Half-way into January and still feeling sluggish? Time to head to Holborn, where private gallery DOMOBAAL is showing new works by Sharon Kivland designed to stimulate our conscious and unconscious minds. Artist-writer Kivland is a Research Associate of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London, and Freudian theory…
In the run-up to 2013, The Cultural Exposé team share their favourite highlights of 2012 and something they’re looking forward to in the New Year: My highlight of 2012: Liverpool Biennial, International Festival of Contemporary Art, September – November 2012 “I took a solitary train-trip up to Liverpool for a day…
Showing at Ben Brown Fine Arts is an exhibition of photorealist oil paintings by LA-based artist Martin Mull, which offers a satirical look at American suburban life. Mull has pursued various careers, in stand-up comedy, music, film and TV, but he has an extraordinary natural talent as a painter. Using…
A group of people standing outside in a ring, stock-still, eyes closed, in a trance-like state? I’d usually run a mile. But wait a second – these are not the followers of a dubious new cult but regular members of the public. They are stood around the only object in…
Anyone hooked by television thrillers Forbrydelsen and The Bridge will know already what an eerie and unsettling backdrop rural Scandinavia can provide. Extract the scenery from the drama, isolate the overriding sense of uneasy trepidation it initiates and distil this into concentrated form, and you have the films of John…
You thought that summer was over, that hedonistic, festival-style recipe of vibrant colour, costumes and junk food had been shelved until 2013 – and that you wouldn’t be dancing with a dinosaur in a shiny onesie for a few months at least. Right? Wrong. Sparkly Brooklyn import Reed + Rader…