Philippe Halsman: Astonish Me!
Halsman’s relentless creativity kept his magnificent imagery alive and allowed him to construct a vivid picture of prosperous American society.
Halsman’s relentless creativity kept his magnificent imagery alive and allowed him to construct a vivid picture of prosperous American society.
Two lost souls seek a light at the end of the long tunnel called marriage and hope to find it on a romantic weekend in Paris.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s The Past follows his multi award-winning drama A Separation with a rigorous examination of truth, history and human relationships.
It’s easy to forget that every dress, coat and shoe begins as an illustration. Julius Wiedemann draws attention to the industry’s reliance on this skill.
Regularly seeking out abandoned spaces with her camera, VanDeman finds traces of past inhabitants in the remaining furniture, letters and possessions.
Referred to by Oscar Wilde as “the chosen resort of the artistic shopper”, Liberty has maintained its creative relevance for more than a century.
In The Silence is the debut of Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir, who is already something of a sensation in his homeland.
Fuerzabruta returns to the Roundhouse, bringing with it an exciting celebration of carnival and street theatre in which reality is disregarded in favour of dreams.
Becoming Traviata takes a look behind the curtain of Jean-François Sivadier’s re-imagining of Verdi’s masterpiece, as it moves around the demise of its namesake, Violetta Valéry, the “fallen woman.”
Filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien’s PLAYTIME at Victoria Miro is an ambitious new body of work exploring the dramatic and nuanced subject of capital.
The Selfish Giant follows two scrappy 13-year-olds as they reject a school system that doesn’t accept them.
A leading British sculptor, Richard Deacon’s work was on display at Tate Britain in a large chronological survey featuring around 40 individual pieces..
Marc Valli’s introduction reminds the reader of the value inherent in painting and its place in the digital world.
Hoarding photographs, art books, newspaper clippings and found items that took her fancy, Vivian Maier filled storage lockers with her bric-a-brac and over 100,000 negatives.
Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone is built upon the ancient Persian myth that the syngué sabour is a confessional tool, an object on which you can lay all your secrets, your despairs and your rage.
Maroesjka Lavigne spent four months travelling around Iceland in the months between winter and spring photographing this intriguing country along the way.
In this incredibly authoritative volume, Marie-Puck brings back to life her father’s photographs and exhibition chronology.
Over the past decade the number of music documentaries under production has significantly increased, and there doesn’t seem to be a clear cut reason why.
Utopia delves back into the White Australia Policy of 1901, which effectively introduced a form of Apartheid as virulent as anything seen in South Africa.
