Latest sonic revolutionaries: hits from Lily Allen, Gnarls Barkley, Kylie, Diplo, Switch and Danger Mouse
You’ve heard the hits - from Lily Allen, Gnarls Barkley, Kylie. But what of the people behind their success, men with names like Diplo, Switch and Danger Mouse? These are the producers, the innovators who provide the magic to turn an [...]
Rachel Cooke on the Virago Modern Classic: Taking women off the shelf
It was a kind of magic for Rachel Cooke when she first picked up a Virago Modern Classic. Suddenly a whole world of fabulous, neglected women writers - from Stevie Smith to Antonia White - opened up before her. On the eve of the [...]
White Cube’s show by artists drawing inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe - Horror on the wall: You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil
White Cube’s show by artists drawing inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe is made all the more poignant by Angus Fairhurst’s death
You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil White Cube, London N1, [...]
Iflove Arts Resources Collection: Real Cultural Art Summary
Charlton Heston, Epic Film Star and Voice of N.R.A., Dies at 83
By ROBERT BERKVIST
Mr. Heston appeared in some 100 films in his 60-year acting career, but he is remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo.
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You May See a Stranger
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Bestselling Books: Passion throws me in a loss
It had been an innocent boyhood hobby, but when, in his forties, Simon Garfield rediscovered stamp-collecting, it spiralled into an obsession that went beyond the usual midlife search for meaning. It was costing him thousands and signalled the end of a marriage already collapsing under the strain of [...]
Art as First Love: Buzzcocks were Mondrian and we Pollock
When the Clash parted company in 1986, bassist Paul Simonon went back to his first love: art. Now, with a solo show opening in London’s West End, his figurative paintings are expected to fetch up to £30,000 each. It’s a far cry from the glory days [...]
Virgin Mary and the art of bearing a baby
When The Observer’s art critic Laura Cumming was longing to have a child, she found herself looking at art in a new light. Images of fertility were everywhere, from fruitful nudes to the Virgin Mary, frustrating and fascinating her by turns. Now the mother of twins, she [...]