Red, White & Blue
Sitting in a darkened room with 15 people, my toes were so curled I could almost kick my kneecaps. Across the room I saw winces, hands across eyes and heads fully turned from the screen. “Oh my…” breathed the woman behind me.
Browsing: The Culturist
Pavilion of Art & Design
Evidently October in London is Art Fair month. The parks are soon to be bustling…
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion
In the wake of London Fashion Week, Adjoa Wiredu previews the V&A’s latest exhibition, Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, and asks, what exactly is postmodernism?
A Pair of Pinter Plays
“One for the road” is such a flippant, jovial expression, isn’t it? Something dads say at the pub. But I’ll never hear the expression in quite the same way again, having seen The Print Room and Young Vic’s co-production of Pinter’s brutal short play.
The Dance of Cleopatra
Cleopatra. The most ruthless of rulers, with a booming empire and beauty beyond our imagination, is the subject of the Northern Ballet’s touring production. Rachel Fellows is bewitched…
The Conspirators
In a leafy corner of south west London lives a theatre that has been revered…
Mendes and Cheung: A Podcast Interview
In our second podcast interview, art curator and film director, Simon Rumley, talks to artists Hugh Mendes and Gordon Cheung about their forthcoming exhibitions this month.
Punch & Suttie: The Edinburgh Fringe
The Edinburgh Fringe offers rich pickings for printers. One chap, clad beak to braces in gaudy plumes, touted ‘underground rebel bingo’ complete with giveaways of glitter balls, tents and sleeping bag suits. Douglas Blyde investigates…
Wilderness Festival: Oxfordshire Dreamin’
Wilderness was my friend Vinnie’s idea. Less music, more rounded arts experience. It seemed a new kind of festival. It felt as if a little piece of the folkloric California after which our fathers hankered, might still exist.
Carnival of Souls
Where do zombies come from? They owe a debt, or at least an offering of brains, to Herk Harvey and his only feature length film, Carnival of Souls. Steve Thompson reviews the seminal horror classic.
Poetics of Silence: Enrique Brinkmann
Lawrence visits the Rosenfeld-Porcini Gallery in Fitzrovia, and uncovers one of the greatest lesser-known Spanish artists of our time, with a body of work spanning 50 years. Welcome to the world of Enrique Brinkmann.
Joffe et Pye: A Podcast Interview
In our first installment of podcast interviews, writer, film director and art curator, Simon Rumley, interviews contemporary London artists, Jasper Joffe and Harry Pye, about their latest exhibition in Shoreditch this month.