Art & Design Now 

Go back in time at the Geffrye Museum

Anyone with an interest in interiors or design will be charmed by the Geffrye Museum in Hoxton.

Based in a series of connected 18th century almshouses, the museum shows typical middle-class living quarters in a succession of period rooms.

Visitors start their journey in a traditional 17th century living space and gradually work their way up to the present day.

Period gardens in the grounds repeat the process so there’s even more to discover outdoors when weather permits.

The Geffrye is a much-loved gem in the lively and creative Hoxton area - historically a centre for furniture-making and market gardening. The museum is often described as an oasis in the heart of the city.

Build Lego Robots and Drink Cocktails

Drink Shop and Do, 9 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London, N1 9DX.

( Tucked away just 2 minutes from Kings Cross station in an old Victorian bathhouse.)

For a creative, quirky night out, grab a few friends and build your own Lego Robots at Drink Shop and Do.

To build and enter your robot, you must first be in a team no larger than five people, and your robot must have at least two limbs. Creativity is definitely an asset as you must give your robot a name and invent its own special ability.

The Lego Robots at Drink Shop and Do event takes place every Wednesday at 7pm. The event is free to attend.

Drink Shop and Do, is a design shop and café bar selling products from emerging designers alongside vintage furniture and home wares. Everything is for sale: from designer crafts, vintage tea sets, 1950's dressers and unusual tables and chairs, to hand-made cakes, ice creams, specialty teas, kitsch finger sandwiches, bottled beers and cocktails. Open for lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail o'clock and with many other different things to 'Do' like 'Play with Clay 80's Style' and 'Dot to Dot to Disco'. These are mostly free and require no skills whatsoever—check the Listings tab on the website to see what’s on.

Take a hike at the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail

Forest of Dean

Open from dawn until dusk all year round

The Royal Forest of Dean is situated on the English and South Wales border in the UK.

The Sculpture Trail shows seventeen permanent artworks, by artists such as David Nash and Erika Tan, with free access to all in a wonderful woodland environment.

Temporary events are also programmed, alongside an outreach program.​

The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust, in partnership with the Forestry Commission, aims to o create experiences and enjoyment of world-renowned contemporary sculpture that responds to the special context of the Forest.
As well as provide free and open access for all to contemporary sculpture, and to provide unique opportunities for artists to make sculptures which are informed by a sustained engagement with the Forest.

Unlock the gate at Bob Dylan, Mood Swings

Halcyon Gallery, 

144 - 146 New Bond Street, London

Until 25 Jan 2014 
 

Halcyon Gallery presents a major exhibition of new works by artist and musician Bob Dylan.

Building on the success of his first museum exhibition in Chemnitz, Germany in 2007 and several subsequent exhibitions, Mood Swings will show iron works by Bob Dylan for the first time, alongside original works on canvas and signed limited editions, all of which will be for sale.

Seven iron gates welded out of vintage iron and other metal parts created by Dylan in his studio will be featured in the exhibition and will be displayed publicly for the first time. These gates and other objects are the outcome of the artist’s lifelong fascination with welding and metalwork.

Image: Bob Dylan, 2013 © John Shearer

Invest in a Moomin at Covent Garden

43 Covent Garden Market, London, WC2E 8RF

The Moomin family, Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s lovable and strange hippo-like trolls have their very own beautifully designed shop in Covent Garden.

You can buy fun gifts or treat yourself to books, toys and merchandise, including copper pillboxes and beautiful printed trays all displayed in little blue Moomin houses. Serious fans of Moomintroll, his family and friends are spoilt for choice, too, with rare memorabilia and limited-edition items for sale, including prints of the original illustrations.
 

Immerse yourself at The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable

Presented by Punchdrunk and the National Theatre

Currently booking to 23 February 2014

We simply have to include this latest offering from the masters of immersive theatre Punchdrunk, as they stage their biggest and most ambitious production yet.

The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fableis is an extraordinary theatrical adventure: a unique personal journey which unfolds across four levels of the vast central London location.

The show is co-directed by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle, with Barrett responsible for the mind blowing and astonshingly detailed set designs.
Amidst the fading glamour of 1960s Los Angeles, stands Temple Studios – a crumbling monument to the golden age of film, seducing wide-eyed dreamers with the promise of wealth and fame... 

Inspired by Georg Büchner's fractured masterpiece Woyzeck,The Drowned Man explores the darkness of the Hollywood dream. Celluloid fantasy meets desperate reality, and certainty dissolves into a hallucinatory world.