Stand Up People – Gypsy Pop Songs From Tito’s Yugoslavia 1964-1980
This rare and fascinating compilation Stand Up People fuses Romanian pop songs with Turkish, Indian and Western influences of a bygone age. The album collates recordings from between 1964 and 1980 by Roma gypsy musicians from Tito’s socialist Yugoslavia. A labour of...
Ellen Gallagher re-analysed: Intricate Interventions at Tate Modern
There is one truth in Ellen Gallagher exhibition at the Tate: a meme will dislodge you from who you are and plant you into the tableau of the epistemic artistry that is advertising. The rest is myth and, of course, falsehoods of who you are meant to be, lurking...
NowTV Smallest Film Festival winners – Vine app frolics
You may remember our story about the NOW TV Movie Festival a few weeks ago, telling you how NOW TV were challenging people to enter their best Vine videos into a mock film festival in order to win prizes. Well, they've just announced the winners, and there are some...
Damir Doma Archive at LN-CC
Today sees the launch of LN-CC's Damir Doma archive sale featuring pieces that span the designer's entire career, starting with his second collection all the way to AW12. An exciting selection for men's wear connoisseurs, the archive consists of 50 key, mostly runway...
Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series Gives Film Makers A Break – Winners Show at Tribeca
Aspiring film makers need grit, determination, buckets of imagination but above all they need that one big first break. This is exactly what the Bombay Sapphire Imagination Series: Film competition sets out to do. Backed by the much respected Tribeca Film Festival it...
Yoko Ono wants you to send her your smile – be part of the show
Come on. Don’t be shy. You know you want to. Yoko Ono would really appreciate it if you could just send her one of your smiles. You see the artist needs them for a new exhibition as part of do it 20 13. She wants to circulate photos of smiles to say “Hello. How...
Cleopatra epic restored to its full glory and re-released for its 50 birthday
Arguably Hollywood’s most influential picture of all time is set for a celebratory face-lifted re-release in selected cinemas and on Blu-ray to mark it’s 50th anniversary. Presented at Cannes at the 20th Century Fox-Bulgari party by a notably Cleopatraesque Jessica...
Palmer//Harding X Christy Lee Rogers – AW13 – PART 2
During the last London Fashion Week, our attention was drawn to the collection by Palmer//Harding, and their aesthetic collaboration with American photographer, Christy Lee Rogers. Intrigued by how one inspires the other, we wanted to find out about their work...
China’s Fake Art: Grab yourself a perfect Van Gogh replica for $37
German photographer Michael Wolf is currently based in Hong Kong, where his fascination with cities has taken him for both his commercial work as a photojournalist and his personal body of work, made up of a variety of series documenting architecture and other facets...
Slow Club gig in historic Music Hall? Nokia Lumia Live Sessions with Blogotheque
Imagine your perfect concert. It’s not just about the band - it’s the people, the venue, the atmosphere. If you get all the ingredients right it can result in a quite magical experience. This is what Nokia Lumia Live sessions, produced in collaboration with...
Palmer//Harding X Christy Lee Rogers – AW13 – PART 1
During the last London Fashion Week, our attention was drawn to the collection by Palmer Harding, and their aesthetic collaboration with American photographer, Christy Lee Rogers. Intrigued by how one inspires the other, find out about their work apart and...
A Fairground in Chernobyl or a tour of North Korea? – An Alternative Holiday
Touring radiation fallout zones or secretive communist states isn’t what most people would think of as a holiday. But Dylan Harris enjoys taking people out of their comfort zones. Dylan, nicknamed “Wolf” by friends, used his gonzo backpacking expertise to found...
The Perfect American – Philip Glass’s imperfect new opera
Like its central character, Walt Disney, Philip Glass’s new opera is flawed. Despite a good premise, an imaginative set that works around a strict ban on Disney imagery, and a solid-as-ever score from Glass, The Perfect American – on at the Coliseum in London until...
Art in Japan – ‘Could Art Change The World’ JR Exhibition, Tokyo
Our regular arts writer Philomena Epps decided to check out some key art shows whilst on a trip to Japan. Here’s the second of her reports on the JR Exhibition - Could Art Change The World at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art. This is the first...
Art in Japan – All You Need is Love: from Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku
Our regular arts writer Philomena Epps decided to check out some key art shows whilst on a trip to Japan. Here's the first of her reports on the All You Need is Love: from Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku exhibition at the Mori Art Museum. All You Need is...