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Jungle Rapture: Peppi Bottrop at Pilar Corrias

24/11/2021

Glinting, tangled brushstrokes evoke the memory of overgrown industrial landscapes in Peppi Bottrop's first solo show with Pilar Corrias, London...

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Means of Escape: Sarah Morris at White Cube

16/11/2021

This Friday, White Cube Bermondsey will open a major solo show by American artist Sarah Morris...

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Value in Context: Art in the Public Realm

29/09/2021

Vestalia Chilton discusses the value and opportunities of public art. ...

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Nerdcore: Next Level Hip-Hop?

22/01/2018

Trebuchet explores the Nerdcore Hip-Hop movement, its relationship with modern culture and music, and the issues with rigid genre categorization with help from Mega Ran, Sammus and Ben Knight....

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Carve + Gaze

Carve + Gaze (Wen)

22/09/2017

Cautiously affirmative urban angst meets minimalist structure and Gaze theory. Win!...

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Disbelief is right there all the time: Maynard Flip Flap

11/03/2017

Some audiences are horrible. Maynard Flip Flap's Rick Allen dares to voice the forbidden truth....

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Hot Bed

Subverting the Domestic: The 2:1 show at Safehouse 2

15/06/2016

A shattered yet still comforting vision of domesticity conveys the reality of contemporary urban life. Review...

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Joe Driscoll and Sekou Kouyate

28/10/2015

A mesmerizing mix of Afro-Cuban, African, urban and latin sounds, with a solid backbeat and vocals begging for you to listen and become entwined...

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Want to extend your life expectancy? Wear earplugs

24/06/2015

In London more than 1.6 million people are exposed to daytime road traffic noise levels above 55dB, which the World Health Organization defines as a level of community noise that causes health...

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Gimmie Some Space! Tracking Pedestrian Movement

06/03/2015

id we need a research project measuring a general law of how pedestrians interact? Surely the simple law is : extremely slowly, gaze morosely locked on smartphone screen, directly in front of the...

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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....

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Kelis by Olivia Malone

Kelis : Food

19/04/2014

An album that keeps its powder dry, thrills and teases, and on vocal performances such as 'Biscuits n' Gravy', enthrals. Kelis, Food. Review...

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“Cities can cut greenhouse emissions by 70%”

21/02/2013

Cities around the world can significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by implementing aggressive but practical policy changes....

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DELS: Black Salad [EP]

10/11/2012

The 'puttin' a bitch on the corner from the time I wuz fourteen, chill wit' my niggas, emceed my way up from the gutters' narrative that still, incomprehensibly, provides mid-west cornfed WASPs with...

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