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Quoted and noted: Sir Jonathan MillerWednesday, 17 February 2010"Most of Wagner's operas are simply Harry Potter set to music." Sir Jonathan Miller tells theartsdesk ...read more Read more... |
Cathedral of Shit knows the art world's secrets...Tuesday, 16 February 2010...and isn't afraid to tell them. The contemporary art world - filled with million-pound paintings, august institutions, competitive gallerists, rich collectors and so many egos - is never that good at keeping things quiet. There's always some... Read more... |
Lawyers and LibrettiTuesday, 16 February 2010
Let’s get the obvious one out of the way first: if a law firm is going to put on an opera, it should probably be Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury. Instead, having progressed through G&S’s Mikado and Pirates of Penzance in previous years,... Read more... |
Support libel-law reform campaignMonday, 15 February 2010Author Simon Singh has spent £100,000 defending a libel action under our notoriously archaic libel laws, which are unjust, often against the public interest and have been internationally criticised. The case relates to him being sued by British... Read more... |
Patrick Stewart gets pointed at theatre awardsSunday, 14 February 2010What do you do for an encore at a theatre awards ceremony that several years ago featured James Corden locking lips with a mighty surprised Daniel Radcliffe? The unscripted moment that had spectators buzzing at Sunday night's whatsonstage.com trophy... Read more... |
Valentines Flower Power in BerlinSaturday, 13 February 2010
Eliska Bartek is one of the leading photographers of flowers, among other subjects. She also experiments with painting and video and mixes her media. Her first solo exhibition at Photo Edition Berlin opened today and shows new photographic... Read more... |
Postcards from the V&A?Saturday, 13 February 2010You'll be lucky to find the one you want. Yesterday I took a nine year old to gape at the wonders of the Victoria and Albert Museum's new Medieval and Renaissance galleries, which I've been popping in to frequently since reading about them here. He... Read more... |
Double standards for music blogs?Thursday, 11 February 2010It has been reported today that Google - via its Blogger and Blogspot services - has been closing down popular music blogs and wiping their archives without warning, citing copyright violation by those blogs who post downloadable mp3s of the tracks... Read more... |
Film has world premieres in Romford, Greenwich, Bethnal Green, Feltham....Thursday, 11 February 2010
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, today announced a new initiative, London Film Day. Sunday 21 March will see 15 simultaneous world premieres at suburban cinemas across the capital from Wood Green and Wandsworth to (stretching the definition of... Read more... |
Carry On, CleoThursday, 11 February 2010She sang on the night of Johnny Dankworth's death last week, performing along with their children Jacqui and Alec in a Wavendon 40th anniversary concert, and since her man's gone now, Cleo Laine is equally determined that the show should go on in... Read more... |
Alex Ross gives RPS lecture on re-inventing the concertWednesday, 10 February 2010Should we be silent in classical concerts? Alex Ross, the classical critic of the New Yorker and writer of the superb panorama of 20th Century music The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, an “unlikely mass-market proposition” which... Read more... |
Music for Seven Ice Cream VansTuesday, 09 February 2010
Mine's a Strawberry Mivvi, if you are buying, thanks. Suburban Counterpoint: Music for Seven Ice Cream Vans is a deliciously intriguing work by composer Dan Jones that does what it says on the tin. It will be performed as part of this year's Norfolk... Read more... |
