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Umberto Boccioni, 'A strada entra nella casa,' ©Wikimedia Commons

Surviving Supper: the Futurists

Background The Futurist movement was founded by the poet Marinetti in Milan, 1909. It was more of an ideological than stylistic movement that ...

'Sir John Sone' by Thomas Lawrence © Wikimedia Commons

There's no place like Soane

Tucked away, on a quiet street near Holborn tube, is the Sir John Soane's Museum. Undergoing extensive renovations when I went, there was ...

Life modelling takes courage and sometimes anonymity Photo: Anna Hendrick

Interview: the life drawing model

We’ve all experienced the same nightmare, standing in a room full of strangers realising you are stripped naked, baring all to a ...

Umberto Boccioni, 'A strada entra nella casa,' ©Wikimedia Commons

Surviving Supper: the Futurists

Posted on Mar 20, 2013 1
'Sir John Sone' by Thomas Lawrence © Wikimedia Commons

There's no place like Soane

Posted on Mar 20, 2013 2
Life modelling takes courage and sometimes anonymity Photo: Anna Hendrick

Interview: the life drawing model

Posted on Mar 11, 2013 3
Benetton: Unemployee of the Year

Everyday Analysis: Charity

Everyday Analysis discusses United Colours of Benetton’s recent ‘Unemployee of the Year’ campaign

Lowry Theatre (Copyright: Wikimedia Commons)

Venture Arts: ‘Articulate’

Annabel Herrick previews ‘Articulate’ from the Venture Arts project, at the Lowry

Mies interview Tom Jefferies of MSA (photo: Mies)

Architecture: ‘as pragmatic or as esoteric as you like’

Arian Lehner and James Taylor-Foster founded Mies UK as an independent project to look at architecture from a student perspective through written and filmed interview

Video Jam at Islington Mill (Copyright: Wall Fly Photography)

Interview: Shereen Perera, Islington Mill

We caught up with Shereen Perera, Visual Arts Co-ordinator at Islington Mill, to talk about her work, the Mill and how she got there

Rembrandt 'The Woman taken in Adultery.' (image: Wikimedia Commons)

Peter Cooke: what is important is ‘an integral curiosity’

Annabel Herrick sat down with UoM lecturer Peter Cooke to discuss his career and the works which inspire him

'Sir John Sone' by Thomas Lawrence © Wikimedia Commons

There’s no place like Soane

Arts Editor Harriet Hill-Payne suggests searches out the unusual, the bizarre and the eclectic for your Easter cultural fix

Umberto Boccioni, 'A strada entra nella casa,' ©Wikimedia Commons

Surviving Supper: the Futurists

Long silences over the dinner table? Let Lucy J help

'The Gruffalo,' copyright Julia Donaldson and Axel Schleffer (1999), Macmillan Children's Books

Freud and The Gruffalo

Everyday Analysis apply some Freudian criticism to Julia Donaldson’s much loved children’s classic, The Gruffalo

CrossCountry trains rarely match their adverts Photo: Wikipedia Commons

Žižek, Ideology and the CrossCountry Train Network

The Everyday Analysis Collective apply some of Slavoj Žižek ideology theory to a national rail service

Maquette for Narcissus (White), 2010, Raqib Shaw Photo: Raqib Shaw, White Cube

Bejewelled lobsters and hookah smoking monkeys

The fantastical, beautiful and grotesque collide, but somehow Raqib Shaw’s exhibition misses the mark, says Esmé Clifford Astbury

Life modelling takes courage and sometimes anonymity Photo: Anna Hendrick

Interview: the life drawing model

‘I understand the way in which the body is looked at. It’s seen as a shape, something aesthetic to be drawn in a mathematical way’

Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' (© Wikipedia Commons)

Surviving Supper: DADA

Awkward silences over dinner? Let Lucy J help