Nathan James and his Circus of Creeps: Perverts, John Wayne and Mickey Mouse
In the deepest, darkest, shadiest corner of pop is the world of painter Nathan James. This is a world like no other: a world in which you can expect to be offered pills by a tripped out Mickey Mouse, in which you can expect to meet perverts, groping, freaks and...
The Food Hotel – Fishmore Hall, Ludlow.
Usually, the focus of a hotel is on the hotel bit: namely, the bedrooms, the décor, the room service, menu-order pillows, fluffy white dressing gowns, impressively large bathtubs, a good selection of TV channels. Of course. Hotels are, after all, in the business of...
Too Much Night, Again: Pae White at the South London Gallery
Pae White’s installation at South London Gallery opened on the 12th of March. Prior to the exhibition opening, she led an artist talk in the Clore Studio that provided an insight into the history and inspirations behind her experimental practise. Pae White is a...
Wes Craven’s Deadly Blessing film – The Lost Horror Returns
“A gruesome secret, protected for generations, rises to give its… Deadly Blessing.” The tagline to Wes Craven’s 1981 offering, Deadly Blessing, could just as well be a description of the film’s elusive home release itself rather than the mysterious, supernatural...
Midnight Feast – Gaucho Manchester Argentinian After Hours Delights
Gaucho Manchester's ‘Midnight Feast’ menu is all the fun of the fair for those seeking after-hours foodie pleasure without the late night Pandemonium; an Argentinian avant-garde four-course delight with luscious cocktails, Malbec and live music. Gaucho Manchester has...
London Turkish Film Festival – The Highlights & some essential Cinema
Ramis Cizer picks out his highlights of the Turkish Film Festival in London and views some crackling cinema due for imminent release... It’s not the teeth of the big bad wolf that Little Red Riding Hood should fear but the sharp crackle of an assault rifle and...
Lucier Dazzles at the Hayward Gallery Light Show
The Southbank Centre’s Harmonic Series, now in its third season, continues to excite and intrigue. Not everything works at artist-in-residence Oliver Coates’ attempt to pair pieces by Andrew Hamilton, Alvin Lucier, Morton Feldman (as well as Bach and John Dowland)...
SHAO YEN ‘The Sitter’ fashion collection for SS13
Contrasting painters inspired the Spring Summer 2013 collection by London based womenswear label, Shao Yen. Synonymous for designer Shao Yen Chen’s bold use of unusual materials, the SS13 collection incorporates his iconic knitwear fusing cutting-edge with commercial...
Marios on the Red Carpet for AW13/14
Inventively mixing the weird and wonderful with amazing conceptual fashion vision as ever, we thought you would love to see these images of the new AW13/14 collection by Marios. Marios describe themselves as a brand for contempories and modernettes, and with artistic...
Reich Re-writes Radiohead – Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite Premiere
José Mourinho said ‘the world would stop’ to watch Real Madrid play Manchester United in the Champions League. At the Southbank Centre, however, life went on regardless as we witnessed the newest chapter in the extraordinary career of ‘America’s greatest living...
Art Rotterdam – Culture and architecture in the world’s port
Located due east of Colchester, where Franco-Germanic rivers breakout into the North Sea, Rotterdam is one of the lesser known of our near-European neighbours. The largest port in the world until 2004, when the Shanghai juggernaut surpassed it, the city’s maritime...
Unseen Holocaust at the Imperial War Museum North
In the Jewish faith for eleven months after a person dies the mourner's Kaddish is recited for them. The prayer is a sanctification of God's name, a statement of rock solid belief spoken at a moment of intense emotional and personal crisis. "May His great Name be...
Bye Bye Bacon: An attempt at Vegetarianism, Part 1
As I type, I am dreaming of a juicy hunk of steak, barely cooked and savagely scrumptious. When this gory reverie is over, I am instantly distracted by a craving for prawns: little pink bursts of sweetness nestled between lettuce leaves or stirred into spaghetti. But,...
Jeremy Hutchinson – A kind of Performance Artist (but Don’t Call Him That)
“I suppose I’m a performance artist, but I fucking hate that word”, says Jeremy Hutchinson grinning. He looks stubbly and slightly cheeky as he sips his tea. “It’s the connotations of performance artist, like noone wants to be a performance artist because...” he...
Leonard Cohen Concert in Quebec – Lessons from a Master
If the question is what could possibly induce me to visit Quebec in late November with the daytime temperature dropping to -16 degrees centigrade then the answer is quite simply ‘Leonard Cohen’. As for many others, Leonard Cohen has long been both an idol and icon for...