pop art
Album: The Cult of Dom Keller – They Carried the Dead in a UFOThursday, 03 June 2021![]() While so many bands of a psychedelic bent treat the genre as if it has been pickled in aspic since the swinging sixties of London and San Francisco or maybe the motorik sounds of mid-70s West Germany, the Cult of Dom Keller don’t give any impression... Read more... |
DVD/Blu-ray: Catch Us If You CanSunday, 11 April 2021![]() Catch Us If You Can, the 1965 road movie starring Barbara Ferris and the eponymous drummer and guiding force of the Dave Clark Five, proved a more trenchant satire of capitalism in the embryonic Swinging ‘60s than did the box-office smash it was... Read more... |
Album: Róisín Murphy - Róisín MachineFriday, 25 September 2020![]() This is a musical homecoming for Róisín Murphy, both geographically and figuratively. She may have been raised in Dublin and spent her gig-going adolescence in Manchester, but Sheffield is where she began her life as a clubber and performer – and it... Read more... |
Album: Rui Ho - Lov3 & L1ghtFriday, 04 September 2020![]() A new and very strange kind of pop music has bubbled up over the past half-decade plus. It’s internationalist, rooted in both underground electronics and the most populist styles, bound up with playful but sometimes terrifying ultra high definition... Read more... |
Album: Charli XCX - how i'm feeling nowFriday, 15 May 2020![]() This is an extremely impressive undertaking. how i'm feeling now was conceived, written and recorded in under two months, in isolation, with Charli XCX sourcing beats and artwork from a sprawling collective of regular collaborators and... Read more... |
Velvet Buzzsaw review - an acerbic takedown of the LA art sceneFriday, 01 February 2019![]() Sitting somewhere between Ruben Östlund’s The Square and Final Destination, Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw is a satirical supernatural thriller that goes for the jugular of the LA art scene.We open at the Art Basel Miami Beach, where art snobs with fat... Read more... |
DVD: Every Picture Tells a StoryFriday, 08 September 2017![]() James Scott’s filmography is wide-ranging, including the 1982 short film A Shocking Accident, based on the Graham Greene story, which won an Academy Award the following year, and other works on social questions. But these documentaries, several... Read more... |
Robert Rauschenberg, Tate ModernThursday, 08 December 2016![]() The Good American, a Texan no less, has landed at Tate Modern in style. This posthumous retrospective of the great Robert Rauschenberg includes a paint-bespattered, fully made-up bed hung vertically on the wall, and called – you guessed – Bed,1955 (... Read more... |
'Before punk, there was Rauschenberg'Tuesday, 29 November 2016![]() In this cut and paste world, we have become used to a multiplicity of images: screens, words and pictures from across the globe and across history flicker through our field of vision, competing for our attention with the natural world, the urban... Read more... |
David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life, Royal AcademyFriday, 01 July 2016![]() The opening image of this new David Hockney exhibition – a sketchily painted portrait of a seated man, slumping heavily forward, his head buried in his hands – could be a portrait of Brexit despair. In fact it is Hockney’s portrait of his close... Read more... |
CD: Pet Shop Boys - SuperWednesday, 30 March 2016![]() The deadpan duo of Tennant and Lowe have never been easy to suss out at the best of times: maybe their way of layering wackiness on deep seriousness, eyebrow-flickering subtlety on roaring camp, giddy frivolity on erudition, has been their way of... Read more... |
Ai Weiwei, Royal AcademyTuesday, 29 September 2015![]() Ai Weiwei’s first major survey in the UK is a better looking exhibition than I had anticipated, but what it gains in looks it sadly lacks in substance – backstory and information not being quite the same. It’s visually satisfying, since Ai initially... Read more... |
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