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Robert Ashley: 1930 – 2014
By Geeta DayalRobert Ashley, 2006 (Photo: Joanne Savio)Friends and collaborators of influential US composer Robert Ashley remember his life and workThe composer Robert Ashley died last week at his home...
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Postcard from Bangkok
By Bharti LalwaniManit Sriwanichpoom, _The Election of Hatred , 2011, 36 photographs, each: 60 x 90 cm. All photographs courtesy: Jakarin TewtaoI’m sitting at a table, sipping jasmine tea and chatting...
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Robert Ashley: 1930 – 2014
By Geeta DayalRobert Ashley, 2006 (Photo: Joanne Savio)Friends and collaborators of influential US composer Robert Ashley remember his life and workThe composer Robert Ashley died last week at his home...
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New Directors/New Films and Film Comment Selects
By Ela BittencourtBen Rivers and Ben Russell, 'A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness' (2013)The Film Society at Lincoln Center has come under some scrutiny in recent months, with two articles in The New...
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Lars von Trier’s Psychosocial Aesthetics
By Jacob LillemoseLars von TrierAfter being aggressively threatened at gunpoint by Smuck, who wanted to see her bra, Mimi goes to the toilet and vomits. In tears she exits the toilet and is met by Job,...
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Postcard from the North East of England: AV Festival 2014
By George VaseyHito Steyerl, Strike, 2010, AV Festival 14 installation view. Photograph: Colin DavisonThe North Sea coast is often full of cargo vessels loaded with oil. These ships will wait patiently...
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Postcard from Venice
By Jörg HeiserMartin Kippenberger in Venice 1996, photograph by Elfie Semotan Ha, what a strange, and rewarding, experience to be in Venice in-between Biennales. No rush to that off-site pavilion I...
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Postcard from Venice
By Jörg HeiserMartin Kippenberger in Venice 1996, photograph by Elfie Semotan Ha, what a strange, and rewarding, experience to be in Venice in-between Biennales. No rush to that off-site pavilion I...
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The Wind Rises
By Philip BrophyHayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises (2013), film still (all images courtesy: StudioCanal)The most embarrassing moment in Peter Carey’s memoir Wrong About Japan (2005) has to be when he...
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Postcard from Kent: 7th Whitstable Biennale
By Ellen Mara De WachterKieren Reed, 'From the Ground Up, (A) Social Building', 2014. All photographs: Ellen Mara De Wachter‘We haven’t rehearsed this. Not because we don’t care; because we care very...
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Lap of Luxury
By Laura McLean-FerrisPaul Kneale, Rotherhithe / Chanel, 2014 stolen neon sign, perspex, chain, transformer. Courtesy: the artist and Evelyn Yard, LondonCashmere, silk, velvet. This is what luxury has...
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London Dust: new photographs by Rut Blees Luxemburg
By Alexander García Düttmann and Jean-Luc NancyRut Blees Luxemburg, London Dust, 2013, photographic print, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist, Dominique Fiat Gallery, Paris, chandelier projects,...
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London Dust: new photographs by Rut Blees Luxemburg
By Alexander García Düttmann and Jean-Luc NancyRut Blees Luxemburg, London Dust, 2013, photographic print, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist, Dominique Fiat Gallery, Paris, chandelier projects,...
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London Dust: new photographs and video by Rut Blees Luxemburg
By Alexander García Düttmann and Jean-Luc NancyRut Blees Luxemburg, London Dust, 2013, photographic print, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist, Dominique Fiat Gallery, Paris, chandelier projects,...
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Catch-22
By Chris Fite-WassilakVictoria Bewick and Philip Arditti in Catch 22. Photograph: Topher McGrillisIf you love a book, you’ll want to make an adaptation; a comic book, a film, a play, maybe even a...
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Berlin Documentary Forum 3
By Agnieszka GratzaRabih Mroué, Riding on a Cloud, 2014; all images courtesy Berlin Documentary Forum / Haus der Kulturen der WeltA report from the 3rd edition of the Berlin Documentary Forum held at...
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Borealis Festival 2014
By Jennifer HiggieMarina Rosenfeld, Free Exercise, 2014, performance documentation, Borealis Festival, BergenFlying into Bergen is not like flying into London. As the plane loses altitude the colourful...
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54th Kraków Film Festival
By Ela BittencourtJan Matuszyński, Deep Love, 2013A report from the 54th Kraków Film FestivalKraków in Southern Poland, is at first glance a picturesque Eastern European city. The former seat of Polish...
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Postcard from Varese
By Hannah GregoryJames Turell, Varese Portal Room, 1973Set in the cedar-dotted hills of Lombardia, above the town of Varese, the Villa Panza is the former home of the prominent collector Guiseppe Panza...
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Postcard from Varese
By Hannah GregoryJames Turrell, Varese Portal Room, 1973Set in the cedar-dotted hills of Lombardia, above the town of Varese, the Villa Panza is the former home of the prominent collector Guiseppe...
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