Rap-Up
Rihanna and Jay-Z will help provide the soundtrack to the London 2012 Olympic Games this summer. The Roc Nation superstars will headline BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend 2012, taking place a month before the Games on June 23 and 24, said organizers of the...
Mail Online UK
26 April 2012 A pop-up restaurant in the shape of a giant pineapple , a string quartet performance in a helicopter and cathedrals playing host to aerial acrobats. These are just some of the madcap and, frankly eyebrow raising ideas planned to...
The Guardian
Jeremy Deller bounces on Sacrilege, his bouncy castle artwork. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian A question arises looking at the full programme for the London 2012 festival , and that question is: why?...And how does it connect in any...
The Guardian
Dancers (left to right) Carlo Jaconelli, Konstanze Spohrer and Dane Lukic at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, as details of the London 2012 Festival events are unveiled. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA It will include a bouncy castle Stonehenge, a...
International Business Times
The celebration of arts that constitutes the Scottish portion of the 2012 London Festival programme will travel from Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh to a remote beach cove on the Isle of Lewis and will be launched on 21 June. According to the Press...
The Guardian
Ruth Mackenzie, director of the Cultural Olympiad, which began in 2008...Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian For all that London 's Olympic preparations have been going comparatively well compared to other recent Games no mass resignations (...