Markie Robson-Scott
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Articles by Markie Robson-Scott
theartsdesk in Austin, Texas: The Library with Everything
Sunday, 28 April 2013
April in Austin means South by South West is over, but the city’s permanent attractions remain: Torchy’s tacos, bats under Congress bridge, grackles (the most in-your-face birds ever) as well several... Read more... |
A Voyage Round my Father at the Freud Museum
Sunday, 09 December 2012
What would Sigmund Freud say to newcomers infiltrating his priceless collection of Greek, Chinese and Egyptian antiquities? His study on the ground floor of 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, where... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Philadelphia: In the house of an American Medici
Sunday, 19 August 2012
MoMa and the Met, the Whitney and the Guggenheim – all very fine, but if you crave something different when in NYC, it’s worth braving Penn Station’s circles of hell to get a train to Philadelphia (... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: Battling for the Heart of Ground Zero
Sunday, 04 March 2012
Ever since we moved into an apartment building round the corner from Ground Zero a couple of years ago, I’ve been keeping an eye on One World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower, soon... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: A Rooftop Ramble in the High Line Park
Sunday, 28 August 2011
The High Line Park on the far west side of Manhattan, built on an old elevated train track, is a unique combination of everything New Yorkers love - fabulous views, a piece of history, a traffic-free... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: Spruce Flats by Gehry
Sunday, 17 April 2011
“Do you realise we’re talking about a rental apartment building? It’s unheard of,” says a friend. We’re standing on a street corner discussing the new Frank Gehry building in lower Manhattan. Most... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York 1: Guitar Month
Sunday, 13 February 2011
February is guitar month in New York City. Synchronicity rules at those two giants, the MoMA and the Met. At MoMA, Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 shows his austere guitar paintings, collages and... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: Story Slamming in Greenwich Village
Sunday, 12 December 2010
It’s 6.20 on a chilly Monday evening. The doors at the venerable Bitter End club in Greenwich Village don’t open till seven but already the line for the open-mic Moth StorySLAM is snaking down the... Read more... |
Adrift
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Adrift (A Deriva), Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia’s third feature film, is a sensuous coming-of-age story as well as an ode to the Brazilian beach landscape of Buzios and the band of gorgeous... Read more... |
A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain
Tuesday, 09 November 2010
An English teacher in a brand-new Hertfordshire secondary school is about to lose his rag. “You said ‘relaxed, like,’” he storms at a boy. “Why like? Like what? Why do you use that expression? What... Read more... |
The Stoning of Soraya M
Monday, 18 October 2010
A journalist’s car breaks down on a mountain road in the middle of nowhere. He’s towed to a tiny hamlet, where small stone houses are overshadowed by huge painted images of the bearded Ayatollah. A... Read more... |
Restrepo
Thursday, 07 October 2010
The most surreal scene in this searing, adrenaline rush of a documentary about a US platoon in Afghanistan is the sight of three soldiers dancing madly in their bunker to "Touch Me, I Want to Feel... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: Over the Sea to Art Getaway Island
Sunday, 22 August 2010
When it’s 33 degrees and rising, boarding a ferry in New York has to be a good plan. One of the newest and weirdest of the city’s watery destinations is Governors Island (no apostrophe - it was... Read more... |
theartsdesk in New York: Poets House
Sunday, 06 December 2009
What do you do when, on a bright December day in New York City, you have a sudden urge to read Tennyson’s "Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky?" You could get Google to flash up the eight stanzas,... Read more... |