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A Reliquary for Eros in Ruin: David John Attyah

06/08/2016

Two installations in mixed media offer an insight into the male psyche via classicist symbolism...

Toto, We’re Not in Cannes: San Sebastian Film Festival

03/08/2016

A genuine cinematic showcase without the silicone and glass fibre of Cannes...

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

22/07/2016

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

High Times, Blue Rinses. Drug Abuse and the Elderly

19/07/2016

Many elderly people are receiving and using prescription medications inappropriately ...

Shark Cars and Metal Guitars (Interview)

18/07/2016

Steve 'Snips' Parsons interviews Chris Spedding...

Social Climbing, Social Division : High Rise (Film)

17/07/2016

A unique and dazzling vision of a dystopian Britain on the brink of social meltdown...

Turbulent life, Noble legacy. The art of Mike Kelley

07/07/2016

Sadly inhabiting the role of tortured artist, Mike Kelley railed against an establishment which eventually broke him....

Summoning Unnerving Prophecy at the Kentish Town Forum (Fields of the Nephilim)

24/06/2016

The goth's goths - Fields of the Nephilim, enchant the congregation at the Kentish Town Forum...

Saw it Coming. Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells

17/06/2016

On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. ...

Yearning for Pet Sounds

02/06/2016

Predating instant gratification by decades, Pet Sounds expresses a yearning which still makes for emotional listening. Essay...

Who’s Afraid of Tonality? (Max Richter, Sleep @ Barbican)

01/06/2016

As much gig as concert, The Barbican turns to Max Richter for crowd-pulling contemporary performance. Review...

Sprinkled Doughnuts, Venus and Furs. The Complex Candy of Dorielle Caimi

10/05/2016

Irreverent and provocative, whilst retaining a rare humour, Dorielle Caimi's paintings interpret women's lives with verve and wit...

Dining out on Legba’s Feast (Vodun, The Lexington)

09/05/2016

More than soulful, Vodun are spiritual. The heavy psych trio shift paradigms at the Lexington...

Hanging Offence: Lily Brooke

02/05/2016

Examining substantiality by (seemingly) avoiding the conceptual - curator Lily Brooke answers Trebuchet's questions...

Oil and Acrylic In Your Face Icons (Darby Krow)

25/04/2016

Spit, sawdust and an eye for colour - Los Angeles artist Darby Krow is no Hollywood hipster...

Maser Lazar: Orbiting on the Periphery (Maser at Lazarides)

14/04/2016

Swapping the street art of Dublin for Fitzrovia's Lazarides Gallery, Maser comes in from the cold...

Debt, Housing, Creative Solutions: Construct the Future at Hoxton Gallery

11/04/2016

Native's Hoxton Gallery show draws attention to the modern debt/housing crisis, but less typically, suggests solutions...

Lovecraft Under Will. Liber Al Vel Legis and the Sharp Beak of Horus (H.P. Lovecraft)

07/04/2016

In a century of terror, perhaps Lovecraft's visions make more sense than ever...

Caliban’s Rage at the Blank Touchscreen: On Becoming a 21st Century Savage

21/03/2016

The acceleration of technology beyond the layman's ken makes us little more than blissfully ignorant slaves - should we not be noble savages instead? ...

Post Punk Drone and Cultural Imperialism. (Wire)

18/03/2016

Wire - A band so good they named both a cult TV series and a snotty music magazine after them. Live review...

Freshly Polished, Forever Stomping: Stiff Little Fingers (Forum, 2016)

16/03/2016

Snapping the jumpleads to the zombie corpse of punk rock, Stiff Little Fingers sparked the Forum's assembled masses to a beer-lobbing froth....

Peeled & Raw in Los Angeles (Dani Dodge)

15/03/2016

The clash of global ideologies and armed response infiltrate the sanctity of the domestic living room in Dani Dodge's Peeled & Raw...

Losers, Lawnmowers and The Grave of Jack Kerouac

12/03/2016

Hitting the road for the birthday of Jack Kerouac, Scott Laudati wends a weary way to the writer's graveside...

The Right Business: Politics and the Randian Hero

26/02/2016

Wealth does not denote moral worth, so why does it make politicians popular? Essay...

Seductive Storytelling, Metaphor and Myth (Shifter at Soho Theatre)

25/02/2016

Layered fables, haunting modern myth and Afro-Caribbean folk tales in Crick Crack Club's Soho Theatre session...

Electrified, Stupefied, Exhilarated. Art Basel Miami

11/02/2016

In the heat and glitz of Miami Beach, Art Basel Miami engulfs the senses and threatens to overwhelm the unwary. It's worth it though. Review...

Sure we can, but SHOULD we? Digital Head and the Ethics of Intelligence

05/02/2016

Examining the unpredictable and disruptive possibilities contained within new technologies...

Osiris is a Black Star (David Bowie and the Occult)

21/01/2016

Bowie, Elvis, Death & the Egyptian Underworld...

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...

All Heroes Must Fall. Farewell to a Space Oddity (David Bowie)

12/01/2016

Bowie drew from the symbols and semiotics of myth, contemporising archetypes which have been crucial to humanity's concept of itself since time unrecorded....

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