Exhibition: Mika Rottenberg
James Jacobs looks at the first major UK exhibition of Mika Rottenberg’s ‘arresting and comically disturbing video works’… Is capitalism – is consumerism – all that it’s cracked up to be? That’s the question I asked myself after visiting a new exhibition at the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery. What I was struck by in [...]
Midday office raves are ‘your week’s most important business lunch’… With recently tripled tuition costs and youth unemployment on the rise, it may be time to swap those textbooks for mixers. It’s a sellers’ market for DJs in Sweden as the country now craves raves as early as noon on a Monday. Dancing [...]
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Andrew Miller makes a strong case for the continuing popularity of historical fiction, with his novel set in pre-revolutionary France… With books like Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and The Maid by Kimberly Cutter, historical fiction is riding a wave of popularity at the moment. A genre that was once seen as (quite literally) passé [...]
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Attitudes are in the dark ages when it comes to women comics… “Women can be funny, but as comedians? Just stop it. That’s one hurdle the ladies will never quite leap.” That comment, made by a friend on another friend’s Facebook page, created an argument of epic proportions. When I read it, I was [...]
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Jo Nesbø is the author of eight acclaimed novels, one of which has now been adapted in to a screenplay… Headhunters has now opened in UK cinemas, and the Norwegian film is currently riding the wave of successful Scandinavian crime thrillers stealing the limelight in recent years; from Stig Larsson’s Swedish ‘The Girl…’ [...]
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The Human Rights Watch film festival featured some remarkable documentaries on issues around the world… The 2012 Human Rights Watch film festival is now drawing to an end, and there have been many compelling documentaries and films, all provoking thought on a number of key human rights issues affecting societies across the globe. [...]
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Ratings wars, PR, and a rivalry to write lies about… Over the past couple of days, the column-fillers at various ‘news’ outlets have been reporting on the impending ‘rivalry’ between ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent and The Voice UK, a new singing competition from the BBC. This comes on the heels of the announcement that both shows will premiere [...]
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What does Rihanna’s new partnership with Chris Brown say about the music industry and its acceptance of violence against women? The Rihanna-Brown saga has come to an end, in a way. What started with a shocking case of domestic abuse in a roadside Lambourgini in 2009, turned into a restraining order (later lifted), [...]
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