INSIDE ISSUE NUMBER 55 THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES

Welcome back KultureFlashers, so long Mars! With the Biennale cooling down, the season is finally heating up despite the Red Planet leaving us behind.

This week we're showing you a photograph from Venice in order to remind you that we're still working on a KF's Biennale report. The photo was taken by one of KF's past resident artists Valerie von Stahl Stromberg of Cerith Wyn Evans' Cleave 03. Evans has an upcoming solo show at White Cube opening 30/10, and Cleave 03 is part of Wales' entry at the Biennale.

Now, we're once again bringing you our usual great blend of Flash. From John Boorman to Flaminio Bertoni, from MIMEO to UNKLE, and Isaac Julien to William Russell, we're expecting our season to be hotter than a Russian-funded football team. And if none of this really appeals to you, there's always a Franz West performance (Mon 08/10 @ 6:30pm), or a cool dip in Hampstead, or the Rothko's at the Tate, or David Blaine suspending himself for 44 days above the Thames. Just a few headlines from the Capital! We're back!

ARCHITECTURE:William Russell
ART:A Century of Artists' Film in Britain II; Bridget Riley; Chris Steele-Perkins: Mount Fuji; Isaac Julien; UNKLE: Never Never Land
CLUB:WANG
CONCERT:Buck 65 Vs. Eraserhead; MIMEO; Nathan Haines
DESIGN:Flaminio Bertoni; UNKLE: Never Never Land
FILM:A Century of Artists' Film in Britain II; Cypher; John Boorman With John Hurt; Orson Welles
PERFORMANCE:MIMEO; UNKLE: Never Never Land; Wolfgang Tillmans
PRIVATE VIEW:Isaac Julien
READING:Peter Carey
RETROSPECTIVE:Orson Welles
TALK:Bridget Riley; Geoff Dyer; John Boorman With John Hurt; M. Ignatieff & V. Glendinning; Sir Joseph Rotblat; William Russell
BOOK REVIEW: Hokusai
     

    Tuesday
2nd September  
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M. IGNATIEFF & V. GLENDINNING
Tuesday 2 September (6:30pm)
@ Canada House, Trafalgar Square, SW1 (020.7258.6600) Tube: Leiceter Sq./Embankment
Price: £6
Links:  PEN UK
If, in 1815, Napoleon had had his way, Michael Ignatieff would be a celebrity today. Both an intellectual and an absorbing speaker who elucidates the complex maze of human morality like he's a vox pop on I Love 1993, Ignatieff has two books out: Empire Lite... and Charlie Johnson in the Flames, an intense and moving novel about what war does to us all, drawing on his own experiences and throwing in a neat Schroedinger's cat of a dilemma. Since 9/11 he has ruffled feathers on both sides of the pond using, almost simultaneously, the platform of the NY Times to attack US imperialism and The Guardian to defend Bush's impending war on Iraq. Engaging Ignatieff tonight is Victoria Glendinning, President of PEN UK. To define PEN as an Amnesty for writers would be cheeky, but concise. And, to describe Victoria Glendenning briefly would be inadequate. She is both a celebrated biographer and novelist, and has invigorated PEN UK as President. Whether she, or anyone else, will take the initiative to challenge Ignatieff on his mutually antagonistic stances will be interesting, but let's face it, it's going to be interesting anyway.

NB: For info and tickets call 020.7713.0023.

Giveaway: We have two copies of Charlie Johnson in the Flames to give away. They'll go to two random subscribers who can tell us the name of three famous universities that Ignatieff has taught at.
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    Wednesday
3rd September  
FILM / RETROSPECTIVE
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ORSON WELLES
Wednesday 3 September (Various -- check NFT website for full details)
@ National Film Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020.7928.3232) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo
Price: general £7.50 | concessions £5.50
Orson Welles is rarely a topic of discussion -- consensus over his genius seems to reign supreme, and Citizen Kane will make top three most every time they publish one of those annoying "the best films ever" lists. This lack of controversy renders Welles less interesting than many lesser directors -- past and present -- and the narrow scope in which he is usually discussed (read: always in relation to Citizen Kane) is simply unfair. The body of work he's created as actor, writer, producer and director for the big screen does not consist of one masterpiece, but a wealth of interesting, moving, impressive, depressive, and sometimes bad, cinema. The NFT will screen a selection of this work. Just once, skip Citizen Kane and give Welles a chance to make the sparks fly and doors slam.

