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INSIDE ISSUE NUMBER 16   THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES
This week we have a special event included in the line-up, it's an exclusive, a private screening of My Little Eye. 40 KultureFlash subscribers will get to see MLE and have a chance to meet both the director Marc Evans (Resurrection Man and House of America) and producer Jonathan Finn (Billy Elliot) -- both will be on hand for a Q&A. For more details see below.

Issue no. 16 also marks the second week of Jörg Sasse's residency (to see his first issue got to no. 15). Sasse was born in Bad Salzuflen, Germany (1962) and then studied at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf under the famed husband and wife team, Bernd and Hilla Becher. He continues to live and work in Dusseldorf.

Jörg Sasse has exhibited his work extensively throughout Europe and America. To see additional images of his work and a full list of his past shows check out his website

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ARCHITECTURE: Foreign Office Architects
ART: Gary Hume; Naming the Golem; Barnett Newman; A by Darren Almond; Graham Gussin
CLASSICAL MUSIC: London Symphony Ochestra
CLUB: The Orb; DJ Vadim and Guests
CONCERT: Naming the Golem; Butterflies of Love, Tompaulin...; We Flunked Rock School - Lesson 2; Mr. Scruff
DESIGN: 100% Design; Eames Film Night; Designers Block
DJ: Sprawl
FILM: Extreme Cinema; Villa des Roses; Eames Film Night; A by Darren Almond
FILM PREMIERE: My Little Eye
PERFORMANCE: Naming the Golem; Sprawl
PRIVATE VIEW: Gary Hume
Q&A: Villa des Roses; My Little Eye
TALK: The Hip Hop Garage Mish-Mash; Barnett Newman; Foreign Office Architects; Graham Gussin
THEATRE: On An Average Day

Tuesday 24th September  
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THE HIP HOP GARAGE MISH-MASH

Tuesday 24 September (7pm)
@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly
Price: general £8 | concessions £7
Links:  ICA | Five Times Five | Guardian on Ms. Dynamite
In a James Bond film, the title track's always selected through a demographic of what's mainstream and hip. Now you know that means there'll never be a hip hop song -- cause like roots and the blues, it's music from the street, American Black culture to be precise. It's music that has to do with cultural identity and protest, but what of hip hop here in the UK? Has it yet achieved its own voice? Its own personality? Have UK rappers stolen it from America and made it their own yet -- just like the Stones did in the sixties? Then we also have Garage which is huge. Artists like Ms. Dynamite -- who just won the Mercury Music Prize Award -- have diluted this spirit with RnB, but for a rapper, her lyrics are surprisingly personal. Perhaps this is the way. And what of someone like Roots Manuva, does Jamaican culture not count as Black culture? Are we wrong? Do you have a view? Well then go to the ICA's Black Nerd Event: The Hip Hop Garage Mish-Mash and have your say. Fight the Vanilla Ice in you.

NB: Speakers include Timmi Magic (BBC Radio 1 DJ and Musician), Will Ashon (Big Dada label manager), Steve Goodman (journalist, dj, producer and lecturer), Hyperdub; Tony Rotton (Black Twang), Juice Aleem (New Flesh) and chairing the discussion is John Vanderpuije (journalist and founder of the hip hop platform Black Nerd)
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Wednesday 25th September  
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BUTTERFLIES OF LOVE, TOMPAULIN...

Wednesday 25 September (7:30pm - 11pm)
@ 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, E1 (020.7247.3293) Tube: Aldgate East/Liverpool Street
Price: £6 advance
Links:  93 Feet East | Tickets | Track & Field | BOL Interview | BOL Article | Tompaulin Review | Fortuna Pop
Floating through your sound system, The Butterflies of Love are two parts "Pornography"-era Cure and one part Nu-soul practitioners. They veer from the sublime to the ridiculous on their album How To Know The Butterflies Of Love. But as a recent Peel session proved, their eclecticism is all part of their charm. Blackburn's finest -- Tampaulin are suitable counterparts to The 'Flies vibe -- they combine the fey murmurings of Belle and Sebastian with the jarring funk of Talking Heads. You won't be sure whether to get your freak on or write bad poetry in the corner. A night full of surprises but certainly one of enjoyment!

