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Jasper Johns at the Royal Academy review ***
Jasper Johns “Something Resembling Truth” Royal Academy of Arts. 10th November 2017 So here’s my theory. Sometime in the mid 1970s the real Jasper Johns was kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a cloned doppelganger. All the AI software was packed in but they forgot to prevent him from clicking…
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Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle at Wyndham’s Theatre review ****
Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle Wyndham’s Theatre, 9th November 2017 Everyone’s at it. The “science” play. Science, whether directly through using theory to inform plot, or indirectly, often through the impact of ecological or other catastrophe, has underpinned many of the best new plays I have seen in the last couple…
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Designs of the Year 2017 at the Design Museum review ****
Beazley Designs of the Year 2017 The Design Museum, 8th November 2017 If you have any interest in design you are probably on to this but, if not, you should be. This is the tenth year of the exhibition, now held in the basement of the Design Museum’s plush new…
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Slaves of Solitude at the Hampstead Theatre review ***
Slaves of Solitude Hampstead Theatre, 8th November 2017 As this blog testifies I spend a lot of time in theatres, (too much I think), but the SO is far more circumspect in her choices. Occasionally, very occasionally, the SO’s desire to see a play, and her enjoyment thereof, outstrips mine. Slaves of…
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Luciano Berio: London Sinfonietta at Kings Place review *****
Luciano Berio: Theatre of the World London Sinfonietta, Kings Place Choir, Jonathan Cross (presenter), John Woolrich (curator) Kings Place, 4th November Lucy Schaufer – mezzo-soprano Michael Cox – flute Darragh Morgan – violin Paul Silverthorne – viola Timothy Lines – clarinet Lucy Wakeford – harp Young violinists from Waltham Forest…
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Scythians exhibition at the British Museum ****
Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia British Museum, 2nd November 2017 I have been bowled over by most of the recent exhibitions I have seen at the British Museum, covering the history of Sicily, the art of South Africa, US modernist art printmaking, (The American Dream at the British Museum review ****),…
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The Party film review ****
The Party, 2nd November 2017 Other than Orlando this was the first Sally Potter film I had seen. Neither have I seen any of her theatrical events. Which is surprisingly because I would have thought I was bang up the target audience for her work. Ho, hum. So much to…
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Soutine’s Portraits at the Courtauld Gallery review ****
Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys Courtauld Gallery, 31st October 2017 I am afraid that the joys of Soutine’s paintings have passed me by in the past. I could see the vibrant colours and intense animation but all that skew-whiffedness left me a bit bewildered. On my last visit to…
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