Culture Diary w/c 13-05-13
Tuesday – Beyond the Hills 6pm @ FACT Best known for his 2007 film 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won Best Screenplay at Cannes in 2012 for his...
The Art Writer’s Responsibility to Readability
In the first of a series on the nature of modern criticism, artist and blogger Darren Murphy looks at the responsibility of the writer to readability… We’ve all done it; gone to an...
Building up curiosity: the LJMU Fine Art MA
What do you look for in an MA? Conversation, critique, contact time and inspirational tutors, say artists studying and teaching Fine Art at LJMU … Wandering around the new labyrinthine project spaces at...
In Bloom
DW Mault on a pair of films dealing with the vitality and cruelty of youth… The romance of narrative is perpetually at odds with reality; which is a problem that longs for an...
The Treachery of Images
In this essay, Nathan Richardson muses on facts and the impressions of facts, with specific reference to Fournier’s The Funeral of Shelley… During my education, the Walker Art Gallery was often patronised as a suitable...
Mark E. Smith and The Fall
A one man anecdote making machine, Mark E. Smith is the contrary genius behind first-wave post-punk’s most enduring band… Usually when referring to a band member, it is a standard convention to state...
Sound City 2013 – Reviewed
Almost a week ago Sound City got underway. We pick through the tales from the trenches… This time last week we were scouring the Sound City 2013 line-up; who could we not miss?...
Mud – Previewed
DW Mault finds danger and beauty in Mud, the latest flick forcing us to reassess Matthew McConaughey… Modern American literature is a bastard form of originality that sings from the descent of manifest...
Culture Diary w/c 06-05-13
Tuesday – The Gatekeepers 6pm @ FACT Nominated for a 2013 Best Documentary academy award, The Gatekeepers is a film taking 50 years of Israeli history as its subject matter. The source material...