NB: Also playing tonight are Comet Again and Tender Trap.
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ART / FILM

A BY DARREN ALMOND

Wednesday 25 September (Daily except Sun 8:30pm )
@ National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3400) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo
Price: FREE
Links:  White Cube | Matthew Marks | Max Hetzler | Night As Day | At Speed | Images | Traction
Best known for his multi-media work which explores human emotional experience bordered by physical time and space, with his film A (commissioned by the Public Art Development Trust's Fourth Wall programme), renowned artist Darren Almond transports the white expanses of the gallery walls to the exterior of the National Theatre. Onto these will be projected in actual scale, the vast icebergs of the coast of Antarctica, shot on Almond's expedition with Mission Antarctica to clear ecological waste. Whilst the area above the river Thames gently freezes over in its staging of icy whiteness, a soundtrack composed by Almond in collaboration with Lyle Perkins, mixes the natural sounds of the landscape with the synthetic harmonics found in early "nautical" films, as we are taken from an inner metropolis of mass communication beyond time and place, to the unquantifiable expanse of anonymous beauty from where it all began.

NB: A will be screened daily except Sundays at 8:30pm from Wednesday 25.09 to Saturday 19.10
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CLASSICAL MUSIC

LONDON SYMPHONY OCHESTRA

Wednesday 25 September (7:30pm)
@ Barbican Centre, Barbican Centre, EC2 (020.7638.8891) Tube: Barbican
Price: £55 - £100
Links:  Barbican | Tickets | LSO | Davis Bio | Davis Interview | FrenchCulture.org On Davis
Children have got it all wrong. They aspire to being firemen, ballerinas, presidents, astronauts, occasionally bus conductors but... orchestra conductors? And yet these days conductors fly in private jets, get all the best tables in restaurants, and everywhere you look there is a concert hall or orchestra celebrating one of their landmark birthdays with one or more gala events. Sir Colin Davis, the elder statesman of English music, is the latest of these demi-gods to be feted for turning 75 and in his honour, Sarah Chang, Mstislav Rostropovich, Ian Bostridge, Imogen Cooper and Radu Lupu come together tonight with the London Symphony Orchestra at Barbican Hall.

NB: This concert kick's off the LSO's Autumn season.
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Thursday 26th September  
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GARY HUME

Thursday 26 September (Tue to Sat 10am - 6pm)
@ White Cube2, 48 Hoxton Square, N1 (020.7930.5373) Tube: Old St.
Price: FREE
Links:  White Cube | Matthew Marks | BBC Audio Interview | TAN Interview | Further Info On Hume
If paintings had a voice, then Gary Hume's would be the sweetest lyrical pop, or that easy-listenin' of Tony Bennett -- that is, cool and chilled like a warm lazy Sunday by the beach... Yes, Hume's work appears Velvet Underground cool -- full of attitude with the necessary panache of 90's Sensation painting, but don't let that fool you, his slick-gloss nailpolish finish, reduced Pop vocabulary and simple subject matter, disguise his warmth and generosity of spirit. After all he feels a kindred spirit in William Blake, and his subject matter is personal, really. It's no wonder that he represented England in the last Venice Biennale of the 20th Century.

