by Web Editor | Sep 22, 2011 | Visual Arts
firstsite, the new art gallery, opens in Colchester Simon Tait There is a crucial counterpoint about Colchester’s £28m new contemporary art gallery and history, which opened on September 23. Even its title, firstsite (all in contemporary lower case), hinges the newest... 
by Web Editor | Sep 2, 2011 | Film
Mike Goodridge Summer is for inane, mindless spectacle, but autumn and winter – as if the harsher weather demands it – bring on the thinking movies. The Venice Film Festival started last night with the world premiere of George Clooney’s fourth film as a director,The... 
by Web Editor | Sep 1, 2011 | Film
Time was when the only really annoying experience in a cinema was when someone about three rows away, in the darkness, reached the very bottom of their Ki-Ora carton with the accompanying straw, and slurped loudly and extravagantly in the dark, enjoying the very last... 
by Web Editor | Sep 1, 2011 | Film
William Russell Some wise words from Mark Kermode in his new book for those who have wondered, having gone to the latest summer blockbuster, why they bothered because it was really lousy. He argues that, for all the carping and moaning and whingeing from the studios... 
by Web Editor | Sep 1, 2011 | Visual Arts
Denise Silvester-Carr Whenever you go into somebody’s house you will find at least two or three items that have been designed by Kenneth Grange: a Kodak, camera, a Parker Pen or a Kenwood food mixer while on the street there’s the 1997 London taxi, the... 