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| INSIDE ISSUE NUMBER 98
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The week's Flash marks our penultimate issue before we take our annual summer break... At the beginning of August we'll be launching a lager summer Flash (#99) that will take you through August and to the beginning of September. We'll then return refreshed, and with a re-designed centenary issue. Hence this week we're bringing you a slightly bigger issue to carry you through the end of July.
With that we're also recommending you catch Takehito Koganezawa's opening at the Haunch's project space on Bruton St. (pv 21/07). Other shows opening include Julian Opie at the National Gallery (22/07) and Mark Dean at Sketch (22/07). Ending this week is Bill Brandt at the V&A. In terms of art news, there's now a vacancy at the ICA, as Philip Dodd aka PDoddy is leaving for another project. And there's yet another sad turn for British architecture, as Will Alsop's " Fourth Grace" in Liverpool is now not likely to be built.
Music-wise, there's DJ Sneak ( 23/07) and Josh Wink ( 24/07) at The End, Lost with DJ Bone and Robert Hood (24/07), while at the cinemas, us nerds are pleased that Thunderbirds are GO, once again! Though we do know that our childhood memories will be ruined once more. On the other hand, you can have your heart warmed with Before Sunset...
Finally, with the end of Mark Leckey's residency and nearing the last of our weekly poems, this week, with a summer mood in mind, we're presenting some real Flashworthy events like the Hitchcock screening on the walls of South Bank's National Theatre, or the Design Museum's E-type story, or perhaps you'd like to let the insanity of Senor Coconut grab you... Whatever you choose, Happy Flashing!
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SHHH... THE SOUND OF ART | Wednesday 21 July (7:15 - 8:05pm) | | Price: general £8.50 | concessions £6.50 | students £5.50 | | If you haven't already checked it out, Shhh... is the most experimental sound art exhibition since 2000's Sonic Boom. The idea was to use the V&A as both auditorium and inspiration, creating an audio tour through its most awesome and intriguing spaces. Concept and venue pulled in a high calibre of talent, and an extraordinary range of responses. Elizabeth Fraser's voice haunts the Raphael Gallery, while Roots Manuva's beats inhabit the unlikely surroundings of the Norfolk House music room, and Gillian Wearing provides a disturbing encounter with the formal Bromley by Bow Room. Wed's late view and lecture involves experts, and a show that has brought sound art conceptually forward, and to an appreciative mainstream. Exhibitor Simon Fisher Turner is joined by the brains behind Sonic Boom, David Toop, and Shhh... curators Lauren Parker and Johnny Dawe; all excellent guides to an exhibition where curating, concept and design play as big a role as the exhibits. NB: Shhh... runs till 30.08. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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THE PHARCYDE | Wednesday 21 July (Wed 21/07 and Thu 22/07 at 7pm) | | Price: general £18 (on the door) | concessions £15 (advance) | | The long-awaited album has finally been released, and for those of you who haven't heard it, this is a golden opportunity to catch the masters live for a two-night-only engagement (Wed 21/07 and Thu 22/07). Humboldt Beginnings is the much-talked-about release hot off the press last week, and the reason behind this tour. Somehow these boys have managed to keep the rhymes deep and the good-vibe beats through the years. Still a small voice in a turbulent sea of super-violent gangsta rap and ever-homogenous R&B sleaze, the Pharcyde stay ahead of the game, lending an intelligent edge to the hip-hop scene, and keeping up the tradition they helped to build of musical, positive rap. For a band that's grown up in the industry, their hardline is more than that of industry brats. Their rhymes don't always soothe the savage beast, but whether it's fat basslines or just general good-vibe beats you're after, Pharcyde is sure to deliver. NB: The Pharcyde play two nights at the Jazz Cafe (Wed 21/07 and Thu 22/07). | | | BACK TO TOP |
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COLLECTING CONTEMPORARY ART | Thursday 22 July (7pm) | | Price: £12 (including wine) | | If you've ever fancied yourself as a budding Saatchi, this is the event to bolster your confidence with some practical advice for the aspiring layman collector. Your hosts are Louise Hayward, formerly a curator at The Photographers' Gallery who now runs that trendy hybrid of a Hoxton commercial/artists' project space, Store, and Alicia Miller, idealistic and enthusiastic Head of Education at Whitechapel. This talk ties in with the gallery's current show, East End Academy (open until 9pm on Thursdays) which showcases the work of 22 emerging artists from the surrounding creative hub of London's East End, most of which is also for sale. We're sure the idea is for you to hone your newly acquired skills right then and there. After the talk, catch the end of Pulse (free live music from 7 - 10:30pm) in the Whitechapel cafe, featuring The Fold, Sponde and Giro Playboy, and indulge in idle imaginings about how you would deck out County Hall... | | | BACK TO TOP |