NB: For the full programme (by date & title) see the NFT website. Retrospective runs until Wed 22/10.
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SIR JOSEPH ROTBLAT
Wednesday 3 September (7pm)
@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly
Price: general £8 | concessions £7
Are you getting tired of going over the same war conversations with your friends and acquaintances? "Oh no darling, I went on the march, and apart from all those dirty anarchists, it really was quite enjoyable. Tarquinn and I took baby Paris to see that sweetie Tony Benn, then I realised Julie Burchill was all for it, apparently war is an essential part of being working class, so we steadied the 3-wheel pram and took off to All Bar One for some Nachos." Yes, well, maybe your mates are more informed than the many. But, if you crave some words from one with the history, knowledge and experience that can only come from a Nobel Peace Prize ('95) winning nuclear physicist, then an evening with Sir Joseph Rotblat could add a bit more reality to those coffee table conversations. From a youth in Poland, his walk out from WWII atomic bomb project and a lifetime of campaigning, he will be chatting to Brian Cathcart at the ICA about all this and his more recent concerns over those four dirty words: "Weapons of Mass Destruction".
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WILLIAM RUSSELL
Wednesday 3 September (7pm)
@ Quiet Revolution, 49-59 Old St., EC1 Tube: Old St.
Price: FREE
"I wanted the customer to step in off the pavement into another world, which she can take her time to explore", is how architect William Russell tried to explain the concept behind his flagship store for Alexander McQueen, located in New York City's trendy Meatpacking Disctrict. "Despite the fact that it's a substantial space, I tried to create a sense of intimacy and ethereality." Russell designed the shop together with McQueen himself, and it served as the blueprint for the London and Tokyo flagship stores (Milan soon to be completed). Having been described as an "architecture of the ceiling", his design is based mainly on columns that come dripping down from above, without actually touching the floor. Russell has been describing this upside-down, cave-like landscape as a "conscious move away from a purely static environment", and this talk -- the last in this year's Summer Nights series arranged by The Architecture Foundation -- will be a great occasion to ask him to expand on these ideas.
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    Friday
5th September  
ART / DESIGN / PERFORMANCE
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UNKLE: NEVER NEVER LAND
Friday 5 September (Fri 05/09 to Sun 07/09; Mon 12 - 7:30pm; Mon till 8pm)
@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly
Price: general £8 | concessions £7
UNKLE -- the post-Trip-Hop collective spearheaded by Mo' Wax boss James Lavelle and Richard File -- have always been about more than the music. The graphics, videos and sleeve designs have consistently showcased their leftfield take on art, and much of it is collected here at the ICA for a one-off, four-day installation. As well as a collection of UNKLE record sleeves, T-shirts and toys, the exhibition includes a massive 8 by 16 foot canvas of the sleeve for the soon to be released UNKLE album Never Never Land (22/09) and photographs by William Bankhead documenting its creation. On the final night (Mon 08/09 at 8pm) Lavelle and File will perform as the UNKLE Soundsystem with special guest jocks and animated visuals from Unorthodox Styles and 3D of Massive Attack fame.

NB: Entrance to the exhibition is £1.50 (£2.50 weekends) and £8 for the Mon 08/09 performance.
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MIMEO
Friday 5 September (7 -10:30pm)
@ Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2 (020 7298 1515) Tube: Knightsbridge/Lancaster Gate
Price: general £5 | concessions £3
Your idea of a mind-blowing gig: a Jagger-esque OAP croaking tunes penned on ancient parchment, or a load of balaclava-sporting techies frantically twiddling knobs, looping pulsing vibes back through the hungry crowd? MIMEO (Music In Mouvement Electronic Orchestra) go for the latter option with their UK debut -- which promises to combine a grand piano and transistor radios, TVs and laptops in the curvaceous surrounds of Niemeyer's Summer Pavilion. MIMEO comprises a gaggle of electronic improvisers with an international line-up that puts the European Union in the shade. The "band" employ digital and analogue sampling to create their trademark soundscapes -- which actually veer towards the subtle and sparse rather than resemble a chorus of the world's most irritating mobile ring tunes, as many fear. This gig marks the last major event at the pavilion before the onset of dark clouds and bulldozers.

