Throughout history a number of great artists have also been scientists. “Anton Tchekhov himself was a practicing physician.” Hassan Abdualrazzak, researcher at Imperial College and playwright tells me in the Junior Common Room at Imperial ...
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Even on a rainy, bleak and depressing morning the British Museum managed to lift my spirits up. The Great Court was dazzling in all its whiteness, filled with noisy and enthusiastic tourists and school groups. ...
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God, redemption, religion, the forces of good and evil. It is hard to tackle these none too light topics in a manner which doesn’t become cumbersome. Peter Cadwell did it in The Fighter’s Ballad, but confronts the bull head-on – the film is no laughing matter. Enda Walsh’s Misterman deals with similar ideas of Right and Wrong, albeit couched in ...
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Lucian Freud Protraits is a monumental exhibition, revealing the life-long strive of the artist to capture the mystery of human flesh. Freud, from his beginnings one of the greatest artists ...
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Gilbert & George, an eccentric duo even by the standards of the London art world, establish the ultimate vision of a dark, murky, sort-of-foggy London. As the ghostly reporters of ...
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The events that took place on 11 March 2011 in Japan were a wake up call for many people. 20,000 died and hundreds of thousands were stranded without homes. This ...
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In the year 2000, the American Film institute named Some Like It Hot the greatest American comedy film of all time. At the time of its release, it won three ...
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Once more I managed to wangle my way into watching DramSoc’s second spring term production, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!, Nobel laureate Dario Fo’s 1974 farcical comedy, involving pseudo-pregnant woman, confused husbands and a suspiciously similar-looking string of police inspectors and undertakers. I was promised a barrelful of laughs, and I certainly didn’t leave empty handed.
CP?WP! revolves around two frustrated housewives, ...
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