NB: Private View is Thursday 26.09 from 6pm to 9pm
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DESIGN

100% DESIGN

Thursday 26 September (Thur 10am - 9pm; Fri 10am - 7pm; Sat 10am - 6pm; Sun 10am - 6pm)
@ Earls Court Two, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Warwick Rd., SW5 Tube: Earls Court
Price: Free if you pre-register
Links:  100% Design
For anyone interested in eyeing up the best looking new furniture, interior accessories and product design on the market, London is the place to be this week. Thursday sees the start of a design fest so sharp that it far surpasses its cousins in Cologne, Copenhagen, or Valencia. Though not nearly so phenomenal in scale as the granddaddy of furniture fairs in Milan, London's offering -- 100% Design, Designers Block and 100% Guaranteed -- have the advantage of being infinitely more manageable, and a little easier on the feet. This trilogy of shows strips away the majority of the dull contract furniture sales pitches and instead, showcases the more innovative eye candy around. 100% is now in its 7th year and the quality of products on show remain strictly controlled, with exhibitors increasingly deciding to use the exhibition as a platform for new product launches. Sunday is the only day that non-industry types can peek through the doors, but rest assured it's worth the queues. Once you're in, look out for first timers, Menu (showing an amazing circular knife and chopping board, and a cool skewer bird feeder among other bits and pieces), bizarre radiators from Bisque, and the cute-but-quality ideas from Black + Blum.

100% Guaranteed
Running in conjunction with 100% is a vast array of satellite events -- 100% Guaranteed -- all over London. These events take advantage of the international attention that London gets from press and buyers alike during the shows. Get the full listings from the 100% website (updated every day). We particularly recommend:

Guinea Pig Design's surreal radio prototypes at the Waterloo Gallery;
Mazorca Projects Design and Manufacture exhibition in Shoreditch Stables; and
Michael Marriott's installation at The Geffrey Museum next door to Designers Block.

NB: 100% runs from Thursday 26.09 till Sunday 29.09 but is only open to the public on Sunday -- Satellite events are open to the public see the 100% website for details.
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CONCERT

WE FLUNKED ROCK SCHOOL - LESSON 2

Thursday 26 September (8pm - 2am)
@ 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, E1 (020.7247.3293) Tube: Aldgate East/Liverpool Street
Price: £8
Links:  93 Feet East | Tickets | Solex Website | Solex Review
The retake exams are upon us again, this time in the subject of skewed disco. For only the second time this year, We Flunked Rock School takes over the corridors of 93 Feet East and pound the walls to the sounds of keyboard rock and digital pop. Matador Records' synths & samplers genius Solex appears tonight with her full band, which is an exclusive for those Rock School kids. Support comes from Brit electronica rockers Appliance and The Pictures (Ex Kinike, Rosita and Vermont members get together for first London gig of girly electrojam). DJs Haswell's Meltdown (from Strange Fruit) and Rocketcottage (from Baxendale) and Melorian will provide the Bottom of the Pop tunes for their disrespectful post gig anti-disco.
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DESIGN

DESIGNERS BLOCK

Thursday 26 September (11am - 7pm)
@ The Bargehouse , Oxo Tower Wharf , Barghouse St., SE1 (020.8830.5668) Tube: Warterloo/Blackfriars
Price: £5
Links:  Designers Block
In true spirit, as the younger sibling of 100%, Designers Block -- now 5 -- is more animated, less predictable and that much more fun to hang around at. It includes a vast array of young international creatives. Rory Dodd and Piers Roberts, the exhibition's founders, have a fantastic eye for spotting real talent. Changing venues every year (in the past DB has livened up the cold concrete from the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane to St Pancras Chambers to the empty Jam Factory in Bermondsey), this time round it's split in two (second location: Shoreditch Stables, 134 Kingsland Rd., E2). Go to both if you can, and urge on your creative juices.

