A lovely storytelling event by the Crick Crack Club held at the British Museum, in which we hear the millennia-old story of Gilgamesh. The Crick Crack Club I’ve been wanting to see something by the Crick Crack Club for some time. To be fair the only thing holding me back from this is a packed […]
Let’s get the Christmas season underway with this adaptation of the beloved 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life, performed as an opera by the English National Opera (ENO). Warning: allusions to suicide. Plus plenty of spoilers. It’s A Wonderful Life “This year,” I thought, “I will do something different. I need to branch out from […]
Two exhibitions at the Courtauld Gallery which deal with modern women, but in very different ways: as artist or as muse, as private pleasure or as active participant in new art movements. The Courtauld: Come For The Gift Shop, Stay For The Art The Salterton Arts Review has a bit of a pre-Christmas rush on […]
A review of Forrest Bess: Out of the Blue, on at the Camden Art Centre. A captivating (and free) exhibition of work by an artist who straddled the boundary between art world insider and outsider. An Outing To The Camden Art Centre I don’t remember where I came across this exhibition. It might have been […]
A review of Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, on now at the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery. This most fundamental of materials, used for millennia in various artistic ways, proves to be ultra-contemporary as well. Strange Clay For some reason I didn’t expect this exhibition to be quite as popular as it is. I’m not […]
A review of We Were Promised Honey!, a Soho Theatre co-commission debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe. Writer and performer Sam Ward tells the story of an audience’s future in a compelling interactive format. We Were Promised Honey! There’s something quite clever about Sam Ward’s show We Were Promised Honey! which leverages group psychology. The format […]
A review of Luigi Pericle: A Rediscovery at London’s Estorick Collection of Italian art. This artist’s unusual trajectory makes for an absorbing exhibition. Luigi Pericle I hadn’t heard of Luigi Pericle before. You probably haven’t either. That’s partly because, after some initial artistic success, Pericle became reclusive, choosing to focus on philosophical and esoteric studies […]
MSND, a take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is this year’s show from Intermission Youth Theatre. By breaking Shakespeare down to build it back up again, IYT create something fresh and relevant as well as giving the young cast a chance to shine. MSND It’s almost exactly a year ago that I saw Juliet & […]
At an intriguing space in Islington, this exhibition of work by artist and filmmaker Jim Threapleton is abstraction flirting with figurative representation. Lorem Ipsum It’s one of those exhibition titles that makes sense the second you see the works. Lorem Ipsum. You know, like the placeholder text? It looks like Latin but is actually nonsense, […]
A review of William Kentridge at the Royal Academy. The RA’s large galleries give these thoughtful and creative works the space they deserve. William Kentridge Before seeing Sybil at the Barbican earlier this year, William Kentridge was an artist about whom I knew very little. Perhaps you are in the same boat? Let me explain […]
