Andrew Logan brings an extraordinary evening of psychedelic peace, pageantry, creativity, eccentricity and utopianism to Shakespeare’s Globe.
Not Television’s top 10 posts of 2014
A round-up of 10 favourite blog posts from Not Television’s first year, 2014, on subjects including Mat Fraser, Alternative Miss World, Leake St graffiti tunnel and the threat of luxury redevelopment
Another normal: Grayson Perry, Alternative Miss World, Middle of the Road and Alan Titchmarsh
“I sometimes think the most dangerous words are ‘normal’ and ‘natural’,” Grayson Perry said this week in the first episode of his new Channel 4 series, Who Are You? During the programme, Perry interviewed and created portraits of four people whose lives have much to tell us about subjectivity – how we experience the business of […]
Interview with Alternative Miss World’s Andrew Logan for Run Riot
I didn’t know much about Andrew Logan and his Alternative Miss World pageant – except that the current title-holder was that awesome powerhouse of alt burlesque and more, Fancy Chance – until I saw the documentary The British Guide to Showing Off last year. I was pretty awestruck by the sensibility, scale, longevity and accumulated […]
Remembering the gay Butlins – Derek Jarman: Pandemonium exhibition
And so Jarmania 2014 begins! This year, the twentieth anniversary of Derek Jarman’s death, sees a whole bunch of events dedicated to the artist and filmmaker. First out of the traps is Pandemonium, an exhibition by the Cultural Institute at King’s, where Jarman studied from 1960 to 1963, at the Inigo Rooms in Somerset House’s […]