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SONS AND DAUGHTERS | Thursday 22 July (8pm) | @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly Circus | Price: general £8 | concessions £7 | | After a series of high-profile shows as a hotly tipped support act for the Fiery Furnaces, Adam Green and I Am Kloot, this Glasgow four-piece have just been signed to Domino, the sharp UK label still riding high on the success of everyone's favourite Scots art rockers Franz Ferdinand. Also supporting FF on their recent tour, can the label launch this second set of bright Glaswegian lights into the musical stratosphere? With their debut Love The Cup collecting a host of strong reviews, things certainly look good for the girls and boys named after a Dylan lyric (and not the Aussie Soap that also springs to mind). Probably shouldn't leave this bet to chance, and with support from Archie Bronson Outfit and Mother and the Addicts (sounds like a case for social services), you could just go along to indulge in the fact that the three bands together look like a scary family tree with a criminal record as long as your arm. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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ANTENNA | Thursday 22 July (8:45pm) | | Price: general £7.90 | concessions £6 | | Often, great filmmakers in the industry can be traced back to roots in music videos. Indeed, the field attracts many multi-talented and uniquely creative minds. In most cases it shamelessly exploits them and drives them to such tedious tasks as re- inventing Britney Spears. But, there are exceptions to the rule, thank god. Antenna is a chance to see such raw and shocking talent set to its own devices -- a showcase of new indie promos that challenges the boundaries of sight and sound as we know them. But isn't that what music videos were made for in the first place? Antenna provides us with an insight into the ways that these new filmmakers are exploring the relationship between music and the image, and re-inventing the medium -- or at least making a definitive break from the top 40 blockbuster. Book your tickets by phone, and get 'em while they're hot. These screenings always sell out in advance. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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CONTROL ROOM | Friday 23 July | @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly Circus | Price: general £6.50 | concessions £5.50 | | Documentaries are racking up box office figures like never before, and this is the year of the political documentary. With the releases of, among others, Super Size Me, The Corporation, The Yes Men, Persons of Interest and of course Fahrenheit 9/11, Control Room is facing some serious competition on the big screen. Documentaries are telling some kind of truth, but none of these documentaries are objective enough pieces of cinema, and some ( Michael Moore) are outright propaganda (if not outright lies). Control Room is no different in this respect. But, it is fairly well balanced -- at least attempting to explore all angles -- it is intriguing, and leaves room for the sceptic to be sceptical and not crushed with mantra from either left or right. And it does make us all remember, whichever side of the political spectrum we are from, that which is of actual importance: war sucks no matter who you believe (in). NB: screens till 12/08. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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BEFORE SUNSET | Friday 23 July | @ various cinemas across London | Price: check press for times and tickets prices | | Those of you who remember 1995's Before Sunrise will be charmed by Richard Linklater's latest. Now in Paris and not Vienna, Before Sunset revisits Jessie and Celine, played again and co-written by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, nine years later. So Gen X grows up, and slackers have lives, make babies and earn livings just like everyone else. This is Linklater again doing what he does best, making something out of nothing. Again they meet, just walking and talking (about work, politics, love, sex)... and, yes, fall in love all over again. It is not just revisiting young romance to find maturity but revisiting yourself a decade on. More like the idea of a Brief Encounter sequel or a filmic 7 Up (actually 1998's instalment was 42 Up), this "talkie" -- with some subtle but effective camera work -- should put a smile on your face if just 'til sunrise. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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AI RECORDS BIRTHDAY | Friday 23 July (6:30 - 11pm) | | Price: FREE | | Killing two birds with one stone is the order of the evening, as the Hayward's late nights with a laid-back vibe return this month. Feel the urge to get yourself an overdue cultural fill, but can't help thinking you'd really rather welcome in the weekend with a glass of wine and kick back with some electronic tunes in your ear? Well fear not, Lumin have heard your cry, and are offering two more sessions (after Adaadat/ Decknology during Roy Lichtenstein), combining (payable) late access to the About Face and Jacques Henri Lartigue photography shows in the galleries, with showcases of finely crafted electronica in the bar. First up, small but impressive London imprint Ai Records celebrate their fifth birthday. Following in the footsteps of Warp and Manchester's quality Skam label, Ai present collectible nu electro sounds by Buddy Peace, FZV, Michael Manning, Subside, and smooth melodic beats by the lush Yellotone.
