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Category: Technology

• Acting Contact Culture London Relationship Technology Theatre Transgression

  The Sugar Syndrome at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  The Sugar Syndrome Orange Tree Theatre, 27th January 2020 With last year’s A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic, The Effect from 2012, (about to be revived at the fancy newish Boulevard), and ENRON from 2010, as well as Secret Diary of a Cal Girl and, most recently, the…

  March 11, 2020
• art Bible Culture Drawing Exhibition History Installation Landscaoe London Myths Nature Painting Place Power Prints Sculpture Technology

  Rembrandt’s Light at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (and others) review *****

  Rembrandt’s Light Dulwich Picture Gallery, 17th January 2020 The Tourist has been a bit remiss in keeping up the records on art exhibitions over the last few months so in addition to the above he will offer a few thoughts on other visits. Rembrandt‘s Light first. The DPG exhibition space…

  March 7, 2020
• Amsterdam Animation art Culture Exhibition History Ideology Installation Politics South Africa Soviet Union Technology

  William Kentridge retrospective at the Eye Film Museum Amsterdam review *****

  William Kentridge – Ten Drawings for Projections, O Sentimental Machine Eye Film Museum, 20th June 2019 The Tourist can’t really be doing with blockbuster art exhibitions in London any more. Too lazy to take the early morning members’ option and too impatient to put up with the crowds of selfie…

  August 4, 2019
• Concert Contemporary Classical Culture Gigs History Industry London Minimalism Oratorio Pop/Rock/Indie Technology USA

  Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields at King’s Place review *****

  Bang on a Can All Stars, BBC Singers, Tecwyn Evans (conductor) Kings Place Hall One, 19th January 2019 I had heard a few snippets of Julia Wolfe’s compositions but freely admit this was a bit of a leap into the unknown. Still what I had heard seemed interesting, I was keen…

  January 29, 2019
• art Culture Exhibition Hayward Gallery Installation London Minimalism Sculpture Space Shifters Technology

  Space Shifters exhibition at the Hayward Gallery ***

  Space Shifters Hayward Gallery, 21st December 2018 Here is another one of the cleverly constructed exhibitions from the Hayward team which brings together a variety of visual works (20 in total), in different media, from different artists which delight, intrigue and entertain. The works span some five decades, (with some…

  January 4, 2019
• Culture Technology Theatre

  Love and Information at Sheffield Theatres review *****

  Love and Information Sheffield Crucible Theatre Studio, 7th July 2018 So here was my cunning plan. LD wanted/needed to have a sniff around the University. I spied this revival on the very evening. A chance to have a good look at this fine city. And, though not the original intention,…

  July 29, 2018
• Architecture art Culture Exhibition London Photography Technology

  Andreas Gursky at the Hayward Gallery exhibition review ****

  Andreas Gursky Hayward Gallery, 4th April 2018 Odds are you have seen one of Andreas Gursky’s giant, hypnotic, immersive photographs. He charts the relationship between man and environment, fiddling with perspective, highlighting the repetition of our own industry and locating the beautiful and the ugly, often simultaneously. His viewpoint is…

  April 16, 2018