NB: The performance will be remixed and broadcasted on Radio 3's Mixing It.

Giveaway: We have three pairs of tickets to give away. They'll go to three random subscribers who can tell us the name of the past three architects that have created pavilions for the Serpentine.
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NATHAN HAINES
Friday 5 September (Fri 05/09 & Sat 06/09 at 7pm)
@ Jazz Cafe, 5 Parkway, NW1 (020.7916.6060) Tube: Camden Town
Price: £13.50
Nathan Haines is young, talented and fully loaded with the launch of his new album Squire for Hire (released on Mon 08/09) at the Jazz Cafe this weekend. Having outgrown his homeland -- New Zealand -- early on in his career by creating their biggest selling Jazz album Shift Left, next on his list is to conquer New York and our own sweet London. Needless to say this saxophonist has worked with the best. Even if you take his regular producer/co-writer Phil Asher as gospel, then the list of guests on his album will still shake up your Jazz faith. Chris Franck, Mark De Clive-Lowe, Shelley Nelson, Vanessa Freeman, Rich Medina, Marcus Begg, Guida da Palma, Reel People producer/keyboardist Mike Patto, Nathan's bass playing father Kevin Haines as well as Marlena Shaw and Blur front-man Damon Albarn all add their own touches to this mammoth project. Everyone's already saying that the show is going to be "Spectacular", last year he sold out, and Mr. Haines ain't backwards going forwards.

NB: Haines plays two nights at the Jazz Cafe -- Fri 05/09 & Sat 06/09 at 7pm.

Giveaway: We have two copies of Squire For Hire to give away. They'll go to two randomly picked subscribers who can tell us with which two NYC House "masters" did Haines play on a remix with.
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BUCK 65 VS. ERASERHEAD
Friday 5 September (8pm)
@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly
Price: general £8 | concessions £7
Canadian Hip-Hop takes on pulsating erotic chickens and mutant babies... it'll be an interesting encounter. The battleground is the ICA and we are the eye-witnesses. Rich Terfry (Buck 65) has decided that it's about time in his career that he did his own soundtrack to David Lynch's surrealist squalor, Eraserhead, and it just so happens to coincide with his release of Talkin' Honky Blues on 8/09. Terfry is, frankly, a bit brilliant, his references may strike a chord with fans of storytellers Kerouac, Bukowski and Tom Waits, and now with Radiohead and The Beastie Boys requiring his skills, it makes the Hip-Hop guru's leftfield CV proof that he is the only person who could really pull this off. Buck 65, while the '70s masterpiece is running, will replace the overwhelming industrial noise and Lynch's "Lady In The Radiator Song" with his own score. Good luck Buck.
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WOLFGANG TILLMANS
Friday 5 September (Fri 05/09 & Sat 06/09 at 9pm)
@ Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Pimlico
Price: £15
This weekend, the German Turner Prize-winning photographer shows that he has a few other creative tricks up his sleeve, as he turns his hand to this multi-layered live event, which marks the end of his current major retrospective at Tate B. If you haven't had a chance to catch if one thing matters, everything matters, a display of his seminal stills photography, then these two nights of added entertainment should give you further reason to drop by. Tillmans, who appears to have temporarily turned filmmaker, recently completed a new film (Lights (Body), 2001) and a Pet Shop Boys music video, and will premiere his third newly commissioned film at the evening events. Alongside these screenings, will be spoken word pieces and live music, together creating a glamorous example of the hybrid art show that so many key London venues seem to be programming. The show promises "performance art, utopia and spirituality", and there's the added addition of an Egg-sponsored bar to bring you back down from your cerebral zenith, should you need it.
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    Saturday
6th September  
ART / PRIVATE VIEW
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ISAAC JULIEN
Saturday 6 September (5:30 - 7:30pm)
@ Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Rd., N1 (020.7336.8109) Tube: Old St.
Price: FREE
The autumn art season has finally arrived and with it an exhibition of newish work -- i.e. unseen in London -- by Isaac Julien. Well-known for his video installations, Julien tackles issues of sexuality, gender and race in his works, producing beautiful film pieces that draw on dance, music, painting and sculpture to tell their stories. He has gained acclaim in cinema, especially for Young Soul Rebels (Cannes '91), a movie that also spawned a cracking soundtrack. Victoria Miro presents two installations, Paradise Omeras and Baltimore. The former (premiered at last year's Documenta 11) is an exploration of multi-culturalism in Sixties London, based loosely on the poetry of Derek Walcott, who's also a collaborator (on Paradise Omeras). Baltimore is Julien's most recent work and is inspired by blaxploitation movies -- a topic also examined by the artist in his recent documentary Baadasssss Cinema -- it is something of a homage to actor and director Melvin Van Peebles, who also stars in the work. As always with Julien, the exhibition is not to be missed. (Show ends 11/10.)

