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Clio Barnard’s exploration of playwright, Andrea Dunbar’s life, combines reality with artifice in an exciting new creation.
Clio Barnard’s exploration of playwright, Andrea Dunbar’s life, combines reality with artifice in an exciting new creation.
Newcomer, Rebecca Handler, explores visual culture within the context of contemporary image-making.
In autumn 2010 at the Purdy Hicks Gallery, Neeta Madahar explored the natural and the contrived by subverting the airbrushed and the false.
Eschewing their mass-market traditions, new designers are increasingly looking towards the machine to invade the realm of haute couture and reassess uniqueness.
Small Scale, Big Change explores 11 new architectural projects redressing the social responsibilities of architecture and debunking grand manifestos.
By Bethany Rex History tells us that fashion trends often act as harbingers of economic change and fashion’s recent sombre mood is no exception. The…
Beyond COLOR: Color in American Photography, 1950-1970, opened last week in New York. This show re-examines of a crucial moment in photography’s short history, when…
The 6th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival opens today! There are five action-packed days of film and video art from the UK and abroad…
Interview by Stephanie Bailey When I was offered the chance to interview Matthew Higgs via The Apartment, Athens, I jumped at the chance. An artist…
Catch the final days of Jerwood’s summer show, Locate, which continues until Sunday, 12 September.
After visiting Derry earlier this year and seeing the murals in the Bogside, I really needed to find out more about the works and more…
Don’t forget, The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition closes for entries next Tuesday! We’ve decided to catch up with last year’s Artwork Winner, Shadric Toop. His…
Review by Elisa Caldarola Folk Form Taxa, Alex Bunn’s new show, opened last week at The Aubin Gallery in Shoreditch, London. Ten large light box…
As you know, The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is now open for Entries, and it’s the only UK competition to support both creative writing and…
Theatre production companies take on the role of game designers as a growing immersion in multimedia alters expectations of entertainment.
In Your Presence is Required at Suvanto Maile Chapman presents an unnerving treatise on the effects of age on the body and isolation on the mind.
Wagner’s second novel to be translated into English is Silence: a genuinely gripping crime thriller with a psychological twist.
Death of an Unsigned Band is the new novel from Tim Thornton, offering a fly-on-the-wall insight into the trials and tribulations that face an unsigned band.
Super Sad True Love Story is full of brilliantly inventive language and Shteyngart’s trademark humour, which belies a poignant message for society.
In an intimate introduction, Creed lets the readers know his insecurities: “I don’t think I want to make a book of my work. I am scared to look at what I have done.”
The Beat writers and artists defined a post-War era that was rife with youth rebellion, Cold War politics and the disillusion of the American Dream.
Having exhibited in the Serpentine Gallery’s Indian Highway, Shilpa Gupta has drawn interest from both public institutions and collectors alike.
HFB is comprised of Dr. Alex Paterson of British electronic group, the Orb, and Dom Beken, who has worked with the likes of David Bowie and Placebo.
School of Seven Bells’ follow up to debut album Alpinisms is a electro-pop gem of digitised beats and dream-like qualities.
Multi-layered, engaging, robotic-electro combined with rustic rhythms and wired visions are just a handful of adjectives to describe Grasscut’s debut.
Ólöf Arnalds has a mesmerising voice. In her new album, this is given the perfect showcase with accompaniment consisting of harps, strings, and acoustic guitars.
Cinematic in its grandeur, the album expertly arcs from prologue to epilogue through 12 songs, sweeping from a modest instrumental beginning to climax.
Paying homage to early hip hop, disco, ska and dub, post-punk and girl pop from the 1960s through the 1980s, this album is a rich mix, choreographed to perfection.
You already know Born Ruffians. The track Hummingbird from their previous album, Red, Yellow and Blue (2008) is instantly recognisable.
August and September are when more intimate festival experiences come out to play. Here’s what it takes to put them together – and why they’re worth going to.
Nigel Prince has been curator of Ikon in Birmingham since 2004, responsible for many exhibitions including Carmen Herrera, Ryan Gander and Martin Boyce.
The digital landscape has altered how and when we experience cinema. In 2010 the Abandon Normal Devices Festival opened to explore these junctures in more detail.
Undertow is Javier Fuentes-León’s first feature film. Having won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2010, it opened in the UK in August 2010.
Finding beauty in the ordinary, Jannica Honey exposes images that rest somewhere between art and fashion.
Internationally renowned artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, premiered Recorders at Manchester Art Gallery in 2010.
Performance art is complex, and requires audiences to experience works in new ways. One of the early pioneers, Stuart Brisley discusses his seminal pieces.
A survey into the representation of sculpture and how photography has played a vital role in capturing the image.
Review by Elisa Caldarola Nothing is Forever celebrates the renewal of South London Gallery, based in a late 19th century building in Southwark. It is…
Opening tomorrow at Nichols & Clarke (Blossom Street, London, E1 6PL) the Open Gallery presents the Open Prize for Video Painting. At Aesthetica, we are…
The inaugural IF: Milton Keynes International Festival opened last Thursday with great success. The festival is a new initiative to promote Milton Keynes as a…
Review by Elisa Caldarola Until 19 September the Serpentine Gallery will be showing a large collection of photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans. With some pictures dating…
Gary Hume (b.1962)is back this summer in Berlin. It’s been 15 years since his last solo show in the city, so there’s a lot of…
Review by Elisa Caldarola Festival Brazil is a big event running throughout the summer at the Southbank Centre in London. Brazilian artist, Ernesto Neto is…
Review by Elisa Caldarola This summer, Modern Art Oxford hosts Time and Place, Howard Hodgkin’s newest exhibition, curated by Director Michael Stanley. It presents twenty-five…
Phil Baines Allen Lane (Penguin) Puffin by Design is an exciting and colourful book, which celebrates the 70th anniversary of Puffin publications. Using the slogan…
I was one of the many who wondered if BALTIC could top their breathtaking spring exhibition by Jenny Holzer, and with Cornelia Parker’s Doubtful Sound…
Who says that art and fashion don’t mix? For me, I see a clear connection between the two worlds. Although, the politics and protocol of…
Salford and Manchester are certainly not the warmest of places to get naked, something that is made abundantly clear in the video work of Spencer…
Accessible, interactive and inclusive in ethos, Altered Images aims to stimulate engagement with the visual arts for the general public and particularly for people with…
