Young Saudi Artists: Portrait of an Event
Saudi Arabia’s contemporary art scene is in a period of flux and several kinds of art life have emerged from an increasingly fertile cultural soil – events, initiatives and ideas of all ranges and...
View ArticleUnexpected Pleasures: Expectedly Impressive
Unexpected Pleasures is the latest exhibition to grace the National Gallery of Victoria’s important new Contemporary Exhibitions space. The exhibition (a mini museum in itself!) is a comprehensive...
View ArticleHopeful Beginning to the End
I could hear a church with hot pink doors purring as I walked towards it through the ‘wrong side of town’ in Gainsborough, East Midlands. So it was these pulsating vibrations that introduced me to the...
View ArticleLucian Matis: The Embodiment of a True Artist
Never before have I been so inspired by the extensive creativity, determination and fortitude of a single individual. Now Canadian Fashion designer, Lucian Matis, has been an inspiration to me from the...
View ArticleNeighbours
Within a certain house, There is a basement; this dark hell breathes of blood. A dried paste covers walls and the floors, Made for paintings, decorates doors. Dying fetuses that lie upon the...
View ArticleMerry Summer Solstice!
Dark Shadows of Economic Meltdown, Global Warming and Personal Worries are waving their ugly arms at us again. Will they win? Will they grasp our warm hearts and squeeze the living juices out of them?...
View ArticleBetween the Pages: Contemporary Japanese Photobooks
The current exhibition in the reopened Photographers’ Gallery, Contemporary Japanese Photobooks, isn’t your average exhibition. Instead of the usual ‘do not touch’ signs, you are encouraged to don a...
View ArticlePreview: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Now in its eighth edition Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival opens on Wednesday with the theme Pictures in Motion. Once again transforming this North Eastern English town into ‘one big moving image...
View ArticleSay hello to Frieze Masters
Mexican dolls, early 20th century Dutch and Flemish paintings Installation of Don Judd’s works This year Frieze has launched Frieze Masters, a new fair for ‘historical art’, alongside Frieze proper...
View ArticleIt’s time for Something Human. Interview with Annie Jael Kwan
Annie. You have a theatre arts and law background and you work as freelance producer and project manager for arts projects as well as creative producer and filmmaker. On top of that, you are the...
View ArticleTop 5 Edinburgh
1. Best Place to watch a movie – Edinburgh Filmhouse. Definitely the best place to watch a movie is the Filmhouse on Lothian Road. The films are mostly of the art house variety with new releases,...
View ArticleI love ]performance s p a c e [ ! What about you?
]performance s p a c e [ is one of the most committed and bubbly London-based spaces dedicated to the live art and it is asking for our help. It's time to know more about this artist-led non-profit...
View ArticleTransformation & Revelation: Gormley to Gaga – Designing for Performance @...
Transformation & Revelation takes the viewer on a journey through the different elements of British theatre design from 2007 – 20011. In total there are 33 diverse exhibits in the Summerhall...
View ArticleFast Film, Slow Burn: Uncommon Singularity -Short Film Programme Review @...
Any good short film screening will have an eclectic mix and the animated shorts programme (Fast Film, Slow Burn: Uncommon Singularity) at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre...
View ArticleCloud Eye Control @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Los Angeles based theatre group Cloud Eye Control have developed 3 short theatre pieces that involve animation, motion graphics and innovative use of projection and shadow. This is the American troupes...
View ArticleSlick – Theatre Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Slick is a theatrical performance that involves clever puppetry, toilet humour and intelligent and novel set construction. Created by the Vox Motus theatre group we are told the story of 9 year old...
View ArticleAndy Warhol and Joseph Beuys – The ‘Lost’ Photographs @ Summerhall Galleries...
The viewer is presented with a photographic exhibition that showcases a voyeuristic insight to a party given by Andy Warhol to his friend Jospeh Beuys. This in itself may not seem worthy of an...
View ArticleOpen Call – The Analogue verses Digital Pop-up Shop
The Analogue verses Digital Pop-up Shop will be a retail space for products produced by independents in music, film, photography and literature. It will also form an exhibition space, a discussion...
View ArticlePapercut @ Manipulate, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Papercut is a one woman show that is heavily influenced by classic Hollywood cinema, film noir and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Yael Rasooly is definitely not a blonde Hitchcockian victim, but is in...
View ArticleSchiklgruber…Alias Adolf Hitler – Theatre Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre...
Normal 0 During the performance of SCHIKLGRUBER…ALIAS ADOLF HITLER we are taken to Adolf Hitler’s bunker during the last bleak hours of his life. Told through the medium of puppetry the audience is...
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