NB: DB like 100% runs from Thursday 26.09 until Sunday 29.09
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CLUB

DJ VADIM AND GUESTS

Thursday 26 September (7pm - 1am)
@ Cargo, Kingsland Viaduct, 83 Rivington St., EC2 (020.7739.3440) Tube: Old St./Liverpool St.
Price: £7
Links:  Cargo | DJ Vadim Website | Pixel Surgeon Vadim Interview | Jazz Fudge Records | Ninja Tune
Are you Russian? Well slow down with the aid of DJ Vadim's mysteriously chilling Eastern bloc hip hop at Cargo on Thursday. Cool in the way that an igloo is warm, the evening launches Vadim's latest album USSR: The Art of Listening (released this past Monday 23.10). Accompanying are Russian Percussion, Mr Thing, Yarah Bravo, and DSP showcase with sets from Jonny Cuba, Phil Life, Cypher, Juice Aleem and Def Tex. Visual stimulation is provided by Eikon and Lucky Cat. Just the thing if you can't wait until the weekend for a sip of Ninja Tune. DJ Vadim is scheduled to be on for 7pm so be prompt!

Giveaway: We have one copy of USSR: The Art of Listening to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked winner who can name the company that designed both Amon Tobin's website and DJ Vadim's old website (hint: Requiem For A Dream and Soul Bath)
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Friday 27th September  
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EAMES FILM NIGHT

Friday 27 September (7pm - 9pm)
@ Bloomberg SPACE, 50 Finsbury Sq., EC2 (020.7330.7959) Tube: Moorgate
Price: FREE
Links:  Eames Info/Videos/Images... | Eames Demetrios | Architecture Week Article
If you've seen the films, Kaleidoscope Jazz Chair and Powers Of Ten, you realise that there is such an aesthetic as "Sesame Street formalism"! What's that? It's the sense of awe and wonderment that children take to their surroundings; and this is what Charles and his wife, Ray Eames did... that is, they weren't just brilliant architects/designers, but inquisitive intellectuals. The fact that their museum is in their '50s case study house; that much of their furniture are considered to be design classics. Their playing cards and flipbooks are sold at Selfridges... they are but a small part of their genius. Their films demonstrate the cinemascope of their minds: a mathematics peep show for IBM (yep, with subtitles like: "topology", "something about functions"), there's a design project on Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson for the Bicentiennial, and an Expanding Airport! Check out these free-roaming renaissance minds and catch these films.

Programme:
Blacktop,1952
Expanding Airport, 1958
IBM Mathematics Peep Show, 1961
Powers of Ten, 1977
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FILM / Q&A

VILLA DES ROSES

Friday 27 September (8:30pm)
@ Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 (020.073.1350) Tube: South Kensington
Price: general £6 | concessions £4.50
Links:  Cine Lumiere | Julie Delpy | Villa des Roses
Belgian director Frank van Passel is back after a quiet period -- and he is back with mixed reviews. Villa des Roses is a period drama set in Paris at the brink of the First World War. It takes place in an English boarding house where a vast array of personalities meet and influence each other profoundley. As far as European cinema goes, Villa des Roses is an important addition. It supports a strong and diverse cast which includes Julie Delpy, Shaun Dingwall and Timothy West. This is a chance for all Julie Delpy fans to see her in the flesh rendering mixed movie reviews irrelevant.

NB: The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Julie Delpy and Paul Allen.
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CONCERT

MR. SCRUFF

Friday 27 September (9pm - 3am)
@ Forum, 9-17 Highgate Rd., NW5 (020.7344.0044 ) Tube: Kentish Town
Price: £12 advance
Links:  Tickets | Mr. Scruff | Trouser Jazz | Ninja Tune
You probably already know if you like Mr. Scruff. Another failed fine art student, Andy Carthy makes music which is a kind of cross between Nightmares on Wax and Playschool (yes, the old kids' TV show). The dub/hiphop/funky tunes all come soaked in a twisted sense of humour and the word is that Mr. Scruff puts on a good gig. The curse of daytime TV means you will most likely have heard some of this stuff already in the background of something like House Invaders, but there should be lots of material from the new album Trouser Jazz. Keep it unreal.

