Archive - Trebuchet

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

25/04/2018

That Good Night is a slightly disappointing swansong for the late John Hurt, nevertheless the actor shines in this moral quandary....

How Do Marine Mammals Avoid The Bends?

25/04/2018

A new study offers a hypothesis of how marine mammals generally avoid getting the bends and how they can succumb under stressful conditions....

Are The Working Class Kept Away From The Arts?

24/04/2018

Have you ever felt that your less then welcome in the creative industry? Check your accent!...

Phillip Allen Body & Mind

24/04/2018

Treading the line between the desire to create recognisable forms with a more strictly modernist painting approach, Phillip Allen has a wonderfully impure painterly style. ...

Hey Buddy! Heads Up – Cancer Bats

23/04/2018

Canadian Southern-fried Hardcore fiends Cancer Bats drop an indie-released album on our heads with nary a warning...

Wrecked The Grading Curve – Home Wrecked

23/04/2018

Sheffield Pop Punkers Home Wrecked tackle the tricky sophomore release with a fresh, mature approach in ‘Try What You Want, Just Make Sure It Works’....

Luton Upcoming Art Location

20/04/2018

Luton could be the place you keep your creative ambitions alive and bring them to fruition....

Creating Utopia & Dystopia

20/04/2018

We recreate our myths everywhere, those which are beautiful and horrifying ...

Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapoil! said the duchess, and all the courtiers reached. Soil. The journal, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, (volume 63, 2017, issue 5) has...

DaliParis, re-opens with Dali the Sculptor at its centre

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;T/dropcaphere are two good reasons for taking a fresh look at the work of Salvador Dalí. The first is that Matthew Collings, in his insightful...

Feminism and the Virgin Whore: Antiporno

18/04/2018

Fiercely lurid and often surreal, Sion Sono's tribute to Japan's Roman Porno is a whirlwind trip into sexual dichotomy....

Five Senses Cinema to Open in London West End

18/04/2018

A state-of-the-art cinema that engages all five senses will bring the onscreen action to life for Londoners this week....

The Idea of newness is an essential part of the function of art in modern times but what does that mean and how does newness form and change? Are we all prone to long for a past that never was or a...

Melted on my Cortex – Boss Keloid

16/04/2018

Slow and heavy Wiganers Boss Keloid once again repudiate expectations with new full-length sonic deluge 'Melted On The Inch'...

What Dreams May Come?

13/04/2018

We all dream and since nobody will listen to us explain them it may be the most neglected area of our lives!...

Aspects of Modernism & William Morris

13/04/2018

As part of the exploration of the forming of Modernism Natalie Andrews considers the influence of William Morris via an object in the V&A....

The Feminine in the Feminist: Women take their Life-Making skills into Contemporary Art

12/04/2018

Camille and Nikita Kravtsov, UFO Revolution, 2018, (detail), drawing, print and embroidery dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcapt art schools in the sixties and seventies, American...

Beyond Factual Ecology: Object Oriented Ontology

12/04/2018

Hyper-objects, which are meta-objects that behave as manifest concepts. These ideas may help us to deal with the pressing issues of our time!...

Why Do We Have Eyebrows? Finally We Have an Evolutionary Explanation

11/04/2018

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution...

Hot News: The ‘Like Illegal Drugs’ Effects of Chilli Peppers

11/04/2018

Man develops severe 'thunderclap' headaches after eating world's hottest chili pepper ...

No space for the unexpected – XOR Gate

11/04/2018

Gerald Donald's XOR Gate lands a glimpse into his vision of a machinic techno-future with new release 'Conic Sections'...

The More Uncommon Slurs and Smears of Napalm Death

11/04/2018

Outtakes and rarities offer a genetic glimpse into the Napalm Death machine...

Becoming of the Avant-Garde

10/04/2018

Modernism and the avant-garde is the theme of the second part of Natalie Andrews exploration of the epoch and its influence on our time....

Diary of a Pop Punk kid – the team behind Pop Punk Pile Up 2018

09/04/2018

Upstart young festival Pop Punk Pile Up take us through what their debut year has in store for the UK's Alternative scene....

Brutalism, The Romance of Harsh Places

06/04/2018

Brutalisim is part of every major city in the uk, is it worth maintaing or a terrible scar on the landscape?...

Simon Bill, as Presented and in Aspect

06/04/2018

Simon Bill is a polymath and deserves a long hard look from a curious audience his work probes perception itself. ...

Big Eyes, Emojis, and the Sickly, Sweet Smell of Sentimentality

05/04/2018

NOTHING, is as gut-wrenchingly, vomit-inducing, flu-shivery and ‘give-me-a-wrecking-drink-of-anything-strong-enough-to-get-me-drunk-in-one-big-slug,’ intolerable – as a kitten-video...

The Quietude of Some Black and Cream/White Pictures in Paris

04/04/2018

Lee Bae, Landscape (detail) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapinimal Art, it has been argued, is the dying breath of abstraction, and painting more generally (Winters, 2018)....