NB: the next Hayward Nights is on 20/08. A launch party for Warp artist Mira Calix's 3 Commissions album, the night also features Plaid DJs, plus Andrea Parker and Mark Broom. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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BERG SANS NIPPLE, CYAN AND BEN... | Friday 23 July (7:30pm) | | Price: general £10 | concessions £8 | | This emerging duo, formed by Parisian Lori Sean Berg and Nebraskan Shane Aspegren, comprise two young drummers who have now expanded their music concept towards multi-instrumental performances which include cables, keyboards, samplers, horns, and of course drums. Their live aesthetic seems to transcend the usual laptop/computer music show. Strongly interconnected through percussion, they continuously sample each other while responding to the other's playing. Their first EP in 2002, music for the short film Marie-Madeleine, introduced their mixture of atmospheric rock, electronica and jazz, leading the way to their first full-length album on Prohibited Records, form of.... Having been described as amazing on stage, they have played on the same bill as Canadians Do Make Say Think and Chicago-based L'Altra. Following the huge success from their last London-events, it is now imperative not to miss them again. NB: the line-up will also include Cyan & Ben (Gooom) and The Contraband. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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BRIGHTON ROCKS: BRAKES, THE PIPETTES... | Friday 23 July (7:30pm - 3am) | | Price: £5 | | When the nearest thing to the seaside we get in London is marvelling at the tide along the Embankment, this gig celebrating Brighton's talents could bring us a shuffle closer to that elusive "seaside town" air of escapism our sprawling metropolis lacks. The side of Brighton oft missed by the big-city hoons (staggering drunkenly through the shingle) hosts a myriad of familiar names that often circulate up London way. Tonight, the raucous girl-punk Queens of Noize present us with deliciously disparate titbits from the Brakes and some deeply cool '60s doo-wop girl-punk from stylish seductresses the Pipettes. This Brighton frenzy continues with DJ sets from the more familiar names of Electrelane, British Sea Power, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and Electric Soft Parade. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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BILL BRANDT | Saturday 24 July (Daily 10am - 6pm, Tue & Wed until 8pm) | | Price: £6 | | An extraordinary photographer, Bill Brandt made his mark on the world of photography not only for his astonishing talent, but also for his unique visions. Though his early work was highly inspired by Man Ray, Brandt found his own voice when he relocated to London to establish himself as one of the most important photographers in British history. He is one of our strongest and most unique social commentators (in particular with regards to the class system in Britain), well, ever. There is an exclusive softness to this work that renders the viewer in awe of his eye for capturing exactly the right moment, movement and model(s). If photography is not your thing, be advised that Bill Brandt was so much more than a photographer; more than anything, he was an artist. (Runs till 25/07.)
NB: for more on this famous photographer pick up a copy of the recently published Bill Brandt: A Biography by Paul Delany (Jonathan Cape). | | | BACK TO TOP |
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BRIAN WILSON | Saturday 24 July (Sat 24/07 to Sat 31/07 at 7:30pm) | @ Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, SE1 (0870.401.8181) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo | Price: £35 - £65 | | Last February former Beach Boy Brian Wilson packed the RFH with revolutionary and unprecedented sounds, as the lost album, Smile, was premiered to an adoring audience more loved up than at an '88 rave. A legend after clawing his way back to a semblance of normality and surviving the acid-tinted, sandpit-dwelling, psychologist-infested days over most of the '70s and '80s, the creator of Pet Sounds and, more pertinently, the genius behind Smile, will command the RFH for another six nights. Smile is renowned as the lost album: those masterpieces the public never heard. By the time Wilson was recording them, increasingly enveloped by a cascadingly inspirational depression and madness, he was very self-consciously competing with the increasingly successful and groundbreaking Beatles' output. Pet Sounds had already been pitted against Revolver and Smile was the riposte to Sgt. Pepper. Now back with angelic voice (virtually) intact and excellent support who do justice to those amazing compositions, catch a genuine legend with an unparalleled vision. NB: Brian Wilson plays the RFH on Sat 24/07, Sun 25/07, Tue 27/07, Wed 28/07, Fri 30/07 and Sat 31/07 (all nights at 7:30pm). | | | BACK TO TOP |
