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Six of the best: Art
Monday, 17 June 2013
A Crisis of Brilliance, Dulwich Picture Gallery A rich anthology of experimental British art in the years leading up to and during the First World War. Until 22 September Read more... |
Six of the best: Film
Friday, 14 June 2013
Aguirre, Wrath of God ***** Werner Herzog's transcendent epic about the quest for El Dorado grows in stature Read more... |
Six of the best: Theatre
Friday, 14 June 2013
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Video Exclusive: Tunng
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Almost a decade on from their debut album, Tunng’s founding folktronic ethos no longer carries the shock of the new, but the sprawling and vaguely mystical collective continue to make ever more... Read more... |
PUNK+ - Sheila Rock's portraits from the frontline
Thursday, 25 April 2013
The historians of punk are in full flow. Jon Savage's book England's Dreaming and the BBC Four's documentary series Punk Britannia have documented much of what needs to be said. But punk was as much... Read more... |
'For him, maestro was an ironic term': Sir Colin Davis remembered
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Still the tributes come thick and fast, celebrating the greatest performances of the public figure who is remembered with the most universal affection and admiration this week (and on this day). We... Read more... |
Preview: Denovali Swingfest London
Thursday, 11 April 2013
We're pleased to announce The Arts Desk is a media partner of the Denovali Swingfest London on 20 and 21 April at London's The Scala. It's a good match, as Swingfest and the Denovali label... Read more... |
Thatcher: The Sound and the Fury
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
The political legacy of Margaret Thatcher is being sifted and analysed all over the world. But what of the music she left behind? The first and only female Prime Minister had barely a cultural bone... Read more... |
Audio Exclusive: Green Gartside Sings Nick Drake
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
One of the great British singer-songwriters of the past half-century, Nick Drake is the subject of a new tribute album, Way to Blue, released next Monday on Navigator Records. A companion piece to... Read more... |
The arts' search for funding goes digital
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Even visitors from distant galaxies will be aware that, when it comes to the arts, state munificence is not what it was. Cuts are biting deep into an industry which is not always able to provide... Read more... |
Video Exclusive: Hauschka live in Nairobi
Friday, 15 March 2013
Regular readers of theartsdesk will know that we have a lot of time for Volker Bertelmann, the composer-pianist-producer better known as Hauschka. Adapting styles from rigorous minimalism... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 11
Monday, 11 March 2013
Another session of Peter, Joe, some amazing records and some musing on their whys and wherefores - originally broadcast live on NTS Radio out of London's fashionable Dalston. Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 10
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Quite possibly because the sun was shining, even if it wasn’t actually warm as such, this show presented by Joe Muggs and Peter Culshaw got its groove on. There was shuffling about the NTS studio,... Read more... |
‘Every woman in the building wanted a bit of his arse': Kevin Ayers, 1944-2013
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Whenever the words English and whimsy come together in relation to rock, writes Mark Hudson, the name Kevin Ayers is invariably invoked – not least by Ayers himself. The notably erratic, but gifted... Read more... |
Anniversary Special: The Dark Side of the Moon
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
The sound of a heartbeat. A metronomic ticking. Two men confessing that they’re mad (even if they’re not mad) as a cash register chings. Another man’s manic laughter. A harsh industrial grinding... Read more... |
Rock and Pop: Raw Power at 40
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Mick Rock was the court photographer of glam. Among the (un)usual suspects found in his lens were Lou Reed, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. But no one played up for his camera quite like Iggy Pop.... Read more... |
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