SAYLES TECHNIQUE – A Social, Political & Emotional Travelogue
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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 [...]
Actor | Director | Editor | Film | Filmmaker | Gallery | Hollywood | Humanist | Iconic | Modern | Movie | Nature | Performance | Political | Psychology | Social | War | WriterVISIONS OF UTOPIA – Utopianism & Post-Ideological Art
Ambitious beyond its means, an international line up of some 150 artists, designers, musicians, writers, thinkers and performers wrestle with the theme of utopia in and around the birthplace of William Morris through exhibitions and installations. News From Nowhere: Visions Of Utopia promises to be one of the largest art events in London this year. [...]
Activity | Architect | Art | Artist | Audio visual | Designer | East London | Events | Exhibition | Gallery | Installation | Modern | Museum | Music | Musician | Performance | Performer | Radical | Social | Theatre | WriterJAZZ IN THE CITY – Exploration of Jazz & Art
Nina considers the musical language of jazz to be one of her greatest inspirations. Her exhibition, Jazz in the City is the culmination of a life’s work for this innovative and unique artist. It also begins a tour featuring Nina as an artist in residence, to include The International Jazz Festival in Moscow, during which [...]
Actor | Art | Artist | Culture | Drama | East London | Events | Exhibition | Festival | Film | Gallery | History | Inspiration | Modern | Museum | Music | Opera | Painting | Performer | Poetry | TheatreTURNER PRIZE 2005 – Shortlist
Tate has announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2005. The artists are Darren Almond, Gillian Carnegie, Jim Lambie and Simon Starling. Darren Almond’s work addresses the themes of time, geography and memory. He uses a wide range of media including film, photography and sculpture to explore the passing of [...]
Art | Artist | Culture | Director | Exhibition | Film | Gallery | Installation | Modern | Music | Painting | Photography | SocialBARBICAN – Folk Art Special
Two artists dismayed by the Millennium Dome’s corporate presentation of Britain have created their own snapshot of British artistic creativity. Five years after the Dome presented its shiny, clean vision of Britain, there is now a smaller, cheaper and more democratic snapshot of the UK on show at the Barbican Gallery. A life-size mechanical elephant [...]
Art | Artist | Drama | Exhibition | Gallery | Modern | PaintingTHE WHITBREAD BOOK AWARDS 2005
The Whitbread is one of the longest established and esteemed book awards in the UK and celebrates some of the most enjoyable books published in the UK each year across a number of different genres. There are six awards in total – five category awards (Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s) and, from these, [...]
Art | BBC | Biographer | Critic | Editor | Film | Modern | Novelist | Performer | Poetry | Theatre | WriterSHOW ME THE MONEY – Who’s the Daddy?
If you are looking for the hottest ticket in town, the sold-out play of the year, albeit in a very small theatre (the King’s Head in Islington), or a vicious, no-nonsense send-up of Britain’s modern-day ruling class, Who’s The Daddy? is on its way to be proclaimed as the most controversial new play of the [...]
Actor | Designer | Director | Editor | Events | Modern | Political | Theatre | War | WriterMAX’S MACBETH – Shakespeare’s Short, Savage Tragedy
William Shakespeare’s short, savage tragedy about a military hero who is spurred on by his ambitious wife and dangerously fascinated with witchcraft is staged at the Arcola Theatre this September by Out of Joint Productions. The action unfolds in an African state torn apart by war, and includes promenade elements. Director, Max Stafford-Clark says of [...]
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