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‘A Rainbow Nation’: the famous words used by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to describe the unity of races and merging of cultures in post-apartheid South Africa after the 1994 election. The V & A strives to represent this rainbow nation in their new exhibition Figures and Fictions: exhibiting a selection of contemporary South African photography, these [...]
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Religion’s place within media reflects its movement within our culture, and it has been a source of great debate. Once a pillar which supported society, faith has moved (or been forced) onto the periphery. Religion, which once created boundaries for artistic work, was actively pushed and criticised. The movement of religion from a universally-accepted truth to [...]
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The Chinese media calls him “a deviant and a plagiarist”. This is a far cry from Ai Weiwei’s prominence as one of China’s leading artists, who helped design the famous Bird’s Nest, Beijing’s national stadium for the 2008 Olympics. The conceptual artist has been a key figure in China’s contemporary art scene, producing cross-cultural projects [...]
The Digital Revolution
Throughout the course of its history, the form of the book has changed many times. There have been key turning points; wooden tablet progressed to parchment and from there moved on to manuscripts before finally, 500 years ago, the mass production of paper books. The UK currently publishes the largest number of titles in the [...]
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Miranda Larbi’s Eco-Wardrobe
We live in a fast world. And by fast, I mean concord speed. No need for hand-written letters when we have access to emails at the click of a button. No need to wait weeks for photos to be developed, when war correspondents and fashion journalists alike can snap away on the front line and [...]
Dan Cave’s An Untimely End
The abstract wildernesses that “environment” and “art” encompass, even as free-standing individual terms, should be enough to distract from ever attempting to combine the two into some coherent semblance. However UNEP (United Nations Enviroment Programme) has attempted just this, forcing the two into a tensile relationship to “generate environmental awareness using the universal language [...]
Helena Davies on The Timelessness of Environmental Art
When Monet sat down to paint ‘La Promenade d’Argenteuil’ in the 1870s, I wonder if he knew that over a hundred years later the debate surrounding those smoking chimneys, that he sought to adopt into his new depiction of the landscape, would still exist. It was Thomas Hardy who stood firmly on the other side [...]
Alienor Littaye goes Deep Diving With Jason Decaires-Taylor
The word ‘vicissitudes’ can at times means hardship in life or a sudden ill-f Discount viagra ated turn of events. However, when Jason DeCaires Taylor uses it to name his underwater sculptures, ‘vicissitudes’ becomes the quality of mutability. It seems strange that the artist would want to ‘set in stone’ his tribute to transience. Sculpture [...]
Thomas Meerstadt’s Separation from Hollywood
American hegemony amongst the film industry is a well known fact. Almost everyone across the globe Foro levitra has seen a Hollywood production and, for the majority of the 20th century, the term Hollywood had more or less become synonymous with the film industry. In fact 85-90% of box-office takings over the last twenty years [...]
Ellie Wallis and Emma Walker’s Pursuit of Perfection
“I’m not perfect, I’m nothing.” These bleak and fatalistic words encapsulate the struggle for perfection which plagues many of the female characters in Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar nominated psychological thriller. The film follows an aspiring ballet dancer, in her preparation for the most important performance of her career. The child-like, naïve Nina must realise the darker, [...]
Gareth Davies on Waste Land
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish. Foro levitra We’re all familiar with T.S. Eliot’s magnum opus The Wasteland. But does its message of a planet in decline still resonate with the world we live in now? Yes, says Lucy Walker, and more than ever before. Her new [...]
Rory Foster’s The Nonsensical to the Commercial
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Alex Conway on The Importance of a DJ
One of the questions I get asked the most is ‘what is the point of a DJ? Can’t iTunes do the same job?’ There is a huge community of music aficionados who despise modern disk jockeys; I’ll try to explain why the world needs DJs and what we actually do. I have been DJ-ing since [...]
Ali Paul on The Price of a Ticket
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Dubstep: The Internet’s First Child
Dubstep, let’s face it, sounds like a monster with tourettes having an epileptic fit. Upon its creation it was completely alien to anything anyone had heard before, and still mostly only attracts the male half of the population. So, how has it achieved such a wide fan base and (after being a little diluted) pretty [...]
Christian Drury and Growing Green?
One of the highlights of the 2010 General Election, often missed by commentators obsessed by a hung parliaments and new potential coalitions, was the election of Caroline Lucas. In the constituency of Brighton Pavilion, they voted for the first Green MP in British history. For any small party an MP is a huge step, allowing [...]
