Visual Arts
REVIEW: The Big Chill – A Festival For All Senses
After my arrival on Friday night, my first point of interest was the Art Trail. At first I thought it…
Two Peas in a Pod - Mike Leigh & Alfred Hitchcock
When Mike Leigh first uttered his expletives against Alfred Hitchcock`s Frenzy at the 2006 London Film Festival seminar on London…
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: A date with London’s dead
Arts Hub reviewer Rebecca Pohancenik goes to meet the city’s former inhabitants at the Wellcome Collection’s Skeletons: London’s buried bones.
COLUMN: Talking about the e-book
Everyone is talking about the e-book reader. Most are ranting about it, some are cautiously praising it, a brave few…
Apprenticed to a Future: a new way into the creative sector?
The Draft Apprenticeships Bill, recently launched, is nothing if not ambitious. The Bill aims to ‘establish a statutory basis for…
Action for Children's Arts launches Manifesto
Action for Children’s Arts, the UK's umbrella body on behalf of all arts organizations providing arts for and working with…
COLUMN: Give me your hands, if we be friends
“I’ve had enough food to last me for a week!” was my Grandmother’s annual litany as she neatly set down…
Action for Children's Arts launches Manifesto
Action for Children’s Arts, the UK's umbrella body on behalf of all arts organizations providing arts for and working with…
Art Angel Longplayer Conversation 2008
On the first morning of the new millennium, January 1st 2000, people strolling around the London docklands began to hear…
VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: A Recent History of Writing and Drawing
Viktor is the star of the new show at the ICA. Like his older brother Hektor, he likes to draw…