An immersive floral fantasy has taken over ARTECHOUSE in Chelsea
The new 40-minute experience lets you hang out inside the 270-degree, floor-to-ceiling 18K-resolution digital canvas inside of the historic market's 100-year-old boiler room, while experiencing the fleeting beauty of spring and summer blooms come to life with immersive, interactive technology. While you're there, don't forget to grab a "Blooming"-inspired drink from the bar upstairs, like their take on an Aperol Spritz (think less Aperol and more "peachy" flavors). After drinks, head downstairs into the main room, find a floor cushion or open bench, enjoy some air-conditioning and get lost in the rich florals.
Once you've finished the experience in the main gallery, you can head back upstairs past the bar to the small gallery on display, where you can find two different video games set up for you to mess around with. You can also get a bird's-eye view of the main room over the balcony while you're up there. Plus, it's a great excuse to partake in some shameless people-watching.
"Blooming Wonders" builds upon ARTECHOUSE's established history of collaboration between artists (like Refik Anadol, Yuko Shimizu, and Vince Fraser) and outside collaborators (Pantone, the United Nations Foundation, the Society for Neuroscience, and the Nobel Prize Museum) with ARTECHOUSE's own team of designers, architects, producers and storytellers. Together, they are able to bring new concepts to life—making ARTECHOUSE an innovative leader in digital and experiential art.
So if you need a break from the heat of the city and are looking for an indoor activity for the day, "Blooming Wonders" is a must-see. You can grab some lunch in Chelsea Market after, or go back for round two at ARTECHOUSE and see their other summer experience: " Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, The Immersive Rock Experience."
General admission tickets start at $24.50. For children, ages 15 and under, tickets are $18 for time-slots before 6pm. Discounted rates are also available for students, seniors, military, first responders, and small groups of 4-9 people. artechouse.com and on site at the venue.
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Scotsman
16 hours ago
- Scotsman
Discover Dublin Street Social: Cocktails, tapas-style dining and a warm welcome in Edinburgh's New Town
Dublin Street Social There aren't many family businesses left in the heart of Edinburgh. That's what makes newcomer, Dublin Street Social, rather special. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... It occupies a lower-level New Town property, and is looked after by twentysomething director and restaurant manager, Anna McShane, who already has seven years' experience in hospitality, and her brother, events manager Matthew McShane. Their parents are behind-the-scenes but still very much hands-on investors in the enterprise. If you visit, you might even catch a glimpse of the family's miniature poodle, Ted, who has become something of a local celebrity and appears to be in charge of meeting and greeting guests. Dublin Street Social Al-fresco heated terrace and twinkling dining room! This is the family's first foray into the restaurant business, and they've enjoyed collaborating to create the bistro-style place that they felt the neighbourhood really needed. The dining room, which seats 56 covers, has been fitted out with sapphire and emerald-toned banquettes, as well as bold pop art and a vast eucalyptus swag that's twinkling with fairy lights. There's also an alfresco heated terrace area, to sit 14 people. It could be the perfect vantage point, especially during the Festival, to sip an Aperol spritz and watch any New Town goings-on. Inside, there's a new bar, which is heavily upholstered with whiskies and bottles of every variety of Edinburgh Gin. They currently serve a wide selection of classic cocktails, from old fashioneds to French martinis, and are planning to extend the menu soon. Margaritas and a glass of rosé are very popular right now. Anna Also, among other beers, Asahi, Jubel and, of course, Guinness, are on tap. As the McShanes are from Northern Ireland, they're very proud of serving what they claim is the best pint of Guinness in the city. All-day tapas: You can have a bit of everything This seems particularly apt, considering the name of the restaurant, and the Georgian street, which once had the working name of Hibernia Street. To go alongside the black stuff, Dublin Street Social focusses on classic brunch dishes from Friday to Sunday, 10am until 4pm, and there are also small plates from Wednesday to Saturday, noon until 9pm. They went for this all-day tapas-style concept, to keep the feel of the place relaxed and flexible. Says Anna: 'It is more common these days to have options, so instead of having one main, you can have a bit of everything.' Suppliers exemplify chef's cooking ethos Chef Stephen Holmes has 20 years of kitchen experience at venues including the Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa in St Andrews, Edinburgh's Castle Terrace restaurant, Dakota in South Queensferry, and other dining destinations. My ethos is keeping the menu as simple as possible and using the amazing larder that Scotland offers, so I just let the produce speak for itself. Chef Stephen Holmes His favourite suppliers are Welch's for seafood - 'they're amazing, there's nobody else in the city who can top what they're giving us' - and Gilmour Butchers. The current menu includes the owner's favourite dish - garlic-buttered West Coast langoustines, which have been barbecued on Dublin Street Social's Japanese Konro grill, to impart a smoky flavour. They exemplify the chef's simple cooking ethos. Delicious seafood and other small plates Other winning options include the pan-seared Orkney scallops with an aromatic curry sauce, crispy salt and vinegar capers, and the nibbly 'chippie style' batter bits; or the tempura monkfish cheeks with a pot of curry and lime mayonnaise and pickled red onions on the side. However, there isn't just seafood. Other small plates include picante chorizo and Manchego croquettes; Scottish sirloin steak with Lyonnaise potatoes, bread and wild garlic and bone marrow butter, and four vegan or vegetarian creations. Says Stephen Holmes: 'It's been really good, as normally you have a couple of dishes that are stragglers, but there's nothing that's not selling. 