NB: The private view is on Sat 06/09 from 5:30 till 7:30pm. Concurrently Trussed, Langston and Baadasssss Cinema are on view at Sketch (9 Conduit St., W1) until 18/10.
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WANG
Saturday 6 September (10pm - 6am)
@ The Premises, 201-205 Hackney Rd., E2 (020.7729.7593 ) Tube: Old St.
Price: £7
All you Warpaholics out there should be flocking to The Premises as another WANG party pops up again this coming Saturday. These guys offer a reasonably-priced chance to hear tunes mixed by a luscious suite of DJs within intimate (i.e. small) surroundings, proffering tunes from the floppy-house to the electro-minimal. With the usual claim of representing a diverse group of styles embroidering their promotional literature (a claim shamed by some of the music dribbling disappointingly from their website), the line-up really does stand this one out from the crowd. From the lo-funky-house groove of Louis Digital to the twitchy electro of Dub Kult, we should have each bass covered (no apologies). Also due to make an appearance are DJs from both the Warp and Arcola labels, Plaid and Luke Vibert to name but a few from the long list. Go on... being a Wanger is so much fun...
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GEOFF DYER
Tuesday 9 September (7:30pm)
@ Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, SE1 (020.7960.4203 or 4242) Tube: Embankment/Rail Waterloo
Price: general £6 | concessions £4
The fact that Geoff Dyer has been described as the Poet Laureate of the Slacker Generation and that, by his own admission, his latest book is not entirely reliable, suggests something quite intriguing for the first of Selective Memory, the South Bank Centre's first Literature and Talks programme on the modern memoir. Dyer, described as the "bored kid in class who can never bring himself to follow the assignment", is a "counter-tourist" that often allows life to lead his writing. With his casual, even listless approach to the writer's lifestyle, Dyer has been described as genre-defying, keen to play with style and form, letting it take him where he feels. His book Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It consisting of stories from his travels from Paris to Libya's Leptis Magna is hardly a narrative, more of a ramble through the author's thoughts, albeit with a "casual literary mind" and subtle insight he sweeps us along, providing a unique starting point for a talk on what, and how we choose to remember and recount our experiences.

NB: The evening will be chaired by James Delingpole, the author of Thinly Disguised Autobiography. Selective Memory will run until 20/11 and feature, among others, Joan Bakewell and Pascal Khoo Thwe.
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JOHN BOORMAN WITH JOHN HURT
Thursday 11 September (6:30 pm)
@ National Film Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020.7928.3232) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo
Price: general £10.70 | concessions £8.60
Who can forget Deliverance? It feels like director John Boorman allowed Burt Reynolds his last chance to be a real man before his descent into caricature manliness; then there's that other hard nut, Lee Marvin whom Boorman let loose in his super-stylish '67 revenge flick Point Blank -- recently remade, with less tough nut Mel Gibson, as Payback. Quite unlike the filmic violence explored by Sam Peckinpah, Boorman's artistic journey is more involved with a certain kind of individual. And if the lead character is the personification of the director, well then Boorman must be really, really "difficult", but it is just that kind of "hardness" that will help you survive a life in film, hence Hollywood's healthy obsession with gangsters. One of Boorman's recent features The General is a biopic about the Irish gangster and folk hero Martin Cahill, guess what he did... Now with a new memoir (Adventures of a Suburban Boy) and comedy short in hand -- Two Nudes Bathing (1995) -- the Man is in town to speak his mind, to that purveyor of strange roles and star of Two Nudes Bathing, John Hurt.

