Rashida Jones may well be familiar to anyone who’s spent the past four years watching her on the brilliant American sitcom Parks & Recreation (now picked up by BBC 4), but for anyone else, she’ll be something of a new face on our cinema screens this month. With only small…
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December 2012
As accolades go, getting into the Royal College of Art with no qualifications is a pretty good one: it’s hard enough to navigate the notorious tight squeeze of acceptance into the RCA, even if you have dined exclusively on fine art your whole life. But if you only have a…
Whilst there may be many things to complain about in London – too many people, tube delays, not enough bike racks, Marmite- sponsored Christmas lights – the inspired choice to load the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square with art isn’t one of them. Since 1999, the empty plinth, originally designed…
If there are two words that get the cultural tastebuds going, it’s ‘film’ and ‘underground’. Put the two together at a ‘three tiered progressive arts venue’ and you have something truly tantalising and from the sounds of it, a proper antidote to the long sleigh ride to Christmas. Now in…
London’s foodie revolution shows no signs of slowing down: 2012 has seen an influx of fried chicken joints, Peruvian ceviche, and every other week seems to see another ode to Americana in the form of burger bars and steak places. In celebration of this renaissance comes FEAST, which returns for…
I do love a bit of conceptual art though sometimes the language used can be baffling. I confess I’m not quite sure of the meaning of “seeking to find the lens through which they inspect and which in turn delineates the implied thing as a cluster of possible emancipatory connections”.…