Man Ray: Self-Portrait
“A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a…
Browsing: The Culturist
Wendy Mayer: Still Life
Charlie Smith London is exhibiting Welsh-born Wendy Mayer’s first London solo show, presented by international…
Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters
Comfortably replete with Jarlsberg cheese, Vikingfjord Vodka and some wonderful Scandinavian pastries, you could be forgiven for thinking I’d forgotten I was there to review a film. But this was just the very genial introduction to a new Norwegian film hitting UK shores in April.
The Original Living Doll: Coppélia
“Billed as ‘magic, mayhem and the original living doll’, this Birmingham Royal Ballet production of Delibes’ Coppélia is stunning and perfectly suited to the opulent surroundings of the London Coliseum.”
The King’s Speech at Wyndham’s Theatre
With David Haig nominated for a Laurence Olivier award for his awe-inspiring performance in The…
The Master and Margarita
“Until attending Complicite’s dazzling adaptation at the Barbican, Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita represented something of a literary blind spot for me.” Will Hunt reports…
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture
Artist, photographer and filmmaker Paul Joyce takes an uncompromising look at David Hockney’s current exhibition at The Royal Academy, and muses over 30 years of friendship with the venerated artist…
Kalliphilia Exhibition: A Podcast Interview
Simon Rumley talks to Vegas Gallery’s Creative Director, Jessica Carlisle, and artist Hester Finch, about the current exhibition titled Kalliphilia.
One Giant Leap
The Saatchis are something of an enigma in the art world. Their collection is as eclectic as it is often bizarre, but this mercurial and almost indefinable approach to their buying ensures one thing: it creates desirability…
Hay Fever: What a Sneeze!
Another production of Hay Fever you cry! Noel Coward’s comedy of (bad) manners was first…
Matilda: Working Wonders for the West End
“I was beginning to lose all hope. I wanted to pop the West End over my knee and give it a good hiding for such detestably lackadaisical behaviour. But then, I saw Matilda.”
For Love or Money: Contemporary Masters
Jean-David Malat has an unashamedly shrewd eye for the business of art, and the art…