Henrietta Foster / 17 Jul 2023
Tommy in the Sky with Pain
The Stephen Tomlin Story
What is it about the Bloomsbury Set that keeps us so enthralled? Beats me. But there is an ever-growing, insatiable interest.(...)
Art
Henrietta Foster / 03 Jul 2023
John Constable: The Dark Side
The Gallery at The Arc, Winchester
When we think of an idealised England like Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, Jane Austen’s Meryton, Thomas Hardy’s Little Hintock, Miss Marple’s St Mary Mead or even The Archers’ Ambridge in the BBC radio soap opera, they all have echoes of the work of John Constable.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 19 Jun 2023
Sex and the Gallery
Painted Love, Wedding Cake and Ugly Duchess
June is busting out all over, so love must be in the air. Or rather, it's a less romantic version - coupling, whether conscious or unconscious.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 06 Jun 2023
Art is Touching
50 Years of the Sainsbury Art Collection at UEA
After the pandemic, museum curators claimed that they had to find a new way to tempt the public to view their wares. Albeit on smaller budgets and with the disappearance of patrons with suspect backgrounds in drugs or oil.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 17 May 2023
The Great Revolt
Cease & Resist – Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86
Cease & Resist - Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 takes us back to the heyday of anarcho-punk when DIY values were inextricably bound up with political statements.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 24 Apr 2023
The Great British Dog Fetish
Portraits of Dogs and The Queen and Her Corgis
For those of us who grew up on the island that is the United Kingdom, there were places that represented for us lovers of Europe a deeper connection with the longed-for-continent.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 22 Feb 2023
After Music
Through Mazes Running, by Drew Daniel and John Wiese
Through Mazes Running, the new collaboration between Drew Daniel (Matmos, The Soft Pink Truth) and John Wiese (Sissy Spacek), toes the line between pleasure and pain with great dexterity.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 16 Jun 2022
Re-Composing Poland
Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer, by Matmos
With their latest release Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer, American duo Matmos further close the gap between what is still classified, however anachronistically, as “classical” music and the pop idiom to which their brand of experimental electronica remains indebted.(...)