Sgt. Andy (Is Going to Help Me) - An appreciation of XTC in five notes

Sgt. Andy (Is Going to Help Me) – An appreciation of XTC in five notes

1. It’s becoming harder and harder to take seriously announcements that bands are breaking up. The new economics of the music business call for most artists to be consistently ‘active’, [...]
Timothy Nordhoff - No Place

Timothy Nordhoff – No Place

My current photographic subjects often relate back to British traditions, culture or industry. Working with a 4×5 camera and traditional negative film I often try to express subtleness in my [...]
Review: T.M. Wolf - Sound

Review: T.M. Wolf – Sound

T. M. Wolf’s debut novel, Sound, is a book, a film and a swirly, scratching record all in one. Writen by a young New Jerseyite, the ‘experimental’ novel is a [...]
Review: Lower Dens at Hoxton Bar & Grill

Review: Lower Dens at Hoxton Bar & Grill

Illuminated by a moving projection of something akin to a fuzzy 80s tv screen, Lower Dens opened up last Thursday’s show with hypnotic aplomb, blasting the intimate Hoxton venue with [...]
London: The Modern Babylon - review

London: The Modern Babylon – review

‘Which is the greatest city in Europe?’ ‘Without doubt the capital of my country, London’ ‘What a city! Why ‘tis Babylon! How rich the most honoured man must be there!… [...]
A note from the editors...a call for submissions...New Cartography!

A note from the editors…a call for submissions…New Cartography!

  Hello faithful readers. A quick explanatory note, which hopefully will go some way to atone for and explain our comparative lack of activity in recent days… Last month, we [...]
Review: Nostalgia For The Light

Review: Nostalgia For The Light

Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has built his reputation on the strength of a number of political documentaries about his native Chile. Two manifest cases in point are his tripartite masterpiece, [...]
Review: MM1: De-Construct / Re-Construct / We-Construct

Review: MM1: De-Construct / Re-Construct / We-Construct

MM1: De-Construct/Re-Construct/We-Construct is the first of two exhibitions by Israeli curators Sharon Toval and Nimrod Vardi which consider communication, the creative process and how where we come from defines how [...]
The Sudan Uprisings - clues for an anti-capitalist agenda

The Sudan Uprisings – clues for an anti-capitalist agenda

A spectre is haunting the world- the spectre of Austerity. Deficit-cutting measures now haunt populations across the world and it is the poorest and most vulnerable that are being hit [...]
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The Sudan Uprisings - clues for an anti-capitalist agenda

The Sudan Uprisings – clues for an anti-capitalist agenda

A spectre is haunting the world- the spectre of Austerity. Deficit-cutting measures now haunt populations across the world and it is the poorest and most vulnerable that are being hit [...]
Review: Still Corners at Dalston Roof Park

Review: Still Corners at Dalston Roof Park

On Monday night, against a vertiginous and rain-soaked city-scape, London-based Still Corners played a show in support of their 2011 album, Creatures of the Hour. Signed to Subpop, their music [...]
Review: Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Review: Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

Marina Abramović’s art is undoubtedly compelling and innovative, yet it does not always touch or move me. However, this film, and its depiction of the artist, moved me utterly. The [...]
Turkish cinema: another time, another world

Turkish cinema: another time, another world

The themes of Reha Erdem’s Kosmos will be much recognisable to devotees of the transcendentalist-spiritual sector of world cinema, yet it is perhaps more interesting for granting us another timely [...]
#3 - Yes, sure but it's not likely to happen is it, so...

#3 – Yes, sure but it’s not likely to happen is it, so…

Mr Guest Editor, following your revelation that, if the opportunity arose, you would like to return as the head of the country, we’ve had a long think about that and [...]
Cosmopolis: Cronenberg's newest malaise

Cosmopolis: Cronenberg’s newest malaise

Don DeLillo, one of the greatest living authors writing in the English language, working with David Cronenberg, erstwhile purveyor of body horror and a consistently challenging narrative filmmaker, is a [...]
The Spear: Zuma unwrapped

The Spear: Zuma unwrapped

The arts and the historical conditions of their creation are undoubtedly interdependent and not always easily demarcated, with each consistently blurring into the other. As critics such as Frederic Jameson [...]
The Turin Horse

The Turin Horse

Arriving at the Curzon Renoir in London to see Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse, there’s a sign on the stairs featuring Jean Renoir’s declaration that “the saving grace of the [...]
Prometheus unwound

Prometheus unwound

Prometheus has finally landed in the UK, highly anticipated not just because of the thought of Ridley Scott returning to the Alien universe, but also thanks to its aggressive and [...]