2014 is the twentieth anniversary of the death of Derek Jarman, one of Britain’s most erudite, esoteric, erotic and exquisite visual artists of recent generations, and as queer as a glittery dildo reading Proust. From Thatcherite satire to reimaginings of Caravaggio and Wittgenstein, videos for Pet Shop Boys to gardening in the shadow of a […]
New York’s Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) has been archiving, preserving and exhibiting a huge range of video and multimedia work since 1971. It’s basically like Aladdin’s cave with a remote control. Personally, I’m partial to a bit of Ryan Trecartin, whose domestic sagas have bits of Jack Smith’s will-to-glamour and John Waters’s fucked-up-family vibes […]
I wrote a round-up of a dozen festive cabaret shows for today’s Evening Standard. You can read the whole thing here.
This morning’s cabaret page in Time Out London will be the last one. This brings to an end a section that was created in January 2009 by its first editor, Simone Baird, from whom I took over in October 2009. It also brings to an end my working on a weekly basis for Time Out […]
