News: Exhibitions
Next Friday (May 6 2011) Golden Retriever Sandy will take part in a canine resurrection. Nobody ever expected it could or would ever happen. Before the dog meets his owner’s great nephew, artist Nicki-joe Baxter, Sandy will visit London’s only centrally located, fully licensed dog day-care and overnight boarding centre, CDPOM World. From there Sandy…
Posted in CDPOM news, Dogs, Exhibitions, London news, National news on May 2nd, 2011 |
Jet, a flat-coated retriever, beat 21,000 other dogs to win the 120th Crufts last night. The gun dog was named Best in Show after four days of competition. Jim Irvine, his breeder, from Edinburgh, said it was the “ultimate prize”. But the showbiz star of the four-day event at Birmingham’s NEC was a corgi called…
Posted in CDPOM news, Dog breeds, Dogs, Exhibitions, General, National news on March 14th, 2011 |
The British Sporting Art Trust has launched its 2011 Exhibition – Man’s Best Friend, Dogs & Hounds of Field & Show. Hung in the Vestey Gallery in Newmarket it features high quality pictures and bronzes of the dog as depicted over three centuries by important artists such as George Stubbs, John Wootton, Sawrey Gilpin, Thomas…
Posted in CDPOM news, Dogs, Exhibitions on March 10th, 2011 |
Anish Kapoor’s Sky Mirror sculptures is fooling animals in Hyde Park. The latest to be caught von camera is this goose. The Egyptian goose is pictured attacking its own reflection in the artist’s concave mirror erected in Hyde Park. The Sky Mirror 2006 sculpture, a 10-metre diameter sculpture made of stainless steel, is one of…
Posted in Cartoons & funnies, CDPOM news, Dogs, Exhibitions, London news on February 28th, 2011 |
The skeleton of the Thames whale is on display at the Natural History Museum. The seven-tonne bottlenose whale that swam up the Thames into Central London five years ago and then died during the rescue attempt is on display in Tring, Hertfordshire, where the new exhibition is looking at how the 11-year-old female became stranded…
Posted in Animal welfare, Exhibitions, General, International, London news, National news on January 19th, 2011 |
A London museum is inviting people get up close and personal with skulls, teeth and other body parts from extinct and endangered animals. The Hunterian Museum in WC2, which is operated by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, has opened its stored collections of extinct species for a temporary exhibition displaying the remains of…
Posted in Animal welfare, Exhibitions, General, International, London news, National news on January 18th, 2011 |