Most of the english-speaking world, of my generation at least, have relished the rhymes and reveled in the surrealism of The Cat in The Hat and one or two other books by Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel, of Springfield Massachusetts (b.1904-d.1991). I s…
Most of the english-speaking world, of my generation at least, have relished the rhymes and reveled in the surrealism of The Cat in The Hat and one or two other books by Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel, of Springfield Massachusetts (b.1904-d.1991). I s…
Most of the english-speaking world, of my generation at least, have relished the rhymes and reveled in the surrealism of The Cat in The Hat and one or two other books by Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel, of Springfield Massachusetts (b.1904-d.1991). I still have my dog-eared childhood copies at hand. What is li… Continue
The TATE MODERN'S current show FUTURISM brings out a few big guns, but doesn't create enough energy to convince this reviewer that the self-proclaimed avant garde movement spearheaded by Italian poet Marinetti almost a century ago, lived up to the hype of his original (rather ma… Continue
Per Kirkeby is renown as one of Denmark's leading living artists. No surprise then that the English simply don't get him. Kirkeby - born 1938 - has struggled with his painting, sculpture and poetry over the last four decades and although internationally acclaimed (elsewhere) he has ne… Continue
It is always exciting to stumble over a new talent like Clint Strydom, but it is not often that such photographic prowess grows silently in the background, away from the media centres of the world… and then explodes with such a distinctly fresh approach.