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Breugel to Freud : Prints at the Courtauld

14/07/2014

If one pauses to listen, then there are some quietly iconoclastic voices to be heard....

3 Teeth [Album Review]

10/07/2014

3 Teeth give their audiences a place to shake it out and survive. A sort of spiritual one night stand. And what is that if not the highest apex of rock and roll?...

This is Not a Book About Gavin Turk

07/07/2014

By expounding upon Turk's themes, recurrences and symbolic obsessions, a profile develops which is, enchantingly, acres more telling than a full-frontal biographic assault...

Smartphones Cause AIDS!

16/06/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapell, who’da thunk it? ‘Smartphone apps carry higher infection risk than online dating sites or clubs’. Even those...

Blake / St. Mungo’s Broadway : Interview

13/06/2014

Homelessness can affect anybody and everybody. Homelessness is not a class or economic problem. It’s a social and support problem....

Cloud Atlas : Beyond the Vale

13/06/2014

It's Heidi Widdop's distinctive vocals that set Cloud Atlas apart from many of their obvious peers, but this album's sound is as much about Martin Ledger's soaring melodic lead guitar...

Nicole Atkions, Slow Phaser, album cover

Nicole Atkins : Slow Phaser

12/06/2014

an album of vignettes that, while emotional, exhibits a diversity beyond the singer's own and thereby transcends the pitfalls of contemporary pop...

Dale Chihuly : Halcyon Gallery

11/06/2014

Going Beyond the Object into Shadows of Pure Colour: Dale Chihuly’s Glass Sculptures at the Halcyon Gallery...

Rice and Redemption : The Learning Farm

10/06/2014

I am glad that some of them are now coming back and learn the old skills of the farm. A person should know how to grow their own food....

Politics as usual, Has Failed

27/05/2014

In our time, politics as usual has failed to address the most pressing issues of the age...

Edible Art Movement (Singapore) : Rice

21/05/2014

Edible Art Movement undertake to grow rice in central Singapore....

Hormazd Narielwalla

19/05/2014

Hormazd Narielwalla’s work is a celebration of both ancient tailoring techniques, collage and the human form. ...

Kenneth Clark : Tate Britain

12/05/2014

The career and impact of Kenneth Clark (1903–1983), one of the most influential figures in British art, will be explored in Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation...

Geoff Thompson : The Caretaker

05/05/2014

Were it not for occasional cultural references or linguistic signposts, The Caretaker could indeed be mistaken for an established liturgical text....

Public Bikes in Europe

02/05/2014

Public bikes in major European cities...

Felix Kubin : Interview

02/05/2014

I don't want to be a pop underground star when I'm sixty on stage. I love the genre of pop but it's just one of many genres....

James Narh (XXL Streetdance) : Interview

23/04/2014

Street dance has to sit within contemporary culture to stand the test of time, and not end up as a fad that disappears after a session or two....

D S C R D : Interview

21/04/2014

Some people react more poetically, have nice abstract or artistic concepts, create an imaginary world or whatever. We do not have any of this....

Art Belongs to the People : Ashmolean Museum

16/04/2014

A show focussed on a previously overlooked dynamic between the grandfather of the post-war avant garde, Joseph Beuys, and his politically mobilized student at the Dusseldorf Academy: Jörg...

HRH Prog 2 Festival

09/04/2014

There were complaints from some quarters that it was an inconvenient location. But it was an equal opportunity inconvenience; it takes just as long wherever you're coming from. HRH Prog 2...

A picture from a Bernard Parmegiani recital

The Music of Bernard Parmegiani at LCMF

08/04/2014

While in Paris Parmegiani's work is usually presented in state of the art, state-subsidised spaces, here it manifests in multi-storey car parks and former carpet factories, both in formerly abject...

Jean-Claude Risset : Music from Computer

19/03/2014

Historic and serious works, thrilling but unacknowledged precedents for many of the textures that structure electronic music in the present day...

War: The Exile and the Rock Limpet exhibited 1842

Late Turner : Painting Set Free

18/03/2014

Tate Britain’s Late Turner keeps Turner on the stage rather than focusing on his exit. As co-curator Sam Smiles said, these are “paintings with subjects that have resonance”. ...

A picture of a fetish girl by Carl Batson

The Debilitating Effects of Shame

16/03/2014

Shame on you. These three simple words can temporarily — or, when used too often, permanently — destroy an individual's sense of value and self-worth....