Lauren Romano

Disappearing Dining Club - Too Much is Never Enough - 23 November

I realise I’m a bit slow to jump aboard the supper club bandwagon, but as my first pop-up di...... read more

London Word Festival - Books vs Cigarettes - 14 April

Last night in the slightly ramshackle chaos of the Dalston Boys' Club, a fags vs fiction battle was foug...... read more

London Word Festival - The Quiet Volume - 13 April

I’ll admit that until Friday afternoon I hadn’t stepped foot in a library for almost t...... read more

Stripped at Hen and Chickens - 25 February

As I creep into my seat on the front row for Stripped at Hen and Chickens, I'm out of breath and companion...... read more

Ward No.6 at Camden People's Theatre - 11 February

Matthew Parker’s adaptation of Chekhov’s classic Ward No.6 tells the fateful tale of one...... read more

Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales at Lyric Hammersmith - 27 January

"Naughty little boys are likely to get punished nowadays, you ought to know that" so a prefect torment...... read more

Flyboy is alone again this Christmas - 17 December

For various reasons I arrive at the Barbican wearing a bobble hat and a scowl. A couple of hours spent...... read more

Legacy I at Forman's Smokehouse Gallery - 18 November

The Olympics Games 2012. I’m sick of them already. Aside from the fact that I’m about ...... read more

Nadav Kander / Edmund Clark at Flowers East - 18 October

When we arrive at Flowers on Kingsland Road, the place is heaving, as crowds admire Nadav Kander&rsq...... read more

Threads of Feeling at the Foundling Museum - 14 October

There once was a boy named Benjamin Twirl (born Charles Bender) who was admitted to the care of the Foundli...... read more

Michael Patterson-Carver / In Dreams at Timothy Taylor Gallery - 9 September

“Rejected my place,” the Facebook status read. “My being a lawyer is like George Bu...... read more

Raul Ortega Ayala - Extra-Extra - 21 July

If Raul Ortega Ayala were not an artist he would be “an extra, an office worker, a gardener,...... read more

The Term Reality at Paul Stolper / In the Company of Alice at Victoria Miro - 2 July

With temperatures in the Spoonfed office reaching boiling point and the last of my coppers fritter...... read more

Sub-Saharan Journeys: An Interview with John Kenny - 2 July

Photographer John Kenny has travelled to the most remote corners of Sub-Saharan Africa, photograph...... read more

BP Portrait Award 2010 - 23 June

With £25,000 at stake you can just picture all 2,177 BP Portrait Award entrants slaving over the...... read more

Ernesto Neto - The Edges of the World - 16 June

Ernesto Neto's immersive environment which winds its way around the upper gallery and outside terrac...... read more

Francis Alÿs - A Story of Deception - 14 June

Francis Alÿs' powerfully poetic and political A Story of Deception begins with a mirage. A flicke...... read more

The Surreal House - 9 June

Trying to navigate the concrete twists and turns of the Barbican Centre is always a bit of a daunti...... read more

Antony Gormley at White Cube / Oscar Tuazon at ICA - 3 June

My my, June is shaping up to be a busy month and it's only three days in. Today I headed off for a doub...... read more

Free Range Graduate Fashion Shows - 28 May

Everyone likes a bit of Free Range these days. First it was the chicken then the egg (is that the rig...... read more

Whispering in the Leaves at Kew Gardens - 27 May

The last time I visited Kew Gardens I was 12 or 13. Year 8 had been assigned a Geography project so K...... read more

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera - 26 May

It's 2010, swarms of paparazzi buzz around like pesky mosquitoes, bloodthirstily tailing the rich a...... read more

Life Drawing with a difference - 24 May

I've never actually been to a life drawing class. For one thing, my figurative drawing skills don't exte...... read more

See London afresh with the Streetmuseum iPhone app - 21 May

Time travel would be rather fun, but short of ransacking the BBC studios and pilfering a Tardis, it wou...... read more

Galleries of Modern London - 18 May

While I'll always have a soft spot for the museums on the South Ken strip, returning from the new Galleri...... read more

Alight Here - The Tube Project - 10 May

Did you know Angel tube station has the longest single escalator rise not only on the tube network b...... read more

Marc Quinn at White Cube, Hoxton Square - 6 May

Walking into Marc Quinn's latest exhibition at White Cube, Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pame...... read more

David Mitchell Book Launch Featuring Subject to change - 5 May

Last night I built a brothel. Of sorts. It shadily stood somewhere in that grey area between video sto...... read more

The Concise Dictionary of Dress - 26 April

Blythe House, the commodious working store house for the Victoria and Albert Museum's art and desi...... read more

