by Hannah Kane | Apr 2, 2014 | Culture
It was with sadness, and yet some relief, that the BBC announced on the 27th that The Review Show is to be cancelled. The programme was once the Thursday iteration of The Late Show, a rather brilliant programme which went out for four nights a week on BBC2 and, for...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 31, 2014 | Culture
Few young British artists could count on the presence of Michael Fassbender, Ed Sheeran and Pam Hogg at the launch of their latest Shoreditch show. But then few young British artists have anything like the quiet self-assurance and technical accomplishment of east...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 28, 2014 | Culture
★★★★☆ In a Paris atelier in the autumn of 1957, a deft moment of improvisation by a young Yves Saint Laurent immediately transforms a model’s black dress. Christian Dior, looking on, approves of what a white sash can achieve. This is a scene from Jalil...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 26, 2014 | Culture
Re-worked tailoring patterns, tropical collages, soap-crafted walls; Mary-Jane Wiltsher visits the new Saatchi Art exhibition at Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill When you think of the capital’s gleaming line-up of top tier hotels, what springs to mind?...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 21, 2014 | Culture
Despite the buzzing atmosphere at the inaugural screening of Eleanor, Alex Warren and Tobias Ross-Southall’s cinematic installation starring BAFTA nominee Ruth Wilson, Camden’s Cob Gallery filled with a palpable sense of loneliness. The beautifully shot...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 19, 2014 | Culture
Paul Squires, the founder of digital arts mecca imperica.com, welcomes this year’s celebration of legendary filmmaker and maverick, Derek Jarman Derek Jarman © British Film Institute ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all ye know on earth, and...
