by Alex Leith | Mar 25, 2011 | Drama
A conference has been held to debate the future of funding for the arts at the Young Vic Jane Edwardes Three years ago, the Young Vic hosted a notoriously acrimonious event as the Arts Council came under fire for proposing some extremely unpopular cuts. It is likely... 
by Alex Leith | Mar 22, 2011 | Film
A festival with a different touch Marianne Gray The idea of yet another film festival in a world where there are already about 600 a year might be less than thrilling news for a film journalist but one that comes with a different touch is the Anthony Minghella Film... 
by Alex Leith | Mar 18, 2011 | Visual Arts
The Society’s Spring Exhibition, which will run at the Bankside Gallery until April 15, shows what watercolour painters today are doing and is the perfect complement to the Watercolour exhibition currently at the Tate Britain. That is at its strongest when it... 
by Alex Leith | Mar 16, 2011 | Archives, Music, Visual Arts
Our oldest member’s memories Peter Cargin A year before his death in November 2009 I visited him and his wife, Ann at his lovely home and studio hidden away in the Wiltshire countryside and he talked about his early experiences both as a ‘part-time’ music... 
by Alex Leith | Mar 11, 2011 | Visual Arts
Alongside the Hoppe Exhibition the National Portrait Gallery has an exhibition of photographs by Ida Kar taken during the forties and sixties. She never became a household name and her work remained at the Camera Press Agency until it was acquired in 1999 by the...