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Martha Parsey : Interview

Trebuchet interviews the bold force of contemporary painting Martha Parsey ...

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King of Drone : Aidan Baker Interview

More than a feeling : Trebuchet interviews eclectic drone maestro Aidan Baker about a bunch of random stuff that we wanted to know. ...

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Geographies of War [Exhibition]

The first lesson taught by physically tasting war is that ruination is the essence of all being. Death has no meaning and everything can be reduced to nothing in seconds....

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No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us

Stringwash and atmospherics? If you notice a film's soundtrack that means it's failed? Not in SWP's opinion. The art of the film score, revisited....

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New York Finds Cool Again: Fountain Art Fair

'It was the hippest New York scene outside of the eastbound L train you’ll find until next year.' Scott Laudati reports from New York's Fountain Art Fair...

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Reel Iraq Festival

Reel Festivals focus on Iraq as the theme and subject for their March event, on the tenth anniversary of the UK & US military invasion of the country....

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Time is Tights : London Super Comics Convention

Modern corporate comics are creatively empty franchises that have completely lost touch with the general public....

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Hanging Offence: GV Art

'I am often attracted to art that is so challenging it feels as though it has hit me in the gut leaving me speechless and tangled in thoughts'...

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Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

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Kickstart a Bob Carlos Clarke Film

Little Black Gallery call for pledges in a Kickstarter project to make a documentary on the life of photographer Bob Carlos Clarke...

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Meg Cranston & John Baldessari [Interview]

'Instead of Catholicism or religion, now we are programmed by the corporations' . Artists Meg Cranston and John Baldessari talk to Trebuchet's own artist in residence - Nicola Anthony...

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Timberlake and Jay-Z To perform at Wireless Festival

Justin Timberlizz and Jay-bizzle to perform at Wireless festival Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Ticket on Sale friday 22nd feb @ 9am ...

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Black Music: What’s Going On?

To make a masterpiece you need raw talent, terrific songs, musicians who can create soulful grooves and producers who experiment . SWP asks of Black Music : Where are they?...

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Hanging Offence : Lahd Gallery

I got involved with the art world in the beginning just so that I could give the women artists from the Gulf, who were under-represented at the time, a chance to show their works and to have a bigger...

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The Sensual Economist

For no outwardly discernible reason, the periodical had decided to give the soft-porn star a full page obituary (with picture)....

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Veronica Falls : Waiting For Something to Happen

Pulling the pace back from their 60s infused debut, the focus here is much more on the idiosyncrasies of British guitar music and they actually pull it off quite wonderfully....

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GOVES: A Crèche for the Lonely and Peculiar

Sitting somewhere within the well-established tradition of trying to blend electronica and contemporary composition, this is introspective, lower-case music that by now seems a little out of its...

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Hanging Offence: Degree Art

Certain elements of the Art World feel the need to exclude others by making them feel unworthy of enjoying it. Great art will never require smoke and mirrors to achieve its deserved attention....

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Skirmish of Ideas?

IoI has its own clear agendas but the festival definitely has a positive function in bringing hidden or repressed debates to the surface and airing them to a much wider public than they might...

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Hanging Offence: Breese Little

We work on the premise that the gallery should always operate with increasing momentum, growing in step with the careers and aims of the artists we work with...

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Shoot! Existential Photography

An exhibition tracing the history of a fascinating fairground sideshow that sprung up following World War 1: the photographic shooting gallery. ...

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Hanging Offence: TJ Boulting Gallery

Controversial ideas are often the more important and interesting ones. But no, controversy is a byproduct, not the end point. ...

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Singapore’s Affordable Art

I’ve been slowly unraveling the mazes of subtle complexities in the art world here, and one of the first events to land on Singaporean soil as I did was the Affordable Art Fair....

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Apples & Eve: Dionysus

Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word 'folk', mostly because there's a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. ...

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Empire’s Halloween Part 2

The US Empire is dead meat. We should lose the imagery of a noble and lofty bald eagle: rotting road kill should be proclaimed our official national animal, vampires and werewolves offer a more apt...

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Tate Modern: William Klein/Daido Moriyama

I am obviously a little biased toward William Klein and there are those who will no doubt love the Moriyama section of this exhibition; it is after all an impressive and diverse display of...

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Hanging Offence: Little Black Gallery

'The UK is far behind the USA and France in the photography market and needs to catch up.' ...

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Hanging Offence: Wapping Project Bankside

It is not an annex of The Wapping Project, it is a separate entity informed by all of the wild things I have done over the years at The Wapping Project....

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Various Artists: Stellate 3 (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

The Stellate series can be recommended not just as a collectors' wet dream or a dealers' safe bet but as an experimental series producing consistently interesting music that might not otherwise have...

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Spinning the crowd: Adamski, 3 / 4 and Neo Waltz.

"indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding—then my silent misery turned into burning rage." ...

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