The curse of the Curzon

Why the 'redevelopment' of Curzon Mayfair might not be such good news

Feb 13, 2023

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**Curzon Mayfair. Image by Kake used under CC license BY-NC-SA 2.0.**

A quick note before we get into today’s issue. Initially this was due to be a brief article on another of London’s cultural institutions closing (and an excuse to moan about the dreadful London press). But then we started pulling at the threads and it just kept unraveling. We tried to get it all finished in time and under a reasonable word count, but in order to do it justice we have decided to split it across two issues.

Update: Here’s part two:

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The curse of the Curzon... continued

In Monday’s issue we started to look at the reasons behind the closure of the Curzon Mayfair cinema, and why the framing of that as ‘good news’ by certain parts of London’s press felt like laziness at best and misdirection at worst. What we know so far is that, in 2016, a development company called 38 Curzon Ltd tried to force the cinema out by complaining about the…

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