Giveaway: We have one copy of Trouser Jazz to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked winner who can name two other artists on the Ninja Tune Record label.
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Saturday 28th September  
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NAMING THE GOLEM

Saturday 28 September (8:15pm)
@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly
Price: general £9 | concessions £8
Links:  ICA
For those of you who are looking for a bit of exotic flavour, this event is not to be missed... Naming the Golem is presenting Sefaradiq, a eclectic mix of talented musicians and artists creating a captivating cocktail of North African Funk, Rai and traditional Arabic music. This will be accompanied by dancers, photography and montages by Sophie Calle (who has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, the Paris Museum of Modern Art and White Cube) as well as the Cannes award winning film maker Michale Boganim -- who will be presenting her film Memoires Uncertaines. Musicians from London's Fantazia and DJ Max Reinhardt playing alongside Radio Nova's DJ Slimani will surely bring out the belly dancer within you!
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FILM

EXTREME CINEMA

Saturday 28 September (11am - 1pm)
@ Curzon Soho, 93-107 Shaftesbury Ave., W1 (020.7439.4805) Tube: Leicester Square/Piccadilly
Price: £3
Links:  Extreme Cinema | Campion | Scorsese | Godard | Kassovitz | Zemeckis
Most great directors struggled through making short films before achieving greats -- rites of passage so to speak. Five such directors are included in a shorts showcase this Saturday -- the first of five Saturdays of Extreme Cinema. Included in this week's programme: the sensitive Jane Campion of The Piano and Holy Smoke fame; the hard hitting Martin Scorsese of Scarface and Raging Bull fame; classic auteur Jean-Luc Godard of Alphaville and A Bout de Souffle fame; up-and-coming Mathieu Kassovitz of La Haine and The Crimson Rivers fame; the illusive Robert Zemeckis Back to the Future and Forrest Gump fame; and Carine Alder of Under my Skin Fame.

NB: The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Carine Alder.

Progamme:
Passionless Moments by Campion
The Big Shave by Scorsese
Tous Les Garcons S'Appellent Patrick by Godard
White Nightmare by Kassovitz
Field Of Honor by Zemeckis
Fever by Alder
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CLUB

THE ORB

Saturday 28 September
@ Ocean, 270 Mare St., Hackney, E8 (020.8533.0111) Tube: Hackney Downs/Hackney Central Rail
Price: £17.50 advance
Links:  Ocean | The Orb
If you've ever lain on the floor wide-eyed and covered in mysterious dust listening to the sound of sheep bleating in time to car-alarms, then you've probably been into ambient. Musical meat and potatoes to acid munchers in the early nineties, the Orb was the missing link between balding grebo-rockers Hawkwind and the Rave scene. Happily, Hawkwind are not on the bill tonight, so you can enjoy your memories of A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Underworld, safe from unsavoury types with dogs on string.

NB: Tonight's Orb concert will be also be a showcase of some of the newer acts to be associated with the Badorb collective (Autolump, Prayerbox, Fusionic, Multiverse, Cloak & Dagger, Openalter Sex...)
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ART / TALK

GRAHAM GUSSIN

Saturday 28 September (3pm)
@ Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens (020 7298 1515) Tube: Knightsbridge, Lancaster Gate
Price: FREE
Links:  Serpentine | Chantal Crousel Gallery | Nothing I Know/Something I Don't Know | New Museum
London born Gaham Gussin's mainly digital work examines the connection between the real and the imagined experience. So as The Serpentine Gallery continues its journey into the more challenging spaces of contemporary art, with an exhibition dedicated to the ontological challenges posed by travel, it's appropriate that Gussin introduces this show (he is also one of the artists exhibited in it). This informal talk promises to provide an insight into the exhibition's exploration of the tension between the imagined and the real at the heart of the travel fantasy.

