Currently exhibiting at The National Gallery is an east London artist depicting real life stories taken from The Hackney Gazette.
Tom Hunter tells these stories using carefully staged, large format photographs, restaging them in compositions that often directly refer to classic paintings of the past, many of the paintings to which Hunter has referred for his […]
It’s one of those injustices we see too often in the world of art and history… An integral monument to the cultural structure of a society being sacrificed in the name of some unfulfilling, commercial purpose.
The EMD Cinema in Walthamstow was a celebrated building. It is acknowledged as one of London’s finest art deco cinemas […]
On BBC’s Bias:
The BBC lacked insight and awareness of continental football when dealing with the World-Cup. As did ITV by the way. Luckily the BBC had Leonardo and Desailly to give us much more balanced view on the game. Obviously, they have played in different countries and had the ability to judge different systems, players […]
The post World-Cup hangover is not over yet…and it requires that we all handle the Zidane-gate with the necessary cautious approach favored on the other side of the Alps.
Those events just showed us that words can be as hurtful as actions. From Aragones the Spanish coach calling T. Henry a ‘N…r’ on a training pitch, […]
Of the many aspiring architects that are part of the renaissance of a new young British Architecture, one name has in recent years begun to appear ever more frequently - David Adjaye.
His name has made the crossover to mainstream media and begun to symbolise a new breed of architect, one whom is at the forefront […]
Friday May 19th
Meeting at the UK Pavilion. Dealing with passes and accreditations. Sorting out the usual mumbo-jumbo required to cruise through the festival.
‘Volver’ from eternal ‘enfant-terrible’ Pedro Almodovar is on show and has the usual red-carpet treatment. Penelope Cruz - gorgeous in a white Balanciagga dress, or is it? - and Carmen Maura, the co-stars […]
John McLaughlin, quite simply, is an eloquent. A guitarist whose musical vocabulary is both fluent and succinct; a musician who has proved he can work on equal terms with players from around the world and in any context. The language of music has rarely been expressed better.
He is also the guitar hero’s guitar hero; admired […]
The film is a compelling compilation of testimonies, voices and opinions gathered around five continents.
The Live8 concert in July this year, in London’s Hyde Park was set up to raise awareness about the Black continent issues, but before the first guitar riffs, the gig highlighted one single home truth: Africans should do it for themselves! […]
Below the post war redevelopment that characterises Southampton’s city centre lies a labyrinth of over 100 underground vaults dating back to the twelfth century. For the second year seven of these spaces are being opened every weekend through the summer as exhibition venues. Last year the project, organised by ‘a’ space, attracted 15,000 visitors.
Three artists […]
A hybrid of film festival and music festival, Optronica is a brand new five-day event focusing on the convergence of visuals and music.
The exquisite alchemy which takes place when music and visuals fuse has long been an underground phenomenon, inspired by early experimental film and developed through the nightclub and alternative art worlds.From acts who […]