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.
Reviled by many critics and ignored by audiences, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me has unjustly slipped under the radar. Dig below the surface, scrape away years of dirt, and you’ll reveal a rich and multifaceted cinematic gem.
Beautiful, sartorially elegant, thought-provoking, decades ahead of its time, fun and exciting; The Prisoner deserves its position as one of the most influential television dramas ever.
Miss York visits Keats House in Hampstead for an outdoor performance of Romantics by director James Veitch and the Pale Fire theatre company. We all know Miss York likes the rain; did she like the performance as well?
Alex Larman visits the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon for a performance of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, transplanted by director Rupert Goold into a bustling Las Vegas.
Did you see that film Whisky? The one that was based in a sock factory, the sock factory in Uruguay? Minimal dialogue, subtitled? The one with the loose storyline, you know it? The main character hardly says anything. Did you see it?
When it comes to large scale fairs, the art world has its calendar pretty much…
Aah, remember those days of making collages in art classes in primary school? Cutting up…
If you’re anywhere near St James’s in central London in the coming weeks and you…
Larry braves an early morning exhibition preview of David Rickard’s latest show at the Sumarria Lunn Gallery in Mayfair and discovers that installation art can be a better brain-stimulus than coffee.
“I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe. I will tell you things at random.” These words reverberated around the head of composer Simon Jeffes. This is the sound of someone you love who’s going away and it doesn’t matter…
Steve Thompson, whose film recommendations are frankly starting to worry us here at The Arb, confesses his rather dirty love for Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 twisted horror-drama, Possession.