This Tuesday, Imperial’s Musical Theatre society invited me to witness one of their final rehearsals – a full run through. And while it was bare bones up on the 10th floor of Physics, I still got to see all the singing, acting and dancing.
As MTSoc put their finishing touches to the Spring performance, the Producers, they invited this intrepid reporter along to see how things were shaping up in the dress rehearsal.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. It’s an instantly quotable adage from Banksy, but what does it actually mean? Can a line be drawn between outright political propaganda and the canvases hanging in every hip gallery in London?
The Tate Modern opens its Harry Callahan display with a quote from the photographer: “if a man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand… his relationship to life”.
In Heads of State (1920), two portly figures are pictured in their bathing suits before a feminine backdrop of butterflies, flowers and a woman with a parasol.
It has been an unusual journey for Dylan Baldi, the man behind Cleveland based Cloud Nothings. He was signed as a one-man band and released his first two albums, Turned On and the self-titled Cloud Nothings, were recorded as such.
Episode 8 - From North to South
Prior to writing this review, I stumbled upon a recent YouTube recording of Wild Beasts performing a mellow and slightly mocking rendition of Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball.
Disclaimer: do not book tickets for this as a February blues pick-me-up. The poster’s colourful, the title’s promising, but the only comedy you’ll get it the bleakest of tragicomedy.
Is science emotional? Clara Clark Nevola interviews theatre maker Tom Espiner about the play Going Dark to find out
Richard Hamilton. Father of pop art, experimenter of consumer design, right? If that is all you associate with this icon of twentieth century British art, this massive retrospective at the Tate will change your mind.
Puccini’s Turandot was “the end of the great tradition” of Italian opera. Ever popular, it is the grandest of them all, and yet it is deeply problematic. Set in a mythical China, at its simplest the tale concerns a Prince, Calaf, who wins the heart of the Princess of China, Turandot.