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…
Browsing: The Culturist
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.
Fire Walk with Me
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.
I Am Not A Number
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.
The Romantics
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?
The Merchant of Venice
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.