Down the Road of Globalisation – Exhibiting Terrorism, Conquest & Expansion Through the Eyes of Seven Artists

Down the Road of Globalisation – Exhibiting Terrorism, Conquest & Expansion Through the Eyes of Seven Artists

Globalisation has been repeatedly staged, weakened and re-staged throughout history in different forms and so far one undeniable outcome: vast economic prosperity for certain nations or empires. Although its historical origins are still debatable, the Hellenistic period, the Age of discovery and the European colonization of America have all been regarded as eras of Globalisation. [...]

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Online Photo Printing Tips

Online photo printing is the latest way to turn images from your desktop pc, laptop or digital camera onto real photo paper  . Whether you are just an occasional snapper or you require professional photo printing services there are companies out there who are able to take your order online which most of us find [...]

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Early Jazz Music

Several years ago, many people complained that pop music is one of the most familiar genres they can enjoy in their daily life. In this case, jazz music was not the common genre they can see it performed on the television very often. Jazz was brought or performed from pub to pub or even from [...]

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FOLK BRITANNIA AT BARBICAN – 21st Century Folk Music

FOLK BRITANNIA AT BARBICAN – 21st Century Folk Music

FOLK BRITANNIA provides an idiosyncratic snapshot of British folk music in the 21st century. A year ago, the festival Jazz Britannia was such a success that the Barbican along with BBC Four are bringing to us this year, a 3 day festival which celebrates the evolution of British folk music from the end of the [...]

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TOM HUNTER – Living in Hell and Other Stories

TOM HUNTER – Living in Hell and Other Stories

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 [...]

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LOIN DU VIETNAM – Far From Vietnam

LOIN DU VIETNAM – Far From Vietnam

Loin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam) is made up of seven short films made in the ‘60s at the time of the occupation of Vietnam by celebrated political directors including Jean-luc Godard and Alain Resnais. Paulo Gerbaudo looks at the parralels between film and war then and now Loin du Vietnam is both a failure [...]

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LEADING LIGHT OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE – David Adjaye

LEADING LIGHT OF BRITISH ARCHITECTURE – David Adjaye

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 [...]

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FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006

FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006

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, [...]

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YAZID FENTAZI – North African Music Fusion

YAZID FENTAZI – North African Music Fusion

Born in Algiers, Algeria, Yazid Fentazi composes in his own words “a blend of traditional with modern music.” It is a uniquely clever and contemporary style of North African fusion, coming from a long tradition of absorbing influences, be they Algerian, Kurdish, Berber, Arabic, Egyptian, Spanish, Indian and many more. The Guardian has described Fentazis’ [...]

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SAYLES TECHNIQUE – A Social, Political & Emotional Travelogue

SAYLES TECHNIQUE – A Social, Political & Emotional Travelogue

John Sayles’ work tends to act as a social, political and emotional travelogue rather than a straight-line narrative. The films are all about the compromises that exist between individuals and the society in which they live. Roger Corman’s B-movie factory of the sixties and seventies produced a number of leading film talents like Francis Ford [...]

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