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The Beauty of Packaging

24/01/2022

Owning something physical, the open-eyed landscape of the tactile imagination....

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LandOfDreams, Ghasem Ebrahimian Bon Voyage Films and Palodeon Pictures, (2021)

Hark the Nordic Sirens of Hypnotic Cinema

06/01/2022

Göteborg Film Festival promises a genre-breaking crossover of vision and transcendence. ...

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Clothing the New World Church

28/01/2021

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi’s book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America, demonstrating that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic...

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Ursula Andress by Terry O'Neill

Shot To Fame: Remembering Terry O’Neill

16/11/2020

'One Year On' Box Galleries highlights the late photographer Terry O'Neill's eternal talent. ...

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Virginia Woolf Might Have Preferred an Audiobook

16/11/2020

What Was Virginia Woolf Afraid Of? shines brightest when it focuses not on Woolf’s life, but on her actual words and how she used them. ...

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Imagining Orwell in Three Continents

13/11/2020

Julio Etchart's photographic journal presents a short cautionary tale that questions the foreshadowing of one man's visionary works and the cyclical quality of time. ...

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kvitravn- Wardruna

Wardruna – Norwegian Contemporary Folk Art

18/10/2020

“Kvitravn” is a song that explores traditions of animal-guides and the symbolism and legends of sacred white animals...

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James Kennedy

Underdogs Will Rise, Biography as Music

05/10/2020

A Review of James Kennedy "Noise Damage: My Life As a Rock’N’ Roll Underdog" (Lightning Books, 2020)...

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politics, death (c) Joe Eden

The Surrealist Practice of Twenty-First Century Populism

14/09/2020

‘Surreal’ is a word that many increasingly reach for, a (hopelessly inadequate) description for the daily cavalcade of cataclysmic and bizarre events we’re confronted by....

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Espresso, Chianti… Maser-a-ti!

22/07/2020

In 2020: The Summer of COVID, interweb-streaming Italian-racecar cool is about as close to true freedom as car buffs are likely to get. ...

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In Bright Axiom: The House of the Latitude

14/07/2020

As an introduction to the secret society, this documentary is a disjointed narrative where the whole is less than the sum of occasionally fascinating parts....

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Always-On, All-the-Time: COVID in the World of 24/7 News

01/07/2020

Two decades into a fundamentally new media environment, we’re still discovering the impact of the Internet on the information we consume — COVID-19 exposes some of the damage done....

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© Nicola Anthony, date stamp drawing, 2006

Surviving Lockdown: On Community and Inclusivity

19/06/2020

Part five of Surviving Lockdown talks creating strong community groups to help rebuild society post-pandemic, with anti-racism as an intrinsic part of a new future. ...

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When Gonzo Met Farce

05/06/2020

Conception unknown, The Buried Spitfires of Burma: A ‘Fake’ History is a tortured love child of Thompson’s Rum Diary and Poe’s "Gold Bug". ...

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Isolation Walks: A Visual Meditation

03/06/2020

If we are ever to emerge from this dystopian vision with poise, we will have to be extra humble, strong and empathetic. ...

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Architecture and Aesthetic Errors

29/05/2020

Modernist architecture, seen as art, falls into aesthetic error when it fails to address the nature of the lives encompassed by it....

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© Nicola Anthony, The Flow of Time, 2017

Surviving Lockdown: Daryl Goh on Self-Judgement

27/05/2020

Up next in the series, Nicola Anthony examines guilt, and how artists can objectively evaluate their own work whilst ignoring the niggling voice of self-judgement. ...

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Gorillas, Trains, Whips and Chains

20/05/2020

Barring no holds, Hollywood Bound is a well-curated, hilariously captioned collection of major-studio movie bondage that serves up equal helpings entertainment and old-Hollywood nostalgia. ...

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His Holiness Blinded Me With Science

16/05/2020

If the viewer focuses intensely in The Dalai Lama: Scientist, such effort will be rewarded with insight, if not total consciousness…...

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© Nicola Anthony, Great Soul, 2014

Surviving Lockdown: Tabish Khan and the Inner Critic

06/05/2020

Part three explores the feelings of self-lambasting that many people experience when given the time and space to turn the critical eye upon their lives. ...

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The Unnatural History Museum

01/05/2020

Where many other, more famous museums may pay a nod here and there to the strange, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities is devoted to it....

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© Nicola Anthony, Pass It On, 2013

Surviving Lockdown: What Do We Surround Ourselves With?

30/04/2020

The next instalment in our series of interviews to pick up tips from the arts to help get through this unusual period....

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Punk Rock Fight Club: The Beat Down at CBGB

29/04/2020

Anarchy is a return to the natural order. Might makes right. If you are a punk in the pit, you might get hit. ...

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© Nicola Anthony, Poetry Net Series, 2019

Surviving Lockdown: Behind the Scenes in the Art Studio

29/04/2020

A series of video interviews with figures from the art world explores transferrable skills from the arts to help survive these out-of-the-ordinary times. ...

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Bravado, Humility and Bloody-Mindedness

03/04/2020

Alongside writer Olivier Bocquet, comic book artist Jean-Marc Rochette has created an unusual autobiographical account of his experiences as a climber....

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London’s Lost Bohemia and the Three Graces of Soho Pt. III

25/03/2020

A recent interview with cult novelist Laura Del Rivo triggers memories of a lost poetess and a mysterious countess. ...

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London’s Lost Bohemia and the Three Graces of Soho Pt. II

18/03/2020

A recent interview with cult novelist Laura Del Rivo triggers memories of a lost poetess and a mysterious countess. ...

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London’s Lost Bohemia and the Three Graces of Soho

11/03/2020

A recent interview with cult novelist Laura Del Rivo triggers memories of a lost poetess and a mysterious countess....

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The Last Faust - Philip Humm

Saucy, Piquant, With a Faustian Aftertaste

30/12/2019

A film for a specific taste is Phillip Humm's The Last Faust really that indigestible? A review and an entreaty for more divisive filmmaking ...

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An Election Waiting to Happen with Billy Bragg

10/12/2019

Every generation has to find its own way to deal with the problems it faces. Red Wedge was our generation and it came out of a specific set of circumstances. Other generations will find other ways....

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