Articles in the Arts & Books Category
With our daily lives so full of computers, TVs, mobile phones and iPods it’s hard to imagine a time when the most popular leisure activity was sitting down with a good book and a cup of tea. …
See Me, Hear Me, Read Me is a unique collaboration between some famous faces and women in developing countries coming together in celebration.
This Book Will Change Your Life is hardly a modest title for an author to come up with, but then the duo behind this humorous self-help manual don’t exactly preach humility either.
How long does it take to write and publish a book? A year, two years? How about trying to do it in 24 hours?
It may seem like an impossible task but one company has pulled …
Spoonfed suffers social death at an otherwise excellent Book Swap event
In this oh so fickle world where it seems nothing is permanent, it has become ever more important for charity shops to catch a sale wherever they can. Ever since the deplorable Mary Portas declared …
Walking through the labyrinthine halls of the London underground, thoughts of art and serenity are usually the last to be conjured up. Engineering marvels they may be, but the layers of concrete and steel are …
In a valiant quest to help student photographers develop their careers by providing much needed exposure, Google has entered into partnership with London’s Saatchi Gallery, creating the Google Photography Prize. Bad puns aside, the competition …
Would you believe it, the kings of snazzy Italian sportswear, Ellesse, are 50 years old this year. And it’s not enough for them to just get a really big cake and some prosecco with which …
So what are we to make of this? Antony Gormley has now launched One And Other, his project for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Gormley – he of Angel of the North repute – …
Edgeworth Johnstone, curator, Stuck in Wood Green
Personally I’d hate to be stuck in Wood Green. I’d never be able to spend my Thursday evenings wandering up and down Vyner Street, drinking free beer, admiring conceptual …
What? Grok. Grok? What the hell is that? Well, according to the OED (via Wikipedia) to grok means: “to to understand intuitively or by empathy; to establish rapport with” and “to empathize or communicate sympathetically …
Valentine’s Day? Good. Sculpture? Good. Amaretto? Bloody brilliant!
But, how on earth would you combine all three? Well, the good folks at Disaronno have found a way. This Friday and Saturday they’re getting a replica of …
On Saturday, I interviewed the art world’s latest enfant terrible Sarah Maple. You can read my November feature on Sarah Maple here, or just keep reading for the full transcript.
Hi Sarah, thanks for agreeing …
