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which had a profound influence on the Futurists. Other highlights include Giacomo
Balla's
Hand of the Violinist
, a classic Futurist study of movement, speed and dexterity,
and Gino Severini's Cubist
Dancer
. The gallery also features paintings by lesser-known
Italian artists such as Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli, Mario Sironi and Zoran
Music, as well as by Italy's two leading postwar sculptors, Emilio Greco and Marino
Marini. Excellent special exhibitions are held on the lower floors, and there's a pleasant
Italian café that spills out into the back courtyard in good weather.
Hackney
The borough of
Hackney
stretches from Shoreditch (see p.196), on the East End edge
of the City, to the predominantly Jewish north London suburb of
Stamford Hill
. One
of the most ethnically diverse of all London boroughs, it comes as no surprise that the
country's longest-serving black woman MP, Diane Abbott, has her constituency in
Hackney. The fact that the borough has tourist signposts comes as a surprise to many
visitors, yet Hackney repays selective visits:
Dalston
is now at the heart of London's
alternative nightlife (see p.403);
Stoke Newington
is a haven of inexpensive restaurants
and laidback cafés; and
Hackney Central
boasts the former music hall of the Hackney
Empire, with the red-brick Tudor mansion of
Sutton House
a short stroll away.
Dalston
Dalston
has undergone a seismic transformation, and has now overtaken Shoreditch as
London's hippest, grittiest new
quartier
. Among the early pioneers was the excellent
Vortex Jazz Club
, on the frankly quite sleazy Gillett Square, followed by the Arcola
Theatre, one of the city's most dynamic fringe venues, which now occupies a former
paint factory on Ashwin Street, next door to the avant-garde music venue
Café Oto
.
This trio has been accompanied by bars and clubs dotted up and down the high street
Cathedral
Church of the
Good Shepherd
ROOKWOOD
ROAD
HACKNEY
Stamford
Hill
ACCOMMODATION
Avo
Rose and Crown
Guesthouse
SHOPS
Beyond Retro
Broadway Market
Ridley Road Market
Springfield
Park
2
1
1
3
2
Walthamstow
Marshes
UPPER
CLAPTON
R
CAFÉS
Blue Legume
F. Cooke
Towpath Café
Voodoo Ray's
BARS & PUBS
Auld Shillelagh
Dove
The Empress
The Fox
Off Broadway
The Prince George
The Castle
1
6
5
4
2
15
16
13
14
11
Stoke
Newington
Abney
Park
Cemetery
Old
St Mary's
Church
Library
T
E E
Clapton
Middlesex
Filter
Beds
RESTAURANTS
Mangal Ocakbasi
Rasa
Clissold
Park
3
2
CLUBS
The Alibi
Dalston Superstore
Dance Tunnel
The Nest
New
St Mary's
Church
8
6
7
5
Rectory
Road
NIN
ALL RD
STOKE
NEWINGTON
N
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Hackney
Marshes
D
O W N S R OA D
Hackney
Downs
MUSIC VENUES
Cafe OTO
Passing Clouds
Shacklewell Arms
The Vortex
ARCOLA ST
10
12
3
9
LOWER
CLAPTON
NEWINGTON
GREEN
St Augustine's Tower
St John's Church
KINGSLAND HIGH ST
Rio Cinema
SAN DRI NGH AM R
TO N
GAY & LESBIAN
VENUES
Blush
Vogue Fabrics
Dalston Kingsland
Sutton House
Hackney
Downs
M
1
4
Arcola Theatre
ASHWI
ST
O
A
LLS
Hackney
Central
Homerton
Hackney
Empire
C K
R
Hackney
Wick
PARKHOLME
ROAD
Town Hall
Hackney
Museum
Dalston
Junction
Stratford
International
HACKNEY
DALSTON
R I C H M
O N D R
O A D
2012
Olympic
Park
Olympic
Stadium
London
Fields
London
Fields
Haggerston
BROADWAY
MARKET
Orbit
To we r
Victoria
Park
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Pudding
Mill Lane
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