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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....

Ruin Lust : Tate Britain

05/03/2014

Ruins can point towards futures, potentials, opportunities and constructions of the new, as well as to endings...

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LCMF Presents the music of Bernard Parmegiani

20/02/2014

LCMF Presents the music of Bernard Parmegiani 21-23 March, Britannia House E1...

Andy Warhol Ate My Geisha by Darren MacPherson

Darren MacPherson : Interview

18/02/2014

It’s never about the figure, always about the painting. I know some people will view it as erotica but I can’t control that.......

Kraftwerk Uncovered at The Science Museum

17/02/2014

It was only natural that sooner or later, Kraftwerk would materialise in some form at the Science Museum...

Moonlit landscape, circa 1808, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

A Dialogue with Nature : Courtauld Gallery

11/02/2014

Landscape embodied a mysterious border space to combat the creeping rise of social industrialisation and cultural European realism...

Since Zero Dark Thirty (Martin Delaney)

07/02/2014

People like me are just the manifestation of an over-active mind, not cut out for the hard work of the real world! ...

Uwe Schmidt / Atom TM : Interview

06/02/2014

I never touched the topic of "harmonies" or "musical notes"… everything was just "rhythmical sound", that either "worked" or "did not work"....

Hanging Offence: Parallax Art Fair

03/02/2014

Art objects do not have “magical healing” properties either. They cannot make people feel better or worse; informed or misinformed. That is wishful thinking. ...

Lettuce : Ronnie Scott’s

02/02/2014

Replacing the jazz paunch with the funk punch their heavy grooves are less about flow than tight stacked combinations of counterpoint, attack and accent, all leading to a 16th bar finishing move...

Lorenzo Rudolph / Art Stage Singapore : Interview

31/01/2014

People are now paying more attention to the region and more institutions are now working with and supporting Southeast Asian artists. Lorenzo Rudolph talks to Nicola Anthony about Art Stage Singapore...

Hanging Offence : Erarta Zurich

27/01/2014

Without controversy there would be no discussion. Without discussion there would be no mental growth, no change. Therefore it is crucial. Erarta, Zurich. Interview...

Dum Dum Girls : Too True

22/01/2014

'decadently nihilistic, appealingly rebellious and alluringly savage' Dum Dum Girls....

A picture of Leonid Tishkov, Private Moon

Arts Catalyst : Republic of the Moon

17/01/2014

An exhibition about the moon that proposes a Manifesto should by rights fall apart in great steaming chunks of hubris, but it doesn’t, it has value and holds interest by raising lasting questions. ...

Maria Kempinska, Jongleurs : Interview

16/01/2014

Can a woman be beautiful and funny? I have heard many intelligent men say no, but I totally disagree. But the road to comedy fame is decidedly harder....

Hanging Offence : David Roberts Art Foundation

13/01/2014

The market attracts more and more accessory and opportunist professions that blur the definition of what art is....

A picture of Colin Leslie Eyewear sunglasses

Business Interview : Colin Leslie Eyewear

10/01/2014

People need to appreciate that we are all responsible for our environment. If we wish to maintain certain standards and ways of living, we need to....

Drawing Inspiration

07/01/2014

Symbols don't mean anything; rather they are fecund triggers to the imagination that allow meaning to arise through their contemplation....

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Now the Party’s Over. 2013

01/01/2014

What happens if something good happens at the close of year? How can we definitively say what were the highlights of 2013 until it has actually finished? ...

Slip Discs : Servants Jazz Quarters

30/12/2013

A very varied night presented by the avowedly playful Slip Discs, committed to breaking down what they see as strict divisions between afficionados of contemporary composition and wider audiences...

Alan De Niro : Tyrannia

27/12/2013

The value of De Niro's writing is not in what is depicted but in tone, theme, and the disconcerting mood of the short pieces as they seed doubts and second-guesses in the reader. ...