The beats don’t get much chunkier than those served up at this fourth annual jungle jamboree in the Ancienne Belgique. Bristol trio Breakbeat Era – formed by drum ‘n’ bass trailblazer Roni Size and featuring seductive chanteuse Lennie Laws – will headline, ably supported by a posse of artists from Size’s influential label Full Cycle, [...]
Archive for September, 2008
It’s Like a Jungle IV
September 29, 2008okinawa
September 27, 2008The Worlds of Nam June Paik
September 24, 2008Korean-born Nam June Paik was working with video and inviting his audiences to consider the fate of the image in the world of real-time long before it was fashionable, and the Guggenheim’s retrospective reflects an artist ahead of his time. Back in 1963, the former music student who’d collaborated with John Cage blipped into the [...]
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September 17, 2008LA2000
September 13, 2008Los Angeles’ official millennium celebration at the Coliseum will begin with an Olympic-style opening ceremony and culminate in a 20-minute firework display and laser show, with some fireworks designed specially for the event. The day-long, family-oriented show will continue with performances by 3000 musicians, including the USC Trojan Marching Band, joined by a 700-member drill [...]
The Smothers Brothers
September 7, 2008Back in the more innocent America of the 1960s, when humour was goofy and teenagers wouldn’t dream of taking automatic weapons to school, the Smothers Brothers ruled prime time TV with their light, but often edgy wit and musical sketches. While they’d resort to lame sibling rivalry gags to keep their ratings up, Tom and [...]
Yasumasa Morimura
September 4, 2008Photographer Yasumasa Morimura grew up imbued with Eastern and Western, traditional and modern cultural values – something that stamped ambiguity onto his work. ‘History of Art’ is a series of digitally manipulated photographs, using masterpieces of western painting as a starting point. Morimura appropriates the ‘western’ aspects then adapts and converts them into something entirely [...]
