Via Metro The Hammersmith Morris Men celebrated the 50th anniversary of the dance ‘Hammersmith Flyover’ by performing on the half-mile stretch of elevated road that inspired it. The dance was written for the group by John Kirkpatrick in 1962 – the same year the flyover was completed. It was closed just before Christmas so rusty [...]
Lanfranchi’s Memorial Discotheque was Sydney’s favourite artist-run space, situated on the second level of an inner city warehouse. Lanfranchi’s doubled as a residence and unauthorised performance venue for five years, growing from unlikely beginnings to become what director Neil Armfield (Candy, Belvoir St Theatre) described as a ‘major strand of our city’s cultural DNA’. The [...]
Paris The Luminous Years, explores this unique moment in Paris from 1905 to 1930, decisive years for our contemporary culture, when an international group including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Vaslav Nijinsky and Aaron Copland, among numerous others, revolutionized the direction of the modern arts. In [...]
via Journal Live DAVID WHETSTONE, Arts & Entertainment Editor, on a year of financial cuts and artistic triumphs CUTS, cuts, cuts… the key word of 2011 wormed its way into every facet of North East life, including the arts. The funding landscape changed dramatically because Arts Council England, in common with other quangos, was given [...]
A fun satirical film from 1961 with Tony Hancock playing a London office clerk who decides to give up his job to pursue a career as an avant garde artist. Artdesigncafe have quite an indepth review of the film here. Purchase the DVD from Amazon.