Close Examination - Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries - 21 April

It's always a bit embarrassing when you get duped. I speak from experience – I once bought a 'genui...... read more

Interview: Rebecca Vaughan - 19 April

When I was at University, there was a very popular module running entitled, 'Politics, Culture and Socie...... read more

Caged Bird Sings - 16 April

Deep in the bowels of St Pancras Church, beneath a crumbling façade of apostolic statues whi...... read more

Bill Fontana - River Sounding - 14 April

Literally on the doorstep of the River Thames, Somerset House was once the home of Admiral Nelson's Na...... read more

The Paper Eaters: Long Live the Photo-Story - 9 April

If you go down to Selfridge's Lower Ground floor today, or in the next month in fact, you're sure ...... read more

The Art of Storytelling - 1 April

There's something about being in a church that's just asking for mischief. Add lashings of liquor, puppe...... read more

No Soul For Sale - A Festival of Independents - 31 March

I literally can't believe that it is almost ten years exactly since I first stepped into Tate Modern...... read more

Long Live the Photo-Story: An Interview with The Girls - 23 March

I’ve seen the press photos of The Girls clad in comic-strip outfits, cheekbones all aglow wi...... read more

Deptford Art Map - 19 March

Deptford has more artists per square foot than any other place in the capital.* First surprise of t...... read more

Gavin Nolan - A King's Gambit Accepted - 19 March

It’s always nice to see a little progress. Having first seen the paintings of A King’s Gamb...... read more

Review: Lilly Through The Dark - 18 March

An achingly heart-warming play about sorrow, loss and one little girl’s search for her dead fath...... read more

Quilts 1700-2010 - 17 March

On first hearing, Quilts 1700-2010 might not sound like the most thrilling of exhibitions, but that&rsq...... read more

Stuart Silver - You Look Like Ants - 16 March

To tell the truth, I don’t really know where to begin with this bizarre evening. It opens wi...... read more

100 Days to Make Me a Better Person - 11 March

Entering the One Hundred Days hub, a rather dilapidated looking old warehouse studio off the Kingsla...... read more

The Chip Shop - 8 March

I love words. I can’t get enough of the things. There’s nothing I like more than trying ...... read more

Art, Chess, Suicide - An interview with Gavin Nolan - 4 March

In the depths of Bow I enter the warehouse studio of figurative artist Gavin Nolan, with nothing b...... read more

The Musings of a 'Gifted Loser'- An interview with Billy Childish - 26 February

I’m sitting on a little rickety stool, admiring the chaotically captivating surroundings of t...... read more

murmurART - An Introduction - 23 February

As long as you don't make my fatally foolish error of traipsing around the wrong exhibition at 20 Hoxt...... read more

Henry Moore at Tate Britain - 22 February

This impressive retrospective of one of Britain's greatest sculptors, Henry Moore at Tate Britain touch...... read more

London Word Festival 2010 - 18 February

The London Word Festival returns for a third year of lexicon-laced celebrations of the spoken and writt...... read more

Unlikely Celebrity Artists - 16 February

Ah, the humble, lowly celebrity. Not content with being talented, (or dubiously talented as the ca...... read more

St Patrick's Day History - 15 February

St Patrick's Day, a national holiday in Ireland and the feast day of its patron saint, is official...... read more

Billy Childish - Unknowable but Certain - 15 February

The ICA does itself and multi-talented maverick and all-round legend Billy Childish proud, with th...... read more

Oh! You Pretty Things - 10 February

It takes a good ten minutes of gleeful wandering round Liberty's glorious fourth floor, an Aladdin...... read more

LFW Launches a Digital Schedule - 9 February

London Fashion week seems incapable of doing wrong. The vanguard of cutting edge fashion turns technologic...... read more

Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World - 2 February

Lines, lines and more lines await at Tate Modern's first-of-a-kind exhibition devoted to Theo van Doesbu...... read more

Fool for Love at Riverside Studios - 29 January

Sadly, Carl Barat's double-denim outfit seems to be about the only well-matched pairing in this ov...... read more

Chris Ofili at Tate Britain - 26 January

To be honest, until today, my knowledge of Turner Prize-winner Chris Ofili's works began and ended with...... read more

Michael Nyman and Gavin Turk to open photography exhibition at Hackney Empire - 19 January

Controversial artist Gavin Turk and Golden Globe-nominated composer Michael Nyman conjure up an aura...... read more

London Fashion Week 2010 - 18 January

London Fashion Week hits the capital again this year. From 19-23 February models will don an enviab...... read more

There's more to Urban Art than Banksy - 12 January

Like it or not, street art has become an integrated part of the London landscape. No panorama of urb...... read more

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