NB: This talk is a wonderful opportunity to at the same time catch the stunning Ito Pavilion before it is taken down (Sunday 29.09 is the last day to see it)
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DJ / PERFORMANCE

SPRAWL

Saturday 28 September (7:30pm - 9:30pm)
@ Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars
Price: general £6 | concessions £3
Links:  Tate Modern | Tickets | Sprawl | Past Sprawl Guests | Parlane Interview
Sprawl seems to be the UN of experimental electronic music -- this time round they're advocating Finland (Vladislav Delay), the UK (Tennis) and New Zealand (Rosy Parlane). These dudes work with percussion and ambiance, with Tennis it's echo and delay, while Vladislav is "elegaic" and "aural" -- but hey, like any UN sanctioned organisation, Delay also performs under the name "Luomo". Both have toured Europe together, yet it is Parlane's soundscapes that'll unify the evening... so whether you're protesting, fighting or just needing some resolutions, come and be challenged, chilled and made whole with Sprawl.
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Monday 30th September  
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FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS

Monday 30 September (7:15pm)
@ Design Museum, Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, SE1 (020.7940.8790) Tube: Tower Hill
Price: general £10 | concessions £6
Links:  Design Museum | FOA | Guardian On FOA | Architecture + Water | Eyebeam Museum
Following our enthusiastic mention in Issue no. 3 of KultureFlash, we're sure you all went to the Tate Modern to see Foreign Office Architects, the London-based husband-and-wife team of Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Farshid Moussavi. If, by coincidence, that was the week that you went to Yokohama to check out their groundbreaking International Port Terminal, the Design Museum is giving you a second chance to hear them talk in London. Having worked for famous architects including Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, Renzo Piano in Genoa and Zaha Hadid in London, the Spaniard and Iranian set up FOA in 1992. Today, they are viewed as two of the most promising architects of their generation, and this is the perfect opportunity to learn more about the moule-shaped shell structure that they dreamed up for the Belgo Zuid restaurant in Ladbroke Grove.

NB: FOA are representing the UK at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale
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FILM PREMIERE / Q&A

MY LITTLE EYE

Monday 30 September (7:30pm)
@ A Screening Room in Soho
Price: Free but you need to RSVP (see below for details)
Links:  My Little Eye Website | Observer Review | Another Review
This screening is a KultureFlash exclusive. Come and see My Little Eye before it hits the screens nationwide, and at the end get a chance to ask both the director Marc Evans (Resurrection Man and House of America) and producer Jonathan Finn (of Billy Elliot fame) some questions. MLE , Working Title 2's second film, could not be more different from the their first (Billy Elliot), it's a clever psychological thriller shot in a very unconventional manner. Three parts Big Brother, two parts Blair Witch Project and one part Requiem For A Dream. MLE will have you squirming in your seat. It's best that we not tell you too much since the less you know the better, but for those of you who need to read a synopsis see the reviews in the links section. Be warned though, this ain't no feel good movie!

NB: This is a private screening for 40 KultureFlash subscribers. We thus have 20 spots (20 of you will get to go with a friend). To get a chance to attend this screening you must RSVP. We will pick 20 of you at random and notify you via email.
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BARNETT NEWMAN

Ends Saturday 5 January (Daily 10am - 6pm, Fri & Sat until 10pm)
@ Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars
Price: general £7.50 | concessions £5.50
Links:  Tate Modern | Tickets | Artkrush on Sation Of The Cross | Judd on Newman | Artnet on Newman
Andy Warhol said of fellow New York artist Barnett Newman that he was the only artist that made it to more openings and parties than he did. This he surmised because Newman's paintings were more simple than his own. Certainly, Newman's paintings are very direct and concentrated, as they are based upon the material conditions of painting and yet offer such a visceral sense in the experience of the complexity of visual experience. Through colour and surface, that they are completely involving and sometimes overwhelming. This show is the first retrospective exhibition of Barnett Newman's work in three decades. Here's your chance to see the complete Stations of the Cross (a series of 14 same sized paintings made between 1958 and 1966) installed in a single room. In this series, with a limited palette of blacks and whites, Newman creates a fugue like poem of differences, poignant whether you relate the work to a religious moment or not. This is art that needs neither intellectualisms nor ironic distance to have its full effect. Give this show some time and you will not be disappointed. And if you are off to a party later, enjoy it, Barny would. (Exhibition ends January 5, 2003)

