Reviews | The Arts Desk
WEBThe Beast review - AI takes over the job centre. James Saynor Friday, 31 May 2024. Adaptations of Henry James have often failed to click over the years. The author’s private, introspective works – sightseeing trips around people’s souls – seem hard to transpose into a crowded gathering where someone keeps yelling “Action!”.
Visual Arts reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk
WEBBrancusi, Pompidou Centre, Paris review - a sculptor's spiritual quest for form and essence Mark Kidel Wednesday, 08 May 2024 One hundred and twenty sculptures, and so much more: the current Brancusi blockbuster at the Centre Pompidou, the first large Paris show of the Romanian-born sculptor’s work since 1995, provides an exhilarating and in many ways definitive perspective on one of the ...
Film reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk
WEBThe Beast review - AI takes over the job centre. James Saynor Friday, 31 May 2024. Adaptations of Henry James have often failed to click over the years. The author’s private, introspective works – sightseeing trips around people’s souls – seem hard to transpose into a crowded gathering where someone keeps yelling “Action!”.
Classical Reviews | The Arts Desk
WEBDunedin Consort, Mulroy, Wigmore Hall review - songs of love old and new Bernard Hughes Thursday, 16 May 2024 . The sixteen voices of the Dunedin Consort raided the large store of music inspired by the Song of Songs and the sonnets of Petrarch in a sensual programme at the Wigmore Hall last night. Combining the very old and the very new it offered a range of perspectives on texts that have ...
Opera Reviews | The Arts Desk
WEBSalome, Irish National Opera review - imaginatively charted journey to the abyss. David Nice Monday, 18 March 2024. “Based on the play by Oscar Wilde,” declared publicity on Dublin buses and buildings, reminding opera-cautious citizens that the poet whose text Richard Strauss used for his own Salome grew up only 10 minutes’ walk away from ...
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WEBBernard Hughes Monday, 27 May 2024. Kudos to the Wigmore Hall for continuing to make efforts to diversify its roster of performers and repertoire. Last year I reviewed the Kaleidoscope Collective, and noted how the different profile of their players attracted a younger and less universally white audience to the hall, and the same happened again ...
Film Reviews | The Arts Desk
WEBFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga review - just as mad without Max Demetrios Matheou Friday, 24 May 2024 . In the way of Batman being overshadowed by his villains, in his last outing, Mad Max: Fury Road, the erstwhile hero of George Miller’s dystopian action series had to take a back seat (literally and metaphorically) to the shaven haired, one-armed, kick-ass powerhouse that was Furiosa.
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WEBMay 24, 2024 · DVD/Blu-ray: Billy Connolly - Big Banana Feet. Tuesday, 21 May 2024. The most striking thing about the 1976 documentary (restored and re-released by the BFI) is just how polite Billy Connolly comes across as. Not that he's impolite now, but the raucous stage presence and vibrant chatshow interviewee was yet to fully...
New Music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk
WEBMay 24, 2024 · Travels Over Feeling: The Music of Arthur Russell, Barbican review - a sublime evening undercut by tonal shifts. India Lewis Monday, 27 May 2024. Last night’s Travels Over Feeling: The Music of Arthur Russell (a concert in part accompanying the recent publication of a book about his life by Richard King) was …
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