NB: We expect that many tough guys will be out to see him, so book tickets early.
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CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS: MOUNT FUJI
Ends Saturday 13 September
@ National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3400) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo
Price: FREE
For those fans of traditional Japanese motifs in art and life, this exhibition provides a unique combination of the old and new set against the backdrop of Mount Fuji and painted in the rich but subtle tones of Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins. Borrowing from historical icons of traditional Japanese painting, Hokusai and Hiroshige, Steele-Perkins has set his series of portraits of life in Japan against The Mountain and draws parallels between progress and the temporal, as well as the timeless nature of the landscape and its lasting influence on the people who live beneath it. In these images, time passes before the shutter, and lights after dark paint the side of the mountain in an ephemeral scarlet. Two rows of scrapped cars form an automotive glacier from which mount Fuji emerges. Japanese culture thrives in absolute contrast and harmony with all that came before, and is coaxed back into the traditional narrative as it is rewritten for the lens above the brush.

NB: Ends Sat 13/09.
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PETER CAREY
Monday 15 September (7:30pm)
@ Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, SE1 (020.7960.4203 or 4242) Tube: Embankment/Rail Waterloo
Price: general £8.50 | concessions £6.00 | students £6.00
Award-winning Australian writer, Peter Carey, reads from his new novel, My Life as a Fake, as part of the RFH's on-going Fiction International series. Carey, probably best known for his quirky novel, Oscar and Lucinda, which was adapted as a similarly off-beat '97 film starring Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes, is also one of the very few writers to have won the Booker Prize twice over. First in '88 for O & L and then again in '01 for True History of the Kelly Gang, a series of fictional letters from the notorious anti-hero outlaw, which also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (as did his tour-de-force, Jack Maggs). My Life as a Fake follows a woman's travels from Australia to South-East Asia, once again using a true story from history as its starting point, a recurring device in Carey's novel-writing. This time though, Carey's narrative delves into the case of a series of plagiarised poems, but again plays with notions of history and authenticity.
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BRIDGET RILEY
Ends Sunday 28 September (Daily 10am - 5:50pm)
@ Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Pimlico
Price: general £8.50 | concessions £6
Like Diana Rigg or should we say Emma Peel, Bridget Riley's art is permanently associated with the Sixties. They called it Op Art then, but like the bold and swinging Sixties which -- in a sense -- her work exemplifies, it's remembered for the ping-in-your-eyes design rather than a kind of post-Matisseian intellectualism. You see, Riley like Warhol, had a factory albeit one for the creation of a Matisseian colouristic visual thinking. It is really so easy to reduce Riley to just mere special effects, but this retrospective really sets about to show her scientific approach combined with casual sophistication. Surprise comes in the way her work has evolved given the parameters she has set herself, and how complexity can come via simple flat colour yet nature, atmosphere, landscape can be scented through these galleries. Be sure to allow plenty of time, visually it's a breeze but they do make your eyes go bump!