NB: On Sunday 29.09 at 3pm the Tate is hosting a free talk -- Approaching Newman -- to celebrate the openning of the retrospective. Art historian Mark Godfrey will discuss Newman with Jenni Lomax, Director of the Camden Arts Centre
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THEATRE

ON AN AVERAGE DAY

Ends Sunday 3 November (Tues to Sat 7:30pm; Sun 4pm, Mats Wed & Sat 3pm)
@ Comedy Theatre, Panton St., SW1 (020.7369.1731) Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Price: £10 - £37.50
Links:  Tickets | Seating Plan | Review | Guardian On Maclachlan
It may seem strange that a small play by an as-yet, relatively unknown US author should premiere in the West End with such well-known stars as Woody Harrelson and Kyle Maclachlan filling the two roles. But John Kolvenbach is rapidly becoming a name to watch in US theatre. His unique writing style blends a Pinter-esque feeling of the unidentified menace lurking in everyday society (the "weasel under the cocktail cabinet" as Pinter himself has described it), and the emotional brand of introspection found in the work of writers such as Sam Shepard, whose influence is apparent from the very start. Harrelson and Maclachlan are captivating as the two brothers reunited in the most difficult of circumstances, and Maclachlan especially shines as he progresses from the straight man to Harrelson's mentally unstable younger brother towards his own moment of emotional unburdening in the second act. Funny, moving and well-worth a visit.

NB: Run ends on Sunday 03.11
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    features

GROOVETECH STREAMS
 
HOUSE:
Inspirit presents Andy Caldwell (Inspirit)
ELECTRONIC:
Valvo presents Matt Thompson & Nick Barclay
ELECTRO:
Electro Chair Show with Curley & Sherman


London's Groovetech rules the Internet airwaves with their world class live DJ broadcasting. As our resident DJs, they will be delivering you three specially selected streams direct to your inbox every week. As well as these, there are also live streams from around the world and a massive archive to check out at groovetech.com. Now is probably a good time to check out the Groovetech Shop where their coveted back catalogue vinyl is available at massively reduced prices as part of their summer sale.

You'll need the Real Audio player to listen to the streams. If you don't already have it, get it here.

BOOK REVIEW
 
Art Now
Edited by Uta Grosenick & Burkhard Reimschneider
Taschen

If you are interested in contemporary art or if you'd like to develop your knowledge on the subject, look no further! Art Now is a complete guide to today's 150 most interesting, intriguing and influential artists. The book offers biographical information on each artist as well as images of their most recent work. It also tells you which galleries represent them, the collections and museums that have purchased their work, details of work sold at auction and even a range of prices to expect for every artist (this section of the book was created with the help of The Art Newspaper). In addition to this, Art Now delves even further into the world of contemporary art with an impressive guide to the most important destinations on the global art scene as well as providing a list of recommended museums, galleries, hotels and restaurants for each of these cities. An essential reference book; Art Now is a must-have!

Giveaway: We have one copy of Art Now to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked winner who can name the book that this is follow up to.

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Malika Browne, Rachael Carney, Chris Clarke, Charlotte Dobbs-Higginson, Claire Easterman, Priya Elangasinghe, Emma Elia-Shaul, Thom Falls, Eamon Hamilton, Chris Harman, Clifford Leo Harris, Magnus Larsson, Ingrid Lunden, Perry Mason, Sarah McDermott, Jo Osborne, Kevin O'Sullivan, David Rhodes, Graeme Ross, Ingvild Rytter, Sherman Sam, Charlie Sorrel, Henrietta Thompson, Jane Tobin, Mo White

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