Taking Kubrick’s 2001 to a new level. Les Vacances de M. Hulot @The National Gallery. Memoir reveals prisoners’ book preferences: Anne Frank’s Diary, Robert Greene’s The 48 laws and anything by Sylvia Plath…Translating poetry might be beyond google. Foggy day in Dubai. New Zealand won’t get into ‘bidding war’ over the Hobbit. Does the Kama Sutra still stand up? The Female Eunuch 40 years on. Continua a leggere Frames
Exquisite corpse game, Canaletto and his rivals, 100 million sunflower seeds at the Tate Modern, Van Gogh’s ear cat toy, new review on Lady Chatterley’s lover, Fiction uncovered. We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities disguised as insoluble problems. Continua a leggere Multiple Choice
I’d rather walk than wear those helmets. Berlin is an open city. Have you read the new reviews on new food? Your hangover cookbook may be handy. Will physical books be gone in five years? Hic sunt leones… Continua a leggere Reviews
The good, the bad and the ugly at the Venice Biennale. Is auto-fiction a boy’s game? Domesticity can be scary, if you mix Aesop revisited, Gauguin, Franzenfreude, the Vatican archives, David Shrigley’s arts video, interactive fiction, perspectives, the loop city, ataraxy, bluffed books, that’s a recipe for disaster! Repetita iuvant… Continua a leggere Circles