecting them. And Vettriano's work embodies a battle between 'high' and 'low' that should have ended long ago, but still tediously rages on. Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions after newsletter promotion Look, I'm not being entirely honest here. I don't appreciate these paintings as paintings. I actually think they're pretty heinous and grim. But I appreciate them for their appeal, for their ability to transcend boundaries, and I like them because other people like them. I like them because they tell you what people are really into – and that's dancing on the beach, looking sharp and having sex.
