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Category: Art[icle]s

Photo Essay – OBSERVATIONS: Broken Barriers in the Borough of Brent

Mangled metal bars jut out onto the pavement, as if a wild animal had ripped open its cage. The creature responsible, however, is a mechanical beast.

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Fighting Words: Poets for Ukraine

“He sits at his table long as a fable planning a banquet of death too sharp are his claws too aglow are his eyes Putin of the great war cry dragging his carcass of history.”

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Photo Essay – OBSERVATIONS: Masks on the Ground

Disturbed by the number of masks of varying types that I have seen since the pandemic when walking around London…

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Sky Octopus Marks the Start of Spring [Video]

A rare sighting of the hallowed sky octopus, the harbinger of spring.    

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An old school in Hackney and Hammond’s budget speech: surviving London’s housing crisis

The first time that the Tory Party finally mentioned the housing crisis, since the snap election, was during  Hammond’s November budget. However unlike…

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Seek and Ye Shall Find: How to Resurrect Images of Messiahs and the Dark Side

I laughed myself silly on this Telegraph piece on how people have resorted to make money or to prove the…

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London Short Film Festival 2015: cats, cool, clever, creepy and some…just plain crap!

It was a cold Tuesday and high above the hustle and bustle of Mare Street people reclined in couches in…

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A Matter of Chance: The Artist Daniel Ginns and his Evolving Mediums

    Daniel Ginns expresses his artistic versatility through continuous line drawings and Mark Rothko wall photos. Recent work was for…

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Portrayals of Gang Youth Violence: Two Short Films at the Rio Cinema, London

One of London’s last independent cinemas, the Rio in Dalston, hosted shorts by two visionary women filmmakers at a private…

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International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012: Four Days, Two Smartphones [Video]

  Our adventures in Amsterdam documented in this video as well as an interview with Slavko Martinov director of the…

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Alternative Issue: Old Walls come to Life with Injection of New Culture

Illegal street art has been plastered on the walls of London’s East End for many years. The formerly known working…

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International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012: Russian Dissent Expressed through Art Picks up Pace

  Voina, a Russian artivist collective specalising in provocative street art against state control, has released a documentary which recently…

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International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012: Propaganda North Korean Style

  Propaganda is a documentary purported to have been made in North Korea with images of decadent western lifestyle, capitalist…

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Symphony of Bird Song – The Music of Ebe Oke

Before instruments there was nature, and Ebe Oke is an artist who lets certain elements of this world resound through his…

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Isolation: A Lovecraftian-Horror Short Story

Nobody knows what they are. Or where they came from. I’m feeling strangely calm. I guess people who have just…

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‘Journos Abroad’ Only the Japanese can Save the Dolphins

  Ric O’Barry, known from the documentary “The Cove”, recognises the film has done a lot of good, yet publicity…

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Censorship Issue: Pop Art from Palestine – Laila Shawa The Other Side of Paradise Exhibition

  Headless, armless and feetless mannequins, painted in bold colours and adorned with gem stones and colourful paintings inspired by…

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‘Journos Abroad’ Democracy in Hong Kong?

“People’s aspirations has galvanised a yearning for democracy” says CK Lau, lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University and Vice-Chairman of…

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Europe Issue: Ignited Indignation – Stéphane Hessel’s Time for Outrage! Book Review

    Dynamite comes in small packages and Stéphane Hessel’s book Time for Outrage! is a testament to this, delivering an…

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Europe Issue: From Small Town to Big Sound – We Walk on Ice and their Unique East End Indie Sound

When We Walk on Ice start playing their captivating tight sound, it is hard to believe that only two souls are…

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Independence Issue: A Set of New Politics for Music – Band Review

Crowded together in the dark top floor of The Barfly in Camden, the audience had not been especially turned on…

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Independence Issue: Traces, a Story of New Life, Both On and Off the Stage

“Traces is an investigation of the spaces that lie in the interstices of the modern world. In three poetic pictures…

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