William Kentridge’s film Oh to Believe in Another World creates a subversively complex emotional landscape to accompany Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 in E Minor. Oh to Believe in Another World As I’ve established before, I’m no expert in classical music. In fact, I’m sometimes woefully unable to distinguish my Tchaikovsky from my Camille Saint-Saëns when it […]
A small but interesting exhibition featuring some new donations to the Queer Britain collection, Jimmy Somerville and Bronski Beat is well worth a look if you’re in the King’s Cross cultural quarter. Jimmy Somerville and Bronski Beat It’s not all that long since I last visited Queer Britain — you can read about that visit […]
Just a stone’s throw from Tate Modern, Kirkaldy’s Testing Works speaks to Southwark’s industrial past and the ingenuity and single-mindedness of one man, David Kirkaldy. Another ‘New Museum’ in London One thing I love about London is how much of it I still have to see. I’ve lived here about 15 years now. And yet […]
A last minute excursion to the Royal Academy exhibition Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism introduces me to some new artists. But does it all hang together? Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism Art lovers who follow the Salterton Arts Review may have noticed there has not been a lot of art content in recent […]
SOIR NOIR is a stylish evening of song and storytelling that channels intimate American soirees with wit, warmth, and a contemporary flair. SOIR NOIR at The Crazy Coqs The almost inexhaustible number of venues in London is one of its enduring wonders. There’s always somewhere you haven’t quite been yet, or some corner of culture […]
The meeting of two women in a London train station has all the energy and mystery of quantum physics in this queer reworking of Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg. Heisenberg Formulated by the German physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the uncertainty principle states that we cannot know both the position and speed of a […]
Sisters is a rare revival of a play by David Storey, as a reunion of two sisters reveals much beneath the surface. Sisters Have you ever asked yourself what A Streetcar Named Desire would be like if it were set not in New Orleans but, say, Wakefield? If so, I have good news for you. […]
Something a little different today as we head out of the cities to the National Transport & Toy Museum near Wānaka. A Different Side to Central Otago This isn’t the first trip to New Zealand I’ve taken my Salterton Arts Review readers on. Those who have joined me for these Antipodean posts before will know […]
An exhibition at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery gives insight into the city’s Groundbreakers, a pair of pioneering female artists and the city’s vibrant art community. An Exhibition Under the Spotlight My last post was an introduction to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Not an introduction for me – I actually worked there for a […]
Another New Zealand first as we explore the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Aotearoa’s first public art collection. Hello Again, Dunedin Public Art Gallery This is our third stop in Dunedin and its environs, on this particular visit to the Southern Hemisphere. We’ve already seen the refurbished Port Chalmers Maritime Museum, and the Dunedin Gasworks Museum. […]
