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CEDAR LEWISOHN: It’s a Saturday night and I’ve been invited to a swanky dinner to celebrate the opening of a big West End Gallery. I was at the show earlier and now a select few of us are in a new London restaurant, Morser 72, which has been receiving rave reviews in all the right places. The... |
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DAVE LAZER There is a hipflask in a cupboard in my kitchen that has, at some point, become completely fused shut. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve tried in vain to prise it open, break the lid off or stab it open with a kitchen knife (it’s usually around this time I realise that n... |
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Born in
Paris in 1961, Alexandre
Desplat came to
prominence in the 1990s, working with French directors such as Patrice Leconte
and Jacques Audiard. In 2003, he scored Peter Webber’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, launching his career worldwide.
Further international recognition came with his... |
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KEIRON PHELAN: At the Victoria, Dalston, a largely teenage audience cause commotion; jumping, shouting, screaming and generally kicking up fuss. Young women shrill “we love you!” On stage, the cherubic features of Areca Grove leader Charlie Wheatley crease into an evil grin resembling a youthf... |
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CEDAR LEWISOHN: I decided to write up a diary of all the food I ate while on a trip to the Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany. Documenta takes place every five years and is widely regarded as the barometer against which all other major survey exhibitions are judged. At the last one, in 2007,... |
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POINT AND SHOOTEpson and The Saatchi Gallery Magazine Art & Music present ‘POINT AND SHOOT’, a global competition for international amateur and professional photographers. The competition winner and four finalists will each receive printing equipment from Epson and be featured in The Saatchi... |
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CEDAR LEWISOHN: I was cycling from my house to the studio thinking about what I was going to write for the latest column when my phone rang – always annoying when you’re on the bike. I stopped and scrambled for the phone: it was Louisa Buck calling. Louisa is The Art Newspaper’s top journali... |
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The 3rd New L.A. Folk Festival
Less than an hour away from the glitzy facade of
Hollywood (Tinseltown, Lipstick City. Plasticopolis) (the idea, not the actual
neighborhood), to the north lies a sleepy suburb called Altadena, CA. It is
there, on top of a mountain (or giant hill) that yo... |
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When it comes to entertainment and the arts, there are countless
practitioners worthy of admiration, whether new faces or seasoned stars.
Like many people, I am obsessed with various forms of the arts, and
there are always personalities that I would give anything to meet and
experience in re... |
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GEMMA DE CRUZ: Last night I went to the latest Disappearing Dining Club now located, for the forseeable, behind a hip clothes shop at the top of Brick Lane opposite the Bagel bakers. DDC is a pop up project that has been going for two years but still somehow feels new. Because the venue is in... |
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GEMMA DE CRUZ: Dark Horse, the new film from Todd Solondz, begins by setting up the idea that a loser guy in his mid 30s, who still lives at home, works for his dad and collects toys, is going to ‘get the girl’ and love will save the day. Abe (Jordan Gelber) meets Miranda (Selma Blair) at a... |
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STEVEN GONTARSKI: This is a painting by Kirsten Glass and is included in her current exhibition at xero, kline & coma London. The painting is mysterious, dreamy and a little bit spooky. A face emerges as though from a fairy tale mirror. Its horizontal positioning reminds me of an experience th... |
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GEMMA DE CRUZ: Being the gadget-unfriendly technophobe that I am, when the guy standing next to me asked me what I thought of the Nintendo 3D camera (that we were using to take photographs around Shoreditch) I was a bit down on it. “It’s easy to use” I replied, “but the photographs don... |
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RHIANNON PARKINSON: In many ways, this album – The Wave Pictures’ umpteenth (and fifth for Moshi Moshi) – is more of the same from London’s hardest working indie band. Recorded over four days in New York City, Long Black Cars finds David Tattersall’s vocal melodies on fire, with Franic R... |
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Please note: anything in this article presented as fact, is at best, a guess. In compliance with the nature of the piece, I have not used the Internet to aid me in any way. That includes me refraining from Googling words I don’t know how to spell. I’m fully aware of the spell-check function... |
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The Saatchi Gallery Magazine Art & Music presents the ‘THE GLITTERING PRIZES – A&M TV’s New Talent Award’, a global competition for international bands and musicians.The winning act will receive a free live recording session at Blackburn Art College, directed by Jamie Holman and pro... |
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