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GEMMA DE CRUZ: Set on the
Welsh borders in a pretty, forested deer park, The Big Chill is now well
established on the festival circuit, with loyal followers of all ages returning
again and again. This years new management (Festival Republic) seemed to
signify more culture and less e-heads.... |
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GLEN JOHNSON: Since returning
from 30 years of self-imposed exile in 2001, Vashti Bunyan hasn't lost any time
playing catch up. The re-issue of her then only album, Just Another Diamond
Day, originally released
in 1970 to little fanfare, has been subsequently hailed as a bona fide lost... |
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'HOUR 1' by KONRAD WYREBEKMATTHEW MILES: On the ‘wrong side’ of the Olympic Park blue fence, and hemmed in by a canal and a dual carriageway, the industrial warehouses of Hackney Wick might appear low on frills but they’re definitely high on art. The area is home or studio for many of London... |
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GEMMA DE CRUZ: Tom DiCillo's
Doors documentary film could easily be another
exploitative look at the ‘60s through Californian sunshine/protest/rock’n’roll-started-here tinted glasses; but take those off for a
second and this film also tells an interesting story. Doors’ lead
singer... |
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The Great
British Art Debate has kicked off.
To celebrate British Art and find out what the public really think of
what’s happening in their galleries and museums, the Tate (among other
institutions) are hosting an ongoing range of events and exhibitions. This is a chance to get involv... |
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PETER WIX: Cinema is alive and well. The last few seasons have thrown up a very healthy number of screen gems like Jacques Audiard's Un Prophete and Michael Haneke's haunting The White Ribbon. Here are some more in this Continental Film Night summer digest... and, of course, a few rank turkeys to ba... |
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ELLIE BROUGHTON: Gay hustlers, bayou bohemians, forgotten socialites and ground-breaking
jazz musicians star in Close-Up's American Portraits screenings this month. Just as the US is
rocked by the suburban arrests of Russian spies, film fans have the opportunity
to watch documentaries about '... |
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MATTHEW MILES: “There’s gonna be some trouble, a
whole house will need re-building – and everyone I love in the house will
recline on an analyst’s couch quite soon,” insists a typically distressed Morrissey
in ‘Now My Heart Is Full’. While The Surreal House might not have everyt... |
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PATRICIA
CULLEN: This exhibition might have seemed sparse at first, but it didn’t take
me long to feel the impact of the large photographs of Marianne Faithfull
mounted on the wall. Faithfull is caught in seductive yet everyday poses, and
does not fail to captivate. The
singer submerged... |
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THEA LENARDUZZI: Punk choreographer, Michael Clark is perhaps best
known for high-profile work with artists, fashion designers and musicians
including Trojan, BodyMap, and Wire. My first encounter with Clark was his
collaboration with Mark E. Smith and the deciduous 2001 line-up in Before... |
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Science blurs with art to move your body through space in a very particular way.Words: MATTHEW MILES. Photography: KONRAD WYREBEK and MATTHEW MILESAnthony Gormley has become known as a creator of landmarks, the artist behind – or often cast and repeated – in high-profile 3D pieces such as ‘Ang... |
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RACHEL CATTLE: I have come to the Barbican to write. I was trying to think of where I wanted to be and realised that I wanted somewhere soulless, somewhere spacious. Fit for anyone. Not Shoreditch for example. So I am here and there is an old woman knitting at a furious pace at a table near me…and... |
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[Contains spoilers!]WILLIAM McBRIDE: Allusions to the Pandora mythology in the new play “Pandora” by Jennie Buckman, showing at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston until 12th June 2010, aren’t always obvious, (apart from when Pandora herself appears to Cleo – a bright, partially-deaf school girl,... |
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PETER WIX: A film for artists to celebrate, scientists too, or just for
those who prize the use of imagination over the dull, prosaic,
number-crunching, suited fundamentalism of the business, financial, and
industrial set who run this place.
Jim Jarmusch has filled some great movies wit... |
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MARK SHEERIN: Art is getting noisier. Galleries echo with moving image installations. The quieter ones provide you with audio-guides. Sound is now such a vital dimension of art, some artists are making art about that very phenomenon.In a boxlike construction at Ikon in Birmingham, you can pull up a... |
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WILLIAM McBRIDE: Outside the Vinyl Factory in Soho a little pantomime of practical necessity is being staged: bollards, red carpets, a smoking section, half-a-dozen security guards, an obligatory line up, and three lithe young women dressed all in black, armed with clipboards and enormous smiles;... |
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