NB: On Sat 06/09, Simon Rycroft, a cultural geographer at the University of Sussex will be speaking on Nature in Riley's paintings. Note that the Riley Symposia has been cancelled, and her artist talk is sold out. See Tate site for details.
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CYPHER
Ends Thursday 2 October
@ Various cinemas across London
Price: Check press for times and tickets prices
Best not reveal too much 'cause we don't want to ruin it for you... but, we can tell you the following: it's a sci-fi thriller involving software espionage and is set in the not-so-distant future. It's a clever film (maybe a little too clever) and will definitely keep you on the edge of your seat trying to figure out what the hell is going to happen next. We can also tell you that it's the second feature film by Canadian director Vincenzo Natali (his first was the intriguing Cube). Natali's sophomore effort again deals with themes of reality, identity and manipulation. The relatively unknown Jeremy Northam is superb and Lucy Liu does a good job playing alongside him. The film has obvious references to Kubrick, James Bond, The Matrix and North By Northwest, and costing a mere US$10 million it puts many Hollywood blockbusters to shame.
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FLAMINIO BERTONI
Ends Sunday 12 October (Daily 10am - 5:45pm; Fri until 9pm)
@ Design Museum, Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, SE1 (020.7940.8790) Tube: Tower Hill
Price: general £6 | concessions £4
If you go to LA, your most important fashion accessory is the automobile. The car is your wallet, handbag, suit, bedroom, living room, lipstick, pick-up joint and bar, all rolled into one. It demonstrates your wealth, power, cool and taste simultaneously, hence some Angelenos have smaller mortgages than car payments... just some! Sure it's both under the hood, and the hood itself. In this case he who designs cars is their Miuccia Prada, Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, and in the '40s no one was more innovative with his "lines" than the sculptor, architect, and most importantly car designer Flaminio Bertoni (1903-64) from the Como region. It was at the French car giant Citroen that the Italian designer created the Traction Avant and ever practical 2CV, where he won many awards including the prestigious French cultural medal. However, it was with engineer Andre Lefebvre , that Bertoni created the DS 19 -- "DS" short for deesse, French for "goddess" -- with her sculptural curves, plastic roof and self-raising rear, it is still a car that stands for the future and France.

NB: Show ends 12/10.
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A CENTURY OF ARTISTS' FILM IN BRITAIN II
Ends Sunday 2 November (Daily 10am - 5:50pm)
@ Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Pimlico
Price: FREE
Attack of the Giant Killer Paintbrushes, not the title of a short in this season of artists' films, but almost certainly the inspiration for Jake and Dinos Chapman's B-movie spoof contribution. The Goya-daubing siblings' effort -- rather more boringly christened Sacrificial Mutilation and Death in Modern Art by the way -- sends up life and death in the artist's studio and sits nicely alongside celluloid offerings from the likes of Derek Jarman, Eduardo Paolozzi and Isaac Julien. The Tate season explores the use of film by artists in Britain since the medium's birth in the 1890s, delivering 170 works by 130 artists over the course of the next 11 months. The show is running in themed sessions until next April, with the current instalment focusing on such diverse issues as WWII propaganda, weather and landscape, portraiture, feminist thinking and '70s conceptualism -- not recommended on a full stomach. The films are shown in day-long sequences with no work screened twice -- giving you that "summer festival -- there must be something better on in the next tent" feeling. As an added bonus, many of these films have never been screened before.

NB: A Century of Artists' Film in Britain Programme II runs until 02/11 and Programme IIIand IV follow it and end on 18/04/04.
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    features
BOOK REVIEW
 
Hokusai
Gian Carlo Calza
Phaidon: £59.95

Buy Hokusai online or buy it through Walther Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery (020.7706.4907).

This impressive book offers us a retrospective of the work and career of the great Japanese master of printmaking, painting and drawing: Katsushika Hokusai. Over a life spanning from 1760 to 1849, Hokusai had an incredibly prolific career, producing more than 30,000 works of art. Much appreciated in the West, perhaps even more so than in his native country, his prints were imported to Paris in the mid-19th Century and were collected by such artists as Monet, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec, proving to become a profound influence on their own work. This comprehensive survey of Hokusai's work with a collection of essays by western as well as Japanese scholars, focuses on the key aspects and stages of his career by presenting excellent reproductions of his finest and most representative works. Anyone interested in Hokusai and Oriental art in general, will find that this superb book is a real must-have; truly beautiful and enlightening.

NB: Gian Carlo Calza is a Professor of Asian Art at the Foscari University in Florence, also Director of the Hokusai Research Foundation, and is currently preparing a Catalogue Raisonne of Hokusai's paintings.

Giveaway: We have one copy of Hokusai to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked subscriber who can tell us the name of Hokusai's eternal rival.

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