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If
you'd like some starting-points to the sort of stuff I write, and
you're not overly concerned with topicality, here's twenty handy
links. (If you are overly concerned with
topicality, you're probably in the wrong place to start with.) I've
handily divided them into reader-friendly headers, though the content
of pieces more often slips between subjects.
Amusingly
when I check this list against the stats, it includes what's
currently my best-read post ('Shows Of Future Past'),
but overall has almost no correlation to readership. Very few folk
read 'From Barbary to Here' and almost no-one
'We Come to Bury High Culture'. Go figure...
VISUAL
ART
A
comparison of two Tate Modern exhibitions, the Italian-set ‘Futurism’
and Russia-based ‘Rodchenko and Popova: Defining
Constructivism'
A
retrospective of Gustav Metzger, quite possibly the deviser of
auto-destructivism, at the Serpentine Gallery
Three
of Dadaism’s most infamous and provocative characters in one place
at one time.
The
often-overlooked 'English Surrealist' finally gets a much-deserved
retrospective, at the Pallant House gallery
LATE TURNER: PAINTING SET FREE
LATE TURNER: PAINTING SET FREE
It's official - the last years of this
celebrated British artist really were the best, the time he most
successfully found the sublime in the age of steam. (Dickens and Marx
get drafted into this argument, too. It seemed a good idea at the
time.)
FILMS,
TV, COMICS & ANIMATION
Was
it the Forties cartoons which really defined the Man of Steel we know
today? (Short answer: yes)
The
simple poser 'what defines a superhero' used to crowbar our way into
a more general rumination over what constitutes one.
The
middle section of Christopher Nolan's bat-trilogy goes under the
four-eyed spotlight
Thoughts
on the classic TV show, penned when the revival had just finished
it's first season
The
'Alien' series up to date, with emphasis on the first film, written
as a preamble to a 'Prometheus' review but ending up more interesting
than that (honest)...
THEATRE
A
highly subjective account of a “site-responsive promenade
performance” by DreamThinkSpeak in the old Co-op Building,
Brighton
MUSIC
The
legendary anarch-punk band dissected. The comments section is worth
reading too. (Once you get past the initial fulminating punk
fundamentalist.)
The
themes of this celebrated country album assessed
Ex-Velvets
member finds “a nice way to say something nasty', in quite possibly
one of the finest albums ever!
...a
pieced which starts out as a review of a Seventieth birthday tribute
to the inimitable Steve Reich, but morphs into a general discussion
of minimalism in music
A
polemical insistence that drone isn't a but
the form of music
The
reformed New York noisemeisters strike back. And this time
they're tuneful!
RANTS
A
no-holds-barred tirade against the way Hollywood scripters have
co-opted Joseph Campbell's studies of mythology to their twisted
will
A
celebration of artistic self-production in the face of corporate
conformity. “Home creativity is killing the comics industry – and
it's fun, too!”
A
piece which started out as a review of a Blyth Power benefit gig, but
then nothing much goes to plan around here...
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