What you see is what you see
Gareth Stevens reviews the work of photographer Chris Daly. Our daily exposure to thousands of TV and internet images has led to the notion of ‘truth’ becoming a “function of crowd dynamics, transformed into a commodity without a fixed universal…
Live Before Lockdown
By Lucy Brown It was a rare night out for me; my first time at The Piper, and my first experience seeing live music in St ; There was nothing to worry about – Covid 19 aside – on 4th…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Automation and the Future of Work By Aaron BenanavPublished by Verso, 2020, hardback rrp £ Review By Tim Barton Wandering into town last week, a friend and I got chatting and she commented on my T-shirt, which depicted the Worm…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures By Merlin SheldrakePublished by The Bodley Head, 2020, hardback rrp £ Review Tim Barton For Star Trek: Discovery, a MacGuffin was invented to allow interstellar faster-than-light…
HIP READ
Families of Spies By Brian LandersRedDoor Press, paperback, £ by Elly Gibson Families of Spies is the second installment in ‘the Dylan series’, a set of four spy novels by Brian Landers, starring unlikely spy Thomas Dylan. We first met…
HIP#163: LISTINGS GUIDE
Victor Pasmore: Line & Space
By Gareth Stevens I am an atheist, but still cherish visiting temples and churches and the feeling of contemplation that descends on me when I enter old religious spaces. Similarly, I am not a believer in the fictitious history of…
“Lockdown”
at Hastings Arts Forum By Benji Thomas Hastings Arts Forum, nestled within Marine Court and facing out to the sea, is currently playing host to Lockdown, an exhibition of works made either during, or in response to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Exhibition Review: Two Worlds
The mixed-media exhibition; Two Worlds is yet another exciting addition to The Hastings Arts Forum’s increasingly dynamic programme of shows and events. The gallery re-opened its doors to the public earlier this year in July, as the restrictions imposed by…