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Mode 2′s ‘Reality, Fantasy, and The Web’ solo show opened to a huge crowd at our Newcastle gallery last week, many of whom had traveled hundreds of … Read the original post at Lazarides Gallery

A new play from Alan Bennett, Pixar in 3D, Turner v the Masters and fresh squid from David Attenborough … our critics pick this autumn’s hottest arts events Film (500) Days of Summer This comedy is being hailed in the US as an Annie Hall for a new generation. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Tom, a heartbroken guy [...]

It’s a dismissive and patronising word that smothers great art in deadening nostalgia – we should strike it from our vocabulary The cultural life of Britain would be vastly improved if we could obliterate the word heritage from our vocabulary. I can’t understand how it has taken root so deep in our language, like a [...]

The technical effects of James Cameron’s film Avatar give us a glimpse of what it was like to see depth in art for the first time James Cameron’s new 3D film Avatar has a lot to teach us about the Renaissance. Reviews based on early clips from this film, a sci-fi adventure due out in [...]

The nostalgia for inspired public design ignores the fact that our contemporary designers continue to excel in the commercial world Things ain’t what they used to be, and no mistake. This, more or less, is what Alice Rawsthorn, a well-known champion of modern design and ex-director of London’s Design Museum, told New York Times readers [...]

Pop culture rules for this multi-disciplinary artist whose work is inspired by our relationship with celebrity and fame Jessica Voorsanger is a voracious consumer of pop culture. Her karaoke performances, cheesy installations, paintings and sculptures contain an intoxicating combination of celebrity gossip, TV shows and movie stars; each artwork is an inscrutable study of society’s [...]

A few words about the most fascinating book i read this Summer… Photojournalist Geert van Kesteren covered Operation Desert Fox (the code-name for a four-day bombing campaign on Iraq in December 1998) for the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland. On his second visit to the region he managed to get an exclusive interview with Uday Hussein, [...]

I never do event announcements on this blog. I guess that would make some people happy but i can’t find the time to blog about every single event i’d like to share with you. I’m not even sure my blog is the best place for that so i’d rather make exceptions to my “no call [...]

A 16-year-old British ballet dancer said she is “excited but terrified” at being offered a place at the elite Bolshoi Ballet Academy, in Russia. Read the original article on the BBC

Children’s author Lemony Snicket is to create a further series of books after signing a new UK deal, it is announced Read the original article on the BBC