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George Condo excels at doing the one thing that your art teacher always warned you not to: he paints from his imagination. And it’s the grotesquely comic, brightly coloured portraits for which he is best known which cover much of the wall space at this major retrospective of the American artist’s…
A very clever anonymous-type once said “jazz is an open-ended music designed for open minds”, and it’s an ethos that perfectly sums up the musical musings of keyboardist Robert Glasper. Since 2003, the Texan’s taken cues from Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk to produce jazz music with hip-hop bravado, and…
The very nature of “pop-up” suggests something of the unusual, but as with most things that the populous gets its hands on – its become a little, well, predictable. Thankfully the creatives of East London won’t take this lying down and have twisted and themed their own version in homage…
Since the democratisation of all things technological, the SLR has been available to anyone with a few hundred quid spare and some free time to get snapping. Wannabe Edward Weston’s and snap happy Goldin’s are popping up all over the place, recognisable only by the dazzling flash of light and…
British dance company ZooNation has one goal: to the change the misconceptions and negative stereotypes associated with hip-hop culture. It’s a tricky mission, I’m sure you’ll agree; especially when US rappers like Lil’ Wayne and Eminem spout about drugs, violence and misogyny, climbing up the charts in the process. What’s…
Tired of the same old snail porridge or Mock Turtle soup? Are you thinking Heston’s dry ice tactics are beginning to resemble a bad Jean Michel Jarre show? Well perhaps you need to get where the new food vibe is and head to the Experimental Food Society Spectacular on October…