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Even if he acted from the best of motives, what Robert Capa did now seems indefensible Very sadly, then, it’s a fake. Hokey. A gammon, a sham, a queer, a snide. Seventy-three years later, this is still very bad news indeed. A few weeks ago, we reported on an academic study which revived doubts, which [...]

Playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn is marking his 50th year in theatre by reviving one of his most celebrated plays, Man Of The Moment. Read the original article on the BBC

US choreographer Merce Cunningham, widely recognised for revolutionising modern dance, dies in New York. Read the original article on the BBC

Colour pencils aren’t usually noted for their sharp design, but Caran D’Ache prove to be swish ambassadors for Swiss manufacturing On an English summer’s day when the sun refuses to shine, I need only open my tin of Swiss pencils. The pigments in the leads of Prismalo Aquarelles, made by Caran D’Ache in Geneva, are [...]

Artist Jasper Joffe prepares to sell all his possessions, including paintings, letters, drawings and personal objects. Read the original article on the BBC

Simon Faithfull’s exhibition Gravity Sucks and his recent talk at the British Film Institute focuses largely around his examination of that most elementary of forces we experience. What Wikipedia calls a “consequence of the curvature of spacetime which governs the motion of inertial objects” and what we call gravity. In what has come to be [...]

Ouch, apologies for the headline but it got your attention, right?! ‘Across the Tracks And Through The Looking Glass’ Jon Hammer (aka Elate) has extended his website to incorporate a great new blog. I’m rating it because it includes some pretty unique content from back in the day along with recent work and a nice conversational writing style [...]

One problem thats come out of the rise in the popularity of street art is that work that used to be left to survive on its own (either ending up being removed by the property owner or gone over with other graffiti – both of which are fine by me) is now having to die a [...]

  Like nudity? Like candyfloss? Then you’ll love this new video for Lolly Jane Blue track White Swan, directed by Sil van der Woerd.   The atmospheric film was shot in a disused coal mine in Beringen, Belgium, and, according to the press blurb, “tells the story of an exhausted, shivering girl who is captured [...]

From Stephen Frankfurt’s beautiful title sequence for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) In our August issue, Adam Lee Davies looks at the continuing rise of the film title sequence since its artistic resurgence in the 1990s. In his article, Better Than the Film?, he talks to many of the genre’s leading practioners such as Kyle [...]