Kalliphilia Exhibition: A Podcast Interview
Simon Rumley talks to Vegas Gallery’s Creative Director, Jessica Carlisle, and artist Hester Finch, about the current exhibition titled Kalliphilia.
Browsing: The Culturist
One Giant Leap
The Saatchis are something of an enigma in the art world. Their collection is as eclectic as it is often bizarre, but this mercurial and almost indefinable approach to their buying ensures one thing: it creates desirability…
Hay Fever: What a Sneeze!
Another production of Hay Fever you cry! Noel Coward’s comedy of (bad) manners was first…
Matilda: Working Wonders for the West End
“I was beginning to lose all hope. I wanted to pop the West End over my knee and give it a good hiding for such detestably lackadaisical behaviour. But then, I saw Matilda.”
For Love or Money: Contemporary Masters
Jean-David Malat has an unashamedly shrewd eye for the business of art, and the art…
Lucky Stars: Singin’ in the Rain
Having long been a fan of the original 1952 MGM musical comedy ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, I was excited to see it brought to life on such a grand scale. Adam Cooper leads the cast as silent movie actor Don Lockwood and bravely pulls off possibly the most memorable dance sequence in movie history.
Filmic Bristol: A Film and Music Festival
Two of Bristol’s finest arts and ents venues are just a skip and hop apart…
A Ray of Sunshine: Umoja
Umoja couldn’t have opened at a better time. Against the grey, cold, miserable backdrop of…
The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey
“It was with some anticipation that I went along to see The Paper Cinema’s interpretation of this cornerstone of the Western canon. Actually “see” is inaccurate. It is very much a cross-sensory experience.”
Safely Scary: The Woman in Black
“Dispatched to settle the affairs of a recently deceased woman, Kipps arrives in a quaint but markedly rude village in the heart of the Victorian countryside. Under the chocolate-box veneer, dark undercurrents flow.”
She Stoops to Conquer
Once Jamie Lloyd’s boisterous revival of She Stoops to Conquer gets into its stride, it is impossible not to be touched by Goldsmith’s acute investigation into the muddle of manners that was Georgian society.
Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton at the V&A
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”