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COIL | Sunday 25 July (7pm) | | Price: £16.50 (advance) | | Navigating a route through primal sculptured noise, Chaos Magick, cut-ups, samples, pyschogeographic landlines, alchemical sound, via William Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle (of which Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson of the band was a key member) and Derek Jarman, Coil continually surprises. Described by film director Cliver Barker as creating "bowel-churning" music, this show is purportedly
their last of the year. If recent performances are anything to go by, then gigantic lampshade outfits, disorienting trippy projections, and wintry eerie electronics will be the theme of the day. Imagine The Residents dissolved in an industrial soup of ambient growlings, a spray can of Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream; all topped by sprinklings of Autechre, Ligeti with English folk song, with special guests Githead, fiery supergroup of Malka Spigel ( Minimal Compact), Colin Newman ( Wire), and our very own Scanner, in their biggest London show to date. Most certainly a night not to miss -- arrive early not to be disappointed. We can't guarantee you will sleep that night, though! | | | BACK TO TOP |
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SENOR COCONUT Y SU CONJUNTO ENSEMBLE | Monday 26 July (7pm) | | Price: general £18 | concessions £15 (advance) | | | | | BACK TO TOP |
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TANYA DONELLY | Tuesday 27 July (Tue 27/07 and Wed 28/07 at 7:30pm) | | Price: £12.50 (advance) | | Most will know Tanya Donelly for her time in Throwing Muses, The Breeders or Belly. All three bands possessing that raw-edged, faux-country fuzzy guitar and melancholy sweetness of '90s American indi-punk. Since the good old days, Donnelly has gone on to produce three albums with not surprisingly mixed reviews. Still with the Nashville feedback and organ sounds, it's not difficult to hear criticism of patchiness and a lack of structure, if you bear in mind we are talking about someone so firmly part of a time that once was. But here is a singer who has come into her own with music that highlights her effortlessly agile and haunting voice with a dreaminess, which, at its more youthful, contained pangs of pained confusion, but now more of a singed tenderness. Perhaps not singles chart, but definitely a live gig marvel. NB: Tanya Donelly performs at Bush Hall on both Tue 27/07 and Wed 28/07. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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SHOCKOUT: THE BUG, TEAM SHADETEK... | Thursday 29 July | | Price: £7 | | | | | BACK TO TOP |
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ARTISTS' FAVOURITES | Friday 30 July (Daily 12 - 7:30pm) | @ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly Circus | Price: general £1.50 Mon to Fri / £2.50 Sat to Sun | concessions £1 Mon to Fri / £1.50 Sat to Sun | | Whether you think that Jens Hoffman's curatorial debut as ICA's chief curator is lazy or a risky gambit, the result is extremely intriguing. It throws up some real surprises. The premise of Artists' Favourites is, simply, to ask a bunch of artists to pick their favourite artwork made after 1946. Hence, Flash fave Maurizio Cattelan has picked Martin Creed's Turner winning flashing lights (very neatly installed in a corridor), Victor Burgin's chosen Jean-Luc Godard's Eloge de l'amour and, more eccentrically, Paul McCarthy's gone for Disney's Matterhorn ride. With greyed-down walls, this is a sombre "appearing" show, but the real joy is to be found in the selecting artists' texts. Seldom do you get this personally into an artist's mind, and seldom do you see an intellectual generosity as their glowing, yet personal, references. For once we recommend reading the walls, and it's in two Acts! NB: Artists' Favourites is exhibited in two Acts, Act I runs till 23/07 and Act II runs from 30/07 till 05/09. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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IN THE PALACE AT 4 AM | Ends Saturday 31 July (Tue to Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 1pm) | | Price: FREE | | The Noughties are certainly proving to be the decade of the curator. Hot on the heels of last year's highly curator-driven Biennale, not to mention the biennial palaver at the Whitney, In the Palace at 4 am, curated by Catherine Wood and centred around Daria Martin's film In the Palace (2000) -- which was in turn inspired by Giacometti's The Palace at 4 am ( 1932-33) -- is a "staged" group show. That is to say that Martin's film, which refers to dance and modern sculpture, playing in the back as an intellectual centre, Wood has orchestrated counterpoints with Enrico David's naughty sculpture, Nicole Wemmer's op-like collages and Alessandro Raho's still-life painting. Art can be brilliantly inspired by life, but here it is art that provides the inspiration brilliantly. NB: for a more "loosely" organised group show visit the ICA's Artists' Favourites (Act I runs till 23/07 and Act II runs from 30/07 till 05/09), or drop into Sprueth Magers Lee for a classic Minimalist show (runs till 30/08). | | | BACK TO TOP |
