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Laetitia Sadier at The Basement in York
Laetitia Sadier (and here I’m obliged to add the lead singer of the ex-Stereolab) played a solo set in The Basement below the City Screen in York on 18th September. It was a rather compact space, a...
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Pauline Boty at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery
The exhibition Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman is currently on show at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery, a component of WAVE, the catchily compressed and conflated collective name for the Museums,...
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The HIVE Art Group at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
The main art gallery in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter has followed up its Gillian Wearing exhibition with a show featuring three artists whose names you’re less likely to be familiar with....
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Finch and the Ambergris Stories by Jeff Vandermeer
I’ve just finished reading Finch, seemingly the last of Jeff Vandermeer’s stories set in the ornate, decadent and grotesquely fecund city of Ambergris – for the time being, anyway. Rather than a...
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A Choice of Catastrophe: Tacita Dean's JG and Hari Kunzru's Memory Palace
There have been two alternative post-catastrophe worlds on view in London galleries of late, both involving collaborations between writers and visual artists. Tacita Dean’s JG, inspired by the works of...
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The Ghost Box Study Series
Ghost Box Records have just issued the tenth and final instalment of their Study Series. These singles have provided an experimental lab in which established artists on the label have been encouraged...
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Modern and Contemporary Art in Plymouth: Artists Making Faces, Hidden in...
There’s an excellent range of modern art on display in Plymouth at the moment. In the City Museum and Art Galleries an exhibition with the witty title Artists Make Faces gathers together a diverse...
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Lisa Watts and Lucy May's Skitter at the Spacex Gallery
Lisa Watts’ and Lucy May’s exhibition Skittish at the Spacex Gallery is just coming to an end, culminating with Watts’ performance of her piece Snowgum on Saturday (the 23rd November). This will...
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Bernard Parmegiani
Bernard Parmegiani, who passed away on the 21st November, was a major figure in the development of electronic music in the post-war period, working at the GRM (Groupes de Recherches Musicales) studios...
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Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein
It was such a pleasure to see James Whale’s two Universal Frankenstein movies at the Picture House over the last couple of weeks. Watching films on the big screen which you are personally familiar...
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Motor: Bettina Buck Invites Marie Lund to the Spacex Gallery
For Motor, the new exhibition at the Spacex Gallery, the artists Bettina Buck has invited Marie Lund to show a selection of her sculptural pieces alongside some of her own recent work. The idea is to...
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Four Southwest Wood Engravers at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter
Exeter - Pam PebworthThere’s a fine new exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum showcasing the work of four wood engravers based in the South West. Howard Phipps was born in Colwyn Bay in 1958...
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Books of the Year 2013
I started the year with a real treat, a new novel by one of my favourite writers, James Blaylock. The Aylesford Skull saw the return of RL Stevensonian hero Professor St Ives and his entourage, and was...
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The Haunting (1963)
The Haunting is being shown at the wonderfully atmospheric Black Swan pub in York, thanks to the auspices of the local enthusiasts behind Fiendish Thingee, on 24th January, accompanied by the acclaimed...
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A Field In England
A Field In England is showing at the Black Swan in York on Friday 7th February 2014 in an absolutely cracking double bill with Blood on Satan's Claw, once more showing the immaculate taste of the good...
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Blood On Satan's Claw (1971)
Blood On Satan's Claw is playing in a fantastic double bill with Ben Wheatley's A Field in England this Friday at the Black Swan in York, beginning at 7PM and with an introduction by writer Gavin...
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The Christmas Ghost Stories of Lawrence Gordon Clark
The Christmas Ghost Stories of Lawrence Gordon Clark is the first in the Spectral Press’ projected Spectral Screen series, and they’ve set out in fine style with a collection centring around the...
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Jean Cocteau's La Belle et La Bete
It was wonderful to see Cocteau’s the BFI’s touring restoration of La Belle et La Bete on the big screen yesterday. It’s one of those films which has been with me since my teens, and every time I see...
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Keith Tippett and Ellen Fullman at the Bristol New Music Festival
The first Bristol New Music Festival took place over the weekend of the 21st to the 23rd of February. Events were distributed across the Western part of the city in buildings which reflected something...
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Un Homme Qui Dort
Un Homme Qui Dort is a 1974 film based on a short novel of the same name by the French author Georges Perec, published in 1967. Perec himself collaborated on the adaptation of his work with the...
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