In Your Hands (Contre Toi)
Alone in a cell-like room, plagued and tormented by her captor, Yann, surgeon Anna is forced to confront the personal and professional facets of her personality.
Alone in a cell-like room, plagued and tormented by her captor, Yann, surgeon Anna is forced to confront the personal and professional facets of her personality.
Esoteric is the word of the day as the wonderfully named Super Best Friends Club unleashes its epic journey of a debut LP.
Certain tracks, such as Cry Wolf, could form a fitting soundtrack to a grand and intense piece of performance art.
Challenging the notion that Oceanic art consists essentially of masks and sculptures, this book exposes how the peoples of Oceania created an incredible range of art forms and great art traditions.
In A Simple Life, the aloof movie producer Roger treats his live-in servant Ah Tao with dismissiveness, until illness upsets the balance of their shared existence.
Yes To A Rosy Future is a collection of unsettling photographs that cast new light on the conflict in Syria. Nicolas Righetti arrived in Damascus when preparations for the Syrian election were under way.
Light from the Middle East: New Photography is an intriguing show currently on display at the V&A. Curated by Marta Weiss it showcases 30 artists from 13 Middle Eastern countries.
Valentino the man and Valentino the fashion brand are inseparable. In recognition of this Somerset House presents Valentino: Master of Couture, a celebration of the designer’s life and work.
Jo Longhurst’s exhibition Other Spaces at Ffotogallery looks at the concept of perfection and the social, physical and psychological undertones of a culturally bound and highly codified performance.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries opened this week at the ICA for the third year running. Independent of place and democratic to the core, New Contemporaries is open to all.
Taking place across London at Riverside Studios, Ciné lumière, and Prince Charles Cinema, Nordic Film Festival aims to celebrate the best in regional filmmaking, both past and present.
In his first large-scale solo exhibition in Britain, Ivan Seal presents a collection of paintings exploring his take on the still life genre. On view as part of In Here Stands It, until 9 December in Bristol.
The world is always in need of a good story, and one of the most popular ways to digest stories is via film. In acknowledgement of this, ÉCU searches to uncover talented story tellers.
Later this month, an all-female version of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar opens at London’s Donmar Warehouse, under the direction of the acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!).
An artist on the fringe, Edvard Munch’s life experiences as well as natural setting, contribute to the manifestation of art work that explores themes of emotional turbulence and anguished silence.
Following on from a Tracey Emin solo show that tore in two the views of locals and critics alike, Alex Katz’s exhibition, Give Me Tomorrow, has a lot (or little, depending) to live up to.
Produced by performance group, Forced Entertainment, artistic director, Tim Etchells, speaks to Aesthetica about his approach to theatre and his soon to be released book, Vacuum Days.
Considered a protagonist of Arte Povera, an art movement that emerged in Italy during the 1960s, Jannis Kounellis embarked on his career by creating some of the most radical art works of the time.
In his new show at Lisson, Lawrence Weiner focuses on the concept of truncation, a mathematical term referring to the discarding of unnecessary digits, as an inherent meaning and material reality.
