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Sand, Solitude, Space. Zakaria Wakrim: Amarg (Photography)

22/07/2016

Zakaria Wakim's photography encounters the heart of solitude in the Sahara desert...

Mature, Complex, with a Lasting Finish. NOS Primavera Sound, Porto

21/07/2016

NOS Primavera Sound leaves a lasting impression on Trebuchet's man in Portugal...

Shake Dem Pixels: Sexualization in Video Games Down

20/07/2016

Sexualizaton of female video game characters has diminished since the 1990s ...

Subject Matters: Searching for The Perfect Pop Music Lyric

28/02/2016

Man and The Echo’s Gareth Roberts waxes lyrical about the importance of good lyrics in pop music....

Short Skirts, Sharp Suits. Proud Galleries present the photography of Terry O’Neill

26/02/2016

Proud Galleries focus on iconic sixties photographer Terry O'Neill in their April exhibition of Rolling Stones photos...

The Timeline of Being a Woman

17/02/2016

Political activist Lisa Muggeridge chronicles the ways culture, politics and society combine to control women's lives....

The Celestial Time Capsule is Your Chance to Send a Message into Space

11/02/2016

Artistic space odyssey to broadcast people's messages to the stars ...

David Bowie, Cuts, and Why ‘Culture’ is becoming Another Planet

16/01/2016

Bowie's mere presence personified the power and relevance of a cultured society that appreciated and allowed him to emerge and for the rest of us to reach for those rewarding stars as well...

Mind of Blue. The Neuroscience of the Minor Key

06/01/2016

Study of jazz pianists finds 'happy' and 'sad' music evoke different neural patterns...

A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet (Part two)

22/08/2015

Drew Michael walks us through more examples of our own miserable double-think....

Bringing West Africa to South Sudan

08/07/2015

In South Sudan, all of us were reminded of the African continent's sprawling size and rich diversity....

Music : Did We Even Like it Anyway?

10/01/2015

Why is the music industry failing? Perhaps it’s just that most folk never really liked it much anyway....

Welcome to Iraq : South London Gallery

15/04/2014

Live event, featuring a talk, a performance and traditional Iraqi food...

Social networks may inflate self-esteem, reduce self-control

31/01/2013

Pitt and Columbia researchers publish evidence on Social Network behavior and how it relates to users' self-control, body-mass indexes, and credit-card debt...

In Defence of Music

27/12/2012

I am here in defence of music. Of music music---not social music sites, not music apps, not the ability to stream, or the ability to store songs in the cloud. I am here to extol the delicious,...

Are Social Media Values Human Values?

04/12/2012

None of the values promoted by a social-media-dominated world are helpful with depth-oriented, long-term thinking...

PAFT Relief

07/08/2012

The Designer Cosa Nostra have now decreed that their collections must fully express the zeitgeist by embracing art, philosophy, cinema, music and God-knows-what-else. You may think that these...