Mnemonic City: Moving Streets
Part of the series Mnemonic City, Moving Streets is the latest exhibition of Magma Collective. Ridley Road Market has been the starting point for a three-month derive that ended up in a two-day exhibition and live performances at Doomed Gallery. The market has been the magnifier to explore relationships, trade, city spaces and the point...
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Amidst Art and Wilderness in Arizona
I stood at the top of Cathedral Rock, overlooking the clutter of red rocks in the distance. Below, cars trailed across the landscape on pieces of gray ribbon, looping intricately around dull desert vegetation and more rocks. A strong wind blew, whipping locks of my hair against my lips and shoving me against a rogue...
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Lost Horizons: how the Scottish National Gallery revitalised a forgotten master
Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape Scottish National Gallery, the Mound, Edinburgh (Academy / Lower galleries) 30th June ? 28th October 2012 This summer, the Scottish National Gallery gallantly faced the challenge of pulling in an audience to discover an ‘unknown’ artists’ work; no mean feat in times when money talks louder...
The Changing of the Seasons – A Confession
The Changing of the Seasons – A Confession Something strange happens to me about this time of year. It’s always around September/October time as the last days of summer passes the baton to the first days of Autumn, in a shuttle relay, like at school. T-shirt clad when in sunlight and jumpered and jacketed in...
The New York Literary Flâneur: A Syllabus
New York is the ultimate walking city. If ever a New World metropolis has seduced its inhabitants and visitors alike to play at being the flâneur, then it is the Big Apple. Despite the city’s dizzyingly exaggerated vertical axis, the street is a constant focal point. No-one climbs to the top of the Empire State...
of Leaving and Returning Home
The erstwhile decadence of the Cote d’Azur has given way to a different sort of extravagance. An onslaught of burnished VIPs and yachts crowd the harbour; subject to the driving force of money and transforming the Promenade des Anglais, over the last century, from its first incarnation as a health spa to a playground for...
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Birmingham ArtsFest 2012
ArtsFest is one of the biggest and most popular urban festivals in the UK, is the UK’s biggest free arts festival, and exists to celebrates the West Midland’s astounding wealth of creative talent. Usually, it is an eclectic mix of music and arts, poetry and dance, drama and crafts, from the traditional to the innovative...
Nomadic Ways: Living in Costa Rica – Playa Sámara
Chapter II: Go West Young Man! After 3 months in the urban rodeo that is San Jose I felt it time to move on. Accompanying a friend we set off for the peninsula of Guanacaste, bound for the azure blue of the Pacific and the small beach town of Playa Samara. The journey out of...
Top 5 Flea-Markets – A Sunday in Berlin
Curious Curiosities Sunday is the day of rest? Hardly; in Berlin people stroll the avenues and parks, or meet for brunch in any of the bountiful cafes of their Kiez (neighborhood). Many however throng to the various flea-markets across the city to browse the wares, bargain and barter for collectibles and curios, or just people-watch...