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RETURN OF THE RURAL | Saturday 31 July (Sat 31/07 and Sun 01/08 from 2pm till late) | | Price: Free (see NB below) | | If Glastonbury seems like a distant memory and you're keen to escape the hot and gritty city then the Return of the Rural is the perfect chill-out zone. The two-day event is packed with live music, DJs and relaxing pastimes, which bring the pastoral atmosphere of a '40s village fayre to the heart of town. It will feature the best of established and up-and-coming indie folk music, mixing lyrical song-writing with edgy experimentation. Highlights include the quirkily alternative Liverpool band Clinic and gorgeous neo-folk songstress Beth Orton -- who started out with electronica icons William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers -- playing a sweet acoustic set of material drawn from her melancholic album Daybreaker and new collaboration with Four Tet. The line-up features Leafcutter John, MCraft and James Yorkston performing against a landscape of hay bales, a tombola and welly-boot throwing. Drink, dance and enjoy. NB: Return of the Rural runs for two days (Sat 31/07 and Sun 01/08). The event is free but tickets need to be picked up at the Griffin Pub or by sending an email to info@eatyourownears.com. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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DEVIN DAZZLE (AKA FELIX DA HOUSECAT) | Saturday 31 July | | Price: £15 | | Schizophrenia abounds as Turnmills hosts " Devin Dazzle's Big Night Out". Remarkably not the next Saturday night light entertainment vehicle for Dale Winton but the unveiling of the latest of Felix Da Housecat's typically fruity nom de guerre. Although one of Chicago's second wave of house music producers, Felix Stallings has always refused to rest on his laurels, preferring instead to conjure each new album from an increasingly bizarre conceptual universe. After making his name with the dark house of Thee Madkatt Courtship (1997), he almost single-handedly taught us electroclash's sordid little dance with I Love Electroboy (1999) and Kittenz and Thee Glitz (2002) -- the latter featuring the ubiquitous Miss Kittin. This latest extravaganza sees Felix decide he's some chancer called "Devin Dazzle" -- svengali to girlie-group The Neon Fever. What a lot of tat. Never mind, the music will be a dizzying mix of electro-house and glitter-techno -- the kind of aspirational fairy dust that convinces middle-aged DJ nerds that they're actually louche, pansexual playboys. NB: for those desperate souls without homes to go to, there's an additional acid house after-party from 7am with Trevor Fung playing until "very late". | | | BACK TO TOP |
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ALT*CTRL | Saturday 31 July (8pm till late) | | Price: £8 (£6 before 10pm) | | A grotty South London boozer provides a suitably insalubrious backdrop for four of the most idiosyncratic talents of the electro spectrum. Wheels Instead of Hooves have run their Alt*Ctrl parties all over town and have enticed Mr. Velcro Fastener to London for a single UK date. The Finn duo have garnered critical bells and whistles for kinetic electro like the anthemic "Who's Gonna Bend" and their Lucky Bastards Living Up North album. Two of Novamute's finest -- Tim Wright and Debasser ( novamute) -- provide support. The former famous for riotous 2-step electro-techno, while the latter and star of Wide parties is our foremost exponent of UK bass. Finally: Chris Clark -- Warp's mild-mannered wunderkind whose subsonic glitch and massive rave noise have made him one of the label's most compelling artists. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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THE LODGER: A STORY OF THE LONDON FOG | Saturday 31 July (10:30pm) | | Price: FREE | | Catch Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926), when his visually imaginative classic of the silent era is projected onto the National Theatre building. The film will be accompanied by a live musical soundtrack, written by The Divine Comedy's Joby Talbot, performed by The Matrix Ensemble and conducted by Robert Ziegler. Against the dramatic backdrop of the night-lit London skyline, be enthralled by this gothic tale that unfolds in a mist-drenched London terrorised by a brutal killer, The Avenger, who preys on golden-haired girls. A mysterious young man, played by matinee-idol Ivor Novello, arrives to lodge with the Bunting family. His nocturnal wanderings and continual room pacing begin to arouse suspicions that he might be the notorious murderer, but the landlady's beautiful blonde daughter has already fallen for him... This suspense-laden film, shot in luscious black and white, is the genesis of Hitchcock's classic theme of an innocent man wrongly accused. NB: see the rest in this series in August; Koyaanisqatsi on 07/08, Metropolis on 14/08 and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on 21/08. