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Brandalism Comes to Hastings
On a billboard at the corner of Mount Pleasant Rd and Manor Rd is a monochrome image of a young woman cleaning a toilet. ‘Saint Shelley’ is the only text.…
Miniature Demon Defeats Mould and Damp
Tanya Eldridge is pint-sized, but makes up for it in her ambition. Her plan is to raise funds to eradicate mould from UK housing. Yes, that’s the whole of the…
HIP CLASSICS – Art and Alchemy
If you had to invent a god of art, you could scarcely do better than the Greeks did in creating Hephaistos. It’s easy to identify with his story. He is…
Achilles and Patroklos – Gay or ‘Just’ Close Friends?
HIP CLASSICS Achilles & Patroklus; Painted by Sosias c500 BCE Show me a conflict and I’ll show you a fence to sit on, though I like to think it’s a…
A Brush With Violence Ghosts, Hamlet and The Art of Butoh
Butoh is an art form which is at the same time instantly recognisable, but extremely elusive of description or definition. Like the paintings of Francis Bacon, the way one is…
Opera and Ballet International Perfectly pins Madame Butterfly
White Rock 30th January The decision to show Ellen Kent’s production of Madame Butterfly at the White Rock was timely. It reveals how the cliched view that a conquering country…
Morgan Creative Bring Philip McDonagh’s Crime and Punishment to Kino-teatr, 1–5 November 2017.
Morgan Creative Preview by Simone Witney Everything points to this being a hugely exciting performance. Luke Morgan reads Crime and Punishment every January and his passion is clearly shared by…
Stables at Graze – a new show
Learning French by Anny Evason How does one convey the experience of relating to the environment: the visual and sensory stimuli, an awareness of its history and essential instability? Four…