A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy
A lecture in love’s philosophy? Linda Pittwood considers Open Eye Gallery’s latest exhibition, A Lecture Upon The Shadow… “Stand still, and I will read to thee / A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy...
Week at a Glance 11-01-13
David Bowie releases first new material in a decade Icon David Bowie celebrated his 66th birthday this week by releasing his first new material in a decade. The single, Where are We Now? (pictured...
Catch Them While You Can
A New Year is barely upon us but if you’re not careful you’re liable to miss out on some fine exhibitions doing the rounds… Post Liverpool Biennial 2012 you could be forgiven for...
Winter Sparks – Reviewed
FACT’s first post-Biennial show, would Winter Sparks prove illuminating? Billed in the promo material as ‘a personal sound and light show’ which ‘turns away from … the museum as … white cube space’,...
A New Sound: Delia Darlings
C James Fagan on Daphne Oram, The Radiophonic Workshop and Delia Derbyshire, electronic innovator… There’s something evocative about the name The Radiophonic Workshop that conjures up an image of people literally picking out radio-waves from...
Artists of 2012
What better way to celebrate a year of The Double Negative than to honour our Artists of the Month? When we were planning The Double Negative back in late 2011, it was our...
Nikola Tesla: the man who invented the 20th Century
Winter Sparks, the new exhibition at FACT, leads us to ponder the man and the myth that is Nikola Tesla… The thing you can’t ignore walking through the three large-scale installations making for...
Changing The World From Here?
It’s all well and good declaring you want to change the world from here, translating it into something tangible is the trick… Sat writing this midway through December 2012 and with breathing space...
A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker
A new William Kentridge exhibition, with print at its core, is a resounding delight at the Bluecoat… How to follow John Akomfrah’s Unfinished Conversation? Quite justifiably one of the most widely praised and...