David Hockney, Tate Britain
Passing through the misted glass doors into the light pink gallery, I am met by a lively throng of strangers. The damp squeak of winter footwear and the coats slung over creased arms evince the cool dusk of London in early February… Read more | 18/07/17
‘The art that can’t stand still’
I have never much liked graffiti, that art form whose subcultural status locates it somewhere between 1) a considered manifestation of creative expression and 2) downright vandalism… Read more | 25/03/17
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa
The Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, located just north of the city centre, is named for the British/Armenian businessman and art collector who, in 1942, made Lisbon (one of) his (many) home(s)… Read more | 07/02/17
Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT), Lisboa
I am hesitant to make declarative statements about places into whose rich cultural waters my toes have only dipped. Nevertheless: Lisbon, Portugal’s capital and largest city (pop: c552,700), feels as though it is in the midst of substantial change… Read more | 28/12/16
Nocturnal Animals – Review
Like falling into a well filled with tailored suits, Tom Ford’s latest film, Nocturnal Animals, is a shocking but wonderfully immersive experience. An adaptation of American author Austin Wright´s 1993 novel… Read more | 10/11/16
Beyond Caravaggio, The National Gallery – Review
Like no other painter, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio limned drama on canvas. Exploding with humour, holiness and horror, paintings like The Taking of Christ, and Supper at Emmaus… Read more | 09/11/16
Museum Brandhorst, München
Last Thursday I spent an afternoon in Munich, Germany’s third largest city and the capital of Bavaria – a region whose citizens enjoy life as well as beer (the latter at the annual rate of roughly 170 litres per person)… Read more | 21/10/16
The inexorable appeal of Stan Smith’s shoes that he endorses
If curiosity so affected you, you would be forgiven for wondering why a young man in the prime of his life might continue to grace his purposeful striding legs with such tattered trainers as are pictured above… Read more | 18/10/16
Victoria – Review
It’s a long night in Berlin for Victoria, the title character of actor-turned-director Sebastian Schipper’s exhilarating drama about a group of partygoers whose evening ends in disaster… Read more | 22/04/16
Bone Tomahawk – Review
Right from the word go, multi-talented S. Craig Zahler’s latest offering, Bone Tomahawk, is an unforgiving and mesmerising visual assault. Set in the Old West at the turn of the century, the film follows a group of four men… Read more | 04/03/16
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