'We've got four or five options that are tied at the top that are doing the best - our steak dish always flies out, as do the croquettes and any of the chicken dishes.' As the chef has previous experience in a pastry section, the pudding isn't an afterthought. Dublin Street Social Dishes will be tweaked if customers want changes There are three to choose from, including a Raeburn apple Tarte tatin and a rather lavish sharing dish of white chocolate and strawberry Crème Brûlée. The kitchen is very happy to tweak dishes, if customers want any changes. They want the team to be approachable, and to convert occasional visitors into regulars. Perhaps this willingness to please is part of the reason why feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. At two-months-old, they're happy to only have five-star reviews on Google. Hopefully this will continue, as the team at Dublin Street Social actions the plans for the future. For one thing, there will be more happening in their basement events space, Ollie's, which is named after the family's much-loved golden Labrador, who passed on at the advanced age of 16. Plans for atmospheric, private, basement space This atmospheric space, which has a rustic vibe, has room for up to 120 people and is perfect for birthdays and anniversaries, though they've also just hosted their first wedding reception down there, too. It has its own private entrance, a bar, kitchen, two large digital screens and there's space for a DJ and dance floor. This venue was formerly Little White Pig , and they hadn't used the basement space, so this is an opportunity to bring it to life. Upstairs, they're planning to introduce wine and whisky tastings, which they think the locals will appreciate. They're also introducing more live music, after some recent experiments went down well with diners. How to find out more, and visit Dublin Street Social There is plenty happening at Dublin Street Social. Food, music, family, and a very friendly dog, all punctuated with a pint of the black stuff. Visit Dublin Street Social at 26B Dublin Street, Edinburgh; phone them on 0131 563 0403, or visit their website
Times
2 days ago
- Times
Our greatest football photographer's secret? Ignore the game
The world of football is not, you would have thought, a world that concerns itself overly with events in art. These two great spheres of human endeavour appear fiercely separated. And in most locations they are. But not in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where, unbelievably, a gallery has inveigled its way into the hall of balls and is now luring unsuspecting football folk on to the aesthetic quicksand of art. The Oof Gallery is inside the huge Spurs merch shop, secluded in a small Georgian building that the planners, in their infinite English perversity, insisted must remain untouched while the club's new stadium was built around it. It now lurks there, almost invisible, surrounded by mountains of Spurs paraphernalia, a small pearl in a huge oyster. The shows they mount here are usually on a football theme of some sort. The latest offering pairs the football photographs of Peter Robinson with the creatively vandalised football shirts of Nicole Chui, who, on this evidence, ought never to have been allowed near a sports kit. More on that and on the adjacent issue of the awful 2025 Tottenham shirt in a moment. First, we need to plunge into the soccer sadness of Robinson, 81, hailed by The New York Times as the 'greatest living football photographer'. Amazingly he has recorded 13 World Cups and nine Olympic Games. For five decades he has been photographing the pigskin sport, and the show confirms he has visited and watched pretty much everywhere it has been played. In 2003 he was in Japan photographing the space-age Yokohama Stadium and noticing how a field of cabbages had grown plentiful right outside it. In 1993 he was in Beirut, shedding a tear for the Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium after an attack by the Israeli air force had turned it into a bombed-out crater filled with refugees. What's fascinating here is how much of Robinson's interest lies at the game's peripheries and how little actual football he has recorded. When Portugal played Spain in Porto in 1981, he watched a disembodied hand reach out to collect the tickets from a walled-up bunker masquerading as an entrance kiosk. In the groundsman's hut at Southend United in 2004, he noticed that the groundsman was watching another game on the telly while his own team were playing outside through the open door. • Read more art reviews, guides and interviews What really interests him is the humanity of football rather than its skills: the way it bleeds off the pitch into the surrounding life. He likes a joke too. In 1970, at Wolves v Man Utd, he caught a moment when Bobby Charlton was approached by a policeman while taking a corner. Robinson called the photo The Two Bobbies. His picture of Bill Nicholson entering the gates of White Hart Lane in 1970 with a cheeky smile and a shapeless Marks & Sparks suit has become iconic, because Nicholson looks more like a dusty geography teacher than the most revered of all Tottenham managers. Humanity done, the rest of the experience at the Oof Gallery and its surroundings feels as if it is emphasising how football has changed for the worse, and how delusion has crept into its world. Nicole Chui is the founder of Baes FC, 'a grassroots football community for women, trans and non-binary people of Asian heritage aiming to play football in a safe space'. It sounds like a healthy and jolly London arrangement. Good on her. Where things start to unravel is that she also imagines herself to be a football artist, and in that role she has been given a space at the Oof to display her wares and to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that she should stick to founding community soccer teams. Chui's creative ambition is 'to disrupt perfection and inspire others to embrace their raw emotions'. This involves taking a needle and thread to an assortment of football shirts and sewing spider patterns across them, ruining their shape and disfiguring the design ambitions of the shirts' makers. If she improved them, even slightly, this would be a noble task. She doesn't. Instead the gaudy patching feels like an act of aggression, death by a thousand stitches, a killing of the football shirt. Somewhere along the line she has persuaded herself that being messy (as opposed to Messi) is the same thing as being creative. It isn't. As it happens, football shirts have experienced something of a renaissance in recent years. My fellow Sunday Times writer Joey D'Urso has just written an entire tome on the subject. Called More Than a Shirt, its big point is that every football kit in every land 'tells a deeper story about the world we inhabit'. To gather his evidence, Joey travelled the world, but I guess he never made it to the Tottenham stadium and the merchandising souk that surrounds the Oof Gallery, where rack after rack of 2025 Spurs kit makes you cry with its lack of fizz or ambition. To see where football shirts really have advanced, you need to leave behind the moneyed casinos of the Premier League and head down to the lower divisions. Walthamstow FC, from the Isthmian League North Division, recently brought out a fabulous turquoise kit based on the famous wallpaper designs of the Walthamstow local William Morris. My own team, Reading FC, now having fun in League One, issued a kit featuring a purple turtle design inspired by a local nightclub. This year their shirt is based on a Victorian biscuit tin designed by the local cake makers Huntley & Palmers. This is the football shirt cementing important links with the local community and pushing out the boat in invention and excitement. Sad, robotic Tottenham Hotspur should definitely try it. Peter Robinson: Double Vision is at the Oof Gallery, London, to Aug 31; Nicole Chui: Ruined, to Aug 2; What exhibitions have you enjoyed recently? Let us know in the comments below
Time Out
5 days ago
- Time Out
An immersive floral fantasy has taken over ARTECHOUSE in Chelsea
This summer in New York City, experience the unbelievable beauty of nature—without actually having to go outside. Head over to ARTECHOUSE in Chelsea Market now until Labor Day and immerse yourself in a new botanically inspired multi-sensory exhibition, " Blooming Wonders." This pixelated ever-moving landscape featuring psychedelic pink daises, fluttering butterflies and some abstract surpises is accompanied by calming, dreamlike ambient music. The new 40-minute experience lets you hang out inside the 270-degree, floor-to-ceiling 18K-resolution digital canvas inside of the historic market's 100-year-old boiler room, while experiencing the fleeting beauty of spring and summer blooms come to life with immersive, interactive technology. While you're there, don't forget to grab a "Blooming"-inspired drink from the bar upstairs, like their take on an Aperol Spritz (think less Aperol and more "peachy" flavors). After drinks, head downstairs into the main room, find a floor cushion or open bench, enjoy some air-conditioning and get lost in the rich florals. Once you've finished the experience in the main gallery, you can head back upstairs past the bar to the small gallery on display, where you can find two different video games set up for you to mess around with. You can also get a bird's-eye view of the main room over the balcony while you're up there. Plus, it's a great excuse to partake in some shameless people-watching. "Blooming Wonders" builds upon ARTECHOUSE's established history of collaboration between artists (like Refik Anadol, Yuko Shimizu, and Vince Fraser) and outside collaborators (Pantone, the United Nations Foundation, the Society for Neuroscience, and the Nobel Prize Museum) with ARTECHOUSE's own team of designers, architects, producers and storytellers. Together, they are able to bring new concepts to life—making ARTECHOUSE an innovative leader in digital and experiential art. So if you need a break from the heat of the city and are looking for an indoor activity for the day, "Blooming Wonders" is a must-see. You can grab some lunch in Chelsea Market after, or go back for round two at ARTECHOUSE and see their other summer experience: " Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, The Immersive Rock Experience." General admission tickets start at $24.50. For children, ages 15 and under, tickets are $18 for time-slots before 6pm. Discounted rates are also available for students, seniors, military, first responders, and small groups of 4-9 people. and on site at the venue.