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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WIDER THAN THE SKY | Ends Sunday 1 August (Thu to Sun 12 - 6pm) | | Price: FREE | | If you don't fancy paying extortion money to Saatchi to see his latest collection of emerging British artists (which would be a shame since there's actually some good stuff there) and need an education in hip art, then you could do worse than paying a visit to wider than the sky, a group show of bright young things culled from the super-trendy galleries of the East End. Curated by artist Laurence Kavanagh, whose intricate playing-card collages are among the highlights of the exhibition, and the Tate's Lizzie Carey-Thomas, the poetic title of the show hints at utopian dreams and the impossibility of their fulfilment. The strongest work includes Mark Titchner's mournful video Bedtime for Necromancy, in which the faces of socialist heroes -- Mao, Guevara, et al -- appear to a failed revolutionary as "men in the moon". NB: runs tills 01/08. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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THE E-TYPE: STORY OF A BRITISH SPORTS... | Sunday 1 August (Daily 10am - 5:45pm; Fri until 9pm) | | Price: general £6 | concessions £4 | | Ask anyone to name the coolest car ever made and the odds of them naming the E-type Jag are as high as the 150mph speeds this nattiest of all roadsters achieved on the roads of '60s Britain. Often seen in red, it's the thrusting rocket most men would be happy to extend their penis with. And some very famous willies had just that treatment, those of Georges Harrison and Best being but two. From its barnstorming reveal at the Geneva Motor Show in 1961, to its bastardisation as the " Shaguar" in the Austin Powers movies, the E-type has defined the luxury, style and sex appeal of Britain's " swingingest" decade. Tracing the E-types evolution at the hands of aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer and chief engineer William Hayes, the Design Museum offers a fascinating insight into its enduring allure and continuing influence today. NB: runs till 28/11. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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MICHAEL MCCLURE | Tuesday 3 August (7pm) | | Price: £4 | | Think what you will of Beat poetry, but Michael McClure (bn. 1933), who read with Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder in 1955 when Ginsberg read Howl for the very first time and now collaborates -- strangely -- with Ray Manzarek (yes, of The Doors and played by Kyle MacLachlan), is in town. As appropriate to an original Beat, that movement of rhythm and spontaneity, his love for Abstract Expressionism drew him to San Francisco to study with Rothko and Still, only to arrive and discover that the painters had already moved east. Painting's loss and poetry's gain. Today his interest in a poetry that creates "extensions" -- McClure is very interested in science metaphors -- may be thought through the rhizomatic, but perhaps still reading and writing is his way of raging against the fading light. | | | BACK TO TOP |
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BOOK REVIEW
Movies of the 60s
Edited by Juergen Mueller
Taschen: £19.99
ISBN: 3-8228-2799-1
Buy Movies of the 60s online or buy it through Walther Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery (020.7706.4907).
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Perhaps no era could epitomise the high-low sensibilities of KultureFlash more than the '60s. A decade that, on the one hand, brought us the first action hero, James Bond, while on the other French New Wave's (Godard, Truffaut, et al) brilliant re-think of film's language and parameters. There were also true anti-warriors (Sam Peckinpah), as well as plenty of pro-feminists (Barbarella) and iconoclausts (Stanley Kubrick), not to mention classics like 8 1/2, Midnight Cowboy and Breakfast at Tiffany's. If anything, our moment in film seems an extreme stereotype of then... it would be difficult to find epics with as much depth as Lawrence of Arabia and Planet of the Apes today. Now critic, art historian and lecturer Juergen Mueller is adding another tome to his cache of film decades, Movies of the 60s. This usefully detailed and well-illustrated "A to Z" of 116 classics of the period should provide a nice little glide through the highlights of the period.
Giveaway: We have one copy of Movies of the 60s to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked Flasher who can name the TV series which starred the male lead of Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Julien Dobbs-Higginson, Sherman Sam, Rob Oldham, Iain Norman, Jen Thatcher, Simonida Tomovic and Eric Namour.
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Oliver Basciano, James Cowdery, Charlotte Dobbs-Higginson, Justine Dobbs-Higginson, Thom Falls, Kaethe Fine, Laura Fellowes, Rebecca Harris, Nicola Homer, Alexandra MacGilp, Emily Mcmehen, Emma Pettit, Matt Powell, Graeme Ross, Ingvild Rytter, David Sheppard and Eliza Williams.
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