This new VR experience transports visitors to Ancient Egypt, showing just how far virtual reality technology has come. Horizon Of Khufu: Journey In Ancient Egypt I really can’t resist a bit of virtual reality. In the last few years I’ve seen VR theatre, opera, immersive art experiences (like this, this or this), games, and even […]
Jean Dubuffet’s gift to the city of Lausanne, the Collection de l’Art Brut is a must-see for anyone with an interest in art outside the cultural mainstream. La Collection De L’Art Brut Long-time Salterton Arts Review followers will know I have a particular interest in so-called Outsider Art. More on nomenclature in a moment but […]
Designed to respond to and expand on a current exhibition at the Royal Academy, Southern Somebodies brings more Black artists from the American South to London. Southern Somebodies Prompted by an interaction with a reader (thank you!), I recently had the opportunity to visit the Gallery of Everything for their exhibition Southern Somebodies. Featuring Black […]
In its UK premiere at London’s Park Theatre, Paper Cut explores love, injury and disability as a young soldier returns home from Afghanistan. Paper Cut “It’s just a paper cut,” Kyle is heard to remark on a number of occasions. Deflectionary humour, its aim to create distance, to close down the subject. Because it wasn’t […]
Something of a marmite production, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! uses all the tricks in the book plus some new ones to shake up this classic musical. Oklahoma! I do like approaching productions from a place of determined ignorance. Sometimes (like my annual outings to A Christmas Carol) I know the plot of the thing I’m […]
A moving exhibition of art from the Southern United States, Souls Grown Deep Like the River is both thought-provoking and revelatory. Souls Grown Deep Like The River I’ve known rivers:I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. The […]
Continuing my exploration of Tate exhibitions of female sculptors, Maria Bartuszová’s works in plaster combine the solid and the ephemeral in pleasingly natural forms. Maria Bartuszová I wrote recently when I went to see Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope about the Tate’s efforts to exhibit the work of female sculptors. Why sculptors […]
An unexpected work from all-migrant Vandens Karta Ensemble, The Cathedral delves into the deepest corners of misogyny, religion and female shame and empowerment. The Cathedral Two women pray and sing religious songs. A femme de joie cleans a church somewhere near Marseille. A lost tourist gives up her search for Michelangelo and instead attempts… what […]
A meta-theatrical response to Waiting for Godot, Nothing Happens (Twice) is so witty and honest that for me it surpasses the original entirely and will become the yardstick by which I measure Beckett. Nothing Happens (Twice) What do you do when you want to perform Waiting for Godot but you can’t get the rights because […]
The first visual arts exhibition by the Kakilang festival team, State-less 無國界 confronts visitors with art that delves into the specificities of place and home, but also the commonalities of human experience. State-less 無國界 Kakilang festival is in full swing! Regular readers will remember my review of HOME X some weeks ago, a global event […]
