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Ernesto Neto: Spaces of Transformation, Edges of the World

28/01/2012

Ernesto Neto is a quirky and charismatic artist who has fascinated me with his tactile, porous artworks for years. His talk for ‘Topology at Tate Modern’ began with a lyrical wordplay on...

Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden

19/01/2012

The fine folded pressures of the lidless eye. Renowned through his collaborations with John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance, Eyvind Kang has become the go-to violin guy for a certain strain of...

Fawlty Towers Syndrome

11/01/2012

The melancholic experience of visiting a declining English hotel out of season reveals some suggestivaly ominous parallels with the current state of the nation. After almost forty years, John Cleese...

Trailer Trash Tracys: Ester

30/12/2011

Painful though it may be to recall, it was summer once. Cool drinks were sipped at pavement cafes, flesh was bared and balding scalps reddened and peeled in the light of the now-forgotten sun....

DJ Food: The Search Engine

19/12/2011

This is the land, where nothing changes, the land of red buses & blue blooded babies, This is the place, where pensioners are raped, And the hearts are being cut, from the welfare state, Let the...

Riots and Rods of Iron: An Academic in Africa

14/12/2011

It is both a curse and a blessing that we don’t know what other people think of us. I am much better than I used to be, but I know that I still spend much of my time in conversation with an...

Panic Room: Live Review

08/12/2011

Panic Room have come a long way since their first live appearances back in 2008. The band emerged from the ashes of the first incarnation of celtic proggers Karnataka, with that band's...

I was always closer to rock´n roll (Nils Frahm)

25/11/2011

Interview with Nils Frahm 2011...

The Other Art Fair

23/11/2011

Seduced by art: From art virgin to art collector It sparks off debates, encourages us to take a look at topical issues, delves inside the subconscious, and allows us to have a laugh at the world and...

The Walls of St Pauls by Kailas Elmer 2013

Sex, Anarchism, Politics and Pirates: London’s Theatres Collaborate

10/11/2011

This week saw the launch of a new collaborative project between 12 of London’s top theatre venues, who are changing the way Londoners find theatre....

FZV – Soundsump

07/11/2011

The shadowy producer known only as FZV is a long-term, low-profile participant in London's Pitchless Sound System and has often played at underground events in temporary spaces. Operating in the...

From Shiny Things to Silliness – Frieze Overview

27/10/2011

Frieze was a fantastic opportunity to see a so many of the world’s top artists and galleries in one place. With a multitude of styles and genres on show from over 170 galleries from...

Metahub – Nuit Blanche, Amiens 2011

27/10/2011

Digital Arts: Flash in the pan, light at the end of the tunnel or oncoming train wreck. Amiens, France 15th October This year saw a conjunction between digital artists in the UK and...

Kid Koala – Space Cadet

24/10/2011

Typical. You wait all year for an album playing on the sound of the internal mechanisms of the piano, and then two turn up within a fortnight. On first impressions, Kid Koala's Space Cadet...

Takako Shimizu – Piecemaker Exhibition 2011

22/10/2011

Mosaic sculptor Takako Shimizu explores the other facets of Glass. It’s clear that while glass heats to a liquid state and cools to become a solid, something of its liquid nature always...

Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love

12/10/2011

Ah, the supergroup. A confluence of minds, talents and ideas, or a vanity project cobbled together by egotistical musos with too much spare time? Hmm… let’s see… Asia?...

Rock’s Backpages Launches New eBooks Series

05/10/2011

Rock's Backpages, the world's largest online library of rock journalism, announces the launch of its new Backpages eBooks division, headed up by former MOJO editor Mat Snow. Backpages eBooks...

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad

21/09/2011

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad...

Stateless – I’m on Fire EP

31/08/2011

Symphonic electronica and beguiling voices – 'I'm on Fire' feeds the spirit. There really is a lot of range on this five-track EP. Hell, there's more range in each one of the...

The Deer Tracks- The Archer Trilogy Part 2

23/08/2011

When is Pop not pop? Swedish duo The Deer Tracks are an unusual proposition, blending hook-laden, high-gloss pop with glitchy folktronica and esoteric sonic constructions. Though crafting tunes that...

Gunfire in the studio: Shooting film, photons & 12-bores

06/08/2011

I’m often asked, ‘What are the best bits about being an artist?’ A glance in the mirror after my day in the studio typically reveals a tired face peering out from beneath a...

The Arts of Life They Changed Into the Arts of Death

05/08/2011

As of late, Pat Robertson has been waxing apocalyptic regarding mankind's imminent reckoning with wrathful divinity… …while liberals have been sharing scary bedtime stories by the...

Dissecting Dyslexia: Linking reading to voice recognition

30/07/2011

Research shows dyslexia involves difficulty processing language sounds in dyslexic brains. When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how people...

JMW Turner Ancient Rome; Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus exhibited 1839 Oil paint on canvas support: 914 x 1219 mm frame: 1230 x 1530 x 140 mm painting Tate. Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

‘Dear Curator’: Exhibition Do’s and Don’ts with Sara Raza

20/07/2011

Artists want to be curators & curators want to be artists....

Crystal Antlers – Two-Way Mirror

06/07/2011

Crystal Antlers find liberation in music's current chaos. Adaptation to the realities of the music market in 2011 is something of a Darwinian exercise. Freetards lurking in the comment feeds of...

Self-image is the beginning and the end of living [Henry ‘Fonzie’ Winkler]

30/06/2011

Known to many around the globe as The Fonz from the US TV Sitcom Happy Days, Henry Winkler has struggled with dyslexia his whole life and was recently in London supporting the First News education...

Cults – Cults

29/06/2011

Christ on a bike, this takes me back a bit. The inexplicable thing is, though, it takes me back to something I’ve never experienced. Weird, no? I’m not trying to instigate a protracted...

Godflesh, D.R.I., and Goatsnake – HMV Forum

27/06/2011

Three bands, over 100 years of combined musical history, one night. Godflesh, D.R.I. and Goatsnake deliver. "Who the fuck are Goatsnake?" Screams a pot bellied Swiss chemist at the...

Wolf People – Steeple

18/06/2011

Is originality everything? I only ask because, throughout contemporary music history, there is very little that has been created without some sort of precedent